Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 44mFun fact! A friend lives on Northern Spy street and I thought it was some cool Civil War tribute until we learned it's a type of apple because her community is called Apple Valley! 010
Reposted by Leeman KesslerAmanda Hollander @amaholla.bsky.social · 2hI have a new piece up at McSweeney's! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...mcsweeneys.netAn Open Letter to Senator Eric Schmitt About It Being Totally Okay Not to Know Anything About Sports“It is hard in America not to be good at understanding sports! People have no idea how excluded people like us feel.” 121
Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 2hI'm glad you enjoyed it! It was fun shaking the dust out of one of my favorite characters 010
Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 3hI was asked to review @bleakhousing.bsky.social 's newest horror delight, The Ship of Death and knew just the guy to give it the dignified scrutiny it deserves 151
Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 17hKeep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love's sake. 020
Reposted by Leeman Kesslerlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Saint Augustine audibly sweating upon finding out that British English has an idiom that things have "gone pear shaped". 3545
Reposted by Leeman KesslerAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr... 302849632
Reposted by Leeman KesslerJames Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Why do people reading books on public transit not hold their books so I can see the title? 14493
Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 29/09/2026And don't get me started on how Captain Simian would respond to y'all's behavior. 141
Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 29/09/2026A lot of y'all log on to this website and then do not act in a way that would make the Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa proud. 2141
Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 29/09/2026Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love's sake. 050
Reposted by Leeman KesslerCarlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 28/09/2026man, using AI agents to perform a simulacrum of optimization is sad, but it comes from the same fannish IT place that in its cult form fears that we'll all be turned into paperclips. human satisfaction according to software project management tools. pseudo-swingers who track their coitus on Excel. 161
Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 29/09/2026You mean his kiwi accent? *researches* oh huh i didn't know he was born in Ireland and his real name was Nigel! 100
Reposted by Leeman KesslerDanielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The masculinity politics beat continues to be very necessary. goodauthority.substack.com/p/republican... 2347896
Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 28/09/2026I'd watch this versionstatic.klipy.comJason Mendoza and Derek's Intimidation Stare-OffAlt: Jason Mendoza and Derek in the good place 100
Reposted by Leeman KesslerCarlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 28/09/2026horror movie based on the flavors of Singularitarians out there: squirrelly altruists, genocidal longterm-ists, people who want to have orgies with other people who don't shower, dipshit cult leaders. they're put into SAW traps that only require empathy to escape. none of them do. 062
Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 28/09/2026In fairness, 85% of these sales are just my wife and priest @thenerdypriest.bsky.social treating herself. 270
Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 28/09/2026Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love's sake. 030
Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 28/09/2026Oooh I forgot I already did a deep dive review earlier geekuallyyoked.com/ark-nova/geekuallyyoked.comArk NovaWe bought a zoo! Well, we bought a game that simulates the administrative snarl that I imagine owning and operating a zoo to be like but I stand by the cinematic sentiment. When I first opened up t… 020
Reposted by Leeman Kesslerderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today, I see angry young men online LARPing as Catholics, often for the aesthetic. They celebrate strength and hate the weak. The use slurs against the disabled and fantasize about enacting Crusader violence against their enemies. I wish the Pope would speak directly on this. 644261326
Reposted by Leeman KesslerOrrin Grey @orringrey.com · 27/09/2026This monster family tree by @neilaglet.bsky.social, from the book Monster School by Kate Coombs, illustrated by Gatlin, is wonderful. 1111
Reposted by Leeman KesslerJackson O'Brien @sprobeforebros.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Hot off the presses: Inspired by the time @antlervel.vet made me watch Streets of Fire I dissect why Hollywood is terrified of musicals despite still obviously being in love with them.youtu.beThe Genre that Hollywood ForgotYouTube video by Jackson O'Brien 1124
Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 27/09/2026I'm back in the pictures! www.patreon.com/asklovecraft...patreon.comBack In Front of the Camera | Leeman KesslerThe last few weeks I've had the enormous pleasure to work on a local student's senior exercise and it's both been an exciting time and a rem 061
Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 27/09/2026It's weird how politics isn't mentioned at all. I feel like anecdotally folks I knew began disengaging with parents who went full MAGA 110
Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 27/09/2026Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love's sake. 010
Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 27/09/2026Finished my annual Over the Garden Wall viewing with my youngest reminded me of my musings from a while back www.patreon.com/asklovecraft...patreon.comHow the Gentle Wind | Leeman KesslerAutumn in general and October specifically is a peak spooky season in these parts and as s responsible parent it's of vital importance that 0104
Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 26/09/2026Your regular reminder that Zuckerberg's Meta rebrand came in response to whistleblower testimony about his abusive and predatory business practices. Anyway, good luck with giving Muse your credit card 0151
Reposted by Leeman KesslerCarlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 26/09/2026the basic style is taken from American news channels after September 11, which became incredibly cluttered with text and quickly recognized symbols: banners, crawls, and captions used to train the viewer to react to unfamiliar symbolic content. generative AI has an abundance of examples. 1125
Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 26/09/2026Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love's sake. 060
Reposted by Leeman KesslerFelipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Detailed and shocking account of the extent to which ChatGPT helped this shooter strategize and essentially encouraged her to do this mass shooting 095
Reposted by Leeman KesslerMatt Baume 🏳️🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The movie ROPE came out on this day in 1948, and newspapers really struggled with how to explain that the main characters were, you know, 471630335
Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 25/09/2026Where did the initial money to get Weird Tales started come from? 010
Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 25/09/2026Gamemasters of bluesky! What game would you run in an abandoned hibachi grill? I'm thinking Shadowrun 060
Reposted by Leeman KesslerPhilip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"cognitive surrender" implies the existence of other cognitive/martial terms: "cognitive truce" "cognitive armistice" "cognitive ceasefire" "raising the cognitive white flag" 271
Reposted by Leeman KesslerJamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Bring back real human weirdos 1382
Reposted by Leeman KesslerPhilip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The substance of her comments aside, it's insane that the head of CBS News would participate in an event honoring a GOP mega-donor who has said "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." 210733
Reposted by Leeman KesslerSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It kinda just keeps coming down to "the grown ass adults who run the world decided being an adult is too hard." 733947
Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 25/09/2026Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love's sake. 020
Reposted by Leeman KesslerNo Gods No Mayors Podcast @nogodsnomayors.com · 24/09/2026This week on the Municipal Benevolent Feed, we are joined by our pal @goingmedieval.bsky.social to talk about the Münster Rebellion and one of it's weirdest little guys, Bernhard Knipperdoling. How dry is YOUR baby? Well, it better be the right amount of it. We'll be measuring. nogodsnomayors.com 5477
Reposted by Leeman KesslerCarlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I've been on these dingleberries' case since I saw fans of the late science fiction writer Vernor Vinge (Yudkowsky is one) actively contemplate the idea that the act of mathematics itself could change the physical laws of the Universe. they're wannabe theurgists, to use the old word, but dumber. 49220