It’s so interesting that the comet pizza-Q-Anon folks have disappeared just as their deeply held concerns about a widespread elite child trafficking conspiracy has been proven correct

Wow! A new, open-source anthology on the challenges and opportunities involved in the preservation of Fluxus performances and objects! I'm particularly excited by the editors' argument that preservation is a generative process! spaces.hightail.com/receive/iCLH...

Just saw 'The Bone Temple.' Oh my, what a movie! Not for the squeamish, but if you're looking for a film that crucifies (uh, literally) the entertainment-religion complex, affirms faith in ritual, and recommends studying Weimar Germany to understand *all this*, it is the film for you! Also this guy👇

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. "It would be better to live it up, gather ye rosebuds, with dollars and days at hand, then—well, join the Marine Corps maybe, like my dad."

Just saw 'The Bone Temple.' Oh my, what a movie! Not for the squeamish, but if you're looking for a film that crucifies (uh, literally) the entertainment-religion complex, affirms faith in ritual, and recommends studying Weimar Germany to understand *all this*, it is the film for you! Also this guy👇

Trump spent the weekend threatening our treaty allies with a military invasion to seize Greenland because he didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize. This talk of invading Greenland is absurd and embarrassing. Congress needs to put a stop to this now.

Wow! A new, open-source anthology on the challenges and opportunities involved in the preservation of Fluxus performances and objects! I'm particularly excited by the editors' argument that preservation is a generative process! spaces.hightail.com/receive/iCLH...

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. "The surgeon say, ‘I’ll give you a choice: You can either have the heart of a 25-year-old marathon runner or a 60-year-old agent, which do you want?’”

"Kavanaugh Stops." Make it stick.

After a long, long absence, one of my favorite people not only got in touch but wants to play TTRPGs again! And they can join my regular Thursday-night game!

I would just like to wish the kids all the best trying to convince the people of the future that World War III was caused by resumé padding.

In other news, for the last year, I’ve brushed my teeth while sustaining balance on one foot. My balance has significantly improved. Am now putting on socks and shoes the same way. Dress shoes requiring a horn are an achievement.

President Trump is asking a federal judge in Florida to "permanently prohibit the release" of the portion of the special counsel report about his retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Weird to recall what a bombshell Biden’s fumbling debate performance was and now it’s like, ah yes, the president is demented in public every week, what can you do?

I would just like to wish the kids all the best trying to convince the people of the future that World War III was caused by resumé padding.

After a long, long absence, one of my favorite people not only got in touch but wants to play TTRPGs again! And they can join my regular Thursday-night game!

NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

"Kavanaugh Stops." Make it stick.

This is a significant development. (Snarky me: Why didn't he say that same thing about National Guard deployments . . .) www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

Now watching 'The Lure' (2015) (@criterionchannl.bsky.social: "This genre-defying horror-musical mash-up . . . follows a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland"). Will be on my next horror syllabus. Breathtaking, weird fun!

Tillis going full H.I. McDunnough.

“The slop will continue until sales improve!”

Which is basically good pedagogy.

The other fascinating thing about Freeplay was its ability to adapt. It was constantly changing with the times and its economic situation, constantly ahead of the conversations. I often think about how Dan Golding's idea for Parallels predated the 'Directs' and trailer shows that are now everywhere.

Funding is important, of course, but Freeplay's legacy ultimately boils down to the extreme amount of labour and care given by directors, boards, speakers, judges, and the general Freeplay community. For most of its life, Freeplay did not have funding for more than 1 year and people made it work.

Really sad to hear today that Freeplay Independent Games Festival is likely coming to the end of its adventure in 2026 after 22 incredible years. Freeplay has been pivotal to my own career and I have some complex, straight out contradictory feelings about the announcement I wanna try to articulate.

This is a really important story, and one that explains the place of the Hmong community in the Twin Cities and why this entire occupation is really just ethnic cleansing (my words). Also, props to Marisa for doing the work to get this story right when so many out-of-town journalists have failed.

The Dems would be well-advised to ignore this inanity.

I want making-of videos for everything. Survivor, Pluribus, Adventure Time, Culinary Class Wars . . .

9/11 etc.

Which is basically good pedagogy.

“The slop will continue until sales improve!”

German Jews were citizens of Germany at the start of 1933. By the end of 1933, the Nazis had removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews. In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship. Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.

Sinners is a movie *about* vampirism. The first half focuses on the mundane vampirism of racism—the sexual, economic, & political parasitism of white supremacy. The second half renders this supernatural, literalizing this in personal terms. The coda recasts this in terms of art, memory, & promises.

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

Isn’t it interesting how the Admin said we can’t afford cancer research but all of a sudden there’s enough money to buy Greenland?

Let's talk about the midterms. ICE is terrorizing and punishing blue states and cities to suppress your votes using fear from ICE- yes it's already started. Blue states need to wake up and have a plan to deploy the National Guard to protect polling stations & voters from the federal government!

They're investigating the victim's wife, the victim's friends, the mayor and the governor too, but no, they're not even going to glance in the direction of the murderer.

Since Congress passed a law requiring Trump to release the Epstein Files, Trump has: - Tried to start a war with NATO over Greenland - Threatened to use the military to suppress free speech in Minnesota - Illegally withheld 99% of the files and heavily redacted the ones that were released

These are concentration camps. And these are the numbers they're comfortable sharing.

The absolute accuracy of this.

Kavanaugh Stop

Just saw it noted that 100% of the world’s Ozempic supply comes from Denmark, as does a somewhat smaller percentage of the world’s insulin. Almost as if it’s really quite a small world!