Xina
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Movies, modernism, pets, politics. The usual social media ephemera. SF Bay Area 📍 | Los Angeles ♥️
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starting Dec 1st! ie tomorrow!
for structure to eke out pages at a bonkers time of year (that is also a precious writing-est time):
you can do 250 words a day! books get written that way! if more, amazing! if not when grading or festive-ing, that's ok!
check in daily at #acadecawriteathon
for structure to eke out pages at a bonkers time of year (that is also a precious writing-est time):
you can do 250 words a day! books get written that way! if more, amazing! if not when grading or festive-ing, that's ok!
check in daily at #acadecawriteathon
is there a NaNoWriMo but for December and academic/ nonfiction? Should we start it?
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
starting Dec 1st! ie tomorrow!
for structure to eke out pages at a bonkers time of year (that is also a precious writing-est time):
you can do 250 words a day! books get written that way! if more, amazing! if not when grading or festive-ing, that's ok!
check in daily at #acadecawriteathon
for structure to eke out pages at a bonkers time of year (that is also a precious writing-est time):
you can do 250 words a day! books get written that way! if more, amazing! if not when grading or festive-ing, that's ok!
check in daily at #acadecawriteathon
Invasion s3 was faster paced than the first two and ended in a way that felt resolved enough, even if it doesn’t get renewed for a fourth. I enjoyed it very much; I think possibly my favorite sci-fi series on Apple+, after Severance. (Maybe even tied with Severance.)
November 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Invasion s3 was faster paced than the first two and ended in a way that felt resolved enough, even if it doesn’t get renewed for a fourth. I enjoyed it very much; I think possibly my favorite sci-fi series on Apple+, after Severance. (Maybe even tied with Severance.)
The first time I experienced _Arcadia_ was a BBC radio prod. I happened to catch on the way to see a film at the Arclight. The parking structure was packed, and I was going to be late for my movie anyway, so I just stayed in my car and finished listnening to the play, brain whirring, mesmerized.
Also, I want to be honest: I'm sure there are people who saw Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, The Invention of Love, and Travesties and never once thought, uh-oh, I should've read up beforehand. I am not one of them. Sometimes, what I didn't know frustrated me. But there is joy in racing to keep up. >
November 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The first time I experienced _Arcadia_ was a BBC radio prod. I happened to catch on the way to see a film at the Arclight. The parking structure was packed, and I was going to be late for my movie anyway, so I just stayed in my car and finished listnening to the play, brain whirring, mesmerized.
Great read. Traister, always sharp and out in front.
“There are no clean demarcations between feminism and its backlash and the backlash to the backlash, between progress and regress. It was always fanciful to conceive of progressive victories as permanent, just as it was a shortsighted fantasy that edgelord heterodoxy would remain cool.”
Me Too Forever
Why the backlash was so short-lived.
www.thecut.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Great read. Traister, always sharp and out in front.
Still time, if you’re in Seattle, to think big, but shop small (press).
Seattle friends, Asterism is open 10–5 today for a holiday book sale!
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Still time, if you’re in Seattle, to think big, but shop small (press).
RIP, Tom Stoppard. 🖤 www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
Where to start with Tom Stoppard: from Brazil to Leopoldstadt
The great playwright had a 60-year career in the theatre and also wrote scripts for radio and the screen – here are some of his very best
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
RIP, Tom Stoppard. 🖤 www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
Hollywood Christmas Parade is on Sunday. 🌋🎅
This is the Dianetics Cybertruck towing a big Xenu volcano float. Macy’s parade could never
November 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Hollywood Christmas Parade is on Sunday. 🌋🎅
Tantalizing interview by @davidhering.bsky.social with author of _Nymph_, Stephanie La Cava. lareviewofbooks.org/article/red-...
Red Still Runs Through You | Los Angeles Review of Books
David Hering interviews Stephanie LaCava about her new novel, “Nymph.”
lareviewofbooks.org
November 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Tantalizing interview by @davidhering.bsky.social with author of _Nymph_, Stephanie La Cava. lareviewofbooks.org/article/red-...
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Not a book, but a photo zine 😃
November 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Not a book, but a photo zine 😃
Two of my favorite science communicators in conversation.
A conversation with @drjengunter.bsky.social on many current women's health issues, including the recent change in FDA labelling erictopol.substack.com/p/jennifer-g...
Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Women’s Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT
A live recording addressing many current women's health issues
erictopol.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Two of my favorite science communicators in conversation.
Rings true.
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Rings true.
Introduce yourself with five animals you’ve seen in the wild.
In order of least to most threatening:
Coyotes (Los Angeles)
Black Bears (No. California)
Quad Squirrels (UChicago)
Wild Turkeys (Boston)
Rattlesnakes (So. California)
In order of least to most threatening:
Coyotes (Los Angeles)
Black Bears (No. California)
Quad Squirrels (UChicago)
Wild Turkeys (Boston)
Rattlesnakes (So. California)
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild:
Banana Slug (Santa Cruz)
Crocodile (Costa Rica)
Giant Sea Turtle (Hawaii)
Manatee (Florida)
Eagles Fan (Philadelphia)
Banana Slug (Santa Cruz)
Crocodile (Costa Rica)
Giant Sea Turtle (Hawaii)
Manatee (Florida)
Eagles Fan (Philadelphia)
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild.
Heron (Magdalen)
Fox (Magdalen)
Badger (Magdalen)
Roe deer (Magdalen)
Kingfisher (Magdalen)
But I have yet to see the otters that live here.
Heron (Magdalen)
Fox (Magdalen)
Badger (Magdalen)
Roe deer (Magdalen)
Kingfisher (Magdalen)
But I have yet to see the otters that live here.
November 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Introduce yourself with five animals you’ve seen in the wild.
In order of least to most threatening:
Coyotes (Los Angeles)
Black Bears (No. California)
Quad Squirrels (UChicago)
Wild Turkeys (Boston)
Rattlesnakes (So. California)
In order of least to most threatening:
Coyotes (Los Angeles)
Black Bears (No. California)
Quad Squirrels (UChicago)
Wild Turkeys (Boston)
Rattlesnakes (So. California)
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Weird how they make this float look smaller than the original
Thankful for all of the writers, translators, and readers who still believe in the possibilities of literature.
Here is the SCHATTENFROH balloon from the Macy’s parade this morning. Slightly smaller than the real book, but what can you do?
Here is the SCHATTENFROH balloon from the Macy’s parade this morning. Slightly smaller than the real book, but what can you do?
November 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Weird how they make this float look smaller than the original
Time for my favorite course. Happy Thanksgiving!
November 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Time for my favorite course. Happy Thanksgiving!
This is all entirely outrageous, just like everything this administration does that flouts the law and mores. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
This is all entirely outrageous, just like everything this administration does that flouts the law and mores. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Helicopters have been circling in the area, looking for him; still are. I took a circuitous walk with Freyja this evening, keeping my eyes peeled. It’s chilly tonight; I hope he’s ok. Thinking of his family / caregivers, too, who must be worried sick. 😞
North San Jose / S. Milpitas folks
Missing 83 y.o. Charles Campbell. Suffers from dementia. Last seen 2:30 pm on 11/25/2025 at Cropley Ave & Morrill Ave wearing grey sweatpants and a green and grey jacket. Contact San Jose PD or call 911, if located.
Missing 83 y.o. Charles Campbell. Suffers from dementia. Last seen 2:30 pm on 11/25/2025 at Cropley Ave & Morrill Ave wearing grey sweatpants and a green and grey jacket. Contact San Jose PD or call 911, if located.
November 26, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Helicopters have been circling in the area, looking for him; still are. I took a circuitous walk with Freyja this evening, keeping my eyes peeled. It’s chilly tonight; I hope he’s ok. Thinking of his family / caregivers, too, who must be worried sick. 😞
North San Jose / S. Milpitas folks
Missing 83 y.o. Charles Campbell. Suffers from dementia. Last seen 2:30 pm on 11/25/2025 at Cropley Ave & Morrill Ave wearing grey sweatpants and a green and grey jacket. Contact San Jose PD or call 911, if located.
Missing 83 y.o. Charles Campbell. Suffers from dementia. Last seen 2:30 pm on 11/25/2025 at Cropley Ave & Morrill Ave wearing grey sweatpants and a green and grey jacket. Contact San Jose PD or call 911, if located.
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 AM
North San Jose / S. Milpitas folks
Missing 83 y.o. Charles Campbell. Suffers from dementia. Last seen 2:30 pm on 11/25/2025 at Cropley Ave & Morrill Ave wearing grey sweatpants and a green and grey jacket. Contact San Jose PD or call 911, if located.
Missing 83 y.o. Charles Campbell. Suffers from dementia. Last seen 2:30 pm on 11/25/2025 at Cropley Ave & Morrill Ave wearing grey sweatpants and a green and grey jacket. Contact San Jose PD or call 911, if located.
I started watching _Invasion_ yesterday. I quite like its somber and melancholy mystery. Narratively, the arrival of aliens seems an occasion for testing the relational seams of various humans, whose stories loosely braid together (or perhaps only run parallel—hard to tell yet). V. dreamy pace.
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I started watching _Invasion_ yesterday. I quite like its somber and melancholy mystery. Narratively, the arrival of aliens seems an occasion for testing the relational seams of various humans, whose stories loosely braid together (or perhaps only run parallel—hard to tell yet). V. dreamy pace.
Even Nixon—Nixon!— (w/ Congress) did the good thing of starting the EPA to protect our most fundamental natural resources: clean air & water. Shame on Trump.
The science is not ambiguous. He knows he’s killing people.
Trump just ended a rule limiting a type of pollution that causes heart and lung disease.
The rule was expected to save thousands of American lives every year.
The rule was expected to save thousands of American lives every year.
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Even Nixon—Nixon!— (w/ Congress) did the good thing of starting the EPA to protect our most fundamental natural resources: clean air & water. Shame on Trump.
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Brasil's top court to Bolsonaro... GO TO JAIL NOW. Start that 27 years son, we don't care if you were hallucinating! WOW. Look at what a functioning democracy can do.
SIGH. Meanwhile, our supreme court just upholds everything the 38 count felon wants.
SIGH. Meanwhile, our supreme court just upholds everything the 38 count felon wants.
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Brasil's top court to Bolsonaro... GO TO JAIL NOW. Start that 27 years son, we don't care if you were hallucinating! WOW. Look at what a functioning democracy can do.
SIGH. Meanwhile, our supreme court just upholds everything the 38 count felon wants.
SIGH. Meanwhile, our supreme court just upholds everything the 38 count felon wants.
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“Just as I come to know a thing it’s gone again.”
A new poem by D. A. Powell. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/senescence-d-a-powell-poem
A new poem by D. A. Powell. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/senescence-d-a-powell-poem
“Senescence”
“Just as I come to know a thing it’s gone again.”
www.newyorker.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
“Just as I come to know a thing it’s gone again.”
A new poem by D. A. Powell. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/senescence-d-a-powell-poem
A new poem by D. A. Powell. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/senescence-d-a-powell-poem
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Breaking News: A judge dismissed charges against James Comey and Letitia James, saying the prosecutor that President Trump handpicked was unlawfully appointed.
Judge Dismisses James Comey Case, Finding Trump Prosecutor Was Unlawfully Appointed
The decision is a setback for Mr. Trump’s efforts to wield the criminal justice system against his perceived enemies.
nyti.ms
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Fun for the whole family—by Parker Bros.! (tm)
The boardgame Clue(do) is a Sisyphean nightmare of cosmic horror where a character gruesomely murders a victim in different ways (usually with their bare hands) night after endless night in a manor house from which there is no escape while being pursued by their compatriots.
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Fun for the whole family—by Parker Bros.! (tm)
It’s so beautiful. I wish I could’ve seen it in a theater—not only for the photography, but also the sound. A deeply moving adaptation of a spare and tender book I love.
Looking forward to this. We're watching “Train Dreams” tonight. Beautiful review by @alissawilkinson.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/m...
‘Train Dreams’ Review: Life, Understood in Reverse
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
It’s so beautiful. I wish I could’ve seen it in a theater—not only for the photography, but also the sound. A deeply moving adaptation of a spare and tender book I love.
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
November 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from.