Listen Becky I know you want us to stop saying we saw Goody Proctor dancing in the woods with the Devil" because it's not true but you should understand that accusations of witchcraft are what bind this community together and that you're being a wrecker and potential Devil Dancer yourself.

the Karmelo Anthony/Austin Metcalf tragedy is possibly the most depressing American news story of the past six years not related to ICE and that is saying a lot. I'm not even sure there's a lesson to be learned here

The Sopranos is sectarian, Warhammer is sectarian nazbol dreck, Haitian movies are sectarian, nonfiction is generally sectarian, ironic detachment is sectarian. Masscult under Ba'athism is inherently sectarian. Sorry to spoil your 'fun'.

For all the passionate yet uninspiring swooning by so many cinephiles about their favorite filmmakers, I rarely hear any of them articulate *why* they love them so much. It seems to come down to a perceived shared worldview or attitude, and often a glibly or myopically nostalgic one.

bsky.app/profile/crai... the way so much of film twitter only concerns itself with non-Hollywood cinema whenever those few dozens of names are involved

john rzeznik looks so much like an awful person who makes shitty music but he's actually a normal guy who makes decent music it's crazy

bsky.app/profile/djin... one of my favourite songs of all time, His Master's Voice by Monsters of Folk, is about this very thing

reading some of the responses to the roast of kevin hart is turning me into adam carolla and i do not like that i guess i'm just too knowledgeable about american comedy to take people who say "why didn't kevin hart stand up and point out that wasn't funny????" about a roast seriously

bsky.app/profile/mtsw... you do know that half the world calls Hungary some variation on the word "Hungary" and not "Magyar Republic"

Southern Italy in the early twentieth century is bar none one of the worst places you could possibly live outside of an active war zone or genocide in the last 200 years.

On one hand GTA6 is The Most Video Game. It embodies more or less all of the worst excesses of a dying games industry. It is the capstone to an era of games that is no longer viable; a swan song to video games' monoculture and the idea of blockbuster tentpoles so important you *have* to play them.

amazing

If you tied me to a chair and tried to CLOCKWORK ORANGE me into listening to this I would break out of the chair and jump out of a window like Morpheus at the end of THE MATRIX

Nice, very cool, now let's see this teenager's media diet

youtu.be/bgLeOgspkEA?... I'm being told this Italian song was apparently extremely popular in USSR territories @dov.bsky.social

it's very likely pasolini would be a right wing nativist now

bsky.app/profile/elea... americans are so neurotic about antisemitism, at least in europe if people are antisemitic they will just admit to it

has there already been someone saying the people burning cars and hunting down families in belfast were actually all protestants and not woke based leftist irish catholics

bsky.app/profile/mach... do you think god stays in heaven because he, too, lives in fear of what he's created, here on Earth? -steve buscemi, spy kids 2

the willful ignorance of italian expats in the UK to say the country they live in is worse off both economically and societally than Italy

XD

This Nine Inch Nails song perfectly encapsulates Pete Hegseth's worldview down to the hysterical self-loathing underpinning it

they say he does a funny voice when he says "my totenkopf" and as a millennial, i can assure you that he is actually doing a slightly gay faux German voice and saying "mein totenkopf", because every edgelord man in my age bracket would, he's just so bad at it that nobody knows that's what he's doing

“well at least now they’re being honest about it” no! this stuff is shameful and people should have to hide it! honest bigotry is bad!

i have never seen this person say anything worthwhile

A lot of my allegedly progressive compatriots seething that our PM didn't AllLivesMatter antisemitism at a Jewish event, and didn't say "anti-Zionism isn't antisemitism" in those exact words If you can whine your way out of every mention of antisemitism, you don't actually care about antisemitism.

he did it. he actually abolished bedtime

bsky.app/profile/aunt... she told me i had no future and lied about my grade on a remedial exam just to upset me and make me cry

I kind of enjoy that ZAUM's second pancake appears to have been a success because I for one hate the notion, apparently popular among some people who think they are socialists, that a game can only be good when the staff are subject to the whims of an auteur.

if you paid money to see the michael jackson biopic you need to get your ass beaten. i'm aware i'm talking about 3 billion people but maybe 3 billion people deserve to get their ass beaten

Well, what did you, as the deputy editor of HuffPost, tell them?

bsky.app/profile/elea... b-but all the film twitter communists with "fix your hearts or die" in the bio couldn't possibly be superficial airheads!

“You may try to break down our resolve with accusations that he engaged in inappropriate sexual behaviors, but our love of Michael Jackson, Le Roi de la Pop, remains unwavering,” said European representative Stefan Barbeaux

Oh also "my father/uncle liberated Auschwitz, now I wonder if it was the right thing to do" please die

I see a lot of “clanker lover” blocklists And a lot of “purge the unbelievers” and “dehumanize them” and “destroy them” posts And a lot of reasonable people going “well, they have reasonable fears” I’m sure it’s fine

yeah chinese people watch game of thrones too. china isn't a land of enlightened philosopher artists who all watch jia zhangke and hou hsiao-hsien in their spare time

bsky.app/profile/ibog... Yoshi's Story came out in 1996 and this (youtu.be/nghTrcPBp3s?...) was the soundtrack. stay out of my lane

if mtg's half successful face turn has demonstrated anything it's that thinking sandy hook was a hoax and wishing to make killing black people legal is not a dealbreaker for many people apparently

we should bully baffler writers more

things are great!

bsky.app/profile/elea... if you watch the wrong tv show, you're probably a genocidaire

bsky.app/profile/euge... Uprising might be the worst song of all time

The thing is that its socially desirable online to lie about being on the left

bsky.app/profile/cats... you sure about the "books" part

Cancel me if you want but I find alt-text scolding unbelievably annoying

Gundam Fans and Tanya The Evil fans are somehow both but in reversed ways

Chinese health care actually sucks, especially outside the 3 biggest urban areas

Italian expats say the darndest things "yeah the economy in Italy isn't as good as it is here" -UK resident

bsky.app/profile/robs... why do you assume people who have a problem with antisemitism don't also take umbrage with islamophobia. are americans incapable of holding two thoughts at once

i think anyone who calls The Cranberries' Zombie an anti-Irish or even pro-imperialist song should be banned from ever listening to music again