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Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

If I were Penelope, my challenge for the suitors would have been OTEV.

Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I'm invoking Zeus's law next time I show up at the afters.

Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

At the end of the day, I think the Toy Story franchise is so successful because it’s about something we can all relate to — the horrors of immortality.

Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

As someone who devoured British literature in my youth, I assumed I’d spend much more of my life recovering at a friend’s estate for weeks after I was rained on a little bit.

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Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

No one ever chooses “deformed recluse who rings the bells of Notre Dame” for Career Day and I think it’s a shame

Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

It's always "SING TO ME, O MUSE!" and never "How's YOUR day, O Muse?"

Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

It's Oscars weekend! Which means it's time to drop my top 10 films of 2025, something I only do after seeing every movie nominated in every category (forgive me, I'm ill). This year I saw 108 features released in 2025. These were my faves. If I left off your fave, choose to believe it was #11.

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Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Last Olympics I was so done with figure skating but Alysa Liu has made me fall in love with the sport again 🥹 Read my thoughts over at Slate! slate.com/culture/2026...

Alysa Liu Just Changed Figure Skating Forever

In a sport that can be scary and stressful, she proved it doesn’t have to be that way.

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Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The pairs free skate was so good and I got to hear the score to Gladiator TWICE! Read my thoughts over at Slate! slate.com/culture/2026...

The Figure Skating Curse at These Olympics Is Finally Over

All thanks to Japan's Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara.

Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

How it feels writing about my own sport

Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I'm now learning that there's such a thing as "jinxing" something. New piece coming tonight after I wipe all this egg off my face.

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Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

This is the FINAL time I will explain the difference between ice dance and pairs. Ice dancers have wider, U-shaped snouts, while pair skater snouts are more pointed and V-shaped. Pair skaters prefer saltwater habitats, while ice dancers inhabit freshwater marshes and lakes.

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Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Finally worked up the courage to write a piece about ice dance even though I am but a simpled minded pair skater: slate.com/culture/2026...

The Big Upset in Ice Dancing Shows Why the Sport Is So Enticing

The team that triumphed showed what the art of the sport really is.

Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I’m covering figure skating for Slate during the Milan Olympics! Check it out and take a peek inside my brain, which has surely been damaged by Zamboni fumes. slate.com/culture/2026...

The U.S. Figure Skating Team Has a Chance for an All-Time Great Olympics

The U.S. figure skating team has a chance for an all-time great Olympics.

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Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Need more stories about celebrities who met a fortune teller as a child and were given a haunting prediction that didn’t come true in the slightest.

Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

is spending time with a valued friend lovebombing

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Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon is circling back in January; Things fall apart; the inbox cannot hold

Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

A real circumnavigation, if you will

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Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Sometimes you enter a space and you can just tell that no one here has seen Morvern Callar.

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Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

British people absolutely went off with “Father Christmas.” Like yes, that’s exactly what they would call him.

Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

SOUND OF FALLING (2025) gagged me a little

Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

It’s crazy that I can’t get an Ella McChicken at McDonald’s.

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Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I fear this will cut the box office receipts in half, but I need to let you know that Ella McCay does not do the shoe thing from the poster in the movie. I deliberately did not take a bathroom break because I was scared I would miss the shoe thing and then there was no shoe thing.

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Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I can’t explain it but Shakespeare in Love is a Thanksgiving movie, spiritually.

Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I guest hosted on today’s new episode of Keep It with @louisvirtel.bsky.social and certified lunatic Gus Hickey! Listen as we fall into a folie à deux discussing Grammys, All’s Fair, Lux, Frankenstein, and for some reason the 2019 Madonna song God Control.

Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

When you’re going through Hell, keep an eye out for any amazing sales in their lovely stores!

Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Yes, it’s hard to motivate to go to the gym. And while I’m doing it, it’s torture. But the feeling after? Even worse. No part of this is good.

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Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Is it me? Am I the drama? I don't think I'm the drama... Maybe I am. Am I the villain? I don't think I'm the villain. #johnproctoristhevillain

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Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Sometimes it feels like I’m the only gay guy without an acclaimed off-Broadway show.

Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

One must imagine Cookie Puss happy

Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

You are your ancestors’ wildest dreams. You are your descendants’ deepest cringe.

Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Oh, you’re a morning person? How capitalist.

Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I should be able to pay extra to get notes on my singing from the human who’s remotely operating my Waymo

Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

An important thing for my mental health has been to switch from an age-based metric of self-worth to a LOOKS-based metric.

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Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Gen Z is cool and all but have they ever killed the diamond industry

Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

reading a book about china. apparently the government there has sent federal forces into cities, taken shares of major private enterprises, slapped tariffs on industries, and pressured media outlets to fire people they politically disagreed with. didn’t know this.

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Former Bear Activist @catmancatman.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

my house is literally on pretty girl avenue btw

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Chris Schleicher @cschleicher.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

For every second they waste checking in YET AGAIN on this awful Emmys bit, I'm donating money to the Nakamura Foundation.