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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Local big theatre is doing Oleanna and I can't think of a worse pick for 2026, Jesus Christ

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the hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 01/09/2026

my deal is i pray every day that someone will text me "hey man that weird japanese movie you have on there from somewhere between 1955 and 1992 was actually so good i'm glad i checked it out! i don't even need to ask for Wedding Crashers again now"

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bobo tucci @no-flashlight.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I feel very confident in saying that not all reading is created equal

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Go ahead and read whatever kind of books you enjoy, but I have to say that reading this filled me with a deep dread and sorrow unto death

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Brian Actors Guild @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 09/09/2026

If you write "I work for Anthropic and I think it might kill humanity" and I'm not reading it off of a Dropbox manifesto after you painted the walls of the HQ I'm inclined to think you're not being sincere

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New low (?) point: I referred to my partner's kid taking a melatonin gummy before bed as "popping a tony"

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

hey, I was born in the 80s or 90s and I'm looking for a morally acceptable way to continue to like Harry Potter?? you see, I have this special condition where I just... stopped. somewhere along the way, i let the growth inside me die and i gnawed a hole in the past, and there i sit, and there i rot

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The theme of this show is ultimately "nostalgia is a trap"

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ABOOnchio👻 BOOlchetti👻 @vor-bokor.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

The many dogs of NOROI (2005)

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 24/08/2026

being upset about this is millennial cringe

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"To anyone else heading for Tau Ceti IV after us... Do not come. Do not come."

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Genuinely, whom amongst us can't relate

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My partner's young son is telling us about Star Wars (which he just recently watched) and when asked if he thought Yoda was cute, he said "NO, he's BALD."

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If I'm being honest, the version of The Odyssey that comes to mind first whenever I think about the story is the Wishbone version

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This guy is obsessed with dying painfully (swallowed two socks and a big cat toy last night; he's fine now)

A brown and black German Shepherd mix dog lays on a carpeted floor with his head up and tongue out

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Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

puppy summoning anubis to bring his human back

painting of a puppy in a cemetery invoking Anubis by reading words in a book in front of a magical sigil next to candles and a zombie hand comes out of the tomb

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 07/07/2026

this pattern will keep repeating until people stop framing "shooting brown foreigners for money" as "an adventure"

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Here's my stance on cheering for the US soccer team

Screen capture of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's iconic sermon where he said "God damn America"

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

They don't let you into heaven if you chanted "USA USA" at or about sports

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

We started watching The Dark Crystal (1982) the other night and I can't believe how unpleasant I found looking at the protagonist

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth (he got neutered this morning)

A black and brown German Shepherd-like dog wearing a blue vinyl cone around his neck lies on the floor looking dejected

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Santana Abraxas @slime-golem.biz · 17/06/2026

RIP Bone Bone. He taught me it was OK to be "weird."

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 16/06/2026

Discourse on Colonialism is really one of the most important things I’ve ever read.

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

For work we were visiting another organization and when we left the guy showing us around said "drive fast and take lots of chances on the road"

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We watched Man With a Movie Camera (1929) last night and the whole time I was struck by a few things, but mostly by how Advanced the filmmaking was for how early in the history of the medium it was

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June! 🏳️‍⚧️ @towndarling.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

nostalgia is remembering when you didn’t have to pay bills and attributing that feeling to mario

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Need some advice: The car's on fire & there's no driver at the wheel and the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides and we're on so many drugs with the radio on & the curtains drawn and we're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine that's bleeding to death. What should I do

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

if everyone is done making weird posts about "conservative art" or its impossibility you can now listen to our ongoing year-long tolkien series in which we are pretty regularly stopping to assess the man's politics as expressed in text and paratext vs how he is reformatted by the modern right

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I consider it a violation of my personal human rights to have to look at an ad at basically any time

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Bungie is leaving money on the table by not selling little plushies of the Marathon med-drones!

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

A take that didn't make it in here because it was too spicy to air is that The Fever is the skeleton key that unlocks My Dinner With Andre and turns it into a black comedy

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

It will never not fuck me up that the best explanation of commodity fetishism I've ever encountered was written by the T-Rex from Toy Story (also thanks to Lenore and Jacob for a beautiful lovely discussion)

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Workers’ Lit Podcast @workerslit.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Yes, THAT Wallace Shawn wrote a play about reckoning with capitalism’s horrors as a privileged person in the imperial core. @utopologist.bsky.social of @peoplesnewrepublic.bsky.social joins us to discuss his own staging of this show and the brutality of the challenge it poses.

Episode art for Workers’ Lit May 25, 2026 episode on “The Fever” by Wallace Shawn, ft. Ethan of People’s New Republic.

Art is included editing Wallace Shawn, fever jokes (Bieber Fever, Bruce Springsteen’s The Fever, and the baseball team The Fever), and Jacob and Lenore over the album art of “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out.”

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Guy who drove me to the airport was telling me he's moving to California and that he was asking Grok how many trucks he needs to rent for his stuff

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

There are probably two peopleon this website who will get this joke, which pretty much means it's a comedy masterstroke

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

As millennials, we like Gen X also drank from the hose, but the hose was ideology

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I read the Alan Moore arc of Swamp Thing so I could re-listen to Shelved by Genre's episodes about it and afterwards I felt like drawing him because he looks so distinctive

Over a light pink background, a sketch of Swamp Thing, a big green and black guy made of plants with glowing red eyes and a few flowers growing out of him

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Ethan @utopologist.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Happy birthday to the big guy himself

"Paul Robeson" by Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)

That time
we all heard it,
cool and clear,
cutting across the hot grit of the day.
The major Voice.
The adult Voice
forgoing Rolling River,
forgoing tearful tale of bale and barge
and other symptoms of an old despond.
Warning, in music-words
devout and large,
that we are each other’s
harvest:
we are each other’s
business:
we are each other’s
magnitude and bond.That time
we all heard it,
cool and clear,
cutting across the hot grit of the day.
The major Voice.
The adult Voice
forgoing Rolling River,
forgoing tearful tale of bale and barge
and other symptoms of an old despond.
Warning, in music-words
devout and large,
that we are each other’s
harvest:
we are each other’s
business:
we are each other’s
magnitude and bond.

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Imagining some different worlds and what it might take to get to them.

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Members of the Iranian Jewish community inspect what is left of their synagogue in Tehran after Israel bombed it. On Passover...

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 07/04/2026

I literally believe that the US should be partitioned like Germany at the end of WW2 after this. Balkanize the whole thing. Don't let any successor state have a military.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Not beating those "Great Satan" allegations

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