Not quite a movie a day, but I’m muddling my way through spooky season. #letterboxdfriday

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

Can’t not.

doomscroll break

Said on the local weather this morning: “It went from 80 to 55 like it saw a state trooper.”

This, right here, should be the mission statement for all of us in journalism education. "The hard part is having something interesting to say. Get a degree in that!"

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

This is great work. Great. And you know what? A librarian might not know all this off the dome, but they would absolutely help you find out.

Trying to get one horror movie in a night for October, doing good so far! #letterboxdfriday

[They shake their heads.]

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Yes, Olivia Rodrigo was inspired by Taylor to get control of her masters, and that’s great! But Prince helped Hendrix’s estate get back control of his recordings. And pushed everyone from Madonna to Nas to DMX to Mariah Carey to Jay Z on owning their masters *decades* earlier. That opened the door.

If museums are makin' you sad, maybe blame your great, great grandpa instead of the museums.

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

did you know that with the $30 you save from cancelling your game pass subscription you could not only subscribe to @aftermath.site , you could buy yourself one amazing Steam game to go with it, then just keep doing that forever?

If I just had a career being a judge on Food Network competition shows, how much human sweat would I ingest per year?

Not directly related but close enough

I keep taking two weeks to watch four movies, but it’s spooky season so I’m gonna try and get in a watch a day moving forward. #letterboxdfriday

FOUND THIS IN MY SONS ROO M WHAT IS IT. SHOUKD I BE CONCERNED

rapture happened if you can read this you are gay

This Post Games review puts to words something I didn't even realize I was trying to do podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Some people are desperate for the Rapture as a way to escape the consequences for what they've done to this world. They have a mindset that is permanently stuck in the mode of a guy who knows he's getting fired soon so why not trash the place before you go.

My dept at Fordham is hiring a TT Assistant Prof of Media Policy and Platform Governance. "We are especially interested in someone whose research and teaching speaks to policy or legal implications of internet-based platforms and AI systems..." Please share widely: apply.interfolio.com/174378

So grateful to @mmagency.bsky.social, esp. @agentbal.bsky.social who helped me figure out this book (and how to not write like an academic!), and to @christofi.bsky.social at @torvabooks.bsky.social and @sarahhaugen.bsky.social at @harperbooks.bsky.social who are excellent editors. I got so lucky. 🥰

One of my favorite fun facts is why the TMNT are named after artists (it’s because the type of turtle they are is a “painted turtle”). I told my nephew about this and he immediately replied that there should be a Bob Ross turtle. So rather than explain the renaissance movement to him, I-

everybody wanna act hard until it's time to do hard guy shit bsky.app/profile/cult...

J. Kagan dissent: "Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars.Still more, it should not be used,as it also has been,to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation’s separation of powers."

and yet no outcry for when they actually killed the angry video game nerd. typical conservative hypocrisy

Stoked to hear the rapture’s tomorrow after watching Azrael last night.

*mournfully shooting off a tshirt cannon into the sadly cheering funeral crowd*

New from @lioneltrolling.bsky.social www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it

Bruh

Working on idea for spring term: BART (Bad Art + Retro Tech) chill working group for trying various pre-digital technologies of text+communication (e.g. jellygraph, letterpress, screenprint) to understand DH+critical tech work as creative+experimental (vs. tied to whatever tech currently looks like)

women will tell you it has been more than a decade, but who ever listens to us lol

“leftists have an infighting problem” buddy you should see what they’re doin to each other on the far right

Nope. We're done. We are going to back to a text only internet. Y'all had images and sounds and fucked it up too bad. We're going gopher mode. We're getting gemini pilled. You're going to learn to use telnet and like it. You have one movie, it's pretty good.

Keeping it eclectic and spooky this week. #letterboxdfriday

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

all i know is that normalizing debate with fascists has only facilitated the rise of fascism.

There is a weird tension about being an internet culture reporter who covers games because one moment you will be looking at a new Pokémon design (omg so cute) and the next you will be thinking about radical online fringe ideologies and games that are ironic nationalist military role-play sims.

lead the kind of life where your death will probably not be followed by a wave of threats against black universities

Y’all ever think about how one of the very first headlines that came out about Mike Brown (a teenager), was “No Angel.“

September 11th, 2001. A shocked nation grieves as the World Trade Center is destroyed in the largest terrorist attack on American soil. Unsure of what else to do, GameFAQs user BoredGamer collects their thoughts and begins to work on a plain text walkthrough of Tail of the Sun

Crazy that 24 years ago today my school day consisted of watching 3000 people die in a loop on the TV we would watch Bill Nye on.