J. Robert Lennon
@jrobertlennon.com
Recent books include CRITICAL HITS (with Carmen Maria Machado), HARD GIRLS, BUZZ KILL, SUBDIVISION, LET ME THINK. Lits in English prof at a regime collaborator institution. EPOCH editor.
I thought the first half of Fallout se2 was pretty bad but they are really turning it around now. There is so much lore! It was very unweildy and fan-servicey at first but epis 5-7 have known what to do with it
January 30, 2026 at 3:11 AM
I thought the first half of Fallout se2 was pretty bad but they are really turning it around now. There is so much lore! It was very unweildy and fan-servicey at first but epis 5-7 have known what to do with it
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I wrote about Dan
open.substack.com/pub/tommcall...
open.substack.com/pub/tommcall...
Goodbye to Dan McQuade
The absolute Best of Philly
open.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:42 PM
I wrote about Dan
open.substack.com/pub/tommcall...
open.substack.com/pub/tommcall...
When you spend hours meticulously disabling and deleting all the AI shit and then a normal weekly update just puts it all back...I dunno, man, they aren't merely force feeding users the stuff, they are trying to cancel object permanence itself
They aren’t going to meaningfully back away from the AI integrations and the AI integrations are invasive poison. Even people that like that stuff don’t want it at a system wide level.
January 29, 2026 at 5:21 PM
When you spend hours meticulously disabling and deleting all the AI shit and then a normal weekly update just puts it all back...I dunno, man, they aren't merely force feeding users the stuff, they are trying to cancel object permanence itself
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“This isn’t leadership. This is an absence of leadership,” an Apple employee said about CEO Tim Cook's latest capitulation: Attending a White House screening of Bezos-funded "Melania" on the night of Pretti's murder.
Read @theintercept.com on the staff rebellion at Apple:
Read @theintercept.com on the staff rebellion at Apple:
Apple Workers Are Livid That Tim Cook Saw “Melania” Movie Hours After CBP Killed Pretti
Internal Slack logs shared with The Intercept show outrage over Cook’s coziness with Trump and Apple's silence on Pretti's death.
theintercept.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:40 PM
“This isn’t leadership. This is an absence of leadership,” an Apple employee said about CEO Tim Cook's latest capitulation: Attending a White House screening of Bezos-funded "Melania" on the night of Pretti's murder.
Read @theintercept.com on the staff rebellion at Apple:
Read @theintercept.com on the staff rebellion at Apple:
Even beyond this, it astounds me that these racists consider ancient Greeks to be "white" in the first place, as though we have any significant cultural affinity other than basic shared humanity with people who have been dead for thousands of years
Some usual suspects are complaining about a black character in The Odyssey apparently unaware Greece is closer to Africa than British Isles. An army of Ethiopians shows up at Troy and other characters—including Odysseus’s squire—are described as “black-skinned” in Homer's tales.
January 29, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Even beyond this, it astounds me that these racists consider ancient Greeks to be "white" in the first place, as though we have any significant cultural affinity other than basic shared humanity with people who have been dead for thousands of years
Pick a Line from Shakespeare and Replace One Word with “Dead”: Titling Your Mystery in One Easy Step
January 29, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Pick a Line from Shakespeare and Replace One Word with “Dead”: Titling Your Mystery in One Easy Step
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Devastated to be seeing the news about Dan McQuade's passing. He was a great writer and great person, the best and most Philly person I've ever known. I was lucky to have read his work and to have been able to call him a friend. Love you @dhm.bsky.social, what a void you'll leave behind.
January 29, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Devastated to be seeing the news about Dan McQuade's passing. He was a great writer and great person, the best and most Philly person I've ever known. I was lucky to have read his work and to have been able to call him a friend. Love you @dhm.bsky.social, what a void you'll leave behind.
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Thank you to my son and his day care for this terrifying Father’s Day gift.
June 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Thank you to my son and his day care for this terrifying Father’s Day gift.
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Rest in peace to one of the great bloggers and the de facto mayor of Philadelphia. It was my honor and pleasure to work with him. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...
Dan McQuade, 1983–2026 | Defector
Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end of 2024, Dan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news of his diag...
defector.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Rest in peace to one of the great bloggers and the de facto mayor of Philadelphia. It was my honor and pleasure to work with him. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...
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One pleasant surprise about switching to Linux was realizing that I can use various microsoft and apple services via web apps, and the web apps are actually better than the native apps were
January 28, 2026 at 3:03 PM
One pleasant surprise about switching to Linux was realizing that I can use various microsoft and apple services via web apps, and the web apps are actually better than the native apps were
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your mileage will not vary, you should just go ahead and make the switch, it'll be grand
January 28, 2026 at 2:48 PM
your mileage will not vary, you should just go ahead and make the switch, it'll be grand
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just to provide a counterexample; I've been using linux full time for gamedev for over a year, and my experience has been:
- installation is pretty simple
- drivers, etc, everything worked out of the box
- all the software I cared about using works perfectly
- I never have to use Windows in a VM
- installation is pretty simple
- drivers, etc, everything worked out of the box
- all the software I cared about using works perfectly
- I never have to use Windows in a VM
January 28, 2026 at 2:47 PM
just to provide a counterexample; I've been using linux full time for gamedev for over a year, and my experience has been:
- installation is pretty simple
- drivers, etc, everything worked out of the box
- all the software I cared about using works perfectly
- I never have to use Windows in a VM
- installation is pretty simple
- drivers, etc, everything worked out of the box
- all the software I cared about using works perfectly
- I never have to use Windows in a VM
I guess McMurtry saw The Empire Strikes Back
January 28, 2026 at 3:26 AM
I guess McMurtry saw The Empire Strikes Back
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People cracking jokes about the right becoming anti-gun but they are very much not! They are anti certain people having guns!
The right spent years telling us how Nazi Germany made laws prohibiting Jews from owning guns and that's exactly what this is building up to!
The right spent years telling us how Nazi Germany made laws prohibiting Jews from owning guns and that's exactly what this is building up to!
January 27, 2026 at 9:04 PM
People cracking jokes about the right becoming anti-gun but they are very much not! They are anti certain people having guns!
The right spent years telling us how Nazi Germany made laws prohibiting Jews from owning guns and that's exactly what this is building up to!
The right spent years telling us how Nazi Germany made laws prohibiting Jews from owning guns and that's exactly what this is building up to!
I sold my macbook and switched to linux and so can you
Tech CEOs seem to believe there will never be consequences for palling around with the Trump regime
Tim Cook Attends White House Screening of 'Melania' Movie, Prompts Calls for Apple Boycott
The Apple CEO doesn't seem shy about getting cozy with the Trump regime.
gizmodo.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:22 PM
I sold my macbook and switched to linux and so can you
4yo was quietly singing a song of her own devising. Moved closer to hear the lyrics. They were: “What if statues were very thin? What if John was made of skin?”
January 26, 2026 at 10:57 PM
4yo was quietly singing a song of her own devising. Moved closer to hear the lyrics. They were: “What if statues were very thin? What if John was made of skin?”
Hell yeah to the hell gate
4-5,000 people showed up in the small town of Missoula, Montana (pop. 78k) to protest against ICE executions.
January 26, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Hell yeah to the hell gate
Wife just told me to move away from the microwave lest “you turn into a super mutant.” Was so delighted she made a fallout reference I didn’t even bother to remind her that the super mutants were actually created by a bioengineered virus
January 26, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Wife just told me to move away from the microwave lest “you turn into a super mutant.” Was so delighted she made a fallout reference I didn’t even bother to remind her that the super mutants were actually created by a bioengineered virus
Time to re-up my occasional plea for everyone to adopt my daughter’s Yellow Guy of the 2020s worlderos.net/caske/
January 26, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Time to re-up my occasional plea for everyone to adopt my daughter’s Yellow Guy of the 2020s worlderos.net/caske/
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guess what... i made a website www.mothership.blog
Mothership
Video game coverage for her, them, and yes, him, too.
www.mothership.blog
January 26, 2026 at 2:02 PM
guess what... i made a website www.mothership.blog
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giraffe mohel, apprehensive at his first bris for a human baby
January 26, 2026 at 1:15 AM
giraffe mohel, apprehensive at his first bris for a human baby
Is there a way to disable this “what’s up” redunant post creation field that has suddenly appeared at the top of the app? Can’t find a setting and I hate it
January 25, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Is there a way to disable this “what’s up” redunant post creation field that has suddenly appeared at the top of the app? Can’t find a setting and I hate it
At a “songs and stories” community event at our synagogue tonight a guy gave an excellent talk on things Jews are allowed to eat…but don’t, because why would you? One of them was giraffe. However, “It has been done!” he said. Dramatic pause. “IN CALIFORNIA”
January 25, 2026 at 3:57 AM
At a “songs and stories” community event at our synagogue tonight a guy gave an excellent talk on things Jews are allowed to eat…but don’t, because why would you? One of them was giraffe. However, “It has been done!” he said. Dramatic pause. “IN CALIFORNIA”