Hot Ones is the Joe Rogan of the left

"X is an allegory for Y." Okay. Yes. And? What does it mean? How does it make you feel? How has it transformed your soul? You have successfully identified that art is an abstraction of real life. Congratulations.

No matter where you go, all travel is just dumplings and castles

yes BRO YES www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-43...

when i read a restaurant menu I reevaluate my position a lot due to learning things (daily specials, whether or not eggs benedict is on the menu, etc)

i occasionally feel bad for adding onto a dogpile over heated rivalry discourse but then I remember the guy telling me, without a hint of irony or self-awareness, that the fluff triggered him because it didn't fit his experience and i decide i wasn't mean enough actually

i think it's interesting that the butterfly looks blue because of a structural physical phenomenon & not because of any blue pigment in the wings and its annoying that ppl keep smugly refusing to see this distinction

Sadie was arrested for peacefully protesting the genocide in Gaza, along with 44 other people. Many of the protestors are currently on trial for this. They need help paying their lawyer - pls donate if you can The case against them is really thin IMO, and with your help I think they can win this!

Society has moved on from needing Dave Chappelle

they finally listened

He ain't the mayor of Bluesky man. What do you want him to do here?

Not everyone uses the word political in the “all art is political” way that people on the internet are very invested in. Many basically mean “partisan” and I think: it’s fine

…in real life I’m actually a pretty nice person.” New interview with @blipstress.bsky.social on GENDER REVEAL podcast!! Hear her talk about everything from her personal beef with Joyce Carol Oates to her and @tuck.bsky.social shared grievance against contemporary fiction LISTEN: shorturl.at/9NvaU

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

TRUMP: Let me ask you something, do you think men should be allowed in women's sports? JESSE SINGAL (sweating and shaking profusely): Well, you see, that raises an important point. And one my trolls refuse to answer, even though experts across the pond are reaching the same conclusion as you. A nuan

A browser extension that automatically corrects "the queer community" to "my extended social circle."

Lowkey I think a lot of "media literacy" issues are less a matter of people getting that much worse at interpreting tv shows as opposed to the fact that we are exposed to random opinions of random doofuses now more than ever.

reading AGOT for the first time ever and I've noticed that it has traits a lot of people would call "fanficcy" nowadays. relatedly, I've also realized I just skip past 90% of dialogue tags, like my eyes slide right past them lol.

I think a problem with discourses on fandom is that people use the word to describe a wide variety of things, ranging from "people who post on social media about a show " to "obsessed fans" to "people into fanfic, shipping, theorycrafting etc. about a show who may not even like the show itself."

80% of democrats don't like Israel. It's not even an age thing like it is for republicans. the case for any kind of pragmatic pro Israel centrism is just totally buried

honestly if you witnessed the past week and your anger STILL went immediately to some communist on twitter 5 years ago who said they wouldnt vote for kamala you need to go live in the woods or something

i love her

I think it’s fine that Taylor Lautner married someone named Taylor Lautner! That’s how marriage will be determined in the future! Maybe you’re heterosexual and thinking “it’s unlikely I will find someone of the opposite gender with my name” well in the future your parents will be judged for that!

I don't wanna put the person in question on blast but I just read a really bizarre series of tirades that made me think "hmm I bet this person is on some evil discord server that's a morality ocd thunderdome" sad!

Free yourself from making judgments about large groups of people based on the ten people you know.

All this discourse about writing and LLMs assumes that the reason you write is to make money, or to be a "writer," or to please an audience, or to convey moral or political messages, and not because you have art madness.

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*me eating a normal Cadbury egg*: "This is the world's smallest Maxi Egg."

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if you still haven’t watched “searching for a world that doesn’t exist” now is the best time because second part “destroying a world that doesn’t exist” literally came out a couple hours ago it is so good. it kept me on edge, it made me sob and i will need 3-5 business days to recover from it

Whenever people are like "Remember when we had to pretend [popular/critically acclaimed art from a few years ago] was good," my gut reaction is that they have a weak mind and no backbone. If you can't talk shit when the hype is at its peak, then you do not have a true hater's heart.

An AuDHD woman at a gig reportedly singing along to about a third of the songs, if she’s lucky, genuinely does listen to the artist’s music all the time, it has been insisted.

*rips bong* hey have y'all ever considered how crazy it is that the term "outsider artists" exists at all just to denote someone who does art without being part of an artistically educated ingroup, something which applies to the majority of humanity throughout history?

I'm at the Great Depression. I'm at the Energy Crisis. I'm at the combination Great Depression and Energy Crisis.

wiki page in 2406: COMICS were a form of SELF-TORTURE made popular by the mentally ill in the 20th century

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

I guess we're all doing Harry Potter takes today so mine is that "is this media spiritually corrupting?" is a vague psychological question that you can discourse about for hours and there is no right answer but "where is my money going when I buy this?" is a lot more straightforward

“clean” version, hah

the irony of nostalgia critic's the wall is that the wall is basically roger waters going on a quest of self introspection to discover why he became such a bitter closed off asshole, doug started on the same quest but he failed where the wall succeeded because he couldn't get over his own ego

I feel like there’s got to be a happy medium between “Everyone who has ever watched a cartoon after the age of eight is an unwashed peasant” and “There is no difference between my erotic Mario Kart fan fiction and Macbeth except my fanfic is morally superior.”

shitposting online is cheaper than ballet or opera and requires less time investment than a serious novel. path of least resistance!

Wow, what a crazy coincidence it is that the thing you like and were already doing is actually the key to defeating fascism. Wild that it just so happened to work out that way.

will be very funny when the new HP show has to have a scene where James has to specifically state he's bullying Snape but for magic racism reasons and not because he's black

i wish jkr hadn't gone the deranged transphobe route so we could have a rehash of snapefen vs maraudersfen discourse except now it involves a bunch of self-righteous preogressive white ppl trying to navigate the snape casting decision

"Where did all those people we brutalized, murdered, threatened, arrested, deported, and slandered go?"

India: Architecture of Erasure: How the Trans Amendment Bill 2026 erases those it claims to protect theleaflet.in/leafle... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

India’s House of the People, has passed a new bill that limits the rights of transgender people in the country- The amendments redefine who qualifies as trans people and therefore who is protected by the law, www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/25/i...

Obviously terrible for culture, but also it just seems foolish in terms what people want from books. People read books because they want to read books. People don't grab a book the way they just turn on TV to have something on. It is a medium which requires engagement in and of itself.

I feel like a lot of online queer discourse is rooted in an idea that people are kinder to those who are suffering, so therefore you need to convince others that you are suffering in order to be treated better, and I cannot emphasize enough how much my life experience suggests that is not the case.