This is quite possibly the first YouTube video essay filmed in Canada to show a man actually killing Mr Beast

if I had a time machine: ❌ visit Baby Hitler ❌ throw a lifejacket to Percy Shelley ✅ get Henri Lefebvre an editor

New PoGcast episode! In this one’s we’re talking about big tech / social media changes, when TV revivals don’t suck, and Spaceship Movie discourse. youtu.be/MQD2oFV5mcQ?...

@pillarofgarbage.bsky.social | Pillar of Garbage: "I Was Right About Sora." | #Disney #OpenAI #VideoGeneration #GenAI #LLMs #Slop #Copyright #PlagiarismLaundering www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0T4...

ICYMI: free update post over on my patreon talking about the next few projects I got coming up 👇 www.patreon.com/posts/154394...

www.patreon.com/posts/154338... early / ad-free version of my next upload here: I Was Right About Sora

Israel abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in 1954. Today they voted to bring it back — exclusively for Palestinians.

I have seen countless laws proposed (or passed) that aim to counter addictive algorithmic feeds by, bizarrely, demanding a database of age verification of all users what I haven't seen is a law that requires social media companies to offer users a choice of which (if any) algorithm their feeds use

OpenAI news: 1. Sora is dead. May the memory of its four-month existence as a copyright infringement machine be a blessing. 2. Disney is pulling out of its billion-dollar investment in OpenAI entirely. Turns out when you try to serve AI slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it.

I would also like to get in on this particular ‘I told you so’!

It's your favourite genre of video, and mine! YouTuber Complains about YouTube: youtu.be/xNgFJdxLZSI #YouTube

If anyone needs a distraction from Today, here's a video about the Daredevil show. Is it good? I think so! Here's why. youtu.be/QRd4E0tFkac?...

This month's exclusive video is out now (alongside an early, ad-free release of the next main vid, same link) - we're looking into YouTube's 'Ask Studio' AI and its various flaws + limitations. www.patreon.com/posts/februa...

Gorton and Denton by-election result: GRN: 40.7% (+27.5) REF: 28.7% (+14.7) LAB: 25.4% (-25.3) CON: 1.9% (-6.0) LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1) Green GAIN from Labour.

Lower bills. Protect the NHS. Rebuild public services. Vote Hannah Spencer & the Green Party.

Once again: trans rights was & is the pillar holding up the whole of the rest of liberal democracy & the battle to defend trans rights was & is nothing less than battle whose outcome determines the difference between a free, open & tolerant society & a fascist society

Top Democratic officials who worked on the party's still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration's approach to the war in Gaza, Axios has learned.

Nice. I'm in the new Pillar of Garbage video. I'm not the main one. That's the Pillar of Garbage person. But I'm a second other voice, later.

What even is 'MCU-ification'? youtu.be/dfD1SsYAR7M

Boom. You looking for this? www.patreon.com/posts/150770...

next video essay, out of context:

"One day, you will be called on to break a big law in the name of justice and rationality. How are you going to prepare for that day when it really matters? You have to stay ‘in shape’ so that when the big day comes, you'll be ready." – James C Scott youtu.be/zavx4Obq1OI

@atunshei.bsky.social - "Checkmate, Lincolnites!" or any of his videos are great for leftist American history lessons. Also great movies. @pillarofgarbage.bsky.social - great media analysis all around @fdsignifier.bsky.social - Black Leftist theory, hip hop history, media analysis, the works

STANISLAW LEM MENTIONED God I need to read more of him

something a little different! youtu.be/o4gNtGZyjPQ?...

How are you supposed to explain to people how this entire social, political, and economic reality is entirely downstream from anime getting banned on some dipshit's forum 25ish years ago

This sucks. Oddnon was a real gem. While sick, while suffering, they were always there for creators; fundraising, encouraging, sharing, and apparently listening and holding space and consoling and yet more than I knew. The Oddnon I did know was a welcome brightness at premieres. One I will miss.

Hopping onstream now guys 😎 www.youtube.com/live/tJuq9HL...

Another upcoming video is now available to watch, ad-free and early, on my Patreon. This one’s a bit longer (40+ mins) and the Patreon upload contains a few elements that won’t be making it to YT. It’s about Wake Up Dead Man, movies that move, and viewers who don’t. www.patreon.com/posts/148971...

An upcoming video, “Nothing Ever Happens”, is now available early & ad-free over on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/148704... Will update you all when the public release rolls around!

Special PoGcast ep on Stranger Things 5 with @tsdtalks.bsky.social and @hizzyhay.bsky.social out now! (complete with secret ending 😈) youtu.be/x-bUcEqJ01Y?...

Special guests include (but are not limited to): @noahgervais.bsky.social @getgianni.com @livsmithvavo.bsky.social @turbojehtt.net @thecursedjudge.bsky.social @pixeladay.bsky.social @ladyknightthebrave.bsky.social @yakkocmn.bsky.social @pillarofgarbage.bsky.social @legalkimchi.bsky.social

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT This and next weekends @darkfry.bsky.social and I are hosting the final two streams to help me raise enough funds to move to safety and marry my amazing @deviousbec.bsky.social New quiz shows, a bunch of guests and the entire Wolfenstein trilogy included. Come say hi!

words from lexi alexander, who had been suspended from this platform for being palestinian

2025 in Review (A free post.) www.patreon.com/posts/146714...

@pillarofgarbage.bsky.social is always brilliant, but this was a standout for sure this year because of the way it connects so many things to make a point about fascist obsessions with aesthetics and why AI appeals to them so much youtu.be/ZPdLV8WvFrw?...

A Video Essay About Efficiency by @pillarofgarbage.bsky.social youtu.be/3qt9H2rkwxo?... Back when Elon Musk was gutting the government, Pillar of Garbage put out this meta video about the importance of inefficiency in art as he strips those inefficiencies away one by one.

One final update on my Patreon drive & where we're at with the stretch goals before the end of the year. Last time I'll ask for a while, I promise. Still a chance for livestreaming, too! More updates soon 👊

Feliz Navidad rocks because you can really tell he *does* want to wish you a Merry Christmas from the bottom of his heart

Reviewers and commenters call Terra Nil “peaceful” and “hopeful.“ Nothing could be farther from how I feel. Hope y’all enjoy this casual little video about hope(??) in the apocalypse. youtu.be/-_ZbAeUs7Tk

Great video! It’s always a treat when Pillar analyzes a Benoit Blanc whodunnit, especially one as thematically rich as Wake Up Dead Man.

Ok, here’s the video you all knew I was going to make: The Most Important Scene in Wake Up Dead Man youtu.be/6Tyk92b7Utg

next video essay, out of context:

the 2025 sight & sound video essay poll is out! was thrilled to submit some picks for this a few weeks back & even more gassed to see one of my own videos made the cut!

if any of my newer viewers are in a Fallouty mood rn, then hey! I made a video on the first season a while back you can watch: youtu.be/Y0H5a-RTEl8?...

This is the compromise? This is the bipartisanship? This is the civility? This is the return to normalcy? This is the price of winning? WHAT WILL YOU HAVE WON

YOUTUBE: you like history ME: I do! YOUTUBE: and you're white ME: well, I mean YOUTUBE: here are some white people who also like histor-- ME: no no no No NO NO NO

Our second stream is over! We raised over $3000, thank you all so much 💙 We'll be back in January, so stay tuned for updates!