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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The new Brandon Flowers album has a real “Warren Zevon transmigration” vibe to it. You gotta dig.

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Atlanta DESPERATELY needs to get rid of its excess of “No Turn on Red” signs on right turns. Just what this city needs, artificially introduced traffic inefficiency

Steve @yinzer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Will Man City actually be held to account for the 114 charges? Statisticians globally have weighed in, and here are their findings

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most have covered the legends so I'll talk up an undersung pick: Simon Casier, the bass player for the excellent Belgian rock band Balthazar. Maestro of the short-scale bass. Key to the rhythm section but also given the spotlight plenty, as on this fine number. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD9A...

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I can't say exactly why, but in the YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING trailer Elizabeth Holmes looks like a kind of being that would only exist in J.R.R. Tolkien's worlds.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Robert Eggers is doing ROMEO AND JULIET, which means “Willem Dafoe as The Apothecary” is trading at -5000 right now.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Corrected my from-the-gun NYT Best TV since 2000 ballot (made the error of including some shows that mostly aired in the 2000s but technically debuted in '98/99), and this, to me, speaks most honestly to my viewing, and trying to be capacious not just of prestige drama.

That NHJ article does not deserve to be pilloried. Frankly it takes enormous bravery to document not only her daughter (fairly) criticizing her decisions, but being forthcoming about an earnest moral struggle. What I think her example proves, though, is pretty simple.

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CHVRCHES - Roses (Official Lyric Video)

Great new CHVRCHES tune (shouts to @kimischilling.bsky.social for sharing), one reason being that the chorus - which has some really fascinating production - includes one of those words that, if you're Scottish, can't not come through in a Scottish accent ("ground"). www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x2B...

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"Basic" is the correct take. I think she solidified her pop chops with 1989, faltered massively with REPUTATION, and then the real heater is LOVER through EVERMORE. The limits of some of the recent stuff has been bad production and being high on the "lyrical genius" conceit.

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Real heads know this movie rocks

I have a top five I feel very comfortable with, speaking cross-genre: 1. The Sopranos 2. Twin Peaks: The Return 3. The Wire 4. Combo of the Bush era/early Obama era Daily Show and Colbert Report 5. LOST

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Put another way: modern American conservatives believe their individual decisions do not have any systemic reality, which explains the dissonance they experience when the aggregation of their preferences comes back to bite them.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When Seth Meyers closes his eyes hard, he looks like he has no eyes

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Kirk Cousins' corny self absolutely QBmogging Justin Sherbert. I will not broker any more conversation about how Herbert is elite and is simply held back by his team. His stock is down astronomical rn

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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If I see one more "Vuskovic was about to be Tottenham's Saliba" take I will lose it. Let's be real: let's say best case happens, he comes to Tottenham and looks like a galactico. He is with us for two seasons, tops. We didn't lose out on a player who was gonna stay as long as Kane/Son did.

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Arsenal fans up-in-arms about Raya supposedly being crowded yesterday are just getting a taste of their own medicine. Cornerball is a race to the bottom; if you have bodies mashing up against each other as the meta, and the quality of the Prem ref is what it is, you're just increasing variance.

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W/r/t direct publication from my diss, I've got a book project (with two chapters published as articles), a chapter in an edited collection, and the other two chapters potentially as standalone articles. But the diss as a whole did much more than that: it clarified my core intellectual interest.

Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So I take it the Silicon Valley types are going full functionalist, yeah?

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AI will making reading and writing obsolete the same way that the automobile made walking obsolete, which is to say we will eventually realize that the latter is better for the planet, society, and our health even as the world around us is built to prioritize the former.

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Today, in "duh." Doesn't mean we can't hold the team to a higher standard, and yes some of the failures on the offensive end have been galling, but it's clear a lot of the Spurs fans think that 2024-6 is an aberration, and with the right spend we're automatically in the top 6. Delusional!

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Tottenham: Can't defend at first, but are progressing the ball; Two clean sheets, still rough scoring; Chances improve, but not getting the ball in; Still rough, but starting to get the ball in. We are the definition of a rebuilding team, and things are being built. Not gonna stress.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Angine de Poitrine being on Fallon for their US debut would be like Meshuggah showing up to play Kathie Lee & Hoda.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I desperately wish that population ethics, an interesting philosophical subfield that should be a substantive area of discussion in the academy AND in the general public, wasn't steered so heavily by longtermists.

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I do not root for holding calls, because holding as presently configured is a stupid rule. You know it's stupid because a common line regarding its use is "well you really could call it on every play." Sounds like a bad rule then!

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Broncos can get the easy stuff on short throws, the Chiefs seemingly can't. That'll be the difference.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Few things more indicative of the moral rot of our times than the guy who wrote "Thrift Shop" being a sterling example of moral clarity.

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Bracketing the fact that if you're a big tall White dude QB, you'll get graded on the most generous curves by the NFL media: the thing the Justin Herbert truthers misunderstand is that there is a difference between being an "elite QB" and an "elite passer." The latter tricks you.

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Willing to bet that the Venn diagram of people who bail out Josh Allen with the "uh wait until he gets a defense that holds teams to under 20 points" and the people who overlook that Tom Brady's contemporary competitors, by and large, suffered from poor defensive play is a circle.

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Currently watching SOME KIND OF HEAVEN, which is eerie not because of the ersatz world of the Villages, but because it seems like the people involved don’t even know that they’re being filmed.

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Preeeety tired of hearing "AI is just a tool, it's about how you use it" argument. A stock line that does not at all deal with the catastrophic devastation the technology's already done, and will continue to do.

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You gotta call Tottenham Art School FC the way we love to draw.

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Jordan Harper, A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE.

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Not directly, but SOUTHLAND TALES is 1000 percent about 9/11.