Humbled and elated!

This company is so fucking cooked lol

*drops this at your feet like a dead bird*

This platform is just as stupid as all the rest of them, in its own ways. Don't allow yourself to believe otherwise and you'll live a much richer life.

I find it comforting that the widely shared journalism industry experience “being canned by a moron boss brought in from outside by other morons” extends all the way up to 60 Minutes. Media is still a blue collar field after all.

I like my (first) team (of many to come).

Wright Thompson opens up on a number of subjects. - Why he didn't write the sequel to his most famous story. - Why sports and sportswriting matter. - Becoming a student with new media. - Saying no to Michael Jordan and the difference between selling merch and journalism.

It's astonishing to me how much worse these creatures collectively look vs. their Mega Bloks counterparts.

... ...oh thank Jeebus. The kid is SMART 🙏

There’s a shortage of slapping the shit out of people and we need a market correction on that.

This is one of the "issues" on which I (very briefly, thankfully) found myself on the wrong side of due to ignorance and DESPITE it running contrary to my own "just let people have fun" instincts (which are represented well in this video). We can't allow sports to be a trojan horse for hate.

Took about six months due to a combo of busyness and laziness, and finally finished a project: turned a bookshelf I’d had since college into wall shelving at my corner desk at home. Still have four “shelves” remaining, too! Will do something with those eventually 😬😂

Spurs and Knicks are in the NBA Finals, a new Star Wars movie is in theaters, and tech is causing an economic bubble Welcome back 1999

RED ROOMS, probably my favorite movie released this decade, is discounted right now on Amazon. Beautiful, haunting, uncomfortable, awe-inspiring ... And most of it occurs in two sets. Immaculate movie, best since PARASITE. www.amazon.com/Red-Rooms-Bl...

Monologued on MONKEYBONE because this is my cross to bear. youtu.be/_FYPPge4PE0?...

Freelancing is hard enough already, and inflation sucks. Defector is raising our base freelance rates by 20 percent. Great time to pitch us. Email me or [email protected]

Once again - it becomes a lot easier to understand this modern iteration of fascism if you remember it is constructed by many absolutely terminally online edge lord losers filtered through GamerGate and 4chan. People who have never been funny trying to tell the same in jokes & memes with dead eyes

Lee Carvallo's Podding Challenge takes on two forgotten Simpsons J2ME mobile games from the 00s, Minutes to Meltdown and Itchy & Scratchy Land... and try not to have a meltdown as they discuss a brief history of the game company EA! On all podcast apps: glitterjaw.com/lee-carvallo

Listen to this if you want to get angry and upset at corporations (the games are cute though!!!!)

The latest weekly @economist.com / @today.yougov.com Poll just dropped, and we're into new territory. Only 34% of Americans approve of how Donald Trump is having his job as president. That's lower than Trump has ever received, in either term — and lower than Biden ever got. Read more:

My recent grad students are making the same amount per hour as I did 25 years ago. Rent is 3x what it was. Groceries have gone up 25% in the last year or so. I'd like to know who thinks all of this is just pessimism and you can think your way out of it.

Life's still unfair across two different timelines in this famous MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE, a Sliding Doors-style look at the consequences of each parent taking the kids bowling. We talk about the masterful filmmaking, effects, and timing that made this all work! Find the podcast: gimmickspodcast.com

Man, this movie really is just gonna relive the life POWER RANGERS (2017) had, huh? =(

Despite brief thrills, Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu plays like a rerun of the TV series, says @lisalamanfilmfan.bsky.social . And not one of the good episodes.

Transphobia itself is a moral panic and like other moral panics before it, it’s based on vibes, little else. Its consequences are also, again, deadly. The vile bet the bigots have made is that the masses will not ultimately care about the bullying of a small (powerless) minority, namely trans kids.

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

I think we spent more time talking about The Rock than THE MUMMY RETURNS lol youtu.be/RK56dWC1JP0

Journalism could be vastly improved if interviewers just kept asking the same question over and over until they got an answer from the interviewee

What's old is new again. #letemknow

A Pope is a Pope and will always believe many things I do not believe, but that does not change how absolutely bang-on correct and beautifully articulated this is.

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

its incredible that after all of this shit there are still people that can treat it like it's fucking gossip girl or whatever

The idea that there is something to be learned from arguing with ignorant dickheads must have been originated by an ignorant dickhead. We don't have to accept it. There's really nothing to be gained.

You can desperately try to seek the answer as to why a portion of your fanbase has dropped off, but the reason is often "Well, they went to middle school."

Oh, good ol' toy ads. Always nice to see.

Service writer Reece Rogers over at @wired.com is so cooked by tech that he perceives a digitally generated version of himself as more “real” than a photo lolol Utter loser shit. www.wired.com/story/i-clon...

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

one of the nice things about tim walz harping on how weird these guys are is that we're so used to right-wing media selling the obverse by going "look at this normal piece of shit at a playoff game for his favorite team" or "i bet this maniac thinks fucking his wife makes him heterosexual"

Places I will be if you want to talk to me in person or beat me up or something: 🦖 Kaiju Brooklyn, 5/30-31 Just hangin' 👹 Monsterama in Atlanta, 8/7-8/9 Running panels on the Kaiju Track 🐲 Dragon Con in Atlanta, 9/3-9/7 Attending Professional / Panels TBA

Kyle Busch embodied motorsports' greatest compliment: He was a racer www.espn.com/racing/nasca...

Heartbreaking. www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nasca...

Think we’ve hit the end of the road. Sad but not surprising.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

With Thomas Massie losing his seat, let's revisit this 2017 quote from him giving us a look into the mind of the GOP voter: web.archive.org/web/20170315...

Yesterday Go-Man: Champion of Earth won Best Middlegrade Graphics at the Leeds Book Awards! Thank you to the school kids of Leeds! It was so much fun meeting you all and discussing the twists and details of the book. You could tell how much they'd really engaged with all the books.

Donovan Mitchell on his message after the Game 1 loss to the Knicks: “I said it in the locker room. We lost. We f****** blew it. Alright. Respond for Game 2. Simple as that.”

To me the anti-consent language is a leading indicator of the intent of those who would steer our culture whether we like it or not. It is to me an indicator of people who don't want to solve human problems in human systems, but who want to solve the problem OF humans in THEIR systems.

At this moment I hate Kenny Atkinson more than any human on the planet. Even the fascist ones. #letemknow

Fuck Thomas Massie but this is pathetic AF

NEW: Hasbro has canceled a Dungeons & Dragons game from veteran director Stig Asmussen (Star Wars, God of War) and his studio Giant Skull, less than one year after announcing it as “a definitive moment in both companies’ gaming ambitions.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...