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Ron Hogan

@ronhogan.bsky.social
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He wrote Our Endless & Proper Work (Belt Publishing, 2021), based on his "Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives" newsletter.

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Also, if I were Ossoff or Warnock I’d be headed to the Senate floor to talk about my pride for the Atlanta Hawks and showing my colleagues a big placard of the team’s logo and then saying that it’s easily distinguishable from the Iowa Hawkeyes logo, which I’d also show. “Hawks, Hawkeyes!” I’d say.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hahahahahahahaha.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think some PAC should get Alan Alda and Avery Brooks together to shoot an ad for the Missouri market where they say you might recognize them as Hawkeye and a man called Hawk and then point out how easy it is to tell them apart from one another.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When even Third Way has figured out that throwing trans people to the wolves is a losing strategy for Democrats, you really have to wonder what candidates like Talarico or Peltola were thinking when they decided to plant themselves in the TERF.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is SO good, y’all. I don’t know anyone out there who does “amateur sleuth solves cold case murders” as well as Maureen does right now… especially in depicting how continual proximity to murder, even with historical distance, can seriously mess with your head.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Anything worth saying is worth saying elliptically; only a barbarian chooses the broad high road of simple declarative statements in the indicative when there are so many alluring subjunctive detours one might follow along winding paths half blanketed in unruly vines & clustered flowers.”—Ah, DBH.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I want sal chi papa and I want it now.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“…the dream of information liberation hasn’t come true because IT ISN’T TRUE. If you’re a sufficiently competent and unbound authoritarian state, you CAN in fact stop the signal.” But “the tools to bring these platforms to heel already exist. We just need the political will to use them.”
liberalcurrents.com
Social Media Has Not Brought Liberation
Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m curious as to why the Daily News thought giving Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn this platform to further mythologize her career was good journalistic practice, rather than simply sending a reporter to ask her some questions. (Maybe they did that, too. Not reading the Daily News, I wouldn’t know.)
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’d prefer not to.
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Maggie Serota @maggieserota.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I want to see the essays.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Once upon a time, we might know whether or not this was because the agent involved had been caught fucking a sheep. In Kash Patel’s FBI, not so much.
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As well he should! And they should all be ashamed of themselves.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“If you showed up at Defcon & gave a talk about how your autonomous malware did something unexpected & damaged someone else's computers, the first question from the audience would be ‘Why are you so shit at making secure sandboxes?’ It wouldn't be ‘How are you so awesome at making hacking tools?’"
pluralistic.net
Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Backstreet Youth Spice Children The Pointer Family Barenaked Gentry Violent Nonbinaries Twisted Sibling People at Work Children II Adults
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I spent most of the 2010s out of the pop culture loop, so I only tonight have heard Icona Pop’s “I Don’t Care,” and I’m just sorry J.G. Ballard died five years too soon to hear a song that goes “🎶I just crashed my car into a bridge / I love it🎶”
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Blue Beetle throws his head back and laughs the greatest of laughs.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Perhaps I am a cranky old man, but “a concert starts at 7pm” does not seem to me quite the same thing as “doors open at 7pm,” especially in a (neo-)classical music context.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“JD Vance can keep quiet while his patron calls the pope a communist dupe, or he can say, in a single sentence, that his patron is wrong... Vance owes Peter Thiel a great deal, and everyone in Washington knows it. What he owes the Church is the more interesting question, and only he can answer it.”
thelettersfromleo.com
“A Useful Idiot for the Chinese Communists” — Peter Thiel Attacks Pope Leo XIV for the Third Time
The billionaire who bankrolled JD Vance’s Senate race, and whom Vance credits with reopening the door to his faith, went after the American pope again on Thursday in Berlin. The vice president has sai...
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Yes, [Annie Dillard] loved the Transcendentalists, and she kept such faith with them that we can credit her with reviving the school. But she was a Transcendentalist to whom the 20th century had happened.”— @philipchristman.bsky.social
sojo.net
The Pilgrimage of Annie Dillard
The celebrated author, who passed away this week, had two great themes: seeing and suffering.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Guy who always gets idioms wrong: Give a man a wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which fills up fastest.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“When we confront Hanania’s efforts and successes at breaking through as a mainstream thinker, we have to reckon with not only the racism he seeks to obscure but the virulent male supremacist he’s made no effort to hide or soften.”— @aselrod.bsky.social for @liberalcurrents.com
liberalcurrents.com
Richard Hanania Doesn't Even Try to Hide His Male Supremacism
Hanania is a reminder of the dangers of rehabilitating extremist intellectuals.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Well, if @widnesfc.bsky.social lose their next match, at least now they’ll be in a better position to shake it off.
espn.com
Taylor Swift joins 10th-tier team, scores goal - but it's not the pop superstar
Taylor Swift has signed for a club in the 10th tier of the English football pyramid and has already scored a goal.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m upping my p(room)
Tommy Wiseau, emoting on the rooftop.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Well, GOOD.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Here is a happiness that the world rarely allows, the riches of poverty, the fullness of withdrawal, the opening of a humble heart to the magnitude of God. The coldness I felt in my first impression was in me, not in them.”
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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mass shooters are using ChatGPT to plan mass shootings because people are using ChatGPT for everything. A dozen years ago they'd be using Google to plan their shootings, and a dozen years before that, Google and paper notebooks, because technology changes but desire for notoriety remains the same.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I was SO tempted to respond to this by texting back, “my excuse for being busy is that I’m busy,” but I have a strict block and delete policy with these clowns.
A spam text that asks me, out of the blue, “What’s your excuse for being this busy today?”
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Talk of a god-like AI that needs to be constrained projects our present fears into a hypothetical future, one that can only be addressed with more talk; meanwhile, we neglect our obligations to name and prosecute war crimes that have already happened.”— @aworkinglibrary.com
aworkinglibrary.com
An addiction
“Talk about technology is an addiction.”
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oooh! New Natasha Lennard incoming!
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“We're not in the business of turning words into pictures,” followed by “We took ‘The Gift of the Magi’ and… produced a version set in China, where the heirloom becomes a grandfather's camera instead of a pocket watch,” which they then turned into pictures. This product should launch… into the sea.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“We need the president out on the stump asap.” Yeah, get Trump out there talking about his beautiful new arch and how we need to pay more for gas and groceries to keep Iran in its place, that’ll fix things.
Blue Beetle finds this amusing.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm betting the documents will definitely *not *be Smith's "Companies colluding to raise prices is the real problem" or "Excess profits are the real problem" or "you have to pay your workers a living wage" from Wealth or "admiring rich people is in fact a moral failing" from Moral Sentiment.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Allow Donald Trump to save face? Fuck that. I want him to face the end with less face than the Nazi major at the end of Raiders (metaphorically). I’m not from Illinois, but I encourage anyone who is to call Duckworth’s office and let her know what you think of her remarks.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My weekly Quaker messages don’t always touch on current events, but this one? This was absolutely inspired by the ongoing betrayal of trans people by a certain faction of the @democrats.org.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Dems replaced action on trans rights with hollow statements, then dropped those statements, then embraced anti-trans rhetoric. Now supporting anti-trans laws and blocking pro-trans ones. At every step the "they're betraying us" radicals were correct and "be patient" liberals were completely wrong.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
People who would have made great guest murderers on ‘70s Columbo: Adam West Barbara Billingsley George Sanders (season 1, obvs) Milton Berle
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fire up the popcorn!
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Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a comic by Russ Heath, who drew the comic one of Lichtenstein’s most famous panels was based on
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Do you want Cenobites? Because this is how you make Cenobites.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It ain’t that kind of movie, kid.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
For the evening crowd, a little bit of biblical exegesis, beginning with Twin Peaks: The Return.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“It’s about an era of queer freedom & joy that vanished in the face of backlash: How, for a brief moment in time, it was okay, acceptable, even fashionable to be both queer & gender non-conforming, and how the Reagan ‘80s swept in and shut that down. You [see] where I’m going with this, I trust.”
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you’ve got a local independent movie theater and they’re showing YOU HAD TO BE THERE, a documentary about the 1972 Toronto production of Godspell where Victor Garber (briefly) first played Jesus, and also starred Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Martin Short, and Gilda Radner, you should go see that.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I can’t decide between The Germans or Communication Problems.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My latest Quaker message finds a thread from the prophet Ezekiel to David Lynch, with a warning that may prove especially relevant to liberals who’ve chosen this moment to join in the persecution of their transgender neighbors. quaker.org/2026/09/21/g...
David Lynch stars as FBI agent Gordon Cole in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One wonders how Peltola thinks that federally mandated genital inspections and segregated bathrooms will “lower costs, save our fisheries, and fill our homes with abundance again.” Unless maybe she thinks trans people are America’s Omelas kid? That’s the only explanation that remotely makes sense.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nothing but respect for my Ghosts. I hope this gets some sort of theatrical release in the US, because I dropped Paramount+ (which was the last streamer that had the show) and I’m not picking it back up again even for this.
youtu.be
Ghosts: The Possession of Button House - Official Trailer
YouTube video by LionsgateFilmsUK
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One wonders how Peltola thinks that federally mandated genital inspections and segregated bathrooms will “lower costs, save our fisheries, and fill our homes with abundance again.” Unless maybe she thinks trans people are America’s Omelas kid? That’s the only explanation that remotely makes sense.
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