I hated the brief bit of The Bourne Identity I watched when it came out, but decided to try it again because of Gilroy's involvement. This assassin's ridiculous entrance and sublime exit feel like moments from "Spy":
Friday, October 24, 2025
Nike unveiled some exotic new sneakers
Nike introduces Project Amplify — a powered footwear system that acts like a second set of calf muscles, helping the wearer move faster and further with less effort
— Modern Notoriety (@ModernNotoriety) October 23, 2025
"Akin to how electric bikes have made it easier to ride farther and more frequently, revolutionizing urban… pic.twitter.com/LrvVm6AJOH
https://t.co/E9Bwu4KzTL https://t.co/anruDeVFZ8
— Nice Kicks (@nicekicks) October 23, 2025
Nike ACG Team USA Therma-FIT Air Milano Inflatable Jacket for the 2026 Winter Olympics ❄️ pic.twitter.com/tnn7E6CCWe
— Modern Notoriety (@ModernNotoriety) October 23, 2025
Kirkland Signature x Nike SB Dunk Low comes with a Costco card hangtag 🛒
— Modern Notoriety (@ModernNotoriety) October 23, 2025
🗓️ Holiday 2025
🏷️ $130 pic.twitter.com/B2T0e8X3wq
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Some G.I.Joe Classified deals at Amazon
Jinx and Techno-Viper are each $11.99.
Deluxe sets Sgt Slaughter is $21.99 and Dreadnok Gnawgahyde is $29.75.
And Cobra Stinger with driver is $67.49.
I'm just assuming this really is what happened in the Star Wars novels?
I mean that is what happened, canonically! Corporate interests found leaked communications during Leia's run for Chancellor, allowing Centrists who were secretly trying to let the First Order take over to take power and allow this to happen "that should have been in the movie" I agree
— ellie lockhart (she/they) (@eleanor.lockhart.contact) October 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
in universe, the average lib voter is gonna be like "what did I tell you, you couldn't suck it up and vote for Darth Vader's daughter because that made her complicit in war crimes, and what happened? Darth Vader's grandson kidnapped your children and brainwashed them. I told you so"
— ellie lockhart (she/they) (@eleanor.lockhart.contact) October 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I just realized, like. Was "Vader = Anakin" some big secret? Or an open secret that's technically illegal to say but everybody knew, or what. Was Luke just comically uninformed about current events on account of how he grow up? When Vader was like "I am your father" did he think Luke already knew
— Larry (@larryskorke.bsky.social) October 19, 2025 at 11:59 AM
ok so: it was quietly known that Luke and Leia were siblings but that was like, specialist/niche celebrity knowledge; if people knew who their family was, it was "Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala". Anakin being Vader was secret until the Centrist party obtained a holo of Bail explaining this.
— ellie lockhart (she/they) (@eleanor.lockhart.contact) October 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
this was a major political scandal, led to Leia losing the Chancellorship to First Order compromised politicians who allowed the Order to rise, and also led to Ben deciding to trust Snoke over his own family
— ellie lockhart (she/they) (@eleanor.lockhart.contact) October 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Free 3D-printable space marines
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Arkady Martine's scifi horror novella "Rose/House" is great
A genius's last great work was designing a magnificent mansion inhabited by an AI, and the novel opens with the AI contacting the local police department to inform them that someone just died in the supposedly-sealed mansion. Available at Amazon, but I read it for free in Libby.
I think there's still a little time of get a Halloween mystery “Murder Book” free with any order from Field Notes
Today only (I ordered one after reading about in Sandy Weisz's newsletter):
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