Happy "we weren't that serious about quitting spotify after all" day to everyone who celebrates

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Was never a huge Lucario fan, but the new form immediately made me want to shiny hunt, and the RNG did not disappoint

Avatar: Fire and Ash is very much another Avatar film (gorgeous, ridiculous, too long), but also a v good reminder of how well Jemaine Clement is aging

🚨 BREAKING news: Amazon Data Center Linked to Cluster of Rare Cancers. "The historical precedent here is Flint, Michigan." futurism.com/artificial-i...

Yes, the show’s been gone forever and people might need a bit of a refresher. But it sucks to see studios embracing the idea that everyone needs to be spoon fed plot because getting caught up is “homework” nobody wants to do

Rewatched a bunch of s1 writing this and it’s wild how the show started with the kids having very believable conversations about who gets to be which Ghostbuster, and now it’s like “wow, remember last year when it snowed demon ash and the town got all torn up by extradimensional energy??”

Stranger Things 5 is...fine and gets right to giving hardcore fans more twists to get excited about. But this thing where TV characters speak almost exclusively in recap-y exposition — which isn’t unique to this show — is getting a little out of hand. My review:

Happy turkey day from me and King Itis✨

This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).

Stranger Things 5 is...fine and gets right to giving hardcore fans more twists to get excited about. But this thing where TV characters speak almost exclusively in recap-y exposition — which isn’t unique to this show — is getting a little out of hand. My review:

He’s right and and I support this aspect of the socialist agenda

Looks like chocobo's back on the menu, boys✨

when its definitely not a hostage situation

Wrote about how the hype around Stranger Things 5 feels pretty subdued compared to past seasons and why Netflix is probably ok with that

share a 90s movie you think deserves more love

The EIC of Semafor is trying to out-argue Chotiner and it is going as well as you might expect Does he not have any friends or family that can snatch that phone out of his hands

A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.

Joked about it before but Welcome to Derry really makes it easier to think of Pennywise as a flop that other eldritch monsters make fun of cause he settled down in a podunk town to hang out with kids

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

Love to get my news from Daddy* *a 26-year-old

It’s probably not great the vast majority of American journalists and other media zeitgeist people are letting their brains marinate in this toxic sludge

i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?

“I’m never leaving this site,” and it’s a pool full of the most rancid piss imaginable

Got out some thoughts about Sora, gen AI nostalgia videos, and how the idea that this kind of content is the future of entertainment is an insult to people's intelligence

Love to learn terrible things about awful people against my will 🙃

Hell yeah @rianjohnson.bsky.social (reposting with alt text)

lol

Also v funny that the movie adamantly sticks to this framing for Dorothy & co.

Thoroughly enjoyed Wicked: For Good and was impressed by the way it shifts between being a comedy of errors and a commentary about petty tyrants othering/dehumanizing people for being different. My review:

Asked @charlespulliam.bsky.social to ruminate on what it means to watch AI Fred Rodgers chop it up with AI Tupac -> www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Got out some thoughts about Sora, gen AI nostalgia videos, and how the idea that this kind of content is the future of entertainment is an insult to people's intelligence

As always, preordering or requesting your library carry it is the best way to tell the publishers what you want (cough HoH year two when!!) <3 <3 <3

ok so a cool thing I haven't posted about but can finally shout from the rooftops is..... ✨HOUSE OF HARKNESS IS COMING OUT IN PRINT!!✨ It's out next summer from Graphix/Scholastic, and I cannot *wait* and!! You can preorder it right now >> 💫 bookshop.org/p/books/hous...

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life. Transform a man into a fish and you enable him to roam the cool waters of the Atlantic, free from the burdens of the human world

Thoroughly enjoyed Wicked: For Good and was impressed by the way it shifts between being a comedy of errors and a commentary about petty tyrants othering/dehumanizing people for being different. My review:

The "Nazi problem" the current Republican Party has is that a lot of people in it are Nazis. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate agrees to pass bill to force release of Epstein files, sending Trump legislation he initially opposed.

I hate the days when I have to know what cloud providers host all the different services I need to be able to do my job

Have you ever paid for an in-game Pokémon with real-world money? Have you sold one for cash? Whether that be on places like eBay, or just within fan communities, or as a kid on the playground? Wanna talk about it for a Kotaku story? Hit me up here or at [email protected]! RTs appreciated.

(squinting at timeline) Gonzo and Rizzo had a falling out?

Love to learn terrible things about awful people against my will 🙃

Don't be chickenshit. bsky.app/profile/npr....

The last few months of Trump's presidency have been like that episode of Futurama where Bender becomes human and dies, but nobody realizes it because his corpse keeps letting off spurts of gas that make it seem like he's talking

The Epstein emails are full of powerful people colluding to protect the most heinous behavior. They're also pretty pathetic at times — as when Epstein was complaining about the cost of hiring someone to do SEO to COVER UP RUNNING A PEDOPHILE RING.

New from me: The same tactics marketers use to get you to find their toothbrushes or photography business on Google were also used by Jeffrey Epstein & co. to try to launder his reputation online. SEO to try to cover up the most infamous pedophile ring. www.theverge.com/report/82231...

Today, Paste Magazine shuttered all its non-music verticals, a choice I am both professionally and personally heartbroken about. Sadly, I am once again looking for a place that wants to let me write about Books and TV on the regular, so hit me up if that’s you or anyone you know.

NEW: Chi Ossé, an ally of Mamdani, has filed paperwork to challenge Jeffries from the left.