Discovering this very unique internet comedy, and revisiting the comedy movie that broke the internet.
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On 'The Pitt' Season 2's Finale: The Story Owes You Nothing When we're too obsessed with plot and not obsessed enough with story, we risk losing whatever substance mass-produced media has left.

When we're too obsessed with plot and not obsessed enough with story, we risk losing whatever substance mass-produced media has left.

Slayyter's southern-toned sleaze and Thundercat's neurodivergent-toned breakup album made for great material to unravel myself with this week.

as somebody who’s spent the last four years obsessing over the way this game gives me highway hypnosis, I’m very excited to read this

It’s a special conundrum when this entire problem could’ve been solved ages ago if Kick had deplatformed him and simply refuses to. If that’s the case, then carceral systems are the only method for deplatforming.

What game?

Even up to the beginning of our conversation, I was not prepared for the ire that Bioshock Infinite drew from my spirit

We don’t even invent new terms anymore, we just add “slop” as a suffix to everything now

‼️ Thread of Black trans M/A:

It's Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️

Black trans folks, if you're raising money for something, reply to this thread and I'll boost you. I'll add mutual aids/organisations I support in the thread.

Cis folks: take a look and find someone to support.

EVERYONE: reskeet this!

Trans Day of Vanishing YouTube video by Lily Alexandre

happy trans day of visibility

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An Auspicious Return | Neurosis' 'An Undying Love for a Burning World' & Underscores' 'U" YouTube video by Jams & Tea

NEW EPISODE!
This week we're talking about the return of Neurosis and the latest from hyperpop rising star underscores.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUoQ...

Hogwarts Legacy Reviews and the Death of the Critic I spend a lot of time thinking about criticism as a practice, since it is my primary form of writing.

Still pretty proud of this old piece where I went in on criticism around Hogwarts Legacy
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Death of the Author is Not About Capital We’re about to arrive at a nexus for critique. The trailer for HBO’s Harry Potter adaptation is about to be unleashed onto the Internet as I begin to draft...

Death of the Author is Not About Capital.
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Harry Potter and the Death of Roland Barthes We are in hell. This is a specifically neoliberal hell wherein, “no ethical consumption under capitalism” has, as one online commentator put it, become, an ethical imperative to consume…

The thing about discourse cycles is that old blog posts get to become relevant again.

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HIGHGUARD vs. BIOSHOCK vs. THE THINNING DUOLOGY | JJBA YouTube video by Jams & Tea

NEW EPISODE
Jen & Jake's Bizarre Affray continues. We pour one out for highguard, endure a Logan Paul double feature, and revisit Bioshock, the game that invented being pretentious about video games.
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Horton Has a Heart Attack!

by Dr. Seuss

Norman Bates taught us a boy's best friend is his mother, Marilyn Monroe taught us diamonds are a girl's best friend, we need a pop culture icon to communicate that nonbinary people's best friend is someone in their Discord server called HoleAnnihilator who turns out to work at the NSA.

Buddy Guy: Tiny Desk Concert YouTube video by NPR Music

Just do yourself a favor and press play.

He’s still uploading hours long podcasts now that his Superman fan film is done

Now that my local theater has closed I have to decide whether I’m going to go to The Mall or The Other Mall to watch new movies

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now.

They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

GO DONATE.

tcpipeline.org

For those of you (esp. Louisville-area folks regardless of UofL connections, or university-affiliated folks anywhere) who kindly expressed interest in this petition effort, here it is—I would warmly welcome your support.

Pam Bondi: you need to understand that turning off the Infant Destroyer is really hard. I’m the only one that can do it, but it would be a lot of work to turn off the Infant Destroyer.

Gimme

“What does ‘ties’ mean?” I’m losing my damn mind

“Please enjoy the museum”:

Relooted is OUT NOW!

Please share!

The environmental damage of data centers alone are too great to allow this to continue, whether it’s capable of delivering the future that AI zealots promise or not.

It’s like what Dan Olson said about NFTs: both the promises and the reality sucked, and we should work to avoid either being accepted as the norm.