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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I thought about getting a one-month Peacock subscription to watch the Cubbies last night but settled on “screw that!”
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Gwen Marshall @drgwenmarshall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Onion ran this amazing article and thought, I wanna play this! So I made it! 38 pps, PbtA, plus every mechanic mentioned in the article, and a bunch of Rodrigo song references. And it's free! Enjoy! #OliviaRodrigo @theonion.com #theonion #ttrpg #itch.io drgwenmarshall.itch.io/high-winter-...
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High Winter Elves of Girlville by Gwen Marshall
A satirical game based on an Onion article about Olivia Rodrigo making a TTRPG!
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The court filing dug up by @kint.bsky.social is the most They Admit It i have ever seen in my life www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Me (after answering the phone like my grandma taught me in 1985): “I’m sorry, but ‘T-Bone’ is no longer at this number.”
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
One unexpected side effect of doing a 30-day trial with Verizon is getting a bunch of calls for “T-Bone,” who, let’s be honest, sounds much more chill than I am.
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I think you might like it—I thought it was great. The author interview on the Other Ppl podcast was a thoughtful listen too.
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Heartfelt and often heartbreaking, Willy Vlautin's "The Left and the Lucky" is populated with big characters and a range of working-class lives I rarely see in fiction. www.jamesseidler.com/book-review-...
Book cover: The Left and the Lucky by Willy Vlautin. We see an illustration of a red classic car with a boy leaning out the window, his arm in the air.
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We were caught in this power outage too (10 days!), and the thought that "this is just how it is now" helped motivate me to suck it up and buy a portable generator on day two. (I realize we are fortunate to be able to do that.)
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
What could have been with that 2025 Notre Dame team…
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Gary has a terrible history of neglect and disinvestment rooted in racism, but the power outages are affecting a broad swathe of Northwest Indiana. I am fortunate to live in a well-off area, and I still don't have power nine days after the storm.
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I had the first 10? Rifts World Books and sold everything when I went to college…only to buy it all back again 20 years later.
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I create Facebook/Meta ads once a year for a small family-run event, and I am stunned at how bad the platform and interface have gotten. You have to wade through prompt after prompt to turn off AI optimizations that would have looked amateurish on a JibJab animation 20 years ago.
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Doing a full listen through the Grateful Dead discography, and I was surprised how well "Shakedown Street" landed. It's slick, but the cleanness lets you hear how tight the band it and how inventive Jerry is with his lead lines. I guess I'm ready for my Steely Dan phase...
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Me too
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I am cheering Team USA all the way but have to admit the funniest outcome would be for Belgium to beat us 5-2 again tomorrow night.
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Indiana: Corn Chowder?
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
on second thought maybe paywalling workers’ ability to think wasn’t a great business strategy
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Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive
Sources and leaks from Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, Citi, and more show what is really happening with AI right now: companies are trying to rein in AI use as costs spiral out of control.
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
This headline was an automatic skip in my inbox.
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Popeye is game

Popeye (in drag): Lem, darlin, promise ya won’t be mad at me if I TELLS YA SUMPIN 

Lem: OF COURSE, TWONT BE MAD AT MY LITTLE WIFEY. WHAT IS IT?

Popeye: I VAM AMPHIBIOUS

Lem: AMPHIBIOUS?!!

Popeye (ripping off dress): I WEARS BOTH WOMAN'S JAN MAN'S CLOTHES-ARF: ARF: 
I YAM, POPEYE. THE SAILOR

Lem flops

Lem: you’ve got a sock like a pile-driver. Now listen, you’d be a VALUABLE MAN IN MY GANG - YOU'VE GOT TO JOIN US

Popeye:
حلI WOULDN'T JOIN A PACK OFCRINIMALS LIke you

Lem: YOU'LL EITHER JOIN US OR YOU'LL NOT LEAVE BLACK VALLEY, ALIVE

Popeye: sez you

Lem: 

YOU'LL JOIN US, ALL RIGHT
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The only one I really know is “Stranger Than Fiction”—we used to play “21st Century Digital Boy” on repeat crammed in my buddy Phil’s little sedan.
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
"I approached [Robert Quine] and reintroduced myself, this time as the guy who had written the Voice piece titled 'Quine-Ola' (Bob was a big Jeff Beck person). That was a great piece,' he said. 'You should write about me more.'" www.furious.com/perfect/quin...
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Perfect Sound Forever: Robert Quine- Glenn Kenny on the bio that never was
Robert Quine tribute by Glenn Kenny
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I was using “Spell/Grammar” check in Microsoft Office yesterday and was surprised to find that it’s now frequently, incoherently wrong. Feels like a similar case.
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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 15/05/2026
Kevin Morby's masterful 'Little Wide Open' is out today. Morby took us through the album track by track, sharing in-depth insights about the writing and recording process that led to these remarkable songs. Stream the album and read our interview:
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The Story Behind Every Song On Kevin Morby's Masterful New Album 'Little Wide Open'
Kevin Morby just released his masterpiece. Little Wide Open, out today, is the folk-rock singer-songwriter’s greatest collection of songs to date. The album presents an interconnected batch of reflect...
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I love it when you read the poem that makes you glad you picked up a collection, and today for me that was Mark Doty’s “Now You’re an Animal.”
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Paging John Mulaney’s mother…
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Just rewatched “Brush with Greatness,” and we get Homer stuck in the waterslide, Ringo Starr AND Mr. Burns’ nude portrait all in one episode? Stone-cold classic.
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Great conversation with Willy Vlautin on the Otherppl podcast—moving reflections on working class life and masculinity. otherpeoplepod.libsyn.com/1030-willy-v...
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Otherppl with Brad Listi: 1030. Willy Vlautin
is the author of the novel , available from Harper. It is the official April pick of the . Born and raised in Reno, Nevada, Willy Vlautin is the author of seven novels and is the founder of the bands ...
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Solid book on the topic: undpress.nd.edu/978026810434...
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Notre Dame vs. The Klan
In 1924, two uniquely American institutions clashed in northern Indiana: the University of Notre Dame and the Ku Klux Klan. Todd Tucker’s book, published f...
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I am still an album guy, so my streaming lists always look stalkerish
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I listened to the first three seasons of Lovecraft Investigations, loved it, and sort of lost track of it, so I appreciate this update!
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John Walker - Industry Analcyst @botherer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I spoke to @juliansimpson.bsky.social all about the excellent podcast The Lovecraft Investigations and its latest series, Crowley. And the new Mythos. Both of which are truly fantastic - links to get them are at the end of the article. kotaku.com/lovecraft-po...
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Podcast Based On Horrors Of Lovecraft Is Your Next Obsession
The Lovecraft Investigations' latest series is out, and we spoke to creator Julian Simpson
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
It’s either that or they die at 92, leaving six spouses and a horse farm behind them.
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I feel like we’ve had once of these every week for a month now!
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This one is so good
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Yes, I enjoy playing MTG Arena, but for the past week, at least half of my matches have crashed and been lost.
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
William Onyeabor's "Atomic Bomb" makes me envision Curtis Mayfield home-recording in Nigeria. How do you not love that cover photo? Great release from Luaka Bop. williamonyeabor.bandcamp.com/album/atomic...
Text: Atomic Bomb. A musician in headphones, sunglasses and seventies flare sits in front of six microphones in a studio, next to an organ.
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I'd never read anything by Paco Roca, but "Return to Eden" swept me away. It's a sad, delicately illustrated memoir of his mother's life. Roca shares her early years in the context of her broken family, hungry and devastated in the wake of the Spanish Civil War. www.fantagraphics.com/collections/...
The cover of "Return to Eden" by Paco Roca. It shows an illustration of a family seated at a beach in Spain, waiting for their photo to be taken by a man with an old-time camera. One chair is empty, representing the book's subject.
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I hadn't heard that--what a shame.
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Rich Lowry is the only one of these dweebs I’ve had the displeasure of meeting in person—a loser, like you’d expect.
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Following Wimpy’s example, Popeye has also cast aside harmful gender norms.
Popeye, dressed as an old woman, throttles a man on the street.
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
It tracks that Wimpy is uninvested in the patriarchy.
Wimpy and the Sea Hag drink tea. Sea Hag: “You’re the strangest man I’ve ever met. You don’t seem to be afraid of me—me, the terrible cruel Sea Hag—she-devil of the Seven Seas.” Wimpy: “Ha! Why should I be afraid of one so beautiful—I admire strong women—strength to me is beauty—you are strong of will.”
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Beautiful song but bit of a problematic title to try to look up.
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Getting a “Good Burger” / “Sinners” double feature in tonight.
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Wonder if J. Spaceman would’ve let them license “Lay Back in the Sun” for the Samson/Kelson scenes?
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
In my seat now for “28 Years Later: the Bone Temple!” When I walked in, the cashier clocked as exactly the kind of weirdo who wanted to pay in cash.
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I was running Lincoln Park Zoo’s social media when this happened, and it was one of the most fun days of my professional life. (I sadly had nothing to do with the name…I believe the keepers came up with it?)
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I just grabbed a stack yesterday. Generally the library is the easiest way for me to watch any films made before the 80s. Even for new stuff, you can avoid ads cutting in every 15 minutes.
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Wimpy’s compulsions took a dark turn.
Cartoon: Wimpy sits next to a mound of ground beef, a decapitated cow head and legs visible in the foreground. He is cooking a burger on a skillet, saying to himself, “Pickle on onion? I’ll have pickle, onion and lettuce both, please,” as Popeye looks on stunned
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James Seidler @jamesseidler.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Reading the third volume of the complete “Popeye” collection from Fantagraphics, and J. Wellington Wimpy has repeatedly cracked me up. An oddball, all-American original.
Popeye says, “Say—didn’t ya even sell no hamburgers at all.”

Wimpy, in apron, replies, “Ah me—I did—I sold one sandwich—the customer took it away from me by force—he acted with the agility of a cat, the scoundrel!! I have the dime in my pocket.”
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
If you're looking for something to dislodge that Gordon Lightfoot earworm, tomorrow is ALSO the 50th anniversary of Patti Smith's debut album. Like Bruce Springsteen says, starts with "probably the greatest opening line of anyone’s debut album in rock ’n’ roll." This is a fun piece:
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Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’ Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary (Gift Article)
In 1975, she transformed poetry into punk. Neither would ever be the same. More than 20 artists who made and admired the album share their memories.
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