Pinned
๐ Gidgetwidget
๐ Gidgetwidget
@gidgetwidget.bsky.social
Currently at VTS near DC. Recovering Twitter User. I still do cool stuff like read the Western Canon for fun & now MDiv. absurdist 'holy theatre' pashit. Peter Brook (RIP) is still my hero. I live for cats (aka Iggyboos)
1K followers952 following15.6K posts
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
I donโt think this is exactly whatโs going on, or all thatโs going on. Itโs not that Republicans are constructing an elaborate psychological defense against evidence that Trump is a rapist. Itโs that they like that heโs a rapist, and they like rape: it enacts the power of the strong over the weak.
The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because itโs pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
i like that the big divide on this post is whether people read it, correctly, as "*run explicitly* on banning online gambling" or whether they ignored the modifying verb and adverb and read it as "i don't think anyone should ban online gambling"
i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
Disability Works *also* received Honorable Mention for the Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies! This is especially delightful because I came in #2 to ND colleague/pal Tarryn Chun's must-read "Revolutionary Stagecraft" www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
Replying to @anamariecox.com
Itโs been awhile since I watched an actual speech and not just clips (ty @atrupar.com!) but Trump seems markedly worse than usual. Voice is hoarse, heโs vaguely slurring, sweating up a storm. Obv content is completely unhinged but that per ush.
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
ed zitron predicted last year this would be the moment the bubble pops so i made something to entertain myself lrlrlr.neocities.org/pop/ and it's not unlikely. we read stock reddit. the spacex launch got a lot of attention there. for anthropic rel posts, you gotta dig.
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
I really recommend that you check out @pregnancyjust.bsky.social's report with the latest dataโ thereโs so much there. Read more: jessica.substack.com/p/report-ove...
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
I urge you to watch naomi klein calmly slicing piers morgan into spam
I have refused many invitations to be interviewed by Piers Morgan over the years. This time I made an exception, on the condition that it be one-on-one, not a scream fest, and that it actually be about the book Astra and I wrote. It was... an experience. youtu.be/SMFQBQx-qSU
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
good lord, things in brazil rn, with lula lodging allegations of serious voter suppression folha.com/h1vgnw6l
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
The Wrap: Writers Guild Warns of Billionaire Media Control as โMuskโ Documentary Faces Alleged Censorship Campaign. #WGA claimed the documentarywas restricted from advertising on social media, including TikTok.
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
This interview has almost 1 million views in four days and has generated a big new wave of interest in "The Nerd Reich." Here's how I explained tech fascism to DW News (German public media) on a windy beach near the Golden Gate Bridge. ๐ www.youtube.com/watch?v=2176...
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
Something a little different today. I started with blobs of ink on paper, and then blew them around, drew in and on it, spatteredโฆ made a mess. Then I imported it to #Procreate and finessed it so itโs a combination of #TraditionalInk and #DigitalInk for Day 25 of #Inktober : FRACTURE #Inktober2026
๐ Gidgetwidget reposted
This pink parrot is utterly mesmerized while staring at the owl's fluffy feathers. Original post
cc @sesshabatto.bsky.social @mededitor.bsky.social see the reply in the OP.