Tim
@timmoydaen.bsky.social
It's too loud and I'm too old.
Chicago.
avatar: from the cover of THE PLAYER OF GAMES by Iain M. Banks
background: from "Essence of Freedom" by Mariusz Lewandowski (the cover of MIRROR REAPER by Bell Witch)
Chicago.
avatar: from the cover of THE PLAYER OF GAMES by Iain M. Banks
background: from "Essence of Freedom" by Mariusz Lewandowski (the cover of MIRROR REAPER by Bell Witch)
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I was a guest on Horror 101 with Dr. AC talking about 3 art house horror films from 1990: THE REFLECTING SKIN, BABY BLOOD, and SINGAPORE SLING! Watch it on YouTube, or listen on your podcast app!
Ep 144 – THE REFLECTING SKIN, BABY BLOOD, & SINGAPORE SLING: Forgotten Horror Gems of 1990
YouTube video by HORROR 101 with Dr. AC
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December 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I was a guest on Horror 101 with Dr. AC talking about 3 art house horror films from 1990: THE REFLECTING SKIN, BABY BLOOD, and SINGAPORE SLING! Watch it on YouTube, or listen on your podcast app!
Woooooooo my friend Matt and I did the Santa Hustle 5k this morning!
December 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Woooooooo my friend Matt and I did the Santa Hustle 5k this morning!
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
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This is one of those things that I think is quietly important – when these people are talking shit about cities, Portland or Minneapolis or New York or Charlotte or wherever, you have to loudly say, “no, fuck you, you’re lying, that town and its people whip ass and you’re the asshole”
“I walk around Portland, and I go, ‘Fuck you, assholes. Portland is fine.’” - John Darnielle, @themountaingoats.bsky.social. We're proud to claim you as a Portlander, sir.
The Mountain Goats Ascend to Revolution Hall
Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle discusses musicals, his new album, and why he keeps coming home to Portland.
www.wweek.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is one of those things that I think is quietly important – when these people are talking shit about cities, Portland or Minneapolis or New York or Charlotte or wherever, you have to loudly say, “no, fuck you, you’re lying, that town and its people whip ass and you’re the asshole”
finished my annual reading of “Friday Black” and related stories from Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s eponymous short story collection
November 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
finished my annual reading of “Friday Black” and related stories from Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s eponymous short story collection
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@timmoydaen.bsky.social and I have a new cat! Her name is Perla and she’s 3 years old. She needed a new home after her dad was sadly deported. She’s still adjusting, but she already likes snuggles, finding all the good places for naps, playing with the pickle and bird toys, and eating chicken. ❤️
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
@timmoydaen.bsky.social and I have a new cat! Her name is Perla and she’s 3 years old. She needed a new home after her dad was sadly deported. She’s still adjusting, but she already likes snuggles, finding all the good places for naps, playing with the pickle and bird toys, and eating chicken. ❤️
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We don’t need to reform ICE.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
We don’t need to reform ICE.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
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resources re: ICE presence in North Carolina, distribute widely if you feel like it. all love to my community, no love to the people who said "but what is fascism really? historically, blah blah, name-calling gets us nowhere" when we were all saying "these people are fascists"
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November 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
resources re: ICE presence in North Carolina, distribute widely if you feel like it. all love to my community, no love to the people who said "but what is fascism really? historically, blah blah, name-calling gets us nowhere" when we were all saying "these people are fascists"
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If I can give 3 pieces of unsolicited advice to people facing ICE/CBP:
1) go outside
2) meet your neighbors
3) be loud
They want you to be isolated and afraid so they can work in secret, control the narrative, and act with impunity. They lose power when we see what’s happening and to whom.
1) go outside
2) meet your neighbors
3) be loud
They want you to be isolated and afraid so they can work in secret, control the narrative, and act with impunity. They lose power when we see what’s happening and to whom.
November 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
If I can give 3 pieces of unsolicited advice to people facing ICE/CBP:
1) go outside
2) meet your neighbors
3) be loud
They want you to be isolated and afraid so they can work in secret, control the narrative, and act with impunity. They lose power when we see what’s happening and to whom.
1) go outside
2) meet your neighbors
3) be loud
They want you to be isolated and afraid so they can work in secret, control the narrative, and act with impunity. They lose power when we see what’s happening and to whom.
The perfect album from the year I turned 16
November 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The perfect album from the year I turned 16
made pizza chili tonight and it turned out even better than i had hoped
November 17, 2025 at 3:13 AM
made pizza chili tonight and it turned out even better than i had hoped
This applies to each of the 80s thrash metal "Big 4":
Metallica - Kill 'Em All to Ride the Lightning
Slayer - Show No Mercy to Hell Awaits
Megadeth - Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good to Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
Anthrax - Fistful of Metal to Spreading the Disease
Metallica - Kill 'Em All to Ride the Lightning
Slayer - Show No Mercy to Hell Awaits
Megadeth - Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good to Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
Anthrax - Fistful of Metal to Spreading the Disease
Good evening Bluesky. What do you think is the sharpest rise in quality between a first album and a second album?
My choice is from "Frank" to "Back In Black" by Amy Winehouse.
My choice is from "Frank" to "Back In Black" by Amy Winehouse.
November 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This applies to each of the 80s thrash metal "Big 4":
Metallica - Kill 'Em All to Ride the Lightning
Slayer - Show No Mercy to Hell Awaits
Megadeth - Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good to Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
Anthrax - Fistful of Metal to Spreading the Disease
Metallica - Kill 'Em All to Ride the Lightning
Slayer - Show No Mercy to Hell Awaits
Megadeth - Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good to Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
Anthrax - Fistful of Metal to Spreading the Disease
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PLEASE SHARE!
Border Patrol operations start in Charlotte as officials urge calm - NBC News
Border Patrol operations start in Charlotte as officials urge calm - NBC News
November 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
PLEASE SHARE!
Border Patrol operations start in Charlotte as officials urge calm - NBC News
Border Patrol operations start in Charlotte as officials urge calm - NBC News
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
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Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
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Alderman Sigcho-Lopez was right to call out Pritzker today about the state police arresting protesters. Pritzker responded that the state police are protecting protesters, and that just isn't true. State cops have arrested and brutalized protesters to facilitate ICE operations. That's reality.
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Alderman Sigcho-Lopez was right to call out Pritzker today about the state police arresting protesters. Pritzker responded that the state police are protecting protesters, and that just isn't true. State cops have arrested and brutalized protesters to facilitate ICE operations. That's reality.
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I wonder if any future historians who write about this moment in time, will make a note of Trump being savagely booed by tens of thousands of people literally at the same time that 8 Democrats bent the knee.
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I wonder if any future historians who write about this moment in time, will make a note of Trump being savagely booed by tens of thousands of people literally at the same time that 8 Democrats bent the knee.
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This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”
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This fuck should never know a moment of peace
Durbin on voting yes to reopen the government tonight:
“It’s time for Leader Thune to keep his promise to schedule a vote on the ACA tax credits in December.”
Durbin is retiring and an ACA tax credit vote is bound to fail, making it a vote he won’t have to answer for next year
“It’s time for Leader Thune to keep his promise to schedule a vote on the ACA tax credits in December.”
Durbin is retiring and an ACA tax credit vote is bound to fail, making it a vote he won’t have to answer for next year
November 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
This fuck should never know a moment of peace
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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tomorrow, free our caregivers
November 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
tomorrow, free our caregivers