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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 16h

I love our beautiful national parks

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 01/10/2026

It all started on this day. Thank you for a wonderful twenty years.

Text in the center reads: 20 Years Oct. 2006 - Oct. 2026, clarkesworldmagazine.com

(right) Cover art for issue 241 by Marcel Deneuve is "Labyrinths of Azarax" and features a blue and white mechanical eye in a circular opening looking at a small, white, glowing humanoid figure standing on a large pipe in the tunnel. Many pipes line the walls, all heading out to the main room. Pipes are yellow and gray. Room beyond is blue.

(left) Cover art for issue 1 by Tomasz Pietrzyk is "The Town of the Towers" and features a surreal town of yellowy white distorted towers with reddish orange roofs that overhang the towers and rise to a point. Mishapen dark windows and doors are scattered about on the buildings. Orange sky gives the entire piece a warm tone.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When my son was a newborn my wife and I adapted this meme to indicate to each other when he’d been fed

The “full of milk” meme but with my newborn son’s face photoshopped over it

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Alex Jennings @alexjennings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We progressives and the left need to be more discerning about what the fuck we're actually willing to debate. A lot of these debates and questions are presented in bad faith and engagement just wastes time and energy. I'm not going to debate whether rape or genocide are "that bad." Fuck you.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Making fundamental due process rights a nullity with the emergency docket (again)

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

lol bubble? Friend I’ve got a toddler and a job, the radio is not playing in my life basically ever

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My hottest take is that “don’t bring iced coffee to an interview” is an opinion of the (usually older) hirers. Iced coffee is more common for millennials and Gen Z, and it’s a generational signifier. “Don’t being iced coffee to an interview” is the same as “don’t signal that you’re Gen Z”

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Being the parent of a toddler means sometimes singing “raw ham” to the tune of “Roxanne” by the Police while feeding your son cold cuts

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Changing the name of the group chat to “council of queer friends”

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not to mention the entire enterprise is creating a paramilitary that, when it is finally disbanded, will be composed of armed, violent, and indebted Nazis who USED to be paid to live out their turner diary fantasies. Without aggressive prosecution we are headed to a massive and connected insurgency

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Italo Calvino, INVISIBLE CITIES (1972)

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’m on record as saying flag football taken seriously as a sport could be extremely cool and fun

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It was the moment that Clooney said “damn, we’re in a tight spot” for the third time in a row that I knew that movie was cooking up something new

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

when a progressive politician in the US refuses to engage with culture war nonsense and sticks to the issues in an interview you get people saying "centrist dems, take note! here's how you answer this question" & yeah they already know sadly. they like the right-wing setting the agenda

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theotheories.bsky.social @theotheories.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A pattern here is anti trans changes made under a labour government are assumed to be "reasonable and moderate" by people who would oppose them if a right wing government was doing them. This is worse for trans people because cis people just don't believe us when we talk about what is happening.

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

At 2 months old, my son needed a life-saving surgery. He was admitted from the ER and the surgery was performed a couple hours later. Our insurance denied us because we could not demonstrate that the surgery was necessary or an emergency.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

i don't believe talarico is a bigot. im pretty sure he isnt. but if he apparently "has to" answer bad faith questions in a way that appears to compromise on the rights of one group of people being repressed to get elected, it's fair to ask what else he will "have to" do once he's in office

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

Omelas home prices Omelas median rent Omelas 2br Omelas 1br Omelas studio Omelas sublet Omelas how much does it cost to be the person who lives in the hole Omelas can you sublet the oubliette

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

TBT how I found out about 9/11: I was 8 years old, and my mom showed up to my elementary school at lunch so I knew something was up, and she said “hey do you know what the world trade towers are?” I said “yeah, the tallest buildings in the world” and she just said “well not anymore”

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We must hold the line on this. Slop doesn't equal "bad" it means slop, the byproduct of some automated process. There's plenty of human-generated "content" that is not great, but that's not slop.

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One of the really beautiful things I’ve learned since becoming a parent is that there is no shortage of people like this in the world

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Terrapin Poly Oly @goldsquid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The heart of the anti-vax movement is parents (and other family members) who deeply resent their autistic & disabled children. Even IF they don’t hate the actual kids, they are pissed at the burden it places on their lives, and the limiting of the future. They interpret it as robbery.

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“Virtuous” is perfect here I think. Being able to commit to their often expensive and impractical lifestyles is a representation of their ontological superiority to anyone who needs ACTUAL health interventions. It’s an easy on-ramp to their eugenic project because they can couch eugenics in virtue

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A buddy of mine who still lives in Pittsburgh told me they always got smoke like that in the summers and I was like “my man what are you talking about, I grew up a mile away from you and when I moved to California my first smoke event felt like the apocalypse”

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Blah blah jazz age whatever. Fitzgerald actually deserves his status in the canon for nailing “childless 30 year old tries to relate to a parent who is his contemporary”

I waited but she didn’t say any more, and after a moment I returned rather feebly to the subject of her daughter.
“I suppose she talks, and—eats, and everything.”

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Steve Ballmer once tried to manage the basketball team of the high school I coached at as though he owned the team, and now they can't accept earmarked donations to athletics.

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“They never talk about just how SHARP the leopards’ teeth are or how soft and supple the human face is”

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

this is correct: the USPS rule is about mailing *to* voters (not *from*) we have an explainer on this! boltsmag.org/mail-voting-...

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Devastated by this news. Getting the opportunity to work on DISTANT NEIGHBORS at Counterpoint is one of the most formative experiences both in my professional life and in my understanding of the world. I revisit his poetry every year. We’ll never get another like him.

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Amoral” is a bizarre way to describe deposing a foreign government and installing a puppet regime from which you can then steal oil. Seems like the morality of the action is quite clear to me.

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This cute little man turns ONE on Wednesday

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Jesus dude fucking embarrassed to be an alum these days

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Any time someone tries to tell me that firearms don’t make sense in D&D (which is largely an early modern setting anyway)

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

God the rule of 3s hit fast this time

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Daniel @dahnewt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

In WA, you can print your ballot at home in that situation, fill them out, then deliver the printed ballot to drop boxes. It's the official guidance if your official ballot is ever lost in the mail too close to the due date to have a new one mailed to you.

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My “the broken window in the grizzly bear enclosure poses no danger to the guests” sign is inviting a lot of questions already answered by my sign

A sign at the zoo reassuring the guests that the shattered window into the grizzly bear enclosure poses no danger to them

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The Angevins from the succession of Henry I and the Anarchy to the death of Henry II

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Sports have never been and CAN NEVER BE diversion. Sports are a human behavior, and are thus a microcosmic ground on which our social politics play out. They are a reprieve from real life only because they are a fictional space where the concerns of real life can be simplified and therefore enjoyed

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My son wearing my baby clothes 33 years later

A sweet little baby wearing a Cal sweater and sweat pants from 1993

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

lol Cigna denied my son’s LIFE-SAVING surgery because we couldn’t prove it happened under emergency conditions. Apparently the fact that he was admitted to the ER and rushed to surgery was not sufficient. God bless this great nation and the $80,000 it cost me to save my 2-month-old’s life!

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Just after college I discovered backpacking and mountaineering, then rock climbing in my mid 20s, then gardening in my late 20s, then home renovation and DIY in my early 30s. I suppose the pattern is that I pick up something new every few years, so we’ll see what happens next!

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It's incredible that I can buy Microsoft Office in 2019 and then on July 13th of 2026 they can decide actually you're just no longer allowed to use it. Now you need to pay $100 per year. This should be illegal. The product works just fine, even if they no longer support it with updates.

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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This year the NCAA champion women’s crew would’ve finished 5th in the men’s event, so at least in collegiate rowing, if you are not in one of the top 4 fastest boats in the country there are plenty of women beating you

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