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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 16h

It's fucking hilarious watching US political pundit straining to make a "poll-driven complacency" midterms narrative happen about the Democratic Party whose default response to good news is to fling itself off the nearest cliff like a meth-addled lemming.

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Rachel McAdams in Mean Girls: Shut Up

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 16h

Even by the standards of American legacy media, it takes some brass to gaslight a Democratic candidate literally to their faces that they're being complacent, after they've spelled how how they're running in deep purple races with a history of being decided by fractions of a point.

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Bianca Del Rio's Judge Judy Wisdom

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 19h

a meme - looks like a public service announcement about the safety features and hazards on a plane or train. “How to avoid sexual assault
A QUICK AND EASY GUIDE*
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DON'T PUT DRUGS IN PEOPLE'S DRINKS.
USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM.
If you might sexually assault someone, bring a friend to stop you.
IF SOMEONE IS DRUNK, HIGH, OR ASLEEP, DON'T RAPE THEM.
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CARRY A WHISTLE.
If you might sexually assault someone, blow it until someone stops you.
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WATCH WHAT YOU WEAR.
If someone's clothes are a problem for you, try wearing a blindfold.
WHEN YOU SEE
SOMEONE WALKING ALONE, LEAVE THEM ALONE.
DON'T FEEL
ENTITLED TO SEX.
Nobody owes you sex.
Flirting isn't consent.
IF YOU'RE ALONE WITH SOMEONE, DON'T SEXUALLY ASSAULT THEM.
THE ONLY PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT IS THE PERSON WHO COMMITS IT.”

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 17h

I really wish I lived in a world where it isn't so damn refreshing - and more than a little shocking - to see front-loading of the idea that men have absolute, unqualified agency over, and responsibility for, their own sexual (mis)conduct.

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 18h

“History has failed us, but no matter.” Pachinko, Min Jin Lee (opening words)

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 18h

YES! This is exactly why I'm ungraciously salty about *bleep*ing grace discourse. The implied demand you pretend not to notice how, uh... extremely selective the deployment of this virtue signal is, and who is only going to get a redemption arc when there's a snow day in Hell.

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 18h

Make Being Extremely Comfortable with Calling Lies "Lies", and The People who Tell Them "Liars" Great Again.

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 19h

National lies. A lot. And they keep doing it because there keeps being no real or lasting consequences. Not in Parliament. Not from the media. Not in the polls. At the ballot box? We shall see, I guess. #nzpol

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 19h

Anyone shocked that TX state senator Angela Paxton gritted her teeth and endorsed her scumbag estranged husband for Senate should keep in mind that "no enemies to the right" is the first and only rule of Republican Electoral Fight Club. The second: "Shady bitches get stitches."

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 19h

Call me terribly old fashioned, but you'd think an organization that (in its own words) "stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide" would be clear on the difference between fact and fiction. Silly me, I guess.

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My husband worked in rail for over fifty years. I'm a heavy public transport user (including trains) because I can't pass the vision test to get a license. Certainly don't have the spare cash for taxis etc. So, no Prime Minister. Also: Fuck off and fuck your patronizing self.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I mean, come on.

A goldcrest looking ferocious and tiny and awkward

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

THIS. I think one reason losing my AKIRA cherry blew my tiny little brain all over the cinema walls is because, at the time, I was insufficiently cool to have seen any of the (at the time incomplete) source manga. This total assault on the senses was truly undiscovered country.

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Avengers Doomsday is one of the darkest movies ever made." The cold open of Lars von Trier's MELANCHOLIA would like to see all your working on that assertion. #FilmSky #MovieSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a_-...

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MELANCHOLIA - STUNNING OPENING SEQUENCE (Wagner & Von Trier)

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Roland Emmerich's entire filmography of baroque near-total genocides of the human race says "Bitch, please..."

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Falling Moon: Earth's Final Hour

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The many many adaptations of Agatha Christie's AND THEN THERE WERE NONE would like a word... (Everyone is dead at the end. It's not a *bleep*ing spoiler when it's right there in the title.)

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I try to avoid getting nostalgic about the not-so-good-for-too-many old days in Hollywood (or anywhere else) but at least the exploitative bigots who used to run the studios weren't quite so nakedly contemptuous of moving pictures and everyone who made them.

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How much are Talarico's small dollar donors paying for this galaxy-brained statement of the blindingly obvious the candidate could have picked up for free from any semi-conscious political podcaster/pundit over the last few months?

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The kerning here is absolutely SENDING me

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"It's not the leopard eating my face I object to, it's the pausing half way through to take a crap in my mouth as I scream in agony. That was a bit excessive."

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Twilight Zone premiered 67 years ago tonight. There was a total solar eclipse earlier that day, because of course there was.

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My man looks like a demon-possessed merkin is eating his face from the chin up.

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

THIS. There's no rational cost-benefit analysis that makes sense of the billions Democrats squander jerking off the donor-consultant industrial complex every cycle instead of long-term investment in basic groundwork.

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Funny how moneyball politics stops working when people decide their votes aren't for sale, at any price. Isn't it?

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

HOTEL DU LAC by Anita Brookner. I don't know about size, but the low quality of the (mostly male) Brit-lit establishment showing its whole misogynistic snob arse when THAT WOMAN beat out favourite J.G. Ballard for the Booker, at the height of its influence and media profile sure was a LOT.

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

THAT WAS THEN: Democracy dies in darkness. THIS IS NOW: Democracy dies of explosive diarrhoea in full daylight.

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If I was an adjudicated rapist and self-confessed serial sexual predator, I wouldn't go out in public and sound like a senile old coot failing to sound out the word "vagina."

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's always something ineffably melancholy about an estate sale, but trust Paul Reubens to reach out from the great beyond to keep it bright and quirky. www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/...

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Paul Reubens' Big Auction

Come on in and pull yourself up a chair! Julien's is honored to present Paul Reubens' Big Auction - a once-in-a-lifetime event celebrating the li...

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

THIS. And let's be honest, what passes for wit in New Zealand political-media circles isn't exactly the second coming of Oscar Wilde or Dorothy Parker. Winnie isn't fierce, just shady.

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You know what, if I had life-time tenure in a government job with a six-figure salary, generous benefits and no functional bars to whatever side hustles I cared to run, I wouldn't give the proverbial rodent's rectum about the neighbours at my holiday home.

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Greetings to the white people who've discovered the state-sanctioned murder industrial complex is VILE AND SADISTIC now that the victim is a vaguely sympathetic white woman. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Tennessee suspends executions as Christa Pike’s lawyer says failed lethal injection leaves her in critical condition

Independent inquiry ordered after failed execution of Pike, who was convicted of 1994 murder

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Stumbled over the "just discovered Margot Robbie took her husband's surname when she married over a decade ago, but not in her work life - and I've got some FEELS about a woman's choices that are none of my fucking business" discourse.

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X-Files: The Internet Is Not Good For You

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 01/10/2026

Another week, another “we’re vaguely familiar with the basic premise of the story while at the same time wilfully missing the entire point” moment

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Is this a 3D model?
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80% of the children who accepted Wonka's Golden Ticket died

Josh Daws
@JoshDaws
Rejecting Al is like refusing Wonka's golden ticket.
Anything you want to, do it Wanna change the world?
There's nothing to it

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just as they'll come late to the prize ceremony, and leave when the table wine is gone and the cash bar opens, every time a Kiwi author wins a high-profile international prize like the Booker.

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No Lies Detected: Polygraph Test Results

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's the cold ugly truth: The only way the "campus sexual assault crisis" is going to even be slowed is when frat house rapists cost the Cornells of this world real money. I mean, it worked when elite donors loudly threatened to stop their cheques over pro-Palestine protests, didn't it?

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Donald Trump on the campaign trail during the home stretch of the midterms makes about as much sense as putting a ham and cheese sandwich on the menu at a kosher deli. It's a choice, but who exactly is this supposed to appeal to?

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Post (and every other media outlet) laundering its editorial racism thought the advertising department is still racist. Pass it on. #nzpol

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

THAT WAS THEN: Don't ask, don't tell. THIS IS NOW: Butch Twinks and Muscle Marys only.

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Guuuurl... It will never cease to amaze me in the worse way how this poisonously homophobic administration keeps sending out downlow dickhound-coded Ken dolls like Whiskey Pete to serve flaming high camp nonsense surrounded by Hot Twinks and Butch Muscle Marys.

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Don't you just love RW politicians who assert their competence to micromanage every aspect of your life - from your uterus to your library card - but apparently have no agency over a damn thing they do or say?

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's a shame that left & non-regime journalists are still focusing on and replaying Schmit's self-own and failed gotcha moment over and over instead of Sen. Cory Booker's 12 min speech in full. What most journalists magnify reflects the algorithms that keep us in the same downward spiraling loop.

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'This hearing is a farce': Sen. Cory Booker goes off during Jack Smith Senate hearing

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

THIS. Look, I get a symptom of American Exceptionalism is the belief that causality is for those other rubes and suckers. Ask the governments of Germany and Japan how bad choices can have an extremely long tail when it comes to (uneasy) foreign relations. Sure they'd have some relevant insights.

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anyone who is still shocked that THIS is the entirely predictable and logical outcome of the obscenely lucrative for-profit carceral state? (Making the big assumption most people care at all.) WAKE THE *BLEEP* UP!

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Guess I don't need to bother reading Hard Case Crime's ongoing reprints of Oates' own "formulaic" psycho-thrillers originally published under the pseudonym Rosamond Smith. Right, Joyce? AI slop will do for the rubes! #BookSky www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

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Hard Case Crime Releases Out-of-Print Joyce Carol Oates Thrillers

Charles Ardai, editor of Hard Case Crime,spoke with us over email about the three volumes of Joyce Carol Oates (writing as Rosamund Smith) thrillers the pulp mystery imprint is re-publishing this year...

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

THE PALLISERS (1974)- the BBC's 26 episode adaptation of Anthony Trollope's six-novel 'Parliamentary' sequence. Nobody is making period literary adaptations of this scale or ambition any more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iJJ...

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The Pallisers Ep. 1/26 (1080p) st. Susan Hampshire

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