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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And that’s saying something from someone who watched Gilmore Girls.

hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My review of The Drama is that I’ve never watched anything where the characters’ coffee cups were more obviously empty throughout.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I feel like the debate about what parts of AI are good and what parts are bad should wait until we solve the worldwide crisis caused by the fact that almost of all of its evangelists in both tech and govt are morally, intellectually, and ethically unequipped to oversee it, when not downright evil.

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Kathy Gibson @kathyfgibson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There were so many more teens and tweens out and about in my neighborhood this summer thanks to e-bikes. Heck, there were even more kids out on regular bikes. It was great.

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh my god. Is this why it seems every new novelist writes first-person, present tense now?

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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 23/09/2026

The thing about public education is that all private education should be banned. At every level.

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Exactly! It’s so strong, start to finish. So cool that you still have that.

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Probably still my fave by them.

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Elected Democrats cannot be dissuaded from their obsession with depolarization—and their belief that it is an inevitable outcome of bipartisanship and moderation.

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“Some of us were sleeping, and then we had to work. That morning, and for most of the next 25 years.”

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Kathy Gibson @kathyfgibson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm excited to announce that I added a new page to my website with a list of all the Hindi movies on Zee5 in the US! I'll add films in more Indian languages over time, but there are more than 1,000 Hindi films listed already. Please check it out: accessbollywood.net/bollywood-mo... #DesiWatch

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Bollywood Movies Streaming on Zee5

This is a list of all the Indian movies available for streaming in the United States on Zee5. Zee5’s catalogue is huge, so I have only completed the Hindi movies so far. I will add other lang…

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Kathy Gibson @kathyfgibson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

GANDHARI is a disaster, and it ends with one of the most hilariously inexplicable lines I've ever read. My review of the new Netflix Original thriller: accessbollywood.net/2026/09/04/m... #DesiWatch

accessbollywood.net

Movie Review: Gandhari (2026)

1 Star (out of 4) Watch Gandhari on Netflix Gandhari is what happens when someone tries to remake Kahaani without understanding what made Kahaani so special. Gandhari writer Kanika Dhillon is no sl…

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence. Wendell Berry, What Are People For?

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is the first time I’ve ever wished that images had no alt text, because I knew I wasn’t going to be able to stop myself from reading it.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

When the MacBook Neo came out, it was shocking because it was a well-made product at a decent price. Not a scam! But when Apple raised prices on everything (including the Neo) a few months later, it became obvious it was a scam, too, as they’d released it for $600 knowing they’d bump it up to $700.

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My weather app casually showing me banner ads for a $24M jet. It’s like they know I’m eligible for that fat public sector pension.

A mobile banner ad for the Flexjet Praetor 600, a mid-size private jet that’s just within my budget.

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

And it’s not so different from how they felt about having to wear (and then see others wearing) masks to prevent respiratory illnesses.

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My theory of everything is that the masculine project, more than anything else, is about taking up space and leaving you no room for your own. You are prohibited from some spaces outright, but in those where you’re allowed, you must hear me, see me, or think about me at all times.

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Very interesting. Would be interesting to know how many laborers would need to be paid for each acre of these crops.

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Kathy Gibson @kathyfgibson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Portillo’s was doomed the second they sold to private equity. All it took to lose me as a customer was something as simple as replacing their brewed iced tea with Gold Peak fountain swill. These layoffs won’t fix anything.

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Kathy Gibson @kathyfgibson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Happy 33rd anniversary to the greatest moment in baseball history. youtu.be/VIZB9O24BEE?...

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Robin Ventura, Nolan Ryan duke it out

YouTube video by MLB

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My resident lepidopterist, @kathyfgibson.bsky.social, has informed me that this is a hackberry butterfly, and that it may have landed on my book after enjoying one of its favorite meals: animal waste or rotten fruit.

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I would love a public poll of what people in the US think constituted a lockdown and how long they think it lasted. Chili’s only doing takeout and not sit-down meals was not a lockdown!

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I think it also revealed just how quickly a bunch of otherwise very hard problems can be to solve with global collective action. The fuckin Ganga was running clear water for the only time in my lifetime because for 2 weeks nobody threw garbage in it. The canals in Venice had fish.

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

A little on-the-nose of this moth to land on my copy of Bird by Bird as I sit at a park reading the section on paying attention to the world around us.

A beautiful moth with a slightly-torn left wing resting on my opencopy of Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird, as I read at a park.

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Yep, it definitely won’t be forgotten, since it’s still happening. We also learned the limits of ethical endurance when even many left-ish people could only hold out until late 2021 before agreeing the pandemic was over and we needed to “return to normal” (though we’re too broken to ever get there).

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I only feel a little bit like a hypocrite for using a quote from near the end of the article to encourage you to read it from the start.

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This article needs to be read by every current or aspiring screenwriter. No more in medias res intros followed by the inevitable “24 hours earlier…” card. They suck! “My biggest objection… is that it treats me like I'm an idiot who has to be tricked into a story.”

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Centrists always present these takes as savvy "harsh truths" for the left, but they're the most pathetic kind of ignorant, cowardly self-soothing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Still true bsky.app/profile/rvbd...

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Kathy Gibson @kathyfgibson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

First-year blooms on the pride of my garden: Kankakee mallow (Iliamna remota), a rare Illinois native that only grows in the wild on a small island in the Kankakee River.

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Mine is when a scene opens with one character telling another, “You’re late,” I guess as a way of generating some artificial tension.

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Okay. Thanks. I was afraid it was a callout of people who vaccinate and push for air quality and admittedly still mask situationally. Got it!

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Ah, Thanks. I thought (and think!) most people who care about it at all (like me) are pro-vaccine and air quality and such. Anti-Covid, antivax makes no sense and has to be an online fringe of the fringe.

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It’s such an easy sell! (And the bare minimum, morally.)

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

What’s the Covid doom cult? Is that the people who think lockdowns destroyed an entire generation, the people who still mask in crowds and vaccinate (admittedly that’s me), or something else I’ve never heard of?

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Kathy Gibson @kathyfgibson.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The new Korean comedy HUSBANDS IN ACTION on Netflix is awesome. Just a silly, fun movie with an amazing cast, especially Jeon So-min as the lovelorn reporter.

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I am extremely pleased to have this essay, on how American fiction has grappled with COVID, in @currentaffairs.bsky.social. This is a subject I care deeply about and had been wanting to write about at length for a long time. Please give it a read.

currentaffairs.org

We Still Haven’t Processed the Pandemic

Novels set during the height of COVID-19 fail to tell the full story of that era of mass death and despair.

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Imagine having the gall to use the passive voice in saying staff “are leaving” and then immediately following it up with “I own this decision.”

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AW Stiles @awstiles.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Masks are an extremely cheap & relatively efficient way to prevent all kinds of airborne illnesses getting into your own body. They don't harm surrounding people, they are easy to carry, can't be used in any devious way, yet that MD seems bothered by this completely innocuous things. I miss adults.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

some dope earlier this week tried to gaslight people by saying the pushback on AI mirrors the pushback when the internet went mainstream and no it fucking does not! people were excited about the internet! ffs it wasn’t 100 years ago, a lot of us were THERE

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The only good thing about tech these days is falling robots.

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Look, you either get on board with AI, or stay stuck in a productive, creative life. Don’t get left behind!

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Damn can’t believe my congressman got blocked

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Dark is right. Only people who’ve been through it can truly get it. Hope you’re doing okay now.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Good morning! It is May 7th in the United Socialist States of America. Today we commemorate the Day of the City. Preserve and empower our urban centers! We celebrate the blue jay, cyanocitta cristata. Gene Wolfe was born today in 1931; Steve Albini died on this day in 2024.

A blue jay with bright blue, white, and black feathers flies through the sky.

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hellogreg @hellogreg.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

That post yesterday got under my skin, too! Thank you for this.

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