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Marissa Skudlarek

@marissaskud.bsky.social
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Writes playscripts & computer scripts in English, French, & Python. Proof that there are still artists in San Francisco. She/her.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2h
many 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.
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Jane Austen First Drafts @austen1stdrafts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The 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.
The Sense and Sensibility book stack popcorn tin
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tweed 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.
There are two photos taped together. The top shows a brown stone building with a brown thatched roof. It's surrounded by green grass, stone walkways, and blue-gray sea. Below is a checked brown tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it. There are two photos taped together. The one at te top shows a rocky hillside with green and straw-colored grass, gray rocks, and a tan sandy beach below. The blue waters are crashing at the shore. Below is a green herringbone tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it. There are two photos taped together. The top shows a field of green and straw colored fields with bits of purple flowers. Below is a a series of checked brown tweed that reflect the colors in the landscape above it. A swatch book of solid-colored tweeds. The green tweed has visible flecks of red, gold, and blue.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17%
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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sept. 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.
The first edition of the novelWalker (second from left) and Frank Morgan (second from right) in the 1926 productionThe New Yorker caricatures Walker as Lorelei
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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
retvrn (to characters making their entrance via helicopter)
Th is was in the days when you could really think big in the
park—Raúl Juliá made his entrance as Prospero in Th e Tempest around
that time descending in a harness from a helicopter. He had to go out to
New Jersey before the show, and the stage manager in the park had to call the cue from the Delacorte booth by dialing the New Jersey heliport on a landline (called a telephone back then) for them to take off ten minutes before “beginners.”
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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cars break peoples’ brains vol. whatever I’ve lost count sfstandard.com/2026/09/27/m...
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Haight bar owner arrested after alleged baseball bat attack over parking spot
It 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 ...
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We 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.
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Marissa Skudlarek @marissaskud.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
honestly 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
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Marissa Skudlarek @marissaskud.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Feels like Raye is auditioning to be the next James Bond theme song singer #vmas
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
I 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).
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Lauren O'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'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...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i 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
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I honestly think Sabrina Carpenter as Ginger Rogers is genius
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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I 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.
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Marissa Skudlarek @marissaskud.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Of 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
 When he was introduced he understood why, for Miss Honeychurch, disjoined from her music stool, was only a young lady with a quantity of dark hair and a very pretty, pale, undeveloped face. She loved going to concerts, she loved stopping with her cousin, she loved iced coffee and meringues. He did not doubt that she loved his sermon also. But before he left Tunbridge Wells he made a remark to the vicar, which he now made to Lucy herself when she closed the little piano and moved dreamily towards him:

“If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting both for us and for her.”
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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"One must imagine Sisyphus naked." — Albert Camus, giving advice on how to overcome stage fright
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Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Audrey 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
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ATTENTION 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!
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
this 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!)
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prop @jailrespecter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
one 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
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Marissa Skudlarek @marissaskud.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
At 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?”
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
in 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”
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/09/2026
Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater Over Plaid Collared Shirt theonion.com/mr-autumn-man-walking-…
Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater Over Plaid Collared Shirt
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Marissa Skudlarek @marissaskud.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
some 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.”
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
grateful 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
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🌅 Patricia Wallinga 🌇 @pwallinga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
THIS WAS MINE LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
when i mention "claude" you can assume i'm talking about the albino alligator not the llm
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
my 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.
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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The 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
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Notably 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 ...
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hwæt? 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.
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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 22/09/2026
youve 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)
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 22/09/2026
3. 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
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Marissa Skudlarek @marissaskud.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
On-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
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Rob Pilkington @robpilk.com · 22/09/2026
weird day to be worried about state-run tv, gavin!
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
supermaxxing
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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
it 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*
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Marissa Skudlarek @marissaskud.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
every 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
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’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?
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20/09/2026
in 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!!
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Jaime “Ni!” Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
guy 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
Schwab's menu from 1955
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 19/09/2026
9. 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
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
the president has finally revealed his true form: a 1980s preppie villain determined to tear down the rec center
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Lily 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...
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San Francisco’s golf courses are draining millions — and barely anyone plays on them
The 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.
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
not 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
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Marissa Skudlarek @marissaskud.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My 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” 🎵
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 17/09/2026
New cat just dropped. Landed on its feet, it’s fine.
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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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Max Read @maxread.info · 17/09/2026
unabomber clippy
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jenny 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
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