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E.F. Czernik

@efcz.bsky.social
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Lover of music and Oxford commas Keeper of many books and a few friends Writer of a body of (still as yet unpublished) material Welcoming DMs from other anxious writers

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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Refusing to call the party the Democratic Party by leaving off the -ic ending just makes Republicans sound dumb. Why is that an insult?
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The fact that America’s corporate bosses are the only ones embracing AI tells us pretty much all we need to know.
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just my daily scream in to the void that I hate A.I.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Edible for birds anyway…
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
And you will know us by the trail of bread
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Leave them all behind.” -Ride
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Are the Republicans serving actual Kool-Aid at their Texas convention? It just seems appropriate.
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Deb Haaland @debhaalandnm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I will always stand up for what makes New Mexico, New Mexico.
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...
chicagomaroon.com
Sosc Core to Institute AI Ban, Technology-Free Classrooms This Fall
All social science Core classes will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students...
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Lemonbodies KMFDLMNOP Aphex Family
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Too bad there isn’t a branch of government with oversight powers to you know afford some oversight. I mean imagine if we had that.
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Curtis @rhinosaur.me · 22/08/2026
Just starting @chuckwendig.bsky.social’s The Calamities and, you know, same.
An image of a page in a book with the line, “The man woke up, which he would swiftly regard as his first mistake of the day,” highlighted.
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Diana @diana-m-keener.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
#blueskyartshow theme is #earth #eastcoastkin Welcome to Mars…err northern #newmexico
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Huh. I’m a Guinness.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 04/08/2026
The Supreme Court has called for more security for itself while issuing decisions that have made it harder for governments to enact gun safety laws. Americans deserve protection, too. Read and subscribe to Major Questions with Jesse Wegman: bit.ly/4fCylCn
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Fiona Taylor @fionataylor.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It’s been really challenging (for me) to write satire in a world where everything has been heightened beyond satire, but I wrote a piece! (Shout out to my girl @brookepreston.bsky.social for giving me helpful feedback on an early draft.) www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-f...
mcsweeneys.net
A Field Guide to Legacy Media Pundits in the United States
The Family Values Pundit (Divorcio moralisticus) HABITAT: New York Times bestseller list and a weekly column. DISTINCTIVE CALL: “As a man with a deeply unhap...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The cyclospora outbreak has reached 7,400 cases across 9 states. The FDA just recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,300 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
There’s a Dalek in Forsyth, Montana.
A spring in Forsyth that looks like Dalek.
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I arrived in Bozeman right before Taylor and Travis and my first thought was “why are they following me?”
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
You have some wonderful stories of basically getting away with stuff at the studios.

I’d learned one very simple trick: say yes. Simply say yes. Like Joseph E. Levine, on “The Producers,” said, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.” He wanted me to fire Gene Wilder. And I said, “Yes, he’s gone. I’m firing him.” I never did. But he forgot. After the screening of “Blazing Saddles,” the head of Warner Bros. threw me into the manager’s office, gave me a legal pad and a pencil, and gave me maybe twenty notes. He would have changed “Blazing Saddles” from a daring, funny, crazy picture to a stultified, dull, dusty old Western. He said, “No farting.” I said, “It’s out.”That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.

I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.

That’s great advice for life.

It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.
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gjabberbox.bsky.social @gjabberbox.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“Trump is using tens of millions in taxpayer money meant for national parks to fund his desired projects, including White House paving stones he had promised to pay for,” documents obtained by Michael Scherer show: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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'Rush Project at Request of POTUS': Trump Is Draining the National Parks to Pay for His Projects
Money once used for crucial national-park repairs is now financing Trump’s redecorating projects.
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I’m sure that by great books curriculum what was intended was the entire corpus of Douglas Adams plus Catherine Valente’s Space Opera.
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Indie Aut. Stuart Miller📖✍️🤓 Believe in yourself & your potential @stuartmiller1.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Photographer Kristin Jensen Huset captured a rare cloud #iridescence over #Norway. Cloud iridescence occurs when sunlight is diffracted by tiny water droplets or ice crystals in thin clouds, separating the light into soft, shimmering hues. 📸: @travelwith_kristin
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Because this disruptive new technology called a library came along with its lust for profits and suddenly authors are making less money. Yeah, that makes sense.
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
More of the DW writers taking on big topics like environmental concerns. Excellent vintage Doctor Who.
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Nadya Voynich @nadyavoynich.com · 05/06/2026
To avoid burnout, use this 30/30 rule: After 30 min of work, quit and disappear into the mountains for 30 years. Happy Friday! #buildinpublic #startuplife #hiking #mountains #nature #productivity
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Andrii Frolov @artandriifrolov.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"Rainy Street" - my oil painting
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
And 35 years later, Milli Vanilli achieved greatness by promising not to sing
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 27/05/2026
There are two big problems with the “unitary executive theory” that Trump is relying on to expand presidential power: it’s unmoored from history (i.e. completely made up) and so broad that it can’t be consistently implemented. bit.ly/4fcjO0w
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“It Ends in a Monarchy”
Trump the businessman said, “You’re fired”; Trump the president is fighting in court for the right to say those words whenever he wants.
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Dorothee V. Plessis @dorotheevplessis.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
A praying mantis perched on a fiddlehead fern. The photo was taken by Eco Suparman, a 23-year-old amateur photographer from Indonesia. He captured the moment in a cemetery after observing the mantis climb onto the curled plant, creating the illusion of riding a bicycle.
This striking image shows a praying mantis perched on a fiddlehead fern. The photograph was taken by Eco Suparman, a 23-year-old amateur photographer from Indonesia. Suparman captured the moment in a cemetery after observing the mantis climb onto the curled plant, creating the illusion of riding a bicycle.
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
*can’t
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Ten Inch Nails
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
When MAGA listens to Led Zeppelin do they hear it as the “Anti-Immigrant Song”?
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Excellent book War&Power. Call recommend it enough.
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Yep, I think this about captures it.
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I guess it’s a good thing that side is kept hidden.
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Ever since libertarians have come to align themselves with fascists they are even less funny.
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Another attempt in a long history by the Texans. Like the Don’t Tread on Me flag that has gone to mean its opposite, Don’t Mess With Texas literally means the opposite: I’m going to tread on you and Texas will mess with you.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Venal and malevolent they are.
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Elise Schuenke @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Death is inevitable. Laundry is inevitable. One of the blueberries being ungodly tart is inevitable. Ai is not. We can say no to it. We don’t want it. It is not here to stay if we don’t support it
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I’m troubled that “si se puede” has now been lost to an Epsteinian context. Ewww.
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
In the 90s Bob Mould was outed by a journalist. I thought that was unethical and sleazy. Any reporter identifying an artist making his career on mystique and opening him to legal repercussions while destroying his career is serving what purpose exactly? www.euronews.com/culture/2026...
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Has Banksy's identity been revealed by new report?
The end of decades’ worth of speculation and intrigue? Maybe. A new report claims to have finally unmasked Banksy’s true identity. #Art
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
In the 90s Bob Mould was outed by a journalist. I thought that was unethical and sleazy. Any reporter identifying an artist making his career on mystique and opening him to legal repercussions while destroying his career is serving what purpose exactly? www.euronews.com/culture/2026...
euronews.com
Has Banksy's identity been revealed by new report?
The end of decades’ worth of speculation and intrigue? Maybe. A new report claims to have finally unmasked Banksy’s true identity. #Art
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
With Jason Connery, everybody.
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites. Yes. A MILLION. This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything: www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp... 🔭 🧪
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Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky
Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Now you only have 12 hours left. So much discussion…
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
They might need to change some lyrics: “we are the woodwork”
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E.F. Czernik @efcz.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
But does the title change? Being Jeff Goldblum. Being Christopher Walken.
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