Just spoke with my accountant and it sounds like it's going to cost more to files our taxes for @certifiedforgot.bsky.social than we earned in (non-owner contributed) revenue in 2025.
It'd be really great if people starting giving us credit for paying our writers, because, man, shit's not cheap.
There’s now reporting that the devices were actually thrown at the anti-Muslim protestors, not at the mayor’s mansion.
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THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
It’s always a good idea to read the great dance critic Gia Kourlas - here’s a gift article so you can: Timothée Chalamet Has a Point About Ballet www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/a...
Book cover for Mazywood - a film reel unspooled to a cabin in the woods.
COVER REVEAL!!! A great launch in People yesterday -- and MAZYWOOD is already the #4 bestseller in Black Horror on Amazon! Please pre-order when you can so my publisher knows what's up. :) Out Sept. 22!
Preorder link: bit.ly/3OMpYco
Read more about Mazywood in People:
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A fantastic, insightful new essay on HABIT, Larry Fessenden's essential '90s indie horror masterpiece, courtesy of @alishamgl.bsky.social for @ebertvoices.bsky.social.
Patel "targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran" days before the US attacked Iran.
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Great thread here:
I can't emphasize enough that the idea of a Paramount-WB merger producing 30-40 movies a year is an absurd fiction. First WB will become the "classy" label within Par (which is only about Rescue Rangers, Scream and existing IP). Then it will become the specialty or streaming label. Then it will die.
Pancia, who is Jewish, said he gave her his spiel and she joined in. "Then two minutes in, she starts saying weird shit," he said. "She started saying 'Tax Israel, 'Tax the Jews, and immediately I was like 'No, no, no, not that one, don't say that - I'm a Jew, I don't think you should say that." Pancia said she paused and then "she started saying it again." "There were multiple attempts to speak with her, and then there was an attempt by us to drown her out by repeating the 'Tax the Rich' chant," said Christin Evans, another participant. At one point, Evans said she told the woman: "That's not why we're here."
"We didn't really have a way to stop her, so we just started chanting over her and eventually she just rambled on," added Marc Dantona, another protester. Jennifer Bolen, co-chair of DSA San Francisco, said that when she walked up to the woman to tell her to leave, "she blew up at me, threw her hands up, I stepped back, and then she left."
Seems like the former.
Not that their efforts seem to stop outlets and individuals who want to stoke unwarranted fears of widespread antisemitism on the left from mischaracterizing the incident, as the article explains.
Essential horror cinema follow 👇👇👇
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Like many media people, I'm out here, flailing, pitching increasingly AI-addicted legacy publishers while hawking my wares on Main. This week's newsletter features 100% Fresh, Blessedly Brief Movie Reviews, as well as a polite request for SUPPORT. Xo.
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everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine
YES THIS
"It has been a historically bad time to buy any computer that is not a Mac mini since about mid September . . . Price hikes in RAM are entirely thanks to the Y Combinator-brained jackasses pushing AI into everything."
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Urgent 😓
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I get that’s what you feel, but it’s not what I see. Nihilism and “both sides are the same” isn’t realism or pragmatism; it’s surrender.
No one on the electable left is likely to be the next Mao. Meanwhile, the other side is killing us in the streets & buying real estate for concentration camps.
So not really trying to downplay that “old man shakes fist at cloud” look, eh? 😂
Me, I’m not ready to write it all off just yet. Maybe let’s try the untried (in this country) leftist ideas before we give in to rage and despair. Just a thought!
Nobody’s voting yet! It’s all just talk right now.
The message that establishment Dems aren’t meeting the moment is spot on, and if that rhetoric encourages support for other, better candidates than the usual crop of neoliberal narcissists centrists, great!
Sorry if it sounds like I’m lecturing, but we need to find common ground. Fighting each other only aids the enemy.
Lashing out with hate when you’re attacked or hurt is just more in-fighting.
I haven’t faced the torrent of vitriol you have, so maybe I’d be bitter too. But rising above IS the answer. I find standing up for others to be a more effective way to get them to stand up for me too.
And I lost half my family to the camps, so it’s not like I don’t have generational trauma!
I take all statements about the general with a huge grain of salt. Most of it is posturing to influence primary voters. So basically just politics, which, you know, fair enough.
But the stakes for trans folks are a LOT higher than for you and me, so try to endure the name calling.
(a) she doesn’t want you dead, which matters, (b) every president in your lifetime has also at times aligned with antisemitic world (and American!) leaders, (c) if it’s a 2-person race in the general, I believe we all have a moral obligation to vote to reduce harm.
Kurosawa?
Easy. The same song we played as the processional to our wedding:
Cannibal Holocaust (Main Theme)
This would be, in every way, worse than a Netflix-WB deal. No point in preserving the integrity of the theatrical experience for a company funded by a right-wing ideologue. I don't believe there's a world in which Larry Ellison funds One Battle or Sinners. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/b...
New from me, at @vqr.bsky.social: a few years ago two people contacted me about a TEDx talk I once gave, “The Art of Haunting.”
When I replied I’d never given a TEDx talk, things just got weirder.
On AI, ghosts, what it means to tell a story, and what Italo Calvino saw coming 60 years ago. Enjoy!
I’m almost at the point where I’ll need to rehome my cats in two weeks and sell all my belongings. Without anything tying me down, my tentative plan is to hitchhike upstate — because why not?!?
You can read my story here gofund.me/4a24e853a
Every word of this is a lie. And any news organization that quotes this without saying as much is failing its audience.
