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Medea - 1969 - Pier Paolo Pasolini Cinematography : Ennio Guarnieri

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everyone's always giving writers too much damn advice. do whatever the fuck you want. be confident in yourself.

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Let me take this format for a spin

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In the era that I studied when I was still part of the academic world one recurrent topic was that of "over-mighty subjects". This referred to subjects of the Crown who were themselves so powerful that they threatened the sovereign power of the Crown itself. In the US we have no sovereign, or ...

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There have been times when I had second thoughts about my career choices ("Classics by day; sword-and-sorcery by night. The other way 'round sometimes.") But I've never felt better about them than I have lately. (1/x)

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So Mad King Elon posted this about two hours ago and I've now seen one of the actual emails. Not going to mention the agency my source works out. But suffice it to say it's entirely shuttered. So everyone there was forced to stop working more than a week ago. The actual email is one is that in ...

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“many faculty members voiced concerns about …a ‘lack of proportionality between the relatively small percentage of the lost income versus the large 35% cut in [graduate] programs.’” Congratulations to admin. Give them lemons, by god they’ll make lemonade and then try to drown the humanities in it

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BRB. Gotta change into my Gashlycrumb Tinies socks in Gorey's honor... 🧦

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I'd suspect they replaced him with a hologram run by an AI, but it would be more coherent.

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I get to write a Sword & Sorcery poem. My last was 'Scapegoat' in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly: www.heroicfantasyquarterly.com?p=4361

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In which I fall into a dictionary and get swept away by a tide of weird words. jamesenge.com/2025/02/22/n...

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Exactly $1,000 to go! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

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A modest space telescope with an innovative design is about to search for traces of a key moment in cosmic history: the first tiny fraction of the first second following the Big Bang. www.science.org/content/arti... #cosmology 🧪 #SPHEREx

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Joanna Russ (1937-2011) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Morgan Kane, 1975; R, uncredited, 1977 #scifi #sciencefiction #books #feminism #literature

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Good doc. Such great songs and arrangements. Sad to watch the slide into drug addiction. I had forgotten that Jefferson Airplane’s “Somebody To Love” was a re-do of the song from Grace Slick’s first band. What I did not know is that Sly cowrote and produced that original!

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Cathedral — Norman Lewis, 1950 oil on canvas

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This year we have a special Sword & Planet issue! Vote in this poll on what special issue you think we should do next: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

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This is how it’s done.

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not to change the subject in a disorienting way, but I think I just met the final boss of junk web ads

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The anti-DOGE backlash is showing up in GOP reps districts talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/infle... via @TPM

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Bonus panel and hovertext here: smbc-comics.com/comic/murderer

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Sorry to name drop or otherwise be annoying but I just got an email from Michael Moorcock letting me know he likes the new covers and my day is absolutely MADE.

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In a feat of impeccable timing, the wonderful editors at the Lewis & Clark Law Review have finished their work on my article, "Is Originalism Bullshit?" The final version is now online at SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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it would be gauche to edit my own wikipedia page but I do hope someone updates it to include the berryman nationalpress.org/award-story/...

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The principal parts of the verb _to wing_ are: wing, winged, wung. "I wing my way to you." "I winged my way to you." "I have wung my way to you." This was revealed to me through my visualization of the Cosmic All.

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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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Public Service Announcement: At 85, Michael Moorcock is still very much alive and writing up a storm(bringer)!

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The Theodosian Code is about the size of a 1.5 year old, in case we are looking for a new, cuter book metric.

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📢 ProPublica is looking for 5 newsrooms to join our Local Reporting Network! These newsrooms will be part of our 50 State Initiative. Newsrooms in 40 states (in blue) are eligible to apply: https://propub.li/41270AQ Here's what this would mean for your newsroom 👇

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"For it is one thing to imagine an ongoing destructive process and quite another to feel one’s own power to imagine draw to a halt, potentially destroyed by the destructive processes one is tracking."

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We like to keep things cheery on this account but seriously folks, do not submit or even admit to using "AI" in your art or writing if you would like to work with us. Our editor is not kidding.

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Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Halfway through this and it is a CRIME we do not acknowledge Charles Saunders along the likes of Moorcock and Howard! (I mean some do but MORE SHOULD)

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This is in fact a real picture and it will work nicely in the ads next year about the military families devastated by Elon's illegal firings.

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Longer article here, which has a nice picture of my book, so: winteriscoming.net/the-murderbo...

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for the cycle of responses to images from Nolan's Odyssey production

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THR: “.. Paramount now signaling that it’s prepared to go on the offensive .. leveraging the threat of uncovering information about Trump’s financials, including with respect to his social media company .. and the cryptocurrency he launched, in discovery.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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I just signed up for Operation Paperback to send books to troops. We end up with a lot of spare books, AND, it's a chance to make sure that books the military is removing from DoD school libraries, etc. get to readers who matter.

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NO KINGS

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This isn’t an official poster. The X-ed-out fanboy who made it up probably has a VΣΝΦ VΦDΦ VΦCΦ tattoo.

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It’s really great to be watching my country and my future destroyed by a drug-addled dolt. It’s like watching a cartoon version of the death of the Roman Republic. Only even dumber.

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is it good that the unelected billionaire shadow president is randomly declaring his opponents to be criminals

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Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

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There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

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