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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

After watching the remake movies, I thought I would probably never be interested in any new Evangelion stuff ever again. But, fair play to studio Khara, getting Yoko Taro to write it was a trick I didn't see coming.

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I see the new firmware for the Freewrite has finally gotten the typing latency down to that of my eink typewriter hobby project from five years ago, which is to say, merely a bit laggy as opposed to not updating the screen at all if you type too fast.

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

If no one local bites, I’ll let you know.

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Quite a lot, but I intend to exhaust local options before I consider anything involving shipping stuff.

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Getting rid of about 40 years worth of video games before we move to New Zealand. Sold almost all of my 3rd-6th generation stuff last night. Still need to find a place in town that wants all the Atari.

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

In honor of then-dog Betty Boop's first appearance entering the public domain, here's a novelette about how she became a human. www.eugenefischer.com/writing/swee...

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Sweet Betty – Eugene Fischer

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

First-round 1-in-1000 hit on Cavendish

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

When I heard that Rachel Brosnahan had been cast as Lois, that was the first moment I started feeling cautiously optimistic. I’m still thinking about some of the structural/franchise-movie-starter choices, but what mattered most to me was having a good Superman characterization, and I got that.

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

The new movie is the first live action Superman movie to come out in my lifetime that seems to have been made by people who understand this.

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

A key power fantasy of Superman is the idea that we can be arbitrarily powerful and still be guided by the better angels of our nature. That power need not corrupt. What makes him Superman is not that he’s the most powerful, it’s that despite being the most powerful he’s Superman anyway.

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I’ll be interested to hear what you think!

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

It finally happened. They finally made a movie during my lifetime with good Superman.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

But “radical” in the 80s slang sense of “awesome.”

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

(For the record: I’m on here.)

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I can’t believe I missed this. All my alerts failed me. Or I failed them, or something

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Logged in to Facebook for the first time in forever to see what was up with one specific person. I saw my feed and was like, "Oh my god, all these people I know and love and am never in contact with anymore!" 20 minutes later I was like, "Oh, that's right, I hate this place."

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I loved that book. And what a way to nail the ending.

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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

please buy this—I love it so very much—you will make me very happy & I think you will be, too

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Email sent to FDA staff informs that agency leadership canceled the agency's LexisNexis subscription, even though staff need this tool to research legal and regulatory information as part of their jobs. I'm reproducing the text of the email here:

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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

If anyone on here works at Politics & Prose or other bookstores that are scheduled to host Chuck Schumer, I have a proposal—if you cancel his event, I would pledge to buy a book of equal value or make a donation to make sure you didn’t lose revenue—and I bet a lot of others would too.

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

The Velveteers released a new album on Valentine’s Day, and I’m digging it. Here’s the low-fi video for one of the singles youtu.be/gl7VWsrjEo8?...

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The Velveteers - "Bound In Leather" [Official Music Video]

YouTube video by Easy Eye Sound

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Now THAT is how you do a trade! Brian Wright is much better at his job than Nico Harrison

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

How many times in my life am I going to see the Lakers start to slip in relevance, only to get to trade for a top-tier talent that none of the other teams in the league even knew was available?

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

@jakekerr.com I am experiencing the unique sensation of feeling sympathy for fans of the Dallas Mavericks.

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Just when I thought it was safe to stop hating the Lakers, they’re gifted Luka. Sorry, Mavs fans.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 24/01/2025

@theguardian.com removed these passages from a column judith butler wrote after the ‘gender critical’ hacks who write for them kicked up a fuss. now they’re all running around praising trump.

"THE ANTI-GENDER IDEOLOGY IS ONE OF THE MOST DOMINANT
STRAINS OF FASCISM IN OUR TIMES!"

"So TERFS will not be part of the contemporary struggle against fascism, one that requires a coalition guided by the struggles against racism, nationalism, xenophobia, and carceral violence, one that is mindful of the high rates of femicide throughout the world, which includes high rates of attacks on trans and genderqueer people.
The anti-gender movement circulates a spectre of
"gender" as a force of destruction, but they never actually read any works in gender studies. Quick and fearful conclusions take the place of considered judgments"

- JUDITH BUTLER

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 22/01/2025

Did you know that this neat WW2 Office of Strategic Services Simple Sabotage Manual is declassified and available freely online? www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

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Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services

Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

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Connor Ratliff @connorratliff.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Truly, truly, truly: FUCK 2025. Another great has left the world. RIP Jules Feiffer, 1929-2025. THIS STRIP IS FROM MANY DECADES AGO BUT COULD'VE BEEN WRITTEN TODAY:

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I think it has more to do with Texans not knowing how to drive in cold weather, and school districts not wanting to be responsible for road accidents. But even when justified, last minute school closures are a hassle for working parents of young children, such as myself.

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

There is a very light dusting of snow on the ground in San Antonio. So, of course, schools are closed.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Jesus Christ the first four months of 2025 have just been brutal, haven’t they.

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

He is good! Also, Ezra is old enough now to be engaging with the quilt you made for him! He keeps it on his bed, asks “can we look at it?” and likes picking different squares and asking what’s in them.

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Rough few days. Improved by curling up with a dog under one of @whatnext.bsky.social’s magical quilts.

A white dog curled up on a bed under the edge of a multicolored quilt.

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I felt the same, then read it anyway. It was less painful than I’d expected, because it’s almost perfectly free of substance.

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Jo Walton @bluejo.eurosky.social · 13/01/2025

Lent is only $2.99 as an ebook right now, so if you happen to want a book about a Dominican monk casting out demons in Renaissance Florence -- what, it's a perfectly normal book like normal people write, well, that part of it, anyway! www.amazon.com/Lent-Jo-Walt...

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Lent: A Novel of Many Returns

Lent: A Novel of Many Returns - Kindle edition by Walton, Jo. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Lent: A Novel of Many Returns.

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Today was the least able I’ve felt at the gym in a long time. Just no energy, too in my head.

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I dislike exercise the least when I can convince my trainer to let me do something that feels like it could be a party trick. I've gotten very good at playing catch while standing on a yoga ball.

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Before spending 2.5 years exercising multiple times a week, I disliked exercise and felt perfectly happy when it wasn't a part of my life. After spending 2.5 years exercising multiple times a week, I still dislike exercise, but also no longer feel good about myself if I don't do it.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 13/01/2025

In case you're not familiar with @lilashapiro.bsky.social, who wrote today's big Neil Gaiman exposé, she also wrote the 2022 investigation into Joss Whedon that we all read (among other achievements):

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The Undoing of Joss Whedon

The Buffy creator, once an icon of Hollywood feminism, is now an outcast accused of misogyny. How did he get here?

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I think it's time to stop pretending I'm going to be able to get any focused work done today.

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I spoke to Lila some months ago about being one of Neil’s Clarion students. Her piece on the sexual assault and abuse accusations against him came out today.

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lila pearl @lilashapiro.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

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There Is No Safe Word

How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 08/01/2025

As I wrote last week: "As other information sources fall, Wikipedia’s stubborn independence becomes more vital than ever. The attacks from [the right] aren't just about an online encyclopedia — they're part of a broader assault on any information source that refuses to be controlled."

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EJ Fischer @eugenefischer.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

You met the real-life version of this guy youtu.be/NAh9oLs67Cw?...

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07/27/1978

YouTube video by lasagnacat

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

This is the fundraiser for Keffy Kehrli's in-laws and it has been kind of stuck! I think a lot of the people in the SFF community haven't seen it yet, so I am boosting again - please spread the word.

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