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Jason Quarrilex

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Marxious legal opinion journalism & commentary. Host of vaporware media endeavor Paint The Roses Red. Poverty Lawyer. Punk jazz guitarist. Definitely not another of the pseudonymous sock puppets used by an insecure Tech Billionaire.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · Nov 21

A thread on the Hegseth sexual assault allegations.

Today Mediaite published redacted copies of reports from the Monterey Police investigation into on a sexual assault reported by an anonymous survivor. The report, linked below, contains graphic descriptions of sexual assault. I will quote some …

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 5m

Yep, im too cheap to shell out for the hardback.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 24m

Käthe Kollwitz, Mother with a Child in her Arms, (Mutter mit Kind auf dem Arm), 1916 #WomensArt

Sketch of a a white woman, upper half. holding her child lovingly smiling, while the child touches the mother's face

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 11m

Also, all science fiction should be intimately entwined with 19th century romantic poetry.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 15m

It’s right next to my complete works of Miss Dickinson-if-ya-nasty.

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 18m

I have a big facsimile edition of his complete illuminated works on the bookshelf im looking at right now.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 25m

The pretending vs the mid century stuff. Im not sure im following the conparison you are making.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 27m

Example?

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 31m

Has Time magazine ever depicted a giant shaved vulva on the cover before?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 34m

And reconciliation bills cant change outlays the way he seems to think they would try to without 60 votes to wave the byrd rule.

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 40m

It is not “all but impossible for them to lose the house in 2026.”

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 55m

Why? Life is short and there are so many books.

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

This is, incidentally, part of the reason (but only part) that I never bothered to read any of NK Jemisons books:

nkjemisin.com/2010/01/why-...

Why I Think RaceFail Was The Bestest Thing Evar for SFF - Epiphany 2.0

This post is for MLK Day. It’s also prompted by the coincidental approximate anniversary of RaceFail, which began in January of last year. (Missed the fun? Google is your friend. But here is a good pl...

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

Hashtag racefail happened on LiveJournal like 20 years ago. Mark Fisher missed that connection to Yasha Levine’s vampire castle.

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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 1h

#statsmeme

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

Shitlibs gonna shit.

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

The shitbird has straight up blocked me now. Fuck John Scalzi, butthurt little pissant.

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 4h

John Scalzi’s identitarian take on literary criticism doesnt hold up.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

Are you enjoying it? I read it in High school and was disappointed that it wasnt Frankenstein or the Manuscript Found at Saragossa. I should read it again now that Ive read Nietzsche and Wittgenstein’s Mistress.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

I have on occasion described Infinite Jest as the last great SF novel only partially tongue in cheek, now we’ve been living for a quarter century in a cyberpunk dystopia not nearly so cool as anything Gibson, Sterling, or Stephenson dreamt up before Wikipedia showed us how lame it can get.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

Which brings us back to the question of which writers “hold up.” Whatever Scalzi might think of the subjectivity of quality vs the objective value of royalty checks: The Stars My Destination, The Day of the Triffids & Time out of Joint do; Triplanetary, The Syndic & David Starr, Space Ranger dont.

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 3h

James Wolcott is wrong.

James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · 3h

I'm done with SLOW HORSES. Too much rot has set in.

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 3h

the counter with Philip K Dick and Michael Moorcock to discourage shoplifters.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 3h

was basically hanging a lampshade in the shape of a leather duster on it. But don’t pretend it’s anything other than that. Those book are going to end up in the nickel paperback box at the used bookstore with all the Piers Anthony and Ben Bova drek from previous generations of hacks, not behind …

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 3h

Fair point. And I mean I get it, it can’t all be Flow My Tears the Policeman Said or Neuromancer. The industry needs its Jim Butchers and Kevin Andersons to crank out drek for the plebs to consume or it would die. I even enjoyed some of the drek Butcher wrote before the Mary Sue shit got so bad he…

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 3h

what you mean is that it’s profitably & effectively pandering to the low expectations of a self-flattering pseudointellectual niche audience.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 3h

prophetic possibilities. And what we’re talking about is the critical assessment of that aspiration, not how far the minerun of aspirants inevitably fall short of it. Or to put it another way, Im fine with incoherent fun novels churned out by hacks, but dont tell me that’s great writing when …

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