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Allen Warren

@allenwarren.bsky.social
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Fiction, music, and lots of D&D / plucky Pittsburgh transplant / find me near the crick or at the record store / writing at allenwarren.me/blog

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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
So sad to hear about both the @post-gazette.com and @pghcitypaper.com shutting down this week. I’m not sure what Pittsburgh journalism will look like on other side of this.
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Klaus Mann's Mephisto may not be the perfect book for the moment, but its parallels with the U.S. today are worth studying: allenwarren.substack.com/p/mephisto-r...
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'Mephisto' Won't Save Us, But It May Keep the Antifascist Fire Burning
Klaus Mann's account of the fall of the Weimar Republic is too self-assured, but its parallels with contemporary U.S. politics are hard to ignore.
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Recommend: KPop Demon Hunters. Stunning animation, a fun take on the hero's journey, and songs that all slap.
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Have we had a song of the summer yet? Last year it was so clearly a competition between "360" and "Hot to Go" -- and I don't see anything approaching that so far in 2025. Am I missing something?
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
What would acting chalant look like? As opposed to nonchalant
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
In 2020, a poli sci prof of mine was explaining to the class how who’s president has little effect on our daily lives. He asked if anyone’s life had been directly impacted by any of Trump’s policies. No one raised their hand. I don’t think that would be the case today apnews.com/article/inte...
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the US will begin revoking the visas of Chinese students
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. will begin revoking the visas of some Chinese students, “including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.”
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
For years, I've enjoyed writing music I'd imagine in video games. Now, I've gotten a chance to try just that! I recently entered the Indie Game Music Contest, and you can vote for my entry to win the popularity poll! Check this link out for more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gF6...
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Indie Game Music Contest: TetherGeist (O & Co. Games) — Allen Warren
YouTube video by Allen Warren
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
America needs fun names for congressional districts like Canada has for federal ridings. Who wouldn’t want to represent someplace called Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Westmount or Nanaimo-Ladysmith?
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
More on the Duolingo Chinese update: you can now see a score for your learning progress, which was something I complained about being missing from this course in my blog post
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I met Duo the owl earlier this month, and he told me you need to do your Chinese lesson.
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Is it /good/ we spent four years building 12 housing units in Pittsburgh? This a rate of building we're /proud/ of? www.wesa.fm/development-...
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Officials celebrate new affordable housing in the Hill District
Officials broke ground Tuesday on Herron Village Apartments, a development whose three buildings will house 12 affordable units and commercial space.
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The Nintendo Music app just published the soundtrack from the OG Legend of Zelda. Check out the Famicom’s version of the title track — the Famicom had additional audio voices, meaning that version of the song is a fuller version of the one North American fans are used to
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/
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Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
@gelliottmorris.com's chart of the week shows us that more Americans consider Signal-Gate a serious problem than considered Hillary's emails a serious problem.
Chart from YouGov surveys shows that 53% (21%) say Signal-gate is a very (somewhat) serious problem, compared in 41% (21%) in 2022 for Hillary's emails and 30% (26%) in 2015 for Hillary's emails.
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
No, there are not methods for running again. abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...
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Trump won’t rule out running for a third term
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
And they were so worried about her emails.
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Visited some Civil War sites last weekend #poetry #bskypoetry #harpersferry #antietam
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Yinz, write your state legislators — this is scary www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...
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PRT proposes service cuts, fare increases due to lack of state funding
PRT has proposed a 35% service cut that will take effect in February of 2026.
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
High-key surprised Jewels Sparkles didn’t call out Arrietty for stealing her jokes at any point during that episode… do I have respect for Jewels now? #dragrace
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
They’re not sending their brightest on this mission apnews.com/article/dei-...
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War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge
References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorites are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts ma...
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Is “prower” the male version of “prowess?”
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
So it seems like the White House will be declaring English the national language of the United States. This is an unsurprising but still seismic move — less for the actual, day-to-day administrative effects but more for the culture-war jingoism it represents (🧵👇) apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump to sign order Friday designating English as the official language of the US
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Friday designating English as the official language of the United States.
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
What motivates you these days?
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Loved @phippsconservatory.bsky.social's orchid and bonsai exhibit (Also inspired by Donna Haraway's "Symbiogenesis, Sympoiesis, and Art Science Activisms")
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I got a lot of flashbacks to my own time in the newsroom while watching Tim Fehlbaum's "September 5," which came out at the end of last year.
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“September 5”: Understanding tragedy from a journalist’s perspective
The hostage situation during the 1972 Munich Olympics is examined in real time from the point of view of the American sports team there to cover the Games in this new thriller.
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Wrote this three Mondays ago 🐚🛟⚓
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I've been reading Karen Barad's theories of quantum physics and keep seeing headlines on how humans' conception of time may be made up. I've also been staring at my cuckoo clock too long
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
“Echoes of Wisdom”: How a game of callbacks Brings something new Newest “Zelda” installment finds its place within series’s lore (Origininally publised on Medium on Oct. 4, 2024.) For much of its history, The Legend of Zelda series has arguably been less about innovation than about adopting a…
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“Echoes of Wisdom”: How a game of callbacks Brings something new
Newest “Zelda” installment finds its place within series’s lore (Origininally publised on Medium on Oct. 4, 2024.) For much of its history, The Legend of Zelda series has arguably been less about innovation than about adopting a proven formula to new systems. If anything, Zelda fans have shown hostility to outright revamps: take the initial reaction to “Toon Link,”
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
First poem of the new year 🦆
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Looking for something to make the snowfall steamy this winter? "Babygirl" might have it, but perhaps not as much as advertised.
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“Babygirl” simmers without quite giving you what you want
Halina Reijn's story of an illicit relationship between a married CEO (Nicole Kidman) and her younger intern (Harris Dickinson) manages to get off the ground, but it sputters in executing an engaging portrayal of intimacy before an ethically ambivalent landing. 
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I've wanted to do something like this for a long time -- here is my review of "A Complete Unknown," starring Timothee Chalamet as the inscrutable, generation-defining Bob Dylan
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“A Complete Unknown”: A pop star at his own chosen speed
Timothée Chalamet shines as a young Bob Dylan in the movie directed by James Mangold, though the origins of the folk singer-songwriter's craft remain a mystery.
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Unlike almost anywhere else in the country, Carter actually gained ground in the Pittsburgh area in the 1980 election as steel began to collapse regionally
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
rip
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Well, I guess it's going to be "Dire Dire Docks" on loop for the rest of the day
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Written this weekend while waiting for a friend in the Strip District ❄️
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
"Cut the copyeditors," they said. "How bad could it be?"
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Allen Warren @allenwarren.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
PRT recently announced the 51 bus was the most popular route in the region this year, so I wrote something for it
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