Eli Bishop
@errorbar.bsky.social
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Button-pushing by day, comics & theater by night.
http://errorbar.net
[he/him]
Hey, SF Bay Area, I bet next month you want to come see me & my friends frantically present a bouquet of performance art in THE INFINITE WRENCH BEST OF 2025! This time it's at Z Space main stage, the most absurdly large stage I've ever personally been on; we better be loud.
www.zspace.org/neos-2025
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SF Neo-Futurists: The Infinite Wrench Best of 2025 â Z Space
The San Francisco Neo-Futurists and Z Space present The Infinite Wrench: Best of 2025 December 13 on the Steindler Stage The critically-acclaimed SF Neo-Futurists bring you The Infinite Wrenc...
https://www.zspace.org/neos-2025
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10 days ago
Yeah, I'll admit I didn't think I'd be able to see the aurora here in Chicago so was pretty shocked when I stepped out on my back porch
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I lived in NYC for 25% of my life and I frankly do not understand this strange universe where NYC actually elects a good candidate for mayor. The only thing that'd be more bizarre to me is if San Francisco did. Then I'd know someone is messing with me. Anyway love to all my east coast peoples â€ïžâ€ïžâ€ïž
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High school health class, anti-drug day, some of us got randomly picked to read out some material about different drugs. So, one kid had to recite facts about heroin from the textbook. Someone raised a hand & asked: "So... what's heroin made out of?" "What-- I don't know, it's made out of DRUGS!"
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26 days ago
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Btw, donating money to food banks goes a *lot* further than donating food. They're set up to buy things way more efficiently than you or I can.
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27 days ago
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You know how sometimes you copy text from a webpage and some ad material shows up in the middle of it, so you end up with a nontraditional version of "O Death" that has a couple of jarring shifts in tone and subject (even though the first line of the ad weirdly has the right meter)?
about 1 month ago
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I hope all my Portland friends, and also all the people I don't know in Portland, are as safe as can be through all this goddamn bullshit.
about 2 months ago
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Of all the beloved venues in SF that I've seen go away, this is the toughest for me because I remember so vividly when it started & have seen it get built up over the years into this amazing work of art & temple of community glee. Love to D'Arcy & the late Heklina & everyone who's made it great.
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4 months ago
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Walking through the park, I see at the edge of the path what looks like a pretty big snake, almost 3 feet long. On getting closer, I see it's a rubber snake. Nearby kid's mom: "It's fake! We were trying to freak people out with it... but mostly no one notices." The kid looks very excited. [1/3]
4 months ago
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All times are appropriate times to donate to Trans Lifeline and The Trevor Project, but also now.
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5 months ago
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This will only be meaningful to fans of experimental theater and/or the 1991 Addams Family movie, but: Judith Malina once handed me a joint.
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5 months ago
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Everything Lavignia said and wrote about his DOGE work seems like a huge red flag saying "nobody should ever hire me (regardless of whether it's even for money) to perform, supervise, or plan, any type of task whatsoever." These were not *technical* mistakes.
www.propublica.org/article/insi...
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Inside the AI Prompts DOGE Used to âMunchâ Contracts Related to Veteransâ Health
Experts who reviewed the code for ProPublica found numerous and troubling flaws in the system, providing a disturbing glimpse into how the Trump administration is allowing artificial intelligence to g...
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ai-tool-doge-veterans-affairs-contracts-sahil-lavingia
6 months ago
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ProPublica
6 months ago
We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city âsweepsâ to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. âThey took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,â a 29-year-old in California wrote.
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âI Have Lost Everythingâ: The Toll of Citiesâ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings â including important documents and irreplaceable mementos â when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country soâŠ
https://projects.propublica.org/impact-of-homeless-sweeps-lost-belongings/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=6-4
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Bay Area: so much special SF Neo-Futurists theater real soon! This weekend, our mysterious site-specific HOLE. Next month, the first ever BLACKEST WRENCH on Juneteenth; then, our reliably fabulous Pride special! It's all here:
www.sfneofuturists.org
(and I'm back in the regular show June 13)
6 months ago
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I've seen amazing feats in the field of "weird non-questions raised by audience during an artist Q&A", but a special award goes to the one recently where someone thanked Carl Franklin at length for making Something Wild. And, after being gently told that that was a Jonathan Demme movie...
6 months ago
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In case you know someone who needs to read this, it's very, very well written.
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6 months ago
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Michael Tomasky
7 months ago
New Column: On Musk. The headline says it all. Well, actually, the subhed says some of it, too!
newrepublic.com/article/1947...
via
@newrepublic.com
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Elon Musk Is an Evil Piece of Garbageâand an A-Level Fraud Too
He is stupid. He is incompetent. He is cruel. He is sinister. And people will die because of what heâs done.
https://newrepublic.com/article/194769/elon-musk-evil-garbage-fraud
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Well, I just wasted 45 minutes of my life 1. reading some bullshit from the HHS anti-trans report, 2. reading more bullshit by the probable author of it, & 3. investigating the stupidest footnote in the world. For more substantive analysis, see:
www.erininthemorning.com/p/fact-check...
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7 months ago
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Max Kennerly
7 months ago
The only reason anyone would cut the Narcan program, a mere $56 million annually, is because they want people to die as punishment.
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fey stranger
7 months ago
Do you want your convention to be accessible? Hire me. I can't afford to do this for free any more, folks. I've had to drop out of Worldcon Seattle because I can't afford to attend or even work remotely for free right now. Pay disabled people.
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My two best self-published comics, BUSYBODY #1 and NINE FACES OF NOTHING, are now for sale as e-books on
itch.io
instead of the crappy place where they used to be. There are still a few paper copies of these available, but I'm unlikely to print more.
eli-the-bishop.itch.io
7 months ago
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A useful measure of how well or poorly one's brain is working in general is: can you deliver a very basic dad-type joke without fucking it up. The other day I'm in an ensemble meeting where we take turns pitching ideas, and the organizing person introduces this task and says "No small feat!" so...
7 months ago
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No idea why I might have been thinking about how cultists rationalize their leader's arbitrary decisions, but: I just rewatched THE MASTER, & had forgot about Laura Dern's great cameo where she's privately trying to get the Master to clarify why the doctrine in Book 2 contradicts Book 1.
8 months ago
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This is just one of many similar crises that are going to be hitting small businesses now, so everyone can only do so much, but I'm supporting Fieldmouse's fundraiser because the art they publish means a lot to me.
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8 months ago
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Just in case you are like me, an artist who thought Gumroad seemed useful & wasn't paying attention to news about them... argh. Well, I was barely getting any money from them anyway. Bye, asshole.
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8 months ago
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This is the start of my 4th year writing & performing with the San Francisco Neo-Futurists. Other than meeting my spouse, there aren't many life changes that have been so important to me. It's a joy & an honor to know these people & make stuff with them. That's all!
www.sfneofuturists.org
8 months ago
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Let's take a moment to recognize a minor but real achievement in the field of audacious bs. Today a crank/troll pulled the "I'm a credentialed scholar" bit to back up their claims. When doubt was expressed (like, "assuming that's nonfictional"), their bold reply was... [drum roll]
8 months ago
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I know it's never possible to point to just one thing, but this rings true to me. I managed to avoid ever starting smoking, mainly because I was scared of anything that might set off my asthma, but I always had a weird envy like "this seems to help people have less of whatever my problem is"...
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Dr. Lucky Tran
8 months ago
All anti-mask lawsâeven those with so called âmedical exceptionsââstigmatize mask-wearing. Fewer people wearing masks increases the spread of infectious diseases. No matter how lawmakers try to spin it, any law that criminalizes wearing a mask endangers public health. Period.
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Everything (or almost everything) being said about the dangers of & malicious intent behind Trump's voter-suppression EO is true. That's different from saying "it's over, he's seized all the power, no elections." It means those are the stakes of the fight that we're in. This is a shot fired.
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8 months ago
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Not that anyone needs to care what I think about movies, but I was glad I managed to write down a few of the 1000 thoughts that came up when I finally saw BORN IN FLAMES earlier this year (which happened thanks to
@mediameltdown.bsky.social
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letterboxd.com/hob/film/bor...
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A â â â â â review of Born in Flames (1983)
Not having seen any of Borden's other work yet, the only thing I can really compare this to is something like a Peter Watkins movie, because of the particular kind of verité style (not really faux-doc...
https://letterboxd.com/hob/film/born-in-flames/
8 months ago
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I know calling Axios shallow is like shooting the surface of water in a barrel (not even the fish), but this is such a hilarious example of the "make everything into bullet lists with savvy-sounding categories" style adding absolutely nothing:
www.axios.com/2025/03/24/a...
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"Heads should roll": Congress erupts over Trump administration's Signal leak
"We can't chalk this up to a simple mistake â people should be fired for this," said one House Democrat.
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/24/atlantic-yemen-signal-hegseth-jeffrey-goldberg
8 months ago
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Related: reading one of the historical background pieces in the recent "A History of Transgender Medicine in the US" & it's interesting/sad to see how, in some cultures that traditionally had a niche for some type of gender variance, the boundaries of masculinity were still aggressively policed.
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8 months ago
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I only got to see half of this last night, and that was still like 3 of the best 10 shows I've seen in the last year. Awesome performances and some things I really haven't seen anyone do before. I'll see anything Printz does.
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8 months ago
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I've finally read all of WORLD WITHIN THE WORLD and whooo yeah, it's significant & intense. I've been a fan since early days, and that may be partly because I'm a very morbid person but Gfrörer has a specific vision & eye (& earâreally tightly crafted dialogue) that's hard to compare to anyone else.
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8 months ago
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John Skiles Skinner
8 months ago
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. đ§”
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Because it's important to imagine that a better world is possible, here's my homage to the cover of STARSLAYER (THE LOG OF THE JOLLY ROGER) #2 (1982), after Mike Grell.
#comiccovercover
#fanart
#coloredpencils
#spacepirates
8 months ago
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I wonder sometimes what % of the frustrating stuff about online discourse is just because people are posting while at least slightly drunk/high. And I don't just mean like a goofy shitposter who does it on purposeâI mean people who aren't aware that they get confused & combative after a few.
8 months ago
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Stephen King has written plenty of very dated things, but IMO the big fateful event in The Dead Zone isn't one of them. People online who go "that wouldn't work now, b/c modern right-wingers are shameless" are missing what makes it a good choice: they're shameless about evil, not about looking weak.
9 months ago
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Btw, I said "go listen to the podcast" and not "go read the transcript" because the transcript of Newsom's podcast is unreadable machine garbage. This is very funny in context, because the machine combined some of Newsom's lines into Kirk's & vice versa... and it made very little difference.
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9 months ago
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To anyone who heard about this & maybe even watched Reed's video & thought "huh, idk, maybe it's out of context"âit's not. Go listen to the whole podcast. It's worth 71 minutes of your time to really get the depth of Gavin Newsom's scummy opportunism. He is who he was, but this is a new low.
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9 months ago
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Can confirm!
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9 months ago
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Got an urge to draw some goofy drama, so here's my homage to the cover of CAPTAIN MARVEL #51 (1977), after Al Milgrom & Irv Watanabe (original at right). I took the liberty of recoloring Mercurio and creating a more intimate fighting style.
#comiccovercover
#fanart
#gratuitouscursive
9 months ago
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I wonder if Batman ever manages to zip up to a high precipice that he can't figure out how to get down from, so he just yells and yells until Superman shows up to help, in the middle of the night. Unrelated: here's a picture of a darling cat who lives with me
9 months ago
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
9 months ago
alright, we're gonna kick this series off with a fucking bang. my first story in the DOGE IS FOUR LETTERS series comes from nate brought, director of the executive secretariat at the national institutes of health, and you're going to want to hear what he has to say.
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Nate Brought | Maryland
I am the Director of the Executive Secretariat at the National Institutes of Health until COB Friday, February 28.
https://golikehellmachine.com/doge-is-four-letters/nate-brought-maryland/
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9 months ago
i have a couple of quick updates to share that are elaborated on in the updated post. TLDR: i have received a large volume of responses, my turnaround is going to be a little longer, and i'm going to start publishing next week, rather than march. thanks for all of your stories, and keep them coming.
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If you live in New York, let Kathy Hochul know it's time to break the glass and take out the emergency mayor-removal power. This piece lays out why it's important, totally aside from Adams's specific crimes.
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/02/hoch...
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Hochul must remove Adams - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Hereâs a crucial detail about the Thursday afternoon massacre: The Justice Departmentâs order to dismiss charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams triggered a series of resignations Thursday and ...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/02/hochul-must-remove-adams
9 months ago
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Erin Reed
9 months ago
Oh my god. They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service. "Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights" WOW.
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If you'd like to spend time on Sunday thinking about more pleasant things, like how puppet shows will be part of the government in radioactive post-apocalyptic England, I'll be in this online panel talking about the classic novel RIDDLEY WALKER. I'm the amateur on the panel; I'll try not to babble.
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I can't think of a better way to have experienced mass shared joy last night than attending this Tim Curry Q&A & tribute featuring dozens of the most creative & lovely queerdos I've ever had the honor of seeing & knowing. Everybody needed this.
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