Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2hmany books are terrible and formulaic and could be replicated by AI, but there is no genre that is *inherently* terrible and formulaic and could be replicated by AI. there is terrible and formulaic 'literary' fiction. 1429829
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekJane Austen First Drafts @austen1stdrafts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a novelty popcorn bucket that I can really love… spoke too soon. 1524
Reposted by Marissa Skudlarekderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Tweed is such a beautiful fabric to wear this time of year because it produces, in Dolly Parton's phrasing, a coat of many colors. Even a solid-colored brown is not just brown, but bits of red, blue, and yellow to produce something that looks lifted off the Scottish landscape. 997241686
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17% 132634476
Reposted by Marissa Skudlarek100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Sept. 28, 1926: "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," a play adapted by Anita Loos and her husband John Emerson from her bestselling novel, premieres on Broadway. The sharp social satire centers on not-so-dumb blonde Lorelei Lee (June Walker) and her success at manipulating the wealthy male elite. 3315
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekMicaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026retvrn (to characters making their entrance via helicopter) 161
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekJane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Cars break peoples’ brains vol. whatever I’ve lost count sfstandard.com/2026/09/27/m...sfstandard.comHaight bar owner arrested after alleged baseball bat attack over parking spotIt started with a fight over a parking spot outside a Grateful Dead clothing shop. Hours later, the owner of Mad Dog in the Fog and Kezar Pub allegedly came back with a baseball bat — and wound up in ... 2243
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We should do a large scale in-person arts subsidy. Even AI disruption aside, it’d be worth it just to get people to touch grass more. 1351047
Marissa Skudlarek @marissaskud.bsky.social · 28/09/2026honestly the worst thing about Ella Langley's stranglehold on the Billboard #1 slot (and the overall 2020s trend of super-long-running #1 songs, to be fair) is that future generations won't get to enjoy the What Was The #1 Song The Day You Were Born game 230
Marissa Skudlarek @marissaskud.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Feels like Raye is auditioning to be the next James Bond theme song singer #vmas 020
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026I do not want disgusting weirdos like these people - with wildly sexist cultural values - taking over big tech, philanthropy, and responsible tech policy anymore than they already have (and they are rich and ascendant, which means they have already taken over FAR too much). 721845
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekLauren O'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I'm not an expert and not systematically crunching numbers, but the Billboard chart measurements have changed so much in the age of streaming that being #1 doesn't mean the same thing it used to. "Choosin' Texas" is #1 this week with 22m streams, 58m radio plays, and 6,000 sales. By comparison... 1171
Reposted by Marissa Skudlarekmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026i don't care what the official unemployment rate is, no one has viral discussions about "what totally innocuous thing at a job interview will cause the hirer to irrationally reject your candidacy" in a strong labor market 17828120
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekTom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I honestly think Sabrina Carpenter as Ginger Rogers is genius 110312
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekEric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I think the most “adult who was in a gifted and talented program as a kid” thing I could have done to myself was become an author. Just giving myself endless homework and a need for people to be proud of me forever. 2442356
Marissa Skudlarek @marissaskud.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Of course the iced coffee thing is Gender; if E.M. Forster's "A Room with a View" (1908) is anything to go by, middle-aged men have been using their love of iced coffee to dismiss young women as basic & shallow & conformist for over 100 years 041
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekSandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"One must imagine Sisyphus naked." — Albert Camus, giving advice on how to overcome stage fright 1569
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekVictoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Audrey Hepburn married Mel Ferrer in Switzerland #OnThisDay in 1954. Hepburn wore a Pierre Balmain tea-length gown of white organdie with a satin sash, that she accessorized with gloves and a floral crown. The dress was displayed in the Intimate Audrey exhibition. #fashionhistory #audreyhepburn 0325
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026ATTENTION BLUESKY! Annie says they are really hoping to boost the number of artists (crew, performers, creative teams, anyone) outside New York who are filling this out to get a broader sampling. If you are in the arts please take a second and fill this out! 0250282
Reposted by Marissa Skudlarekdr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026this will do more for opera than anything that any artistic director or general manager has ever done or thought to do. it’s literally just this simple. (@mayor.nyc.gov, call me, Brooklyn-born opera scholar, will travel!) 211723
Reposted by Marissa Skudlarekprop @jailrespecter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026one of the original sins of anglo culture is how henry viii executed more people per capita than the french reign of terror and then a generation later shakespeare is writing plays like "italy, what an unimaginably violent place..." while they're tearing the guts out of living jesuits in public 44011
Marissa Skudlarek @marissaskud.bsky.social · 23/09/2026At trivia the other night, we were asked how many Constitutional Amendments there are. Me to my teammate, after we correctly figured out it was 27: “so if the government falls & the Constitution is invalidated, would it join ‘the 27 Club’ with Janis Joplin & Kurt Cobain & Amy Winehouse?” 000
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026in high school my English teacher would put an inspirational quote on the board every day and once she wrote “‘every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.’ - unknown” 601510118
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekThe Onion @theonion.com · 23/09/2026Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater Over Plaid Collared Shirt theonion.com/mr-autumn-man-walking-… 892932429
Marissa Skudlarek @marissaskud.bsky.social · 23/09/2026some deep Marissa lore for the night owls: I first looked into stats on human height 15 years ago, when a friend set me (5’8.5”) up with a 5’4” dude. I was like “it’ll never work, I’m taller than 95% of women & he is shorter than 95% of men.” 220
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026grateful to J.Co for proving it is absolutely possible to verbally obliterate Chris Christie without making a single fat joke, a lesson I wish people would learn 11361189
Reposted by Marissa Skudlarek🌅 Patricia Wallinga 🌇 @pwallinga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026THIS WAS MINE LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO 3194
Reposted by Marissa Skudlarekdepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026when i mention "claude" you can assume i'm talking about the albino alligator not the llm 523851648
Reposted by Marissa Skudlarekjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026my takeaway from this is that she is thinking of these things in the right terms. she is asking whether she truly wants to do it since, if the answer is yes, it is absolutely the case that there is no better time than now. 1594443438
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekMegan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The blueskiest bluesky thing is 400+ quote tweets, each of them individually pointing out that Shakespeare didn't write in Olde English but honestly R&J isn't even a good fit for Eggers, he needs Jacobean tragedy, give this man the Revenger's Tragedy or Women Beware Women and I would be SEATED 6436
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Notably that the AI-written novel that French critics were praising (without knowing it was AI) is by a Haitian writer, since the other instances we have of AI fiction being praised are from the Commonwealth Prize. i think the gassy, inflated metaphors of AI tend to be perceived as authentic by ... 213413
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekAlisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Hwæt? As an Olde English nerd who once took an entire Beowulf class in the original language, this is dope. As a Shakespeare nerd, I also have to explain to people that Shakespeare is Early Modern English. 109018
Reposted by Marissa Skudlarekamy brown @amybrown.xyz · 22/09/2026youve never heard choosin texas by ella langley? should we tell everyone? should we throw a party? should we invite gigi hadid? (that's a supermodel btw) 1344840
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekLearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 22/09/20263. Commissioned by California governor Leland Stanford, English photographer Eadweard Muybridge used a set of trip-wire cameras in 1878 to settle a famous uncertainty about what animal, proving that artists had long depicted it incorrectly? A BEAR SHITTING IN THE WOODS #LL110 #bestwronganswers 15212
Marissa Skudlarek @marissaskud.bsky.social · 22/09/2026On-brand achievement of the day: my hairdresser (a Gen-X gay man) asked me to explain how calling cards functioned in the early 20th century and I told him I could pull out my 1945 Emily Post Etiquette when I got back home 070
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekRob Pilkington @robpilk.com · 22/09/2026weird day to be worried about state-run tv, gavin! 251528229
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekPMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026it honestly did not click in my brain until just now that so much of RETVRN/Everything Is Gender discourse is driven not by the fact that women are doing less housework now than at any other time in modern history, but that *men are doing more* 3297
Marissa Skudlarek @marissaskud.bsky.social · 21/09/2026every Sept. when the UN General Assembly is kicking off, I think of the summer I joined my office softball team. Season was ending & we were terrified to face a team of big, fit guys in the playoffs… then they forfeited the game b/c they were all Secret Service agents & had to go to NYC for the UN 040
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekEoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs? 26082461642
Reposted by Marissa Skudlarekryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20/09/2026in addition to devaluing one of the great human virtues, the premise isn’t even true! curiosity for its own sake, love of learning, wide reading and experience, these are super useful in the job market!! 1044151
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekJaime “Ni!” Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026guy or gal who owns Schwab's Pharmacy: hey man, do you have that menu cover art for my iconic Hollywood drugstore? graphic designer: hell yeah, achingly beautiful and melancholy like you asked. just loads of feelings in this Schwab who owns Schwab's Pharmacy: hell yeah graphic designer: hell yeah 2226
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekLearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 19/09/20269. A famous bronze sculpture from around 460 BCE attributed to Myron of Eleutherae, which is known only through Roman copies, shows its subject in the midst of what activity, directly described by the sculpture's Greek name? WRITING A NEGATIVE REVIEW OF EA-NASIR'S COPPER #LL110 #bestwronganswers 05311
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekCharles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026the president has finally revealed his true form: a 1980s preppie villain determined to tear down the rec center 181228179
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekLily Janiak @lilyjaniak.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"In a densely populated, housing-starved, forward-thinking city of this size, it’s remarkable just how much physical space is dedicated to golf." sfstandard.com/2026/09/13/s...sfstandard.comSan Francisco’s golf courses are draining millions — and barely anyone plays on themThe city loses $4.9 million a year subsidizing six sprawling golf courses used by a shrinking number of players. In a housing-starved city, that’s a tough sell. 052
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekQuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026not to get too Gender but my experience is that stand-up is like 90-10 male while improv/sketch is like 60-40 male. many of the former conceptualize themselves as valiant, misanthropic truthtellers who see through the gauze of society while the latter conceptualize themselves as silly, unserious 2353
Marissa Skudlarek @marissaskud.bsky.social · 18/09/2026My friend is hosting tea-themed trivia tonight in conjunction with her partner’s tea-themed art show—and I’m one of the only people who showed up. ☕️🫖 Friend: “Triv for two, all right.” Me: 🎵 “Triv for two / and two for triv / so we won’t lose / the will to live” 🎵 130
Reposted by Marissa SkudlarekAna Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 17/09/2026New cat just dropped. Landed on its feet, it’s fine.nationalgeographic.comMeet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 YearsA small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species. 502780593
Reposted by Marissa Skudlarekjenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US 3053821099