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Zack Ruskin

@zackruskin.bsky.social
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Culture reporter. San Francisco dweller. Bylines: SF Chronicle, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Washington Post, McSweeney's, Leafly. www.zackruskin.com

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batkaren @batkaren.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
Calm down, babe, you’re not listening—I said they’re MAGIC beans.
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Maureen Futtner @maureenfuttner.com · 10/02/2025
Beautiful portrait of a star studded Baez tribute by @zackruskin.bsky.social Especially ♥️ the quote from someone riding the bus after the concert! www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
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Joan Baez’s protest music is front and center in star-studded tribute
Held at S.F.’s Masonic, the evening included performances from Baez as well as Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Taj Mahal, Tom Morello, Jackson Browne.
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Zack Ruskin @zackruskin.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
He’ll be starring in a reality series on HGTV in under a year.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
they should not be public servants and take an oath to be so if they can countenance the death of their country before threats to themselves
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Zack Ruskin @zackruskin.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Saw PAVEMENTS last night and love that a major plot point involves Joe Keery (Stranger Things) being *convinced* he's going to win an Oscar for playing Stephen Malkmus.
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Didn’t think I could possibly love Tim Robinson even more but did you ever notice he’s cast more non white & even trans people in 3 seasons of I Think You Should Leave than Lorne Michaels has in 50 years of Saturday Night Live?
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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Bumping this with the hope that a senator might see it
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Incredible to see a political party so addicted to losing and fucking over their base
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Spooky Scary SkeleJenn 🇵🇸 @singing-kitsune.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Langston Hughes

“NOTE TO ALL NAZIS FASCISTS AND KLANSMEN” 

You delight,

So it would seem,

At making mince- meat of my dream.

If you keep on,

Before you’re through,

I’ll make mince- meat

Out of you.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Black history month starts today and this administration would like us to forget it,
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Zack Ruskin @zackruskin.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I mean it is a big deal, but only because it’s awesome and makes people happy.
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evil baby ✨🔵 @dumb.baby · 31/01/2025
creating spaces where queer people can be themselves is literally one of the most meaningful things you can do right now
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
love to see the president log on and post like “yo that’s crazy” about a plane crash
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Don't tell me that the billionaires running the country don't have my interests at heart. You don't know my interests. What if my interests are to eat shit and die
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BB-Matt @badbebop.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
My knee jerk reaction to every news story in 2025 is like someone put Bart Harley Jarvis up on the screen
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Zack Ruskin @zackruskin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Does that sound compelling? Let me write about it for ya!
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Zack Ruskin @zackruskin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Not to give the goods away but this book is about so much more than a cult. It's a refreshing pivot from the usual genre fare and the second time in as many titles that Sottile has taken a morbidly fascinating subject and cracked it wide open to reveal far larger, more devastating truths.
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Zack Ruskin @zackruskin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Will someone PLEASE accept my pitch to interview @leahsottile.bsky.social about cults and her incredible new book, BLAZING EYE SEES ALL? I never go public with this stuff but the book deserves extensive coverage and I am stupidly qualified to make it happen. If that's you, zruskin [at] gmail. 💙📚
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 23/01/2025
Everyone keeps telling me to be angry but very few people seem to be telling people what to do with that anger
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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
It'd be funny if there was a slightly worse actor named Scottie B. Pippen.
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Adrian Spinelli @agspinelli.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
"My favorite thing about record shopping is discovering new things. I’m always looking for stuff that I don’t know, rather than the stuff that I want, because it can send you off on all these tangents." Big up @zackruskin.bsky.social on this #rare Jamie XX chat. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
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Electronic artist Jamie xx credits S.F. with ‘unmatched’ after-party scene ahead of Cow Palace show
The acclaimed record producer details why his latest solo album — his first in nine years — has him excited to play his own music more than ever before.
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New York Shit Post @nyshitpost.com · 23/01/2025
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Zack Ruskin @zackruskin.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Last month I FaceTime'd with @ihatejoelkim.bsky.social to preview his return to San Francisco for @sfsketchfest.bsky.social and learn why SF has become a home away from home for him. Also feat. the brilliant @norireed.bsky.social. Via @sfchronicle.com: datebook.sfchronicle.com/comedy/joel-...
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How comic Joel Kim Booster found his heart in San Francisco
The multitalented comedian, actor and writer shares how the Bay Area has changed his life ahead of his return to Sketchfest later this month.
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jamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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the LA Fires: who's being forgotten?
Podcast Episode · Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) · 01/14/2025 · 1h 27m
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
you hear Crouching Tiger and you're thinking, well that's gotta be the most fearsome and best camouflaged creature in this title,
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Zack Ruskin @zackruskin.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Hello #ppbsides voters! I'd love for you to give a listen if not a vote to my main by Oakland's Shannon and The Clams. I keep coming back to this pitch-perfect description of the band by @zackruskin.bsky.social in the SF Chronicle: "The group you want to play the prom following a zombie apocalypse."
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facetime geranium @sophienotemily.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
yep. talent doesn't make you a better person. he's a great writer, and a serial sexual abuser. we have to be able to hold both things in our head at the same time.
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Zack Ruskin @zackruskin.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Still pinching myself that I got to interview legend Richard Kind ahead of his tribute event at San Francisco Sketchfest later this month. Out now via @sfchronicle.com: datebook.sfchronicle.com/comedy/richa... @sfsketchfest.bsky.social
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‘I worked hard to be lucky’: Richard Kind reflects on career ahead of SF Sketchfest tribute
The beloved voice performer and sitcom regular reflects on his long, lively career ahead of an event in his honor at Cobb’s Comedy Club this month.
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Zack Ruskin @zackruskin.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Seek more for yourself.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Well thanks for nothing Sean Penn, guess if you can’t get in a little boat it’s not worth “helping”
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Zack Ruskin @zackruskin.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I don't pretend to know much but my interview with the great Pico Iyer is out today via @sfchronicle.com and one of the core subjects we discuss is California wildfires. Sharing in the event his wisdom offers peace to anyone in need. datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/aflame...
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
the la fires are so shockingly bad. i don’t remember anything coming even close except the malibu fires that scattered ash all across the area in like 2007. this is unreal.
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Zack Ruskin @zackruskin.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Can a mutual get this job and hook me up forever? Thanks so much! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/40...
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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 06/01/2025
JOURNOS: If you get a call from the rebooted Playboy magazine asking if you want to contribute, I highly encourage you to turn them down When I cheerfully suggested to a top editor on the phone just now that they should put a trans woman on the cover, he replied, "Is there a hot enough one?"
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Zack Ruskin @zackruskin.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
And there’s a new bio of Crumb from Dan Nadel coming in April too. Should be fascinating.
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Zack Ruskin @zackruskin.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Speaking from over a decade of personal experience, expecting people being paid minimum wage to roll out the red carpet because you unexpectedly want to sign copies of your own book during their shift is an exercise in futility.
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Zack Ruskin @zackruskin.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Pulling this image up just triggered such a massive nostalgia blast
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Zack Ruskin @zackruskin.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
There was this early avatar-based chat space called The Palace and there was a hack where you could steal other people’s outfits and it was the best.
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
Your honor my client doesn’t like jail
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
my New Year’s resolution is to avoid getting polio
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Jason Kauzlarich @jasonkauz.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
If you start watching THE SUBSTANCE at 9:50:58 PM on New Year's Eve you will see Monstro Elisasue drench the audience in blood at the NYE show right as the clock strikes midnight.
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Zack Ruskin @zackruskin.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
In which I implore you to enjoy the talents of @toddbarry.bsky.social @ihatejoelkim.bsky.social @jamieloftus.bsky.social @caitlindurante.bsky.social @connorratliff.bsky.social @norireed.bsky.social @davidwain.bsky.social and a lot of lovely folks who aren't on here yet
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Zack Ruskin @zackruskin.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
If you live in the Bay Area and could use a laugh, look no further than the 2025 edition of @sfsketchfest.bsky.social. Read about all my top picks hitting San Francisco next month via @sfchronicle.com! www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
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SF Sketchfest 2025: 11 can’t-miss events
The top events and most unique offerings for SF Sketchfest 2025, running from Jan. 16 to Feb. 2.
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Zack Ruskin @zackruskin.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Always nice when one of your idols rises to the challenge. hyperallergic.com/973444/art-s...
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Art Spiegelman Won’t Shrink Back From Controversy
The artist has illustrated more than one contentious New Yorker cover in his career, chronicled in a new film, and his next project will be no less gutsy.
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Zack Ruskin @zackruskin.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Please please please
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Zack Ruskin @zackruskin.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Kudos on living this song’s credo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGzO...
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TV Funhouse: Christmastime For The Jews - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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Zack Ruskin @zackruskin.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I'm a contributing editor on this @mcsweeneys.net project, so if you want to work with me on a running list of reasons Donald Trump is a nightmare, please apply by Jan. 5! www.mcsweeneys.net/pages/job-po...
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Job Posting: Editorial Assistant - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
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Zack Ruskin @zackruskin.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
This decision speaks volumes (of piss)
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