Douglas Moser

@douglasmoser.bsky.social

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“It's important to write against power, corporations, the state, and the whole system of consumption and of debilitating entertainments." - Don DeLillo Writer, remarker, ex reporter. Politics, music, econ, in no particular order. Boston.

A partial list of attendees at a 2022 retreat of Dialogue, a secret elite society founded by billionaire Peter Thiel.
A screenshot of a graph from Trading Economics showing a sharp drop in the price of Brent crude oil last night when word of a “memorandum of understanding” with Iran got around. The price steady increased again over the following 12 hours, but remains well below its last-day peak
A gif of Homer Simpson lying in bed in his pajamas playing a trombone with the caption, “Trombone playing.”
Kevin from The Office trying to clean up his spilled pot of chili with papers and sliding around on the floor.
Gif of Dave Chappelle as Rick James waving his fingers in a “come on” motion.
A line graph showing the price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil, the US benchmark, falling from $105 per barrel on about April 11 to $91.53 per barrel now.
Morticia Addams in a black dress standing with her hands on a seat Gomez’s shoulders. They are in a web-covered room with webby candles on the table in front of them.
A woman wearing studio headphones speaks into a studio microphone.
Screen shot of a tweet, with the text, “*Me getting my oil changed * Mechanic: We also noticed that- Me:” followed by an image of a man with a cup of coffee holding his index finger over his lips.
Ryan Gosling in Project Hail Mary, with medium length ruffled hair, round glasses, a pencil behind his ear, holding a handle above frame showing off a toned muscular bicep.
Danny DiVito from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia in thick TV-frame glasses and a red polo shirt firing two empty handguns in a TV studio with the caption, “So anyway, I started blasting.”
“Fell for it again award” meme: An overweight man with a ratty goatee has his mouth wide open stuffed with little yellow award ribbons. The little ribbons cover his eyes and have knocked askew his thick dark glasses. A larger ribbon, yellow center with blue fringe and the text “Fell for It Again Award” is pinned to his left shoulder.
Gif of the Grateful Dead’s 1987 music video for their song Touch of Grey. The clip shows Jerry Garcia as a skeleton with wild gray hair playing a guitar on a hazy stage.
“Fell for it again award” meme: An overweight man with a ratty goatee has his mouth wide open stuffed with little yellow award ribbons. The little ribbons cover his eyes and have knocked askew his thick dark glasses. A larger ribbon, yellow center with blue fringe and the text “Fell for It Again Award” is pinned to his left shoulder.
A police car with the words “Sandwich Police” printed along the side parked on a road.
A gif of Grover in a cowboy hat riding a horse backwards through an arid prairie.
Bret and Jemaine of Flight of the Conchords in shrunken leather suits.
Edgar the Bug from the movie Men in Black. Edgar’s face is saggy, his neck skin is loose, his eyes are bloodshot, and he is wearing an awkward smirk.
A screenshot of a post by X user @afraidofwasps that reads, “The second amendment is such an important tenet of this country, but not when used against a government-backed occupying military force. Our founding fathers envisioned it more being used against citizens shopping at the mall, or schoolchildren.”
A black background with red topper. At the top, it reads, “House Democrats who voted for DHS and ICE funding.” Below in the black is a list that reads, “Henry Cuellar (Texas), Jared Golden (Maine), Laura Gillen (New York), Don Davis (North Carolina), Tom Suozzi (New York), Vicente Gonzalez (Texas), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Washington).”
A comic book illustration of Wonder Woman holding a shield on one arm and pointing a gleaming sword at the viewer with the other, over a light yellow background. Text in black art deco block font at the top reads, “ANTIFA means anti-fascist.” Text in red script and thin black art deco font reads, “Proudly fighting fascism since 1941”
Protestors with anti-ICE signs marching past the golden dome of the Massachusetts State House in Boston
Pope Leo in the papal white cassock holding a wooden baseball bat while standing in an aisle of a full airplane.
The Three Stooges toasting a drink, cross-eyed and sticking out their tongues.
Pope Leo XIV speaking into a mic he holds with two hands with his eyes closed.
A screenshot of a New York Times Bluesky post about Robert F. Kennedy instructing the CDC to alter its language about the completely unproven connection between vaccines and autism. The Times’ post calls the change a “challenge to scientific orthodoxy”.
The text, “Shaft, Can You Dig It” in the yellow, red, and blue style of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign signs.
A protester in a green puffy Tyrannosaurus rex costume holding a sign saying, “Make Tyrants Extinct Again” in a crowd of people at the No Kings protest on Boston Common.
Meme of a man in a hot dog costume, with the caption, “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this.”
Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis dressed in drag in a scene from “Some Like It Hot,” where Lemmon’s character, holding an upright bass, smirks and waves at someone out of frame.
A white paper slide with text in all caps that says, “A computer can never be held accountable therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”
Ricardo Montalban as Khan Noonian Singh, with long platinum hair, a necklace with a round metal Starfleet insignia, and a stained red mission coat wide open in the front exposing well defined and shining pectoral muscles.
A white paper presentation slide with the text, printed in all caps, “A computer can never be held accountable therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”
A picture of a balcony at Fenway Park, where the entrance is guarded by an employee at a desk. The name “Royal Rooters Club is painted on the green support beam under the balcony. A giant blue sign that says “Boston Red Sox” in red lettering and lists the team’s World and league championships hangs above the balcony.
A maniacal screenshot of Ren, a tan chihuahua with a radio controlled helmet on his head, and Stimpy, a fat red and white cat holding a remote control. Both are grinning madly while their eyes bulge. Color splatters the blue-to-brown fading background like a Jackson Pollock painting.
Lech Wałęsa, a heavy old man with short white hair and a white handlebar mustache, luxuriates in an oval tub full of golden, foamy beer. A row of full beer bottles glow on a window sill behind him.
A bar graph with the bars comprised of colored dots indicating right-wing and left-wing violence. The graph goes from 2003 to 2021 and shows a clear rise in violence from about 2006 driven by the right-wing.
A screen shot of anchor Kent Brockman from The Simpsons, wearing a brown suit and a vacant look on his face.
Black coaster with the text, “Well, the patriarchy isn’t going to fuck itself.”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer in Veep, smiling nervously with CC text saying, “(Laughing nervously) What the fuck?”
A clipping of a Dilbert comic on a white refrigerator door showing Dilbert yelling into a cell phone, “Ignorance is not an opinion!!!”
Screenshot of a Simpson’s character who is a fat lawyer in a white suit and half-open red shirt fanning himself in a wicker chair in a tropical office.
A screen shot of Peppa Pig with her siblings, parents, and grandparents.
A small smiling gray stuffed cat with its stuffing pulled out the side of its head.
GIF of Rick James laughing from Chappelle’s Show.
Screen shot of a tweet on a black background that reads, “if you bought a bunch of world war 3 bets on polymarket and kalshi then ordered a bunch of pizzas around Alexandria VA and sold the pump would that be considered securities fraud”
A crowd of people at the Pride festival on Boston Common.
Protesters chant, hold anti-Trump signs, and wave flags while marching under a gray sky on Boylston Street in Boston.
‘80s laser-style portrait background with the text, “The whites are at it again.”
A screenshot of an article from The Atlantic that includes the phrase “legalistic noncompliance.”
Juniper, a tan lab-shepherd mix, licks her lips and wags her tail while lying on a pillow for a photo.