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Emily A. Gordon

@emdashes.bsky.social

656 followers 942 following 225 posts

Terminally online since LambdaMOO. Currently in Oakland, proud dual 🇨🇦 Support refugee families during the cold Connecticut winter: elenaslight.org

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Emily A. Gordon @emdashes.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

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Emily A. Gordon @emdashes.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Modest proposal that no human artist should have to draw Trump greeting cards (like this germane design). AI is best for the workers in this case

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Emily A. Gordon @emdashes.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Enter Ivanka as Goneril, Tiffany (or Barron) as Cordelia, and, hmm…Eric as Regan?

Screenshot of Google result for “Trump children,” showing Barron, Ivanka, Tiffany, and Don Jr. You have to click “Show one more” for Eric, lol.

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Emily A. Gordon @emdashes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Screenshot of bluesky that juxtaposes two posts. The first is by Big Issue: “This is the year that horror has snuck up and ambushed the box office, with a bunch of scary original movies thrilling cinemagoers.” (Link to article) The second is by Dave Levitan: “It is going to sound silly or trite from this inside-it-all perspective but I think it's worth emphasizing: shit is exceptionally weird right now”

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Emily A. Gordon @emdashes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

So happy for him! Mine has epilepsy too.

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Emily A. Gordon @emdashes.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

When I was 15 in Madison, WI, my SAT prep summer school teacher assigned us this book. The teacher was a hip dude who hated the Educational Testing Service with a passion so wanted us to know—and outwit—our enemy. The book, since updated, is satisfyingly withering about both the “test” and the ETS.

Photo of the cover of the book “None of the Above: Behind the Myth of Scholastic Aptitude” by David Owen. This is probably paperback of the original 1985 edition.

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Emily A. Gordon @emdashes.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

While reflecting on your replies, I caught up with “How the Liberal Media Helped Fascism Win,” two episodes of the “Behind the Bastards” podcast with scorching notes for the NYT. Amid them, cohost Robert Evans makes this exception for good reporters and editors. I’d add those reformers I mentioned.

Screenshot of the transcript from an episode of the “Behind the Bastards” podcast, in which Robert Evans says (1 of 2):

Now, I'm focusing a lot on The Times here, and my focus on them is rooted in the fact that The Times
was and is dull today our nation's chief paper of record, and as a result, we have a lot of detail as to how its journalists and editors saw the problem of rising Nazi power.
Now, I don't think that tells the whole story, because there are a lot of there.
Not only are there a lot of
individual journalists at the Times who did care about reporting on the Holocaust, just as by the way, the Times visual investigation desk has done crucial reporting on what's been being done in Gaza.

Screenshot of the transcript from an episode of the “Behind the Bastards” podcast, in which Robert Evans says (2 of 2):

Right, you know, there are good people at the Times, the editors and owners of the paper, while the editors are a mixed bag and the ownership of the paper is fucking terrible.

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Emily A. Gordon @emdashes.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I just read a Reddit thread on balut to learn more and enjoyed this comment

Screenshot of a Reddit comment by user kebastian that says:

I'm Filipino and this shit is nasty.

People always attribute Filipino food with this monstrosity and it dissapoints me. Sisig, sinigang, lumpia, kaldereta, kare-kare, etc. is amazing

Balut is an unholy testament to man's folly.

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Emily A. Gordon @emdashes.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

And it is unreasonably hard for anyone. I was looking up the Oregon family farm where some organic blueberries I liked were grown and read their job posting for seasonal packers. Imagine this workday. I know, that’s farm labor. But we can question that, too. shorturl.at/g0qQv