Ray Radlein
@radlein.bsky.social
Old. "Atlanta." He/Him.
Cats, SF/Fandom, Women's Soccer, Cats, ME/CFS, Politics, Cats
I Wear a Kitten Now. Kittens Are Cool.
Cats, SF/Fandom, Women's Soccer, Cats, ME/CFS, Politics, Cats
I Wear a Kitten Now. Kittens Are Cool.
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Can we not start a go fund me or something? £20,000 feels like an amount that *might* be possible to raise.
November 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Can we not start a go fund me or something? £20,000 feels like an amount that *might* be possible to raise.
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One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction
Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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International media, you can do better than this.
"Bamboo" is maybe exotic and a compelling hook but it is too easy. The real story here is the growing culture of corruption, including a lack of accountability and oversight, that enabled a chain of human errors that led to this disaster.
"Bamboo" is maybe exotic and a compelling hook but it is too easy. The real story here is the growing culture of corruption, including a lack of accountability and oversight, that enabled a chain of human errors that led to this disaster.
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
International media, you can do better than this.
"Bamboo" is maybe exotic and a compelling hook but it is too easy. The real story here is the growing culture of corruption, including a lack of accountability and oversight, that enabled a chain of human errors that led to this disaster.
"Bamboo" is maybe exotic and a compelling hook but it is too easy. The real story here is the growing culture of corruption, including a lack of accountability and oversight, that enabled a chain of human errors that led to this disaster.
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MORE AWARDS? Yes please!
Celebrations in the studio as the LADYKILLERS team are nominated for MORE AWARDS. We're in the history AND true crime categories at the APA awards tonight! And our very own fantastic Riham Moussa is nominated for best New Producer!🤞
audiouk.org.uk/the-apas-2025/
Celebrations in the studio as the LADYKILLERS team are nominated for MORE AWARDS. We're in the history AND true crime categories at the APA awards tonight! And our very own fantastic Riham Moussa is nominated for best New Producer!🤞
audiouk.org.uk/the-apas-2025/
November 27, 2025 at 9:26 AM
MORE AWARDS? Yes please!
Celebrations in the studio as the LADYKILLERS team are nominated for MORE AWARDS. We're in the history AND true crime categories at the APA awards tonight! And our very own fantastic Riham Moussa is nominated for best New Producer!🤞
audiouk.org.uk/the-apas-2025/
Celebrations in the studio as the LADYKILLERS team are nominated for MORE AWARDS. We're in the history AND true crime categories at the APA awards tonight! And our very own fantastic Riham Moussa is nominated for best New Producer!🤞
audiouk.org.uk/the-apas-2025/
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reminder that I have some Nice Giftable Things✨ shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/crow... #art #printmaking #crow #witchmadness #skull
November 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
reminder that I have some Nice Giftable Things✨ shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/crow... #art #printmaking #crow #witchmadness #skull
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someone's added me to a list of people who hate AI and crypto and stuff, look mum i've made a success of my life
November 27, 2025 at 9:27 AM
someone's added me to a list of people who hate AI and crypto and stuff, look mum i've made a success of my life
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It is, strictly and unequivocally, a poisonous technology designed to make the world smaller. Shred the oak timbers of past works and press it into particle board, so that no money need be surrendered to a carpenter to build that which the purser can't readily produce themselves. It is repugnant.
November 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
It is, strictly and unequivocally, a poisonous technology designed to make the world smaller. Shred the oak timbers of past works and press it into particle board, so that no money need be surrendered to a carpenter to build that which the purser can't readily produce themselves. It is repugnant.
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Please remember: GenAI output isn't high-quality because it isn't meant to be. The purpose of generative AI tools is to serve a desire to not pay creative professionals. The poor quality of is output is not an item of concern for its proponents; withholding money from tradespeople is the objective.
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Please remember: GenAI output isn't high-quality because it isn't meant to be. The purpose of generative AI tools is to serve a desire to not pay creative professionals. The poor quality of is output is not an item of concern for its proponents; withholding money from tradespeople is the objective.
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We’re leading a coalition of 17 AGs in support of journalists and protesters challenging DHS’s dangerous use of force during the Los Angeles protests this past summer.
We will continue to oppose threats to free, safe speech wherever and whenever they arise.
We will continue to oppose threats to free, safe speech wherever and whenever they arise.
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
We’re leading a coalition of 17 AGs in support of journalists and protesters challenging DHS’s dangerous use of force during the Los Angeles protests this past summer.
We will continue to oppose threats to free, safe speech wherever and whenever they arise.
We will continue to oppose threats to free, safe speech wherever and whenever they arise.
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I genuinely think it's fascinating that media companies don't think they'll take a reputational hit by hiring the likes of Lizza and Nuzzi. I admire a lot of the reportage NY Mag produces but I'll never look at it the same way (and yeah, that was before we knew about the felching with subjects)
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I genuinely think it's fascinating that media companies don't think they'll take a reputational hit by hiring the likes of Lizza and Nuzzi. I admire a lot of the reportage NY Mag produces but I'll never look at it the same way (and yeah, that was before we knew about the felching with subjects)
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It's real hard to see what value these two brought as journalists that the establishment would bend over backward to keep them. So why then?
November 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
It's real hard to see what value these two brought as journalists that the establishment would bend over backward to keep them. So why then?
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Also these are people at the heights of the industry, and both Nuzzi and Lizza were almost instantly rehabilitated by top media companies after a first round of scandals that should have made them radioactive. Now lo and behold, much bigger shoes to drop, and we probably haven't seen the last of it.
The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Also these are people at the heights of the industry, and both Nuzzi and Lizza were almost instantly rehabilitated by top media companies after a first round of scandals that should have made them radioactive. Now lo and behold, much bigger shoes to drop, and we probably haven't seen the last of it.
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It feels like these two have roughly the same relation to journalism as RFK Jr does to medicine
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 AM
It feels like these two have roughly the same relation to journalism as RFK Jr does to medicine
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I don't know what — or really, if anything — in Lizza's account is true, because I don't trust him as far as I can throw him. If *any* of it is true, the fact that we are only hearing about it now, after the fact, to drive subscriptions to his paywalled private newsletter, is frankly vile!
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I don't know what — or really, if anything — in Lizza's account is true, because I don't trust him as far as I can throw him. If *any* of it is true, the fact that we are only hearing about it now, after the fact, to drive subscriptions to his paywalled private newsletter, is frankly vile!
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The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
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this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
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Sure, Nuzzi isn’t all journalists. Sure, Larry Summers isn’t all academics. Sure, Musk isn’t all CEOs. And also, if you don’t think their prominence & behavior tells us something about those professions & our National Conversation™️ in this authoritarian era, I don’t really know what to tell you.
you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird
November 27, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Sure, Nuzzi isn’t all journalists. Sure, Larry Summers isn’t all academics. Sure, Musk isn’t all CEOs. And also, if you don’t think their prominence & behavior tells us something about those professions & our National Conversation™️ in this authoritarian era, I don’t really know what to tell you.
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'Stranger Things' returns for its final season, and our misfits are poised for battle
Review: 'Stranger Things' returns for its final season, and our misfits are poised for battle
After a more than three-year absence, it's the beginning of the end for Netflix's hit series, which has endeared gaggle of misfit kids to us and become a cultural touchstone.
www.latimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
'Stranger Things' returns for its final season, and our misfits are poised for battle
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Juzo Itami’s “Tampopo” was released 40 years ago, and though it wasn’t a hit at the time, it has gained a cult following in the years since. We look at how it changed food and film. 🧵
Eat, slurp, love: 'Tampopo' turns 40
Four decades on, Juzo Itami's film remains unsurpassed as a wicked and delicious social commentary on Japanese society told through the lens of food.
www.japantimes.co.jp
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Juzo Itami’s “Tampopo” was released 40 years ago, and though it wasn’t a hit at the time, it has gained a cult following in the years since. We look at how it changed food and film. 🧵
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Decades after its release, the “ramen western” continues to shape the menus of Japanese restaurants on five continents.
‘Tampopo’ lives on in bowls of ramen around the world
Decades after its release, the “ramen Western” continues to shape the menus of those who’ve seen the film.
www.japantimes.co.jp
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Decades after its release, the “ramen western” continues to shape the menus of Japanese restaurants on five continents.
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- as we'd find out a few years later when his surviving twin Norris became the public face, not of record breaking, but sanctions breaking instead.
November 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
- as we'd find out a few years later when his surviving twin Norris became the public face, not of record breaking, but sanctions breaking instead.
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-that their background or ethnicity or colour was of no importance compared to their ability to go faster, higher or further than anyone ever before. I was wrong about that too. He and his brother were, as Wikipedia acknowledges, "on the right" of the political spectrum-
November 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
-that their background or ethnicity or colour was of no importance compared to their ability to go faster, higher or further than anyone ever before. I was wrong about that too. He and his brother were, as Wikipedia acknowledges, "on the right" of the political spectrum-
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- Of course, to me he was just the bloke in the light grey blazer (we only had a black and white TV) with the stopwatch and the clipboard as someone peeled an orange quickly, or whatever. I assumed that nothing mattered to him about a person more than their ability to excel at sport-
November 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
- Of course, to me he was just the bloke in the light grey blazer (we only had a black and white TV) with the stopwatch and the clipboard as someone peeled an orange quickly, or whatever. I assumed that nothing mattered to him about a person more than their ability to excel at sport-
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-He also proposed compulsory registration with the police for all people of Irish descent living in Britain, along with other restrictions on their liberty. He demanded the restoration of capital punishment for the IRA and as had suggested terrorist offences should be reclassified as treason-
November 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
-He also proposed compulsory registration with the police for all people of Irish descent living in Britain, along with other restrictions on their liberty. He demanded the restoration of capital punishment for the IRA and as had suggested terrorist offences should be reclassified as treason-
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- So it came as a bit of a surprise when I learned that Ross McWhirter had been targeted by the IRA because he had offered a reward of £50,000 to pay anyone who came forward with information leading to the capture of IRA terrorists. An enormous sum of money in those days.-
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
- So it came as a bit of a surprise when I learned that Ross McWhirter had been targeted by the IRA because he had offered a reward of £50,000 to pay anyone who came forward with information leading to the capture of IRA terrorists. An enormous sum of money in those days.-