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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
3 South Title Card. A traffic cone wears a sock as a hat.
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Johnny Knoxville is sprayed in the face with pepper spray
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I just read about this in @pamelacolloff.bsky.social's excellent new book Catch the Devil. Such a brutal story.
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This is excellent science writing! Thank you
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Forget the Three Lions - I will forever be calling the French team "Trois Vaches"
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
YES! To borrow one of their sloppiest metaphors, slop-takes are an Ouroboros, feasting on their own logic and cultural despair. Let's go find some art somewhere else!
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
We need to talk about slop slop houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/slop-slop
houseofmirrors.substack.com
Slop Slop
There’s so much talk about slop, that the slop talk has become slop.
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The person who coined this word is probably still alive, and we can ask them what it felt like to say this for the first time.
screenshot of etymonline.org entry for humongous: "also humungous, by 1972, American English, apparently a fanciful mash-up of huge and monstrous."
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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
i truly hate hustling like this but i just paid rent and basically have nothing left until i get paid for this article. if you can spare something today i’d really appreciate your support 🫶 vn_m0: @ janusrose ko-fi: ko-fi.com/janusrose
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Support janus rose
Support janus rose
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 23/04/2026
Prentis Hemphill: "I only want to spend time with men who are traitors to that project, the project of patriarchy and patriarchal violence. I want to hang out with traitors and snitches and betrayers of that system." [kottke.org]
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Traitors to the Project of Patriarchy
On a recent mini-episode of the Becoming the People podcast, Prentis Hemphill talked about traitors to the patriarchy. Here’s a short excerpt: I only want to spend time with men who are traitors to that proj
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
What a find in the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social
pdimagearchive.org
‘Auto Polo’ by Bain News Service (ca. 1912)
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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Submitting some 2026 colour ideas to @pantone in case it’s not too late for them to change their mind (more in thread)🏺🎨
“Rage red” for the Iliad
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I didn't know I (Type 1 Diabetic + elder millennial) needed an angry big sister, but boy did I find a great stand-in for one in @maris.bsky.social.
time.com
'I Want to Burn This Place Down' Is on the 100 Must-Read Books 2025
Here's why it made the list
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Gol dang Budgie is so charismatic.
youtu.be
Lol Tolhurst x Budgie - Los Angeles (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The @publicdomainrev.bsky.social is so rad
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Lots of good insights in this review - especially with how we need to accept that reactionaries and authoritarians love the Classics because Greeks and Romans were largely reactionary and authoritarian!
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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Value: Societal Welfare
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
This person is a charlatan. Why is there so much uncritical coverage of this obvious nonsense? Where is the actual journalism?
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
These losers are so sad
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
No surprises but Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social and Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social are great writers and worth following here for worthwhile perspectives
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Samantha Ruddy @samlymatters.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
New Substack about late night standup sets and the jokes I love from them. With late night in mortal peril, I want to celebrate the really outstanding tight fives it’s given us. My first comic is @joshgondelman.Bsky.social and his 2018 Seth Meyers set. open.substack.com/pub/thatsthe...
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An Introduction
RIP late night comedy. Long live late night comedy.
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Look how they frame the "ethics" of AI copyright infringement. Throwaway mention of infringement of copyrighted material. NO concern for the university's academics, writers and artists whose work was stolen to build these tools designed to replace them.
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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
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Colin Cornaby @colincornaby.me · 03/08/2025
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
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In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
As a restaurant owner - I'm astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today's microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow's microwave will be able to cook an entire Thanksgiving Dinner. Ten years from now a microwave may even be able to run the country. Recently I was watching a livestream of a local microwave salesman.
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I forgot how great this soundtrack is! It doesn't even have "Grow Old with You"
The cover of "The Wedding Singer" soundtrack featuring stills of Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I just had to take a walk after he said "Wu-Tang Financial"
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Isobel_Starling @isobelstarling.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
#PeoplePower works! The backlash has forced WeTransfer to remove the rights grabby clause 6.3. Here is the awful clause that was in the TOS last night, and what it is now. The AI and derivatives chunk of text is gone. Well done everyone!
This was the original changed clause with a whole chunk of rights grab - claiming a perpetual license to use anything uploaded via the service for AI and make derivatives for profit.This is the current clause 6.3 with the rights grab chunk of text removed.
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Here's a super-useful "starter pack" for these ideas (namely, that LLMs are an information-processing technology that can't think any more than a market or bureaucracy can, and we should listen to the people who already study these huge systems)
science.org
Large AI models are cultural and social technologies
Implications draw on the history of transformative information systems from the past
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
OWL chose a great example of a review for their citation guide. I assume this is a huge honor for @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
Screenshot of Purdue OWL's Citation guide, showing a generic citation of a review and an example citation of Matt Zoller Seitz's Review of Radiant City.
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Holy cow this thread is good
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Pleased to meet!
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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Today's ACIP meeting is usually a time where experts come together to inform the future of vaccines. That is not what today will be. That is not what we can stand behind. The AAP will continue to recommend its own childhood vaccine schedule -- just as we have since the 1930s
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Great video. Here's another one from @patrickhwillems.bsky.social on the spectacular pairing of baseball and moving pictures. Lots of good stuff about Moneyball and sound
youtube.com
Why Baseball is the Best Movie Sport
YouTube video by Patrick (H) Willems
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Adriana Guatame-García @adriguatame.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬
There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
What an accomplishment this is. Hernandez Brothers comics have always felt a little inaccessible to me, and I can't wait to try them again after reading this.
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I got 5 on it
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Always great writing. "Let’s join in the show’s investigative tone and theorize for a minute" feels like a classic Ebertism, too
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
It is beyond frustrating to try to debate these chowderheads about human rights -here's a very satisfying skewering to read.
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
holy cow this is great
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
You can't sell xerox copies and call it Fair Use. This is great news for actual fairness.
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WIRED @wired.com · 11/02/2025
Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the US. The decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.
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Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US
The Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I just got the digital+print (for students/educators) priced for $6. Print edition is going to my in-laws for some solidarity
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I LOVE Interlibrary Loan. Very excited to browse this one from @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social and Wendy MacNaughton
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
It may not be the right media moment for a new anthology TV series, but this would be perfect for that medium #dnd
enworld.org
Dungeons & Dragons Comments On Possibility of Future Movie Projects
Wizards of the Coast is "exploring" the possibility of new Dungeons & Dragons movie and TV projects. In the build up to the release of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Hasbro seemed to have an...
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Michael G @michaelgulden.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
@dantelfer.com is great and deserves more than he'll get. And he's the DM on my favorite D&D podcast Nerd Poker!
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