Elizabeth Picciuto
@epicciuto.bsky.social
Writer. Fiction editor. Philosophy PhD. Rooted cosmopolitan, gardening Jew. Long Islander by birth, nature, and habit.
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A fast-moving system will bring the first accumulating snowfall of the season in the NYC area later tonight into Sunday morning. My snowfall forecast and discussion below:
December 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
A fast-moving system will bring the first accumulating snowfall of the season in the NYC area later tonight into Sunday morning. My snowfall forecast and discussion below:
“very real prospect”
The UK far right is increasingly infiltrating the Anglican church so this is bang on trend.
December 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
“very real prospect”
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Oh wow, absolute power corrupted you absolutely? That’s so weird, I got absolute power last year and my subjects say I’ve only gotten wiser and more virtuous
December 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Oh wow, absolute power corrupted you absolutely? That’s so weird, I got absolute power last year and my subjects say I’ve only gotten wiser and more virtuous
I second the praise of A Simple Plan!
just realized I missed the 27th anniversary of A Simple Plan's release yesterday. a perfect movie for the holidays if you're looking to deepen your seasonal depression - and a perfect movie, period.
I wrote about Sam Raimi's A Simple Plan
December 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I second the praise of A Simple Plan!
Saw Independence Day at a theater right next to the Empire State Building. We saw ourselves get blown up and everyone whooped.
Saw Deep Blue Sea. At the, um, extremely surprising plot twist that happens like a third of the way into the movie, everyone applauded for the movie tricking us so well.
Saw Deep Blue Sea. At the, um, extremely surprising plot twist that happens like a third of the way into the movie, everyone applauded for the movie tricking us so well.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Saw Independence Day at a theater right next to the Empire State Building. We saw ourselves get blown up and everyone whooped.
Saw Deep Blue Sea. At the, um, extremely surprising plot twist that happens like a third of the way into the movie, everyone applauded for the movie tricking us so well.
Saw Deep Blue Sea. At the, um, extremely surprising plot twist that happens like a third of the way into the movie, everyone applauded for the movie tricking us so well.
I have believed he was dead for literal years and only found out now because of this.
Andy Dick reportedly thinks fentanyl (not crack cocaine) is to blame for his apparent overdose in Hollywood
Andy Dick reportedly thinks fentanyl (not crack cocaine) is to blame for his apparent overdose in Hollywood
Andy Dick explains he sneaked away from friends to do mystery drugs with a stranger before being captured on video unresponsive from an apparent overdose at a Hollywood strip mall.
www.latimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I have believed he was dead for literal years and only found out now because of this.
This may actually be the most justifiable firing of a customer service worker ever, wtf. Ok the ones who commit actual crimes, but other than that.
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This may actually be the most justifiable firing of a customer service worker ever, wtf. Ok the ones who commit actual crimes, but other than that.
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[David Attenborough voice] Observe the Democratic billionaire in the early stages of its metamorphosis. As the whispers of Bluesky ratios rustle the air, its initial Republican chrysalis is formed, made up of angry left-leaning replies and appreciations for reductions in regulations.
December 12, 2025 at 3:48 AM
[David Attenborough voice] Observe the Democratic billionaire in the early stages of its metamorphosis. As the whispers of Bluesky ratios rustle the air, its initial Republican chrysalis is formed, made up of angry left-leaning replies and appreciations for reductions in regulations.
[David Attenborough voice] Observe the Democratic billionaire in the early stages of its metamorphosis. As the whispers of Bluesky ratios rustle the air, its initial Republican chrysalis is formed, made up of angry left-leaning replies and appreciations for reductions in regulations.
December 12, 2025 at 3:48 AM
[David Attenborough voice] Observe the Democratic billionaire in the early stages of its metamorphosis. As the whispers of Bluesky ratios rustle the air, its initial Republican chrysalis is formed, made up of angry left-leaning replies and appreciations for reductions in regulations.
From Lizza’s latest. Um. Is it really gendered??? The phrase isn’t “Hell hath no fury like a man scorned.”
December 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
From Lizza’s latest. Um. Is it really gendered??? The phrase isn’t “Hell hath no fury like a man scorned.”
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My best-of-the-year list is up this morning at the NYTBR, books I found to be the “pinnacle of pleasure” in crime fiction reading:
The Best Mystery Novels of 2025
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
My best-of-the-year list is up this morning at the NYTBR, books I found to be the “pinnacle of pleasure” in crime fiction reading:
I have strong mixed feelings about his bicolor shirt and roomy coat and I would appreciate the opinionated input from those of you who care.
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I have strong mixed feelings about his bicolor shirt and roomy coat and I would appreciate the opinionated input from those of you who care.
You can prefer whatever elitist nonsense you want, that doesn’t mean you are entitled to freedom from seeing things that displease you
December 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
You can prefer whatever elitist nonsense you want, that doesn’t mean you are entitled to freedom from seeing things that displease you
That would be hellish. Yes yes the creepiness but also my grandmother was unpleasant to talk to for 15 minutes
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
That would be hellish. Yes yes the creepiness but also my grandmother was unpleasant to talk to for 15 minutes
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Legislator Ayman Odeh files a complaint to the Knesset Ethics Cmte about Netanyahu's Kahanist allies wearing "well-known symbols of incitement to racism and violence… a central tool of terror by white supremacy and hate organizations, including the Ku Klux Klan."
December 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Legislator Ayman Odeh files a complaint to the Knesset Ethics Cmte about Netanyahu's Kahanist allies wearing "well-known symbols of incitement to racism and violence… a central tool of terror by white supremacy and hate organizations, including the Ku Klux Klan."
This is the 763rd most racist thing about this, but why would they think our “smartest,” whitest heads must ensure the fittest survive? Natural selection isn’t planned, it just happens. Let’s pretend wokeness, non-whites, and mixing races was detrimental to survival. Then they wouldn’t survive.
This post by the world’s richest and most divorced man on the site he bought to promote his far right extremism is ripped straight from the Klan messaging of the 1870s or the 1915 film Birth of a Nation that inspired the Klan’s rebirth as a PR stunt/Ponzi scheme/terrorist organization in the 1920s.
December 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This is the 763rd most racist thing about this, but why would they think our “smartest,” whitest heads must ensure the fittest survive? Natural selection isn’t planned, it just happens. Let’s pretend wokeness, non-whites, and mixing races was detrimental to survival. Then they wouldn’t survive.
These people talk about virtue and honor and get off on spiting disabled people.
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
These people talk about virtue and honor and get off on spiting disabled people.
I initially thought this said, “Democrats Say Hegseth Balked at Call for Boat Strike” and was genuinely shocked. Like, you think you know a guy.
December 10, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I initially thought this said, “Democrats Say Hegseth Balked at Call for Boat Strike” and was genuinely shocked. Like, you think you know a guy.
Trying to think of a phrase that sounds very initially exciting and is most disappointing when you find out what it is, and for me that's gotta be "passion play."
December 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Trying to think of a phrase that sounds very initially exciting and is most disappointing when you find out what it is, and for me that's gotta be "passion play."
How many times does he have to show that he is actually fine with his enemies getting killed?
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I sent those deaths threats directly to him in a text message & informed him of what his name calling & words were doing - it was a direct assassination threat on my son. And he was extremely - I won't repeat what he said - but it was extremely unkind. No sympathy. No care"
December 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
How many times does he have to show that he is actually fine with his enemies getting killed?
It was only within the past decade that I realized “spare the rod, spoil the child” meant you should hit your kids. I simply didn’t read it as a conditional. I thought it was an imperative. “Go ahead, spare the rod, spoil the child, and give them extra hugs today!”
December 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It was only within the past decade that I realized “spare the rod, spoil the child” meant you should hit your kids. I simply didn’t read it as a conditional. I thought it was an imperative. “Go ahead, spare the rod, spoil the child, and give them extra hugs today!”
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i took music theory and theology as electives when obtaining my cybersecurity degree and i am a better practitioner for it
Yes yes yes liberal arts makes you a well-rounded person and college is for more than career prep. I’m just saying that even the career prep case for scrapping humanities classes in favor of cybersecurity has drawbacks (4/4)
December 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
i took music theory and theology as electives when obtaining my cybersecurity degree and i am a better practitioner for it
Even if you look at it solely from self-interest, it’s hard to make a case for college as four-year job training program. For one, it wasn’t very long ago that coding and data mining were absolutely the hottest areas if you were doing college as career prep. You can’t predict. (1/4)
There are a lot of big questions at play here, but the most fundamental might be: what is the point of college?
December 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Even if you look at it solely from self-interest, it’s hard to make a case for college as four-year job training program. For one, it wasn’t very long ago that coding and data mining were absolutely the hottest areas if you were doing college as career prep. You can’t predict. (1/4)
i bemoan our cultural excess of ironic detachment, but reading nuzzi excerpts has made me realize that there are certain people who must be discouraged from expressing their authentic feelings
“I look down at the crashing swell. Alone at the after-party, a kind of honeymoon in hell. I am on the list, a bit of grave misfortune. I am in the New York Post, even worse. The ink is black, the pages yellow. Everything, some kind of lie. What of doubt? Scientists cannot see the soul.”
Sentences From American Canto That Sent Me To The Hospital
I reviewed Olivia Nuzzi's American Canto for Slate. There's far less RFK Jr. in it than you'd expect.
substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
i bemoan our cultural excess of ironic detachment, but reading nuzzi excerpts has made me realize that there are certain people who must be discouraged from expressing their authentic feelings
I would literally riot. I would throw my small-portioned dessert on the ground and watch the plate shatter into a thousand pieces. I would start grabbing the most calorie-dense food off the plates of nearby men and stuffing it in my maw while screaming about misogyny.
December 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I would literally riot. I would throw my small-portioned dessert on the ground and watch the plate shatter into a thousand pieces. I would start grabbing the most calorie-dense food off the plates of nearby men and stuffing it in my maw while screaming about misogyny.