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Evil Genius: The Pizza Bomber

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I don’t know who all remembers this case but Netflix has a new documentary series that covers it in some detail and it’s compulsively watchable. Everything about the case is all so crazy and populated with such brilliant but broken people it feels more like fiction. * I will however give a word of warning: the first ep has police footage of the bomb exploding. It’s not gory but it’s very disturbing.

The Voice In Your Head

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Truest Thing I've Seen In A Long Time

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Favorite Science Fiction TV: Blake's 7

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Blake’s 7 was created by Terry Nation, who’s probably best remembered as the man who created The Daleks for Doctor Who . The show concerns the exploits of political dissident Roj Blake, who commands a small group of rebels against the forces of the totalitarian Terran Federation that rules the Earth and its many colonized planets. The Federation uses mass surveillance, brainwashing and drug pacification to control its citizens. Blake is arrested, tried on false charges, and deported to a remote penal colony. En route, he and fellow prisoners gain control of a technologically advanced alien spacecraft. Blake and crew begin a campaign to damage the Federation while pursued by Space Commander Travis—a Federation soldier—and Servalan, the Supreme Commander and later Federation President. Though marred by way too low of a budget, the top-notch writing and weighty themes clearly provided the inspiration for later shows from Farscape to Firefly , Cowboy Bebop to the reimagined

Cosmic Aggressions

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In higher ed, we talk a lot about something called microaggressions—everyday unconscious verbal and nonverbal slights, snubs, and insults that communicate hostile and negative messages to marginalized persons. My newest Dunwich Committee on Student Safety story came from wondering how that concept would manifest at Miskatonic University. Read “Cosmic Aggressions” in the Walpurgisnacht issue of Lovecraftiana: The Magazine of Eldritch Horror .