I sincerely wish America—as a state, as a people—could process its fear of death in healthier ways. Reality is only frightening if we face it alone.

I'm pretty sure I'm bisexual because of the 90s X-Men and Batman cartoons like are you kidding me sweatdrop hubba anime nosebleed fhghwgads awooga etc.

In seriousness, I did get really into Star Wars: Outlaws and beat it. But after that it's been hard to find anything to scratch the itch.

I found a new game I'm really into after Elden Ring, finally! It's called Elden Ring.

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This is the last magnolia of the season and my favorite. The tree was so slender and had a heavily damaged trunk but it was also very alive and tossing beautiful big blossoms into the sky.

Villa Elaine was a formative album for me as a young Snorlax. I try to resist impulse music purchases, but they just printed it on wax for the first time, so I splurged a bit. "I once had marigolds for eyes..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yeca...

📚 finished/started

I've started my life over from scratch, after a decade of hard work on myself. I still have days where my gravity is missing and I barely know who I am. These days used to bring only fear. But I'm starting to let them in, welcome them as the pins and needles of new happiness.

Nobody is turned on by the name Bleu Cheese How Much Time You Got

Loom, Disco Elysium, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

Tune the world out and heal your ears: New Steve Gunn EP. stevegunn.bandcamp.com/album/shape-...

Felt cute; will never delete; haters, eat glass.

We didn't deserve this day.

Oh, of course Ralph Bakshi is an actual wizard.

World bad. Makaya McCraven good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Zj...

I had a roommate named Jared in college. He was a really cool guy. I mention this because there are no good famous Jareds. I hope my Jared never gets famous.

I have had a very happy birthday. 😊

I saw some magnolias today.

The Long Good Friday is all time—I gotta shout out young Pierce Brosnan in a very sexy turn.

I've really gotten into Star Wars: Outlaws, which "feels like Star Wars" in some broad happy way that makes me broadly happy. Thanks @thegamellama.bsky.social for talking it up a while back!

wow I'm hearing that Layla's father acquiesced to her marrying Qays ibn al-Mulawwah, the poet?? April fools 😀 Qays of course fled to the wilderness, living among animals and transforming into the mad poet Majnūn, both eventually dying in grief

The stakes of good and evil in Hyoga's world are very different from our own.

Being on Twitter at the time of Occupy and Tahrir Square infused me with an ironclad certainty that being vocal online was going to produce change. To a degree, it did—but that certainty was also easy to co-opt and funnel into content whirlwinds.

I love, love, love writing down how I felt about a movie. 📽️ letterboxd.com/magicmarzipa...

They say you become a Burgerville stan once you leave and come back. It seems to be true. 🍔

New Scorsese announced and the only good conspiracy continues unchecked. 📽️ letterboxd.com/magicmarzipa...

There is an Illuminati, Charlie Brown, and it really sucks.

West Coasters, check out "One Book, One Coast," a coast-high book club hosted by libraries throughout Oregon, Washington, and California. April's book—unlimited digital copies are available!—is George Takei's memoir of internment, "They Called Us Enemy." lacountylibrary.org/announcement...

I also used this! Pretty painless.

Congratulations to Seuss et. al. for the bravura showing at the Oscars last night. I believe One Butter Battle Book After Another Butter Battle Book will stand the test of time. 📽️

Seeing The Wizard of Oz in theaters reminded me why we need movie theaters: Dreaming together is a human necessity, not a luxury good. 📽️ letterboxd.com/magicmarzipa...

Oral histories of early internet-connected music scenes are one of YouTube's highest, best use cases. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hLl...

It'll be a sad day for a certain brand of gen-X/elder millennial sophisticated arthouse perv kino when Cronenberg, Soderbergh, and Finch are no longer around. I saw Weapons though, the kids are all right.

A very cogent argument for canceling your Wordle subscription, by @lily-is.online. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztQJ...

"(Kilgore Trout) hypothecated an America in which almost all of the work was done by machines, and the only people who could get work had three or more Ph.D.'s"

Guys I'm so tired of being a sad computer monkey. My soul hurts. I need a career change.

Born to Kujac, forced to sad computer monkey.

In a few more Jurassic Parks we'll have the granddaughters of Dodgson and Nedry dueling with Barbasol lightsabers.

GBBO needs to get less intense as it gets older. Let people make banana bread or something. We just want to see people being nice to each other anyway.

Mortal Kombat 3 had Cyborg Ninjas. They put the two coolest words together and called it good.

My interior monologue at all times lately. 🎷

The sensory experience of social media is like a kaleidoscope—but instead of looking from afar at a focal point around which the infinite iridescent tessellations hatch, you are the focal point. Social media is an effective control method because it makes you feel omniscient at very little cost.

Feeling some ambiguity about the first part of this—it's not that I haven't searched out other faiths or tried to return to my own. I've been an ardent spiritual nomad; that's far more intrinsic to my being than a proper-noun Religion.

Although I have not been part of any faith in my adult life, I was proud of being Muslim as a kid. It's nice to see people outside the faith wishing Muslims a good Ramadan, normalizing that type of exchange. The 9/11 years taught me to hide that part of me, and that training is automatic these days.

Shadows on the cavern wall are as old as us.

There's no reason we have to use 52 weeks a year for Economy. We can take every fourth week off or something. Sheesh.

The Cat and the Coup: A dream-like game space made of history and textiles where a cat intervenes in the "rise and fall" of Mohammad Mossadegh, PM of Iran 1951–53. store.steampowered.com/app/95700/Th...

Powerless over the horrors, I will instead get really into Jaco Pastorius or something.