Wyeth Leslie

Below a screenshot from the game Sekiro, of a young girl sitting alone in a candle lit temple: I have lived much of my life among more conservative sects of Christianity. Some of these people are among the kindest I have ever known, others the cruelest. But a common thread running throughout their ideology is how they view the concept of Heaven. Large swathes of Christianity has stagnated towards apathy or worse because the concept of heavenly immortality has been so greatly emphasized that believers abandon caring for the here and now, something that Christ explicitly instructed his followers not to do.

Fresh essay from last weekend.

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I shall let it abide here till the White Whale is dead

Comedy Happy Place (Actual Title TBD) - Ends on Sat, Feb 21, 2026 *** “Humor is just another defense against the universe.” - Mel Brooks For our upcoming March/April issue, in full recognition of the fact that the universe is a LOT right now, we're going full-on defense mechanism; we're going escapism; we're going coping; we're going with medicine; we're going funny. We want to hear about what makes you laugh, the movie or actor or director you go to when the world overwhelms you, the one you can count on, your

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The world is a lot right now, so we’re going a different direction for our next issue & are looking for essays on films you go to when the world overwhelms you, the one you can count on, your comedy happy place.

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From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here.

From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here.

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A 2 panel sketch disgram of a 1 meter tall pod. in the second panel, an oval section pops off and a demonic little face with short tentacles flies out, crudely drawn.

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

Image of the Yeti in the skiing Windows game SkiFree eating the player

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

Below a screenshot from the game Sekiro, of a young girl sitting alone in a candle lit temple: I have lived much of my life among more conservative sects of Christianity. Some of these people are among the kindest I have ever known, others the cruelest. But a common thread running throughout their ideology is how they view the concept of Heaven. Large swathes of Christianity has stagnated towards apathy or worse because the concept of heavenly immortality has been so greatly emphasized that believers abandon caring for the here and now, something that Christ explicitly instructed his followers not to do.

Fresh essay from last weekend.

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sometimes I feel like academic jargon is like handing a gun to a toddler

the TOTAL MASSACRE shot from 13 Assassins only now the banner reads WOKE 2

Deeply delighted by all the lowkey western flourishes, especially that jangly whistle soundtrack.

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

Doing art badly is good and sacred

The real reason I'm leaving The Great British Baking Show Trump is threatening bombing the likes of which Tehran has never seen Prue Leith

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit.
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"

Becoming Alien, Second Edition- Wipf and Stock Publishers The Alien films are perceived to be a fractured franchise, each one loosely related to the others by the titular monster. They are nonlinear, complicated, co...

Delighted to report that the second edition of Becoming Alien is available for preorder!

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Scrambling to gather back all the Westeros lore that I purged after the final season like retrieving a cooking recipe from the trash.

In a real “just when I thought I was out” situation, I am enjoying A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

Incredible turnaround on this work

The library is the largest public reference library in Canada with an extensive collection of books, manuscripts, microfilm, and other items. Design-wise is known for its red carpeting, distinctive, open-plan interior design with a soaring atrium and a large, circular void.

The Toronto Reference Library in Toronto, Ontario was designed by architect Raymond Moriyama in 1977.

Photo by Abhi Mehta

Well now you gotta edit this guy to have a top hat and monocle

I’ve lost my voice this week so I had to Max grunt at my students about stanzas today.

Max looking fully feral at the start of Fury Road

Basically here anyways

these people hate us lol straight up do not like us

Tiktaalik emerging from the water onto land and ruining all subsequent history

We’re all trying to figure out why things are so terrible when it couldn’t be more clear who’s at fault

Literally one good dad in this whole show.

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New essay.

Other FromSoftware games reach far greater heights in terms of art, enemy, and level designs, but none have Sekiro’s consistency. In few other works of art am I more so reminded: I am welcomed here, I will go on.
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Ya boy has a cold