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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹

@snapbell.bsky.social
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Author of Democracy of Sound (2013), Brain Magnet (2020), Streaming at the End of the World (2027); co-ed of #EastofEast (2022); editor at Tropics of Meta 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇱🇾🇵🇸 she/her

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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Somehow forcing my stupid opinions on everyone doesn't seem as fun as it used to be
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I'm excited to say that my essay about After Hours and Safe just came out in the UK's great illustrated film journal Beneficial Shock. I have been wanting to write about Safe in particular for years and years and years
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
It seems incredible to me to call a movie that's already made 200 million dollars a "flop" www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
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One Battle After Another: Why this year's most acclaimed film flopped
Paul Thomas Anderson's political thriller One Battle After Another, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, has been critically acclaimed, but won't break even at the box office.
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
It might be a little schmaltzy, but I'm championing this film because it's gotten kind of overlooked. It connected to something deep in me tropicsofmeta.com/2025/11/06/t...
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‘The Life of Chuck’ and the Extraordinary Breeziness of a Dreamcatcher
The film offers a commitment to what is real, whether it’s as seemingly ironclad as mathematics or physics or if it’s as subjective as one being in an endless universe’s tiny meaning-seeking in the…
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
How fucked are things when I'm actually agreeing with a right wing senator from Kansas over a so-called liberal Democrat www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Booker, Boozman to speak with David Sacks as Senate Ag nears draft crypto deal
Lawmakers on the Agriculture panel are nearing a draft deal on its portion of a sweeping crypto bill.
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I’m just being real right now. Curtis Sliwa is the GOAT. He lives in a studio apartment with like 17 cats, wears a red beret everywhere, and cheated at a matzoh ball eating contest. I don't think I could ever vote for a republican but I might make an exception for him
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I went and voted today. It felt kind of pointless but I still did it. Much like sex
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Dick Wolf is my favorite indie band
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Dr. Emily Lu on Fanon's radical approach to psychiatry tropicsofmeta.com/2025/11/03/r...
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Reading Fanon’s Psychiatric Papers
I never once encountered Frantz Fanon on the page in my nine years of Canadian medical training. He is not in the medical curriculum at all.
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
This was the last column I published before COVID completely took over our lives. It feels really weird to look back at it now tropicsofmeta.com/2020/02/01/o...
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Out of the Blue, Into the Black
The Good Place’s finale reminds us of things we never knew — like the impossibility of Heaven, and the reality of our singular, inescapable loneliness.
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
What is famine, then? Is it what at least a half or even two-thirds of Simmons's students at Riverside are experiencing, skipping meals to stretch their budget and avoid taking on more debt? s-usih.org/2025/08/i-go...
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“I Govy, You Govy, We All Govy for Wegovy: Dana Simmons on the Dark History of Hunger in America”: Alex Sayf Cummings on Simmons’s *On Hunger* | Society for US Intellectual History
“They say you gotta stay hungry. Hey baby, I’m just about starvin’ tonight.” In Bruce Springsteen’s deceptively upbeat 1984 hit “Dancing in the Dark,” he describes a frustrated, working-class, would-b...
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The incredible and absurd baked-in instinct toward reflexive propaganda about heinous acts in US/UK media still never ceases to amaze me
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Reason # 498,527,688 why I will never give a dime to the @nytimes
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Around 2007 I had a freelance gig that took me to Trump Tower in Manhattan. In the hotel room where we met there were Trump branded bottles in the minifridge and i thought, oh yeah that’s that washed up guy who was on TV
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Happy Tuesday
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
@ebwhamilton.bsky.social When people ask me what I write about, I just say "zoning" and that pretty much shuts down the conversation
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Okay. No more shenanigans. No more tomfoolery. No more ballyhoo. I'm actually coming over here
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
It seems like people might actually be moving over here. As long as some real morons sign up, I'm all in
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
Soon the only extant species of bear will be the Bad News Bears
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 08/09/2023
The album that changed my life is The Velvet Underground and Nick
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 07/09/2023
I don’t understand how anything bad could happen when people go to the desert in the middle of nowhere to recreate the Wicker Man #burningman i.guim.co.uk/img/media/82...
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 05/09/2023
Watching Taylor Fritz go on to the court was truly like watching Old Yeller get walked out to be put down. It's so crazy #USopen
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 04/09/2023
What an amazing episode… it’s hard to listen to this as a US historian and not as a child of an immigrant. The 14th amendment is the ship and all else is the sea. It’s a miracle that the birthright citizenship clause ever got passed podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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‎Throughline: By Accident of Birth (2022) on Apple Podcasts
‎Show Throughline, Ep By Accident of Birth (2022) - Aug 23, 2023
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 03/09/2023
Labor Day reminder: If the min wage increased at the rate of inflation & productivity since 1960 it'd be $26 today—not $7.25. Meaning—billionaires & corps have stolen at least $19/hour from working Americans for 60 years. We don't suffer a lack of resources—but an excess of greed.
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 03/09/2023
Sunday funday, I’m gonna make Rob Ford my iPhone screen
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 03/09/2023
I wish the TED Radio Hour was just about Bill & Ted and Theodore Roosevelt
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 02/09/2023
Spare the Rod Dreher, spoil the child
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 01/09/2023
They will stop at absolutely nothing to ensure that women know they are property www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 31/08/2023
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Podcast 'The Retrievals' reveals painful experiences of female patients are often ignored
A new podcast is bringing to light the abuses suffered at a fertility clinic at Yale. In 2020, a nurse secretly replaced vials of an opioid used to reduce pain during egg retrievals with saline soluti...
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
Anyone with a fucking brain could tell that the Blind Side was white nonsense from the very first beat www.nytimes.com/2023/08/24/s...
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The Unusual Legal Agreement Behind ‘The Blind Side’
Michael Oher says Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy used their relationship with him to unfairly profit from his story. They have denied it.
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 27/08/2023
Basically everything Booz Allen does is a fraud so this is like Inspector Renault talking about gambling www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 27/08/2023
#RestInPower
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 27/08/2023
I mean if I lived in Jax I would definitely kill myself but I wouldn't take anyone with me
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 26/08/2023
We need a wealth tax to combat stagnant income mobility and also to fund crucial government services. But mostly, we need a wealth tax so that we can stop hearing about the latest dumb plan to come from Silicon Valley. www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/b...
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The Silicon Valley Elite Who Want to Build a City From Scratch
A mysterious company has spent $800 million in an effort to buy thousands of acres of San Francisco Bay Area land. The people behind the deals are said to be a who’s who of the tech industry.
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 26/08/2023
Wait, Meatball Ron got a boob job? apple.news/APQG-gdReTQO...
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DeSagging: Florida governor drops in POLITICO rankings
Re-ranking the 2024 Republican presidential field.
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 26/08/2023
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 25/08/2023
"We are always the topic, rarely the voice..." #trans www.pastemagazine.com/music/transp...
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Always The Topic, Rarely The Voice
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 24/08/2023
The MSNBC people look like someone spiked their office kombucha bowl with a bottle of 60 mg Adderall
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 17/08/2023
I just started watching Summer Camp Island and I realize I’m still basically just a 9 year old child. It’s so awesome
Summer Camp Island episode about turning people into babies against their will
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Scott Ferguson @videotroph.bsky.social · 16/08/2023
What a shit show www.insidehighered.com/news/student…
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Chaos reigns at New College of Florida as fall semester nears
With the start of the semester two weeks away, students are grappling with absent professors, canceled classes and severe housing woes.
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 15/08/2023
If it turns out that this judge is not John McAfee’s son I’m going to kill myself www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/politics/sco…
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Who is Scott McAfee, the judge assigned to oversee Trump case in Georgia? | CNN Politics
The newly leveled case against former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants accusing them of engaging in a conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia has be...
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 15/08/2023
Can Eric Adams please just be president? I need the United States to end as a concept and this would be at *least* one of the top 5 funniest ways for it to happen m.youtube.com/shorts/qtMMhC6bxt4
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WHAT A CLOWN MAYOR ADAMS: All my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success. �...
WHAT A CLOWN MAYOR ADAMS: “All my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success.” 😡
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 11/08/2023
I wish I could be as cool as Brian Lehrer
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 11/08/2023
I’m in MENSA because I got a 700 IQ on the SAT
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 07/08/2023
I got a new dating app. I don’t even know what any of these words mean
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 06/08/2023
It’s so fucking funny that they made Edward Teller sound exactly like Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oppenheimer movie
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 06/08/2023
open.spotify.com/track/13toFl1UwJPs…
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 06/08/2023
The person I’m seeing has a large collection of vintage you know what, which my puritan ass really isn’t crazy about but it’s still pretty funny. This is an amazing thing to put on the cover of a Playboy magazine
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 06/08/2023
I don’t really wanna see the Oppenheimer movie but i felt like I was obligated to see it as an official history loser
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Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @snapbell.bsky.social · 05/08/2023
I wonder if Stockard Channing has ever been on 4chan
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