It’s be pretty funny if they released Coyote vs ACME and it sucks.

This is one of the best pieces of pop culture writing I've read in the past couple of years. These excerpts are great but you need to read how the build to that last one. Goddamn. Thank you @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social and @popheist.com

i think it's just my algorithms since i interact w feminist content and this stuff often cloaks itself in that philosophy, but the fatalistic gender essentialism being fed to young women on social media rn is SO bleak

People actively want misinformation now - even if it means ignoring and ultimately belittling a very real and enormous set of horrific crimes - because they want an excuse for the crazy shit they're already thinking and feeling

The Internet has reached its final stages as an advanced reality detachment engine

With all due respect, wearing my own culture studies hat I'd say this is overly nostalgic and ignores how much silly, dumbass culture of the past has just been left in the dust because it wasn't worth remembering to anyone who wasn't a specialist

yeah, the real difference is that if you wanted someone to whine at you for not liking the same pulp they did in 1986 you had to hang out at a comic book shop, and you weren’t constantly exposed to the ambient drama of the Goonies fandom or whatever

meanwhile the president that year was helming the Rambo zeitgeist and yeah I don’t want that shit back either

don't want to dogpile on the guy who posted "childish mass media = politics of infantile regression" because I have humored that idea myself in the past, but in this case it seems like a correlation/causation error and people could be petulant twerps over popcult since pre-WWII anyways

BUT ALSO...

superhero/sci-fi/fantasy/gamer culture, childish as it can be, isn't the only subculture-gone-mainstream that has been accused of this; every music scene in the first 25 years of my life (disco, punk, metal, hip-hop, goth, alt-rock, rave/"electronica", et al) has been hit with those charges

people can be like this over anything, including stuff "normies" enjoy (sports, of course; also anything that could be considered a hobby w/notable consumer investment), so again it's probably more that the wider mass media goes the more it becomes a conduit for our most childish tendencies, maybe

anyways the problem isn't necessarily that geek pop culture isn't making us reactionary dipshits, it's that the reactionary dipshits and big-money cynics feel entitled enough to geek pop culture that they're making it insufferably loaded with culture-war bullshit and line-go-up extraction

I used to be able to tell my phone "navigate to Costco" and it would pull up directions. Now an AI voice tells me the address of the two nearest Costcos and advises me to use Waze or MapQuest to get there. If I open Google Maps and type Costco, I get an ad for Safeway.

I'm not kidding btw, Conservative liberal academics pushing "Actually FDRs New Deal made the great depression last longer than it would have" is essentially a recession indicator.

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Sonic Mania

Sketch artwork of Eggman, from 'Sonic Mania'.

Simon has left the band and whats worse Alvin said our band is called Alvin and the Chipmunk now. like im just a thing

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Lil Smokey
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NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY IS IN BED, SHE IS COUNTING SHEEP , SO SHE CAN GET TO SLEEP WE SEE HER IMAGINING SHEEP JUMPING OVER A FENCE P2- NANCY: I WONDER HOW SHEEP PUT THEMSELVES TO P3- NANCY IS IMAGINING A SHEEP LYING DOWN AND IMAGINING NANCY’S JUMPING OVER A FENCE.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 8,1971

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection.

So forgive me if I smell a rat.

Diamond In the Sky
'Sonic R'
SEGA Saturn
Richard Jacques
#SonicMusic

The worst part being when you tell people this and they go, "Well, man, what even *is* intelligence? Aren't we, in a way, just predictive?? What's the difference???"

Then they open up draft kings

Instagram leftist: did you know that banks spend your money when you’re not there ⁉️
Instagram rightist: there is historical evidence of Dracula and every Jew is related to him.

if anyone is interested in my little comic history ramblings, I made a blog to post them on: dirgecomix.tumblr.com

there's only one thing up there now about the history of comic book censorship but there will be more up there someday!

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- WE ARE IN THE CLASSROOM AT SCHOOL , THE TEACHER ASKS NANCY A QUESTION TEACHER: NANCY- - DEFINE THE WORD “CONSPICUOUS” P2- WE SEE NANCY STAND UP AT HER DESK TO REPLY NANCY: ER - - I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS, BUT I DON'T NOW HOW TO SAY IT P3- TEACHER: CAN YOU USE THE WORD IN A SENTENCE ? NANCY: YES, MA'M P4- THE OTHER STUDENTS IN THE CLASS LOOK ON AS NANCY GETS UP ON THE DESKTOP AND STANDS ON HER HEAD NANCY: I'M BEING CONSPICUOUS

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 17,1958

interesting how one or the primary domestic stories of the last 2 years has been layoffs and the horrible job market, yet almost no media outlet covers it on a human level

there are stories about the fear/temporary reality of AI taking jobs, but little about how Trump’s bad economy, destruction of the public sector, and unfettered corporate excess has left individuals (real human beings!) unemployed for months or years. it’s barely made it into fictional media either

George Lucas Saying “And then 'Senator Crappo' will be the guy who makes the taxes worse"

We should have never doubted this man

The pokemon Claydol sitting in some overgrown ruins, surrounded by plants and climbing vines.

A lil guy chillin in dat sky tower

#Pokemon #Claydol