Kris Miranda
@krismiranda09.bsky.social
Professional lore nerd, slow (and not professional) writer, Asian American cat person in Los Angeles.
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!
December 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!
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if you've heard of every single thing on my top 10 lists, i have missed an important opportunity as a critic
Year-end critics’ lists exist for people to fight over, so I’m happy when people complain about them. But the complaint I will never get is, “I’ve never heard of most of these movies/albums/shows.” Yes, and? Why be mad about learning about stuff you didn’t know before from the news?
December 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
if you've heard of every single thing on my top 10 lists, i have missed an important opportunity as a critic
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The following is a statement from the WGA on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
December 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The following is a statement from the WGA on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
“I thought I was gonna be fine”
— the woman two seats down from me, during the credits of Hamnet, sobbing and laughing at herself for sobbing
— the woman two seats down from me, during the credits of Hamnet, sobbing and laughing at herself for sobbing
December 5, 2025 at 5:02 AM
“I thought I was gonna be fine”
— the woman two seats down from me, during the credits of Hamnet, sobbing and laughing at herself for sobbing
— the woman two seats down from me, during the credits of Hamnet, sobbing and laughing at herself for sobbing
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Jesus, it really is the “remember when you were 12 and happy?” Administration.
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Jesus, it really is the “remember when you were 12 and happy?” Administration.
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i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.
Oh man! This paragraph is brutal. The best thing about this review is it's not trying to be mean. It's just listing how bad the writing is.
December 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.
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well.....I blogged it variety.com/2025/tv/colu...
Olivia Nuzzi’s Disastrous Memoir Rollout Is a Doomed Attempt to Have It Both Ways
The former Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi's quasi-memoir 'American Canto' is a doomed attempt to have it both ways
variety.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
well.....I blogged it variety.com/2025/tv/colu...
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This is a great photo of a cat sitting in a bowl. "No way she could top that", you're thinking. WELL GUESS WHAT...
November 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This is a great photo of a cat sitting in a bowl. "No way she could top that", you're thinking. WELL GUESS WHAT...
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I usually create a thread of options for people who would like to donate to a Native cause or struggle, but it has gotten HARDER to fundraise on socials over the past couple of years, so I am zeroing in on one ask this year. Pls support Native organizing infrastructure: nativeorganizing.org/donate/
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I usually create a thread of options for people who would like to donate to a Native cause or struggle, but it has gotten HARDER to fundraise on socials over the past couple of years, so I am zeroing in on one ask this year. Pls support Native organizing infrastructure: nativeorganizing.org/donate/
movies and TV should let Jessica Henwick use her real accent more often
November 26, 2025 at 5:11 AM
movies and TV should let Jessica Henwick use her real accent more often
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I wrote about the beautiful TRAIN DREAMS, and how one change from its source material turns the film into a timely argument against complicity, inaction, and ignoring crimes done to our neighbors, esp. when they look different from us. SPOILERS. @vulture.com:
www.vulture.com/article/trai...
www.vulture.com/article/trai...
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I wrote about the beautiful TRAIN DREAMS, and how one change from its source material turns the film into a timely argument against complicity, inaction, and ignoring crimes done to our neighbors, esp. when they look different from us. SPOILERS. @vulture.com:
www.vulture.com/article/trai...
www.vulture.com/article/trai...
I will donate one zillion dollars to a Democrat who can get all of our phone numbers taken off the unsolicited-campaign-fundraising-texts list
November 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I will donate one zillion dollars to a Democrat who can get all of our phone numbers taken off the unsolicited-campaign-fundraising-texts list
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this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Monopoly Round-Up: Why the Establishment Freaked Out Over a Mamdani-Trump Press Conference
Meta wins its antitrust case, there are now two fire truck antitrust claims, the stock market got wobbly, and Larry Summers was exiled from the establishment, at least for now.
www.thebignewsletter.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
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A car-centric transportation system limits the ability to use other modes. A byproduct of this is that people who may not be able to drive any longer still drive because they have no alternative modes.
This, in turn, puts other road users (like pedestrians) in danger:
www.kctv5.com/2025/11/20/e...
This, in turn, puts other road users (like pedestrians) in danger:
www.kctv5.com/2025/11/20/e...
Elderly driver strikes pedestrian after veering onto Leawood sidewalk
An elderly driver struck a pedestrian after they veered onto a Leawood sidewalk.
www.kctv5.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:16 AM
A car-centric transportation system limits the ability to use other modes. A byproduct of this is that people who may not be able to drive any longer still drive because they have no alternative modes.
This, in turn, puts other road users (like pedestrians) in danger:
www.kctv5.com/2025/11/20/e...
This, in turn, puts other road users (like pedestrians) in danger:
www.kctv5.com/2025/11/20/e...
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anyhow the answer is that haha suckers you can't pull out your fun theories-y posts about what this show is REALLY about because it's about ALL OF IT
realized my piece on the metaphorical flexibility of pluribus is unintentionally an seo play for the phrase "what is pluribus about"
www.vulture.com/article/what...
www.vulture.com/article/what...
Pluribus Is About Everything
And unlike anything else.
www.vulture.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
anyhow the answer is that haha suckers you can't pull out your fun theories-y posts about what this show is REALLY about because it's about ALL OF IT
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Thank goodness studies convince people… oh, wait
Despite industry leaders promising that agentic AI is the future, taking care of virtually all human tasks within the next few years
#CarnegieMellonUniversity researchers just released a paper showing that even the best–performing AI agents fail to complete real-world office tasks 70% of the time
#CarnegieMellonUniversity researchers just released a paper showing that even the best–performing AI agents fail to complete real-world office tasks 70% of the time
"They’d basically talked themselves to death."
November 16, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Thank goodness studies convince people… oh, wait
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as a big GDT guy, I wish I had fewer frustrations with the way this FRANKENSTEIN reinterprets the Creature into another of his misunderstood monsters -- but I have them, and here they are.
Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ is a little too in love with the monster. Jacob Elordi is phenomenal as the Creature, but the film’s happy ending saps the character of its original complexity.
The Ending of Frankenstein Is a Little Too in Love with the Monster
Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ is a little too in love with the monster. Jacob Elordi is phenomenal as the Creature, but the film’s happy ending saps the character of its original complexity.
www.vulture.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
as a big GDT guy, I wish I had fewer frustrations with the way this FRANKENSTEIN reinterprets the Creature into another of his misunderstood monsters -- but I have them, and here they are.
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Well, I was trying real hard not to join today’s dogpile-on-the-Times, but this is just an absolute g.d. horror of immorality and journalistic malpractice.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Well, I was trying real hard not to join today’s dogpile-on-the-Times, but this is just an absolute g.d. horror of immorality and journalistic malpractice.
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Girls only dream of one thing: destroying a city so completely that the resulting layer of ash is known as our "Destruction Horizon"
Part 83 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd
Queen Boudica revenge was so great against Rome she burned Londinium leaving a scorch layer still runs under modern London, named by archaeologists the 'Boudican Destruction Horizon'
Queen Boudica revenge was so great against Rome she burned Londinium leaving a scorch layer still runs under modern London, named by archaeologists the 'Boudican Destruction Horizon'
November 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Girls only dream of one thing: destroying a city so completely that the resulting layer of ash is known as our "Destruction Horizon"
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If you want to show us you’re serious about fighting, for STARTERS need to see 23 of you vote to replace Chuck Schumer as minority leader.
I have no doubt there are that many of you tired of his job performance.
We need one of you to step up and challenge him and 22 others to vote.
I have no doubt there are that many of you tired of his job performance.
We need one of you to step up and challenge him and 22 others to vote.
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
If you want to show us you’re serious about fighting, for STARTERS need to see 23 of you vote to replace Chuck Schumer as minority leader.
I have no doubt there are that many of you tired of his job performance.
We need one of you to step up and challenge him and 22 others to vote.
I have no doubt there are that many of you tired of his job performance.
We need one of you to step up and challenge him and 22 others to vote.
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**** for Predator: Badlands, "an exceptional sci-fi action thriller with memorable characters, beautiful and terrifying animals (and plants), a structurally airtight script, and lead performances that deserve to be included in discussions of the year’s best." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/pred...
Predator: Badlands movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert
An exceptional sci-fi action thriller with memorable characters and lead performances that deserve to be included in discussions of the year's best.
www.rogerebert.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
**** for Predator: Badlands, "an exceptional sci-fi action thriller with memorable characters, beautiful and terrifying animals (and plants), a structurally airtight script, and lead performances that deserve to be included in discussions of the year’s best." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/pred...
Predator: Badlands very good, Sarah Schachner getting to resurrect some sounds from Anthem for a score playing in IMAX even better
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Predator: Badlands very good, Sarah Schachner getting to resurrect some sounds from Anthem for a score playing in IMAX even better
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I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.
November 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.