Great thread. A widespread lack of willingness to take this advice nuked one of my favorite fandoms and I’m still pretty salty about it.

I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.

quietly holding out hope that jair bolsonaro adopts fetterman rules and reboots as a marea rosa democratic socialist 🙏

Listen, after the year I just had, getting pursued by a bear would probably fix me

Ok I get that you want artist housing Somerville, but you can’t just call the residents that, it isn’t nice 😅😅😅

My favorite icebreaker when I find out someone’s a fan of this show is to look at them and be like. “So. I need your honest take. *pregnant pause* Is Shoresy an egg? 🙂”

🦎it's like the old weight loss consultant trick of giving someone an impossible diet so that when it doesn't work you can say it's their fault for not sticking to their diet

It’s a listen to Warm and take care of life shit kind of day youtu.be/NJR9EoRQecs?...

"don't say that out loud, what if a persuadable voter sees it!" has become such an obsession for the dem fandom that they can't do anything else so what happens when they actually run into persuadable voters? what do they do? do they persuade 'em? no — they yell "don't say that out lout, what if…!"

it’s almost like a whole bunch of political consultants and party leaders found a reliable way to “win” while the party loses because they know no matter what they do, the most credulous people on earth will continue to attack us for pointing it out instead of literally anything else

Democrats trying to shift the responsibility for the party's electoral outcomes away from the powerful, well-financed party and onto the general disorganized public is not only feckless it's also a plan to lose election after election without it affecting anybody with power within the party

girl who is trying not to be a Grinch this season bc she read some online discourse that said being anti-Christmas is still centering Christmas and is therefore still problematic at best and at worst is outright detrimental to the war effort

holding onto my inner child in a deeply fucked up omelas situation

holding onto my inner child in a deeply fucked up omelas situation

*Hemingway after 1-2 years feminizing HRT* FOR SALE: CAT EARS. NEVER WORN

producer tgirls be like: DAW 🥰🥰🥰

Shoutout to @thepowerlesspod.com for constantly sipping the haterade like it’s water. For being the “hydrate or diedrate” poster child for haters. Gods grant me the situational awareness and presence of mind to never end up on this man’s bad side 😮‍💨

I don’t know who on this app needs to hear this, but listen, you do not need your high beams to be on In The City(TM) at 4pm on a Wednesday In case they failed to cover that point in the first class of driver’s ed, you know now. Don’t do that.

fundraising email: It’s giving Tuesday. my burnt-out ass 7 hours into a hell shift: yeah it sure tf is lmao 😂

Enlisting in the agitprop division of the War on Christmas and flooding social media with allegations that the events described in “Good King Wenceslas” were an astroturfed media event designed to consolidate the House of Přemysl’s control over 10th-Century Bohemia

you're telling me this whole Siberian orchestra is trans? that's nuts

dang what the hell is Nuno Bettencourt doing in Thom Yorke 😅😅😅

It sucks that nobody in the city has a drum kit, I wanna jam with people so baddddd I literally sampled a friend’s washing machine the other week, it’s so bleak out here, man 😭

I named my fists Aaron Lewis and Mike Mushok because A) they are constitutionally incapable of not repping Nü England B) they maintain a delicate balance between raw aggression, emotional depth, and a flair for the unabashedly dramatic C) one of them plays guitar real good and one is ok i guess 😅

i mean sure, but like, “empowering themselves through technology” tends to necessitate deep knowledge of what it is and how it works in order to use it with intention tech companies seem to not really be doing any of that in the way they market these products. wonder what that’s about 😅

one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries

Not at all lol. Do we think the implementation and structure those policies take don’t matter? Also probably not. 😉

It’s good to know that if the politics thing doesn’t work out the DNC leadership/consulting class still has a promising real estate career ahead of them. *slaps wall of abandoned hurricane-damaged building* “This place may not look like much, but it’s got the strongest floor you’ll ever see.”

My latest for the Nu-Metal Agenda. I went to Thotcrime’s final show in Chicago and felt some feelings about it, then wrote about some of them. Incredible weekend that I’ll carry with me for a long, long time. numetalagenda.com/i-can-keep-m...

“Cass Review”? Nah, sorry fam. The only Casses whose opinions I respect are Cassandra and Melnea.

listen, I know it’s kind of gauche to make fun of Cassandra because I know it was a rough situation etc etc BUT tbh I feel like if it happened to me I’d handle it better just hit up all the local comedy open mics like “ok ok but hear me out though 😅”

so I’ve historically dealt with a lot of imposter syndrome, but recently getting confronted head-on with the knowledge that I am, at the very least, a better writer than Olivia Nuzzi is probably a net positive for my overall self-image and a net negative for anyone who’s already tired of my bullshit

My colleague Álvaro (@xerom.bsky.social) did a fantastic job with this piece. Reanimation is a really interesting and ambitious project that got overshadowed by an ambitious catalogue, and this piece makes a great case for why it’s still worth a listen in 2025.

I feel like I did pretty good with this one, idk. Let me know what y’all think.

ok, fine lol 😅

listen, I know it’s kind of gauche to make fun of Cassandra because I know it was a rough situation etc etc BUT tbh I feel like if it happened to me I’d handle it better just hit up all the local comedy open mics like “ok ok but hear me out though 😅”

Girls will literally go on estrogen and then write nuanced op-eds about Fred Durst. It’s me, I’m girls. numetalagenda.com/and-this-tim...

Girls will literally go on estrogen and then write nuanced op-eds about Fred Durst. It’s me, I’m girls. numetalagenda.com/and-this-tim...

A friend tagged me in this fan edit last night and I did not realize it was possible to improve on perfection, but the thing about humanity is we’re gonna ball regardless

Ok so I *love* Chevelle and have for a long time, but I can say with the benefit of hindsight that this song is like. If “Forfeit” was actually GOOD. Insane energy on this one. youtu.be/6pb_WEJuxUY?...

him: she’s probably thinking about other girls/guys/enbies idk with this bitch anymore 😤 my brain: “you know the banana in fortnite? i have it as ahhhh… i don’t know how i say it. as an outfit. banana leclerc!!!!!! ☺️”

C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

BREAKING: trans girl going through breakup listens to that one Ben Folds Five song and starts sobbing uncontrollably, head in her hands, like “he’s so right. 😭 he’s so RIGHT 😭😭😭😭😭”

BREAKING: trans girl going through breakup listens to that one Ben Folds Five song and starts sobbing uncontrollably, head in her hands, like “he’s so right. 😭 he’s so RIGHT 😭😭😭😭😭”

Why is Aaron Lewis such an asshole while the Tormented -> Break the Cycle run is simultaneously so goddamn *good* Can’t Believe is straight up proto-nugaze in 2000fuckingONE. Free Mushok man, but also him and Lewis are a match made in hell. Nu England fights 10 times as hard for 1/4 the respect.

There’s a valid reading of the following skeet where I’m picking a fight with @numetalmoment.bsky.social just to fucking *feel* something, BUT. The best Corey Taylor nu-metal album is Stone Sour self-titled. Let’s fucking GO I’m hopped up on the new Slicer and could fight a kaiju in my SLEEP rn 😤😤😤

Album Review: Pupil Slicer // 'Fleshwork' numetalagenda.com/review/album...

I’m a bitch of my word—I said the full review was forthcoming and here it is. This one has been on repeat more or less nonstop since I pressed play yesterday, and I cannot stress enough how much of a goddamn mood this whole entire thing truly is. numetalagenda.com/review/album...

I’m a bitch of my word—I said the full review was forthcoming and here it is. This one has been on repeat more or less nonstop since I pressed play yesterday, and I cannot stress enough how much of a goddamn mood this whole entire thing truly is. numetalagenda.com/review/album...