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David Simon

@audacityofdespair.bsky.social

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Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.

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@audacityofdespair.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 2:22 AM

This is an infuriating narrative. Appalling in every sense but one: This young woman at the center was and is relentlessly heroic.

@audacityofdespair.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 12:33 AM

When you say it like that, it doesn't sound so smart.

@audacityofdespair.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 11:53 PM

He did not lie. And his lips moved. I don't know where to place myself in this universe.

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@audacityofdespair.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 11:25 PM

So we are warring with Iran And Russia is supplying weaponry to Iran. And we are paying Russia to send us diesel fuel. Because we are warring with Iran the ships with the diesel can't get to us. So we are buying it from Russia, which... Yeah, this is some three-dimensional chess right here.

@audacityofdespair.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 10:33 PM

Never step on the punchline.

@audacityofdespair.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 10:33 PM

Never step on the punchline.

@audacityofdespair.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 9:35 PM

New presidents sometimes elusive. Often when a nation needs one most.

@audacityofdespair.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:50 PM

Overstatement almost as art.

@audacityofdespair.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 2:26 PM

You'll like Treme.

@audacityofdespair.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 2:26 PM

The willful intent to slay multiple human beings at random, based on one's political, racial or religious ideology.

@audacityofdespair.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 2:23 PM

Go to any corner store and buy a bag of crab-flavored potato chips and then walk it up to any random Baltimorean. Thank them for Hairspray, Diner and The Wire. The Maryland film community, hanging on now for dear life and needing more work, will be honored by your pilgrimmage.

@audacityofdespair.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 2:19 PM

Opposed to the death penalty, me. But if I did see capital punishment as appropriate for the worst crimes -- Eichmann in Jerusalem, or Timothy McVeigh or Dylann Roof -- the profundity of the state taking life in reply demands sobriety and a basic distaste for the undertaking. Not a public carnival.

@audacityofdespair.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 1:48 PM

For shipping Trump and Hegseth to The Hague.

@audacityofdespair.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 1:39 PM

I couldn't buy a greenlight under Zaslev. Fuck's the difference?

@audacityofdespair.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 1:37 PM

How big a lake?

@audacityofdespair.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 1:36 PM

I am aware that the spectrum of what represents good parenting in our age eschews corporeal discipline. And I abide in that camp. But in certain cases, a small voice in the back of my head wonders if some people were not loved enough or not beaten enough. Or if nothing could have worked.

@audacityofdespair.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 1:25 PM

I am generally quite opposed to posting AI slop unless it is: 1) Obvious satire and therefore not suggestive of any effort to falsify or mislead. And... 2) really fucking funny.

@audacityofdespair.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 1:18 PM

Perhaps, sir, if we bomb a couple girls schools in Oslo, they'll get the fucking message about how goddamn deserving of a peace prize you truly are.

@audacityofdespair.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 11:31 AM

Actually, I was standing at a cenotaph in that cemetery. Johnny's ashes are, I believe, with his wife. But Dee Dee is actually buried in that cemetery. Found his spot and threw him a Kaddish, too.

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