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Steven Genise

@stevengenise.bsky.social
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Writer and editor in Seattle. Words in MYTHAXIS, BLUE EARTH REVIEW, FUSION FRAGMENT, MILK CANDY REVIEW. Subs reader for Split/Lip Press. He/Him

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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
In addition to the broader literacy crisis, we're also in a power literacy crisis. Many folks deeply misunderstand how political power works, who has it, and how to build it. And all of that is happening while more folks are using the language of organizing without grasping its most basic tenets.
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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It’s always very indicative of who they’re picturing in their mind when they picture “Americans”
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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
That’s why I always make sure my work really sags in the middle. Frankly I’m innovating form
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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
He’s single, you say?
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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The Nazis needing to built out an entire trans-continental railway system through the Middle East to roll up Schwerer Gustav in order to shoot at one (1) Abrams tank
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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
ronaLd, Grimace, hamBurglar, (somebody please stop me because I don’t know any more McDonald’s characters) uhhhh mayor mcchTeese
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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Okay, I said this as a joke, but in all seriousness that guy is simply reinventing “playing with dolls” from first principles, but because so many men are discouraged from that kind of free-form make-believe play as kids, they never develop the language to understand what it means to MISS that play
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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Dude more men need to learn to play with Barbies more as kids…
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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Here’s the fun trick to calculating your biological age without any special tech: subtract the year of your birth from the current year, and that’s your biological age! So for instance, it’s currently 2026, and I was born in 1993. That makes my biological age 33. Neat!
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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Can you do ours next?
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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Me explaining to my son why I said a bad word after stubbing my toe
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Televised executions by firing squad” is one of those fascist tropes that is so ubiquitous and on the nose that I think even the most “apolitical” people around will have their consciences shocked by it. There’s a good chance this sparks such protest that it does happen (the livestream, that is)
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 07/10/2026
‘We Value Washington State Ferries Engineers,’ Says Gov. Ferguson Throwing Below-Deck Staff Extra Fish: tinyurl.com/ycywwrdv
Gov. Bob Ferguson holding big fish above manhole on ferry deck leading to below deck staff
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 07/10/2026
Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying
Use of artificial intelligence
By registering with ISBN Canada, you declare that your book was created by a human author. You may use AI tools only for limited support tasks, such as brainstorming ideas, checking grammar, or formatting your book. You must not use AI to generate the text, create the artwork, or translate the book. ISBN Canada does not issue ISBNs for works whose content is primarily generated by AI. LAC is currently reviewing its policy regarding the use of AI content creation and our guidance is subject to change.
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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pooblic
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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Against edgelordism in all its forms" is becoming a foundational principle for me. Civilization is impossible without an unflinching commitment to pro-social behavior and a willingness to marginalize any deviation.
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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Patti Harrison or Vanessa Bayer too!
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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s the year of our Lord 2026 and Paul F Tompkins has yet to appear!!
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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Big Brother from the 1984 apple commercial
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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I love our beautiful national parks
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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Got his ass with that one
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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Where is the @maurajudkis.bsky.social bat signal
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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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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This will devastate the All Cunos meta
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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh man, what a devastating piece of news…
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
our story is live aftermath.site/jacob-geller...
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Video Essayist And YouTuber Jacob Geller Removed From MinnMax Following Sexual Assault Allegations
Jacob Geller has not commented on the allegations or his removal from the games podcasts.
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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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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ceej… china, they… it’s bad. They just announced Gooder Brain.
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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 · 25/09/2026
Saturn can devour his son and everyone makes paintings of it but as soon as Venus devours her moon she’s “one of the great mysteries of astronomy”???
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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
John fucking Fetterman
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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 · 23/09/2026
Romeo & Juliet & Beowulf
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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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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, WB Yeats what rough beast slouches towards Bethlehem to be born
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Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Canadian mind cannot comprehend Primanti Brothers
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shaunt @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
For you and your partner as well ❤️
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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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