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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 5h

she is the villain of the memoir so that is not a surprise having read it 😬

Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 5h

I'm optimistic & crossing my fingers! Her memoir was amazing and made clear how awful the experience of making the show was, I'm hoping now that she's in a better place and uh rid of some awful participants it will be both good and a good experience. But we'll see!

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 5h

but will Alex Karpovsky come back to yell at another community board meeting????

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 5h

deeply curious to know how Greta sold Led Zeppelin to the Netflix execs for this film for children who have, as a demographic average, millennial parents. really tapping into the zeigeist.

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 5h

that Narnia trailer is a great illustration of why making a movie with primarily CGI visuals will never be appealing no matter how talented you are. no thanks man.

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 7h

Yes I also screamed about how bad UNDER STORY is because that book has infected my brain like a parasite. Subscribe to listen! 🙃🫠🥴

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 7h

For our latest Patreon-only episode of Overinvested, @gavia.bsky.social and I talked about what we've been reading lately. Including raves from me for LIBERATION SUMMER, A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE, THE SONG OF STORK AND DROMEDARY, and more book chat: www.patreon.com/overinvested...

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 7h

this book is so great, got on the First Novel Prize shortlist, and nada. it's so depressing. have you read Mad Eden? I had the same experience after reading it due to the NBA longlisting. absolutely stunning book, nothing but trade reviews. and the author's first book was reviewed by the NYT.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They’re all just recycling the Jewish Question against Brown people. Concentration camps. Deportations/Expulsions. Copypaste rhetoric. “They’re here, exactly as we are, but they could never truly be one of us.” They don’t even have the decency to come up with a new name, it’s that plagiarized.

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 23h

This encapsulates our era's big tent politics better than any scholarship.

Kenneth: I don't vote Republican or Democrat. Choosing is a sin, so I always just write in the Lord's name!

Jack: That's Republican, we count those.

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The biggest story in the country right now is young men getting away with rape. It’s not an accident to talk about women looking like “whores” in this environment. Basically saying: don’t get ahead of yourselves, I’ll put you in your place. I hope many more comedians condemn him.

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Lorne persistently platforming this guy over countless other worthy comedians when there is copious evidence he’s a bigot says pretty much all you need to know about SNL.

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The distance between illegal government raids against opposition party members and planting evidence against them is about a centimeter

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is great. I need to do a full rewatch of this. Feels significant that Liz Lemon was THE idol of everyone I knew at Barnard… precisely because she was such a relatable fuck-up, unlike every other woman on TV. Anyway I’m feel very normal about this being 20 years ago. It’s fine!! I’m fine!!!!

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

People block words and phrases related to things they don't want to see on Bluesky. Sometimes these are genuinely triggering things; sometimes it's just preference. Include a pic with no alt text, and you're forcing them to see blocked content.

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Nic Cage the other day was like I will never do anything with AI and as a result I want to work with Gen Z directors (subtext: because everyone else’s brain is cooked) and I think more big stars should take this approach!

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The number of rich creatives (Gen X and above) who have been snowed by this bullshit has become embarrassing

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Yeah people can’t possibly be moved by still photographs, it’s not like people have relied on still images since… you know… the literal dawn of time

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 11/10/2026

people keep making movies where the premise is "it's kind of like a man but it looks like a monstrous freak but it's nice and sexy and doesn't abuse the woman so it's basically the most romantic thing ever" and men keep not getting it.

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

As with the other cases of AI stories winning prizes (seemingly), it really seems like this could be prevented by people not choosing to award prizes to stories that are really badly written.

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“Book would be better if the central concept of the book were different” huh it’s like this is a stupid take…

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Yeah. Which is obviously fine nothing is as good as Middlemarch!!!! And Lee does revere Eliot so I feel like writing a profile being like well Eliot’s annoying and retrograde but Lee is good is not really… genuinely respectful to her project either…

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

*third, I’m too worked up to spell check myself

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Former board member of the NBCC! Dear god.

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

PS I wrote my master’s thesis on Middlemarch and I think reading all these screenshots has actually raised my blood pressure. How………

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The famous nineteenth century invisible narrator? The narrator who is always intruding and commenting? What on earth is this nonsense.

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Sorry, I need to complain about another thing. Who thinks about the 19th century novel and thinks “invisible narrator”???? The this person narrators are always intruding and commenting! It is literally the most known stylistic element of these books!

These are the techniques that Lee gleaned from the old social realists: intricately braided story lines, characters who cross social classes, an emphasis on plots that expose true morals. Many also deployed a nearly invisible third-person narrator. In
"American Hagwon," this device is so neutral as to be disconcerting. Flaubert eyed his characters — even those based on himself — with sly condescension. Dickens regarded his with sticky sentimentality.

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Not the main point but worth adding that AMERICAN HAGWON is not, imo, good, and the idea that it’s improving on Eliot, who is now irrelevant, makes me want to jump off a building.

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I keep trying to come up with a response to this and failing because my head has exploded.

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Excuse me, I’m going to have a stroke

I remember reading "Middlemarch" when I was in my 20s and wanting to hurl it against a wall. The novel was a masterpiece, I knew, but the premise of its central plot - that the happiness of a woman depended on serving the right husband - irritated my young, single heart. When people discuss Lee's novels, they often kneel before the dead social realists. But by and large, those authors no longer speak to the values and realities of our age. What makes Lee's work so satisfying is its anachronism. She honed a Victorian technique and applies it with the sensibilities of a woman who loves reading bell hooks.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

George Eliot, the staunchest and most consistent critic of marriage in the nineteenth century, spinning like Simone Biles in her grave

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Newsom rejecting the billionaire wealth tax is one thing. Supporting the billionaires' poison pill alternative which would ban taxes on assets permanently, end any chance to fix stepped-up basis, & could be used by an enterprising lawyer to invalidate vehicle fee or other tax changes is another.

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Newsom Backs Measure That Could Invalidate Billionaire Tax

The California governor opposes the proposed levy on ultrawealthy that goes before voters on Nov. 3.

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

to wit: bsky.app/profile/stca...

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

the two shows of this guy's I have watched were such appalling misinterpretations of the source text that I was actually aesthetically offended. the Carrie show sounds just as bad. why has he been given the keys to the kingdom when he does not understand the basics of his own genre.

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

it took you all too long but thank god we have reached cultural consensus on this issue.

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

this was appalling but as a Turn of the Screw fanatic that one absolutely sent me over the edge. the entire point of that book is that there are no answers and he made a show that was like "what if we explained everything, in needless detail." man just does not know what he's doing.

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

it took so long and yet finally we have arrived...

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Lots of alarming stuff in here but I’m most appalled by Europa’s attitude. I somehow didn’t realize they left translators off their covers so that’s multiple sins… ugh.

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Anyway it was my first cold in 4 years and my conclusion is: I think you’ll know.

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I got one a few weeks ago and it was so completely distinct, at least from how I experience PEM. I wasn’t worried about covid bc my energy wasn’t affected, no aches/pains, but the sore throat and congestion were SO bad and also stayed that bad for a week. Just felt very distinct from PEM.

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Elizabeth Minkel @elizabethminkel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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