Remember Rev. David Black, the Chicago pastor who was shot in the head with pepper balls? If you haven't heard him speak yet, listen to this. To ICE: "You can repent"

you know that Age of Imprisonment is a real Zelda game bc mashing the roll/dodge is faster than just running

"Tori Amos, inventor of the pumpkin spice latte" feels like a historical detail I should have known about sooner

My latest essay for @endlessmode.bsky.social: I wrote about the games technology of the past that incentivized being in community with one another, and how those tools could prove useful in our current political moment. www.endlessmode.com/article/i-mi...

I think one reason masculinist podcaster types got so inflamed about trans people over the last few years is insecurity that more lonely men may rather transition than be sold supplements by a bald baby man. the very idea of being able to prevent being a lonely, sad man cuts into their bottom line.

we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

the Western Yakuza fanbase continually fails to reckon with these multi-million dollar, star-studded rehashes of TV and movies for what they are. imagine an American star with similar accusations being cast in a new game. there'd be a crazy backlash!

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A procession of Madelines, from oldest to newest, and on both sides of the French Revolution, mostly drawn in yellow like the books.

The council shall decide your fate

the fact is the trans community is a collection of high school cliques and not a monolith and utterly leaderless and we need to find solidarity and understanding in our common struggles and set our differences at least somewhat aside to find any future where we aren’t dying in droves.

those of us who believe need to wrest Christianity back from these ghouls kicking and screaming. denounce this hate being done in His name, loudly and publicly. the principles I was brought up believing in are incompatible from what these charlatans are selling.

someone went up to sarah mcbride in front of the u.s. congress, hurled her deadname at her loudly and called her a pedophile repeatedly, posted video of the exchange to x, and it is now going wildly viral i will not share the video but if you’re not speaking up about this, you’re hurting yourself

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what will you play today? ✨💜

aiming to write about Zelda - the series, the character, and how she's handled - next week. Age of Imprisonment got the gears turning on some overdue thoughts about Nintendo's perennially disenfranchised heroine.

"if I attack other women at a big newspaper - just really sell my entire sex down the river - it'll make me more fuckable"

every single ounce of blood is rushing straight to my head and I cannot see bc she is so freaking adorable sry

Good call to have Willow & Harley to advance over Mercedes & Athena. On the surface, it seems like an unlikely thing to do, but if you’re aiming is to build new stars with new titles (as it should be), this is 100% the right call. #AEWDynamite

Harley getting beaten and thrown around the ring up top, only to come back w/ Willow and get the pin on ATHENA?! these women's tag matches continue to rule. v unpredictable.

WE'RE CLOSED. #AEWDynamite

I popped so hard at the 3-count. I love seeing Claudio win. I love seeing Claudio uppercut. I love seeing Claudio giant swing. I love seeing Claudio!

While Mamdani was out talking to real New Yorkers, Cuomo's campaign kept posting AI slop that deepfaked him into an NYC he didn't seem to have much interest in -- and it made him a toxic laughingstock futurism.com/artificial-i...

sex scenes will continue until morale improves

This is a great read by @mads.haus and completely worth your time. Fascinating stuff. www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

so many good pictures out there

this rocks, sorrynotsorry 🫶

Neat! I really like seeing how far back my PSN goes for this. Mainly, it's a guidepost - what was I playing in 2014? For how long? So I enjoy using what I play for context to jump off of and walk down memory lane.

excited for the new Predator movie mainly bc 'girl gets torn in half and carried around like a backpack by a sexy alien' is just guro romcom for sickos like me

sleepy mawile

finally watched all the Age of Imprisonment trailers. v excited for tomorrow night. ngl, a few of them made me really emotional. I think the weight of Zelda finally be as cool as I've felt she was finally hit. she has a playable role in the canon as vital as Link. agency, power, and wisdom.

Yup. I say this all the time, the one advice I'd give to myself from that era if I could, as well as to anyone in that age frame right now, you don't have to have a Take on everything

a lot of younger folks than me have takes now that I held dear in my early to 20s. but now that I hear them in my early thirties, I just think they're didactic and lacking in perspective. I really had a lot to learn; your twenties feel like an intellectual doorstep in hindsight.

me @ the discourse on any given day

gm from the Groove Coaster menu music + my lung damage

I think the worst part about the Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection is someone going back to these games for the first time (that won't be reading port discussion) are going to think the games' quality was always this bad when, no, it's just this port job. Especially with the input delay.

Yep. All of this. The Beyond (along with CotLD & HbtC) *changed* horror in a way people still don't really understand.

if you think you're hot shit as a horror writer and get too big for your britches, watch some giallo. that cool kill you just came up with? an Italian man with two lira to rub together already did it 40 or 50 years ago

every 'good vs bad' or 'problematic v not' debate about any art just makes everyone sound like this to me 🤷‍♀️

I clutched @ptelea.gay with my mouth hanging open when this happened. this match is going to be killer. J-Rod is such a ferocious presence in the ring. her match against Kira this past week was one of my favorites this year.

My long-gestating book FULCI'S INFERNO is the DEFINITIVE writing on Lucio Fulci, delving deeper on the man and his films than anyone has before. It is now available for pre-order from McFarland & Co, and will be released next year. Link in bio, cover art below to whet your appetite!

awesome '70s movies 🎥 I Spit On Your Grave aka Day of the Woman (1978)

got Margo Price tickets 🎟️🙏

Obama: They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and D.E.I. For every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? D.E.I.. Wife mad at you? D.E.I..

Celebrate #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth with us by picking reads from our 2025 reading list! Featuring poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from indie presses and lit mags: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

excited for the conclusion of this one where Godzilla looks at the camera and roars "rearmament" with cool battleships behind her