A CMO legit sent me a recent podcast interview featuring two agency ppl talking about the "surprising benefits" of branded content, as if it's a new thing in 2026. Just same ol' "storytelling helps build relationships with your customers". The grift never changes, it just finds a new/old hat.
MJF is truly fantastic at every part of wrasslin
wrestling is so good
Neco Williams 🥲
#NFOAVL
(Actually, wanting The Thing on 4K is what got me going on discs. It has the juice.)
It rules. eBay is the way to go, in my experience – good range, quick shipping, reasonable prices. I buy local whenever I can but the markup on physical media can be brutal.
I think about the way Jared Keeso pronounces "day" as Wayne at least once a week. "Dayeeee"
Shout out to whoever cuts together the Kings highlight reel for after their games. Must be the hardest gig in the league. #NBAsky
Could've spent the money invested in AI on free child care and gotten real, tangible increases in productivity but nah
An article comment by Caidid: "Video podcast" = talk show that bypasses the unions to which people who usually work on a talk show belong. I guess it shouldn't be surprising that they are erasing the credit along with the pay and benefits.
Also this, which i never considered:
give me a goddamn Bailey/Fletcher iron man match
classic (even if i low-key prefer the WM19 one)
Hell yeah. DM me your deets and I'll send it over when the mags ship.
I backed at the "get 2 mags and prints" tier this morning despite there only being 1 of me – want the other mag and print?
Spurs via the Hawks pick, obv
hell yeah. this could rival "Serrels tries to plug in a DS charger" for games coverage
sudden flashback to playing hours of pokemon pinball in the car waiting for my dad to finish in the shops
god i loved my gameboy advance sp
my9games.com
Pokemon fanatics storming Thornbury rn (me included)
Sold out eeeeeverywhere, its crazy
(When I was 17, I walked into a career counselling sesh at high school and said "I want to be a philosopher". My teachers laughed and said "We can't help you with that".
Took me a while buuuut it's no surprise I now write about, like, moral philosophy for fun now.)
It’s uncomfortable to acknowledge the ways in which you benefit from unfair systems. It’s uncomfortable to be told you’re just now realising that the thing you’re mortified about has been common practice for a long time. It’s uncomfortable to learn that you could be the victim of some injustices and a perpetuate others. So you could do the comfortable thing. You could surround yourself with people who share your incorrect, unjust view. You could reject out of hand the experiences of others. You could make your world smaller and smaller until you have nothing but your security. Or you could ask yourself a question: what pain is my entitlement protecting?
You can’t solve a problem with tools provided by the thing causing the problem. Don't accept a more comfortable way of suffering.
More: www.diyzen.co/260201-dont-...
finally, i can name what the Green Yuri turned me into
Since NY Mag breached containment, thrusting fujoshi into the mainstream in the wake of Heated Rivalry, I might as well reveal its inverse: the himedanshi.
Spurs legend Dom Barlow -38 in 13 minutes against his old team
#NBAsky
Thrilled I moved to Fedora a few months back.
The KDE Plasma version has been a dream: fast, lightweight, does exactly what I expect it to. I fully expected something much clunkier but it's been nice so far.
Good read – agreed on all fronts. Seems like the challenge, though, is that the league isn’t pushing tanking reform for the betterment of the game. Feels like a money thing. And doing the thing that‘a best for short-term finances will be rough long-term for the game itself.
Caught between my desire to play Pokemon Legends Z-A and my unwillingness to pay for Pokemon Legends Z-A
I just want spend a bit of time dressing up. Maybe catch a 'mon. That's it.
Oh shit, i need to get around this
playing thru Metroid: Zero Mission atm and i think i'll need to write something about Metroid's elevators