TODAY: @zeets.bsky.social on coming to Tai Chi in a turbulent youth. “I could imagine the person that I wanted to be, and each practice was an opportunity to work towards that person. I would lose, come back and refine myself, and try again.” flaminghydra.com/r/d42f6c21?m...

DIRECT HELP = DIRECT ACTION

Suzanne Ciani, pioniera della musica elettronica, progetta e realizza gli effetti sonori per il popolare flipper Xenon, 1980. Scene tratte dal documentario Omni: The New Frontier, Andrew Carl Wilk (1981)

Indignity Vol. 5, No. 200, Chapter two of THE STAIRS, a serialized novel by Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social www.indignity.net/the-stairs-chapter-two/

FILMSTRIP

Gonna open an art gallery but it’s just old Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade posters.

SHANDLI1.BMF

Indignity presents THE STAIRS, a serialized novel by @tomscocca.bsky.social www.indignity.net/tag/the-stai...

BLOOSKI FAM IT'S HASHTAG FOLLOW FRIDAY #followfriday TODAY IT IS THE MOST WORTHY *PROJECT CENSORED* @projectcensored.bsky.social We educate students and the public about the importance of a truly free press for democratic self-government. Censorship undermines democracy.

For rational, informed, justly incensed commentary on current events, nothing beats a conversation with @katz.theracket.news Here's our chat at @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-447/

QUESTION for cinephiles / filmmakers / curators / critics: do you know of any other IRL (non-virtual) film fests that have created a public archive of where the films they've screened are available for home viewing? I don't want to say @newnextfilmfest.bsky.social is the first / only unless we are.

IT IS COLD & FLU SEASON

New details from a text shared with @thebaltimorebanner.com: “The trip back home was extremely tiring,” Tran told Nash in a text message shared with The Banner. “We were in shackles the entire trip. ... I felt like we were less than animals.”

SOME PERSONAL NEWS

Indignity Vol. 5, No. 199, COLUMN DEP'T, MR WRONG: A Pox on the People Who Want More Germs www.indignity.net/mr-wrong-now-cold-and-flu-season-has-bonus-diseases/

TODAY'S WRITERER

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STARTING A BAND CALLED *TYRANNOSAURUS VIET NAM*

THEY SEE ME ROLLIN’ THEY HATIN’ Ha-ha bitches, I got a new scooter!

POLITICAL PIGGY

FUCKIN GHOUL WAS IN A PEW AT HIS OWN FUNERAL

For @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social and other "it can't be done" miscreants. > It works in Asia > It works in Europe > It works in America It ✨ will ✨ work ✨ here. "Ride Free, See #Ottawa" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

Meet my friend @buzzgrambo.bsky.social. Radicalized by his oath to the constitution. Long time member of the @dailybeanspod.com community. Proud of you, shipmate.

I already know depression hates to see this man coming. I’m cancelling all of my therapy appointments and adding this song and dance to my morning routine. *Depression no, no, no ALEGRÍA SI SI SI*

About 10 years ago Longreads published this, about my daughter's MS diagnosis. Today her MRI came back showing no disease progression. Thank you to her neuros and Dr. George Jelinek ❤️♾️ Also this is the best thing I ever wrote, it is about EBM, proof, etc. web.archive.org/web/20180302...

I, Anonymous: Ghost(ed) Stories

HEY BALTIMORE IF YOU HAVE A DOG AND YOU WANT TO GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO MAKE THEM LOVE YOU MORE GET OVER TO HOWL IN HAMPDEN AND GRAB SOME OF VAN THE MAN'S DOG BALLZ THEY ARE ORGANICALLY SOURCED CHICKEN AND PRODUCED USING SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS TOTALLY TREE-HUGGIN' TREATS GET YOU SOME

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

AMERICAN CANTWRITE

GET IN ON THE GROUND FLOOR OF WHAT IS SURE TO BE A WELL-TOLD TALE

PATTON WILL DO HIS TIME IN BLOOSKI GAOL "FEET FIRST"

HEY WE SAW YOU ACROSS THE STREET AND REALLY DIG YOUR VIBE CAN WE INVITE YOU TO DC

Dan Barry: I went up to Albany all of a rainy night and what mug do I find but William Kennedy, THE William Kennedy. Author of "Ironweed," "Roscoe," and so many other novels that endure. [Gift Article] www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/a...

This is me at 15. I’m a child. I’m a CHILD.

"It is just one of many efforts across the country to preserve the history of the Black press." Great story about work in DC, Flint, and elsewhere on the rediscovery and preservation of Black newspaper archives, by Ira Porter and Cameron Pugh of the CS Monitor. #archives #newspapers

BUT ALSO THO AFTER AT THE BOTTOM SANDWICHES

Indignity Vol. 5, No. 198, FICTION DEP'T - Introducing a serialized work of fiction by @tomscocca.bsky.social: THE STAIRS, Chapter One www.indignity.net/the-stairs-chapter-one/

THEY WANT THE COIN TO HAVE TWO HEADS

HEY BALTIMORE THINGS SURE HAVE CHANGED AT THE BENGIES

ICE vs the clergy

TODAY: @kolatubosun.bsky.social on the exquisite artistry of Benin and the opening of a new West African art museum, which was "scuttled by protesters connected to the Ọba of Benin, who stormed the museum, insulting attendees and demanding that they leave." flaminghydra.com/issue-443/#b...

FUCKIN WEIRDOS

IT'S COLD & FLU & GODDAMN BIRD SEASON GO WASH YOUR HANDS

Out of here. Have a good evening. Don't set the house on fire. youtu.be/JLWSK2D-RZQ?...

Check out this week's Cover Show featuring North Bay Bohemian, Monterey County Weekly, Chronogram, Source Weekly, Pittsburgh City Paper, Santa Barbara Independent, The Pitch, Erie Reader, North Coast Journal, Isthmus, Arkansas Times, and Worcester Magazine at: https://bit.ly/4pbXaHh

“Dear diary i wonder what Bobby angry throat ass up to this morning”

HEY IS IPHONE POCKET A GOOD PLACE TO PUT YOUR APPLE PENCIL HEY IS THERE GONNA BE IPHONE POCKET PROTECTOR HEY WHEN IS IPHONE HOT POCKET HEY NO YOU BE QUIET www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s... [GIFT LINK]