Throwback to an image from 2019 that [still] encapsulates all that I am.

Howdy y'all! I've got a new video out! It's all about Monsters Inc. and the way that the film depicts fear. Check it out if you've got nothing better to do on this snowy Sunday! 📺: youtu.be/AeL7bcveUCA 🎥🎬📽️🎞️

I was originally gonna add a joke about how I'm sure I'll go back to hating on Adobe within a day. Well, it happened lol. Setting the default Gaussian Blur value to 25 on AE is dumb because it forces me to have to change it to the actual value I want to use. Also, the new smart masking stuff (...)

I love the implication that I'm somehow a Luddite for not wanting to outsource graphics work to GenAI. It always gets ponied up as me not wanting to make my life easier/being a gatekeeper, when that couldn't be the furthest thing from the truth. For example: I'm a freaking kid in a (...)

New reason to hate AI just dropped. I made an appointment to get my hair cut somewhere I hadn’t been to in years and Google’s AI showed the same address for the business, a mind a new phone number Only that wasn’t the case, as the phone number was for a random business somewhere else, and (…)

it's cool that so many people in positions of power and influence were so negatively polarized by "wokeness" that they convinced themselves that there was an actual debate about who wanted to erase history and the "wokes" were on the wrong side bsky.app/profile/arch...

See, I know I’m thirty because my first instinct from hearing my annoying college age neighbor start revving his motorcycle for ten minutes at just before midnight on a work night was to sigh, pick up my previously sleeping, but currently barking, chihuahua, and (…)

Watching the Greenland thing unfold really does feel like a psychotic break except instead of me breaking away from reality it's reality breaking away from me

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

YouTube's copyright detector is so high tech that, among the chunks of my video essay about Monsters Inc that it claimed was "the full movie," the following shots were flagged as being from the film, too. (thread)

New video is delayed for... idk how long. It got copyright hammered.

Apparently Netflix just announced a video podcast starring Pete Davidson that won't be available on podcast apps, and I really must ask... Isn't that just a talk show?

ugh god it's still never gonna shut up about how it's just as easy to use as windows malware

if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like “too on the nose, dial it back”

There is nothing more satisfying than wanting to alter a line in a video you recorded 3(!) months ago and being able to avoid having to match audio through seamlessly Frankenstein cutting a new line together. It is simply the highest of highs. Anyway, I’ll have a new video out next week (…)

rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks

"it’s kind of crazy that we have to keep going over this, but the corruption remains so glaring" I appreciate that, while nearly all the Hollywood trades are owned by the company putting on the Golden Globes and therefore just doing PR for this award show, The Ankler is NOT Some key points 🧵

This should be obvious now but DO NOT under any circumstances give your medical records to ChatGPT

i miss old internet. i don't really know what my place is on 2026 internet

Babe are you okay? You barely touched your lunch. Are you sad because the Knicks' recent string of mid season losses is giving you flashbacks to the Mets beginning to collapse halfway through their season last summer?

We're five days into the year and I just had to read a comment that tried to explain that gentrification is caused by poor people because they're too poor to have a nice place to live lol. Pack it up guys. Let's not even try this year

If anyone wants a more succinct picture of how my 2026 is going: Its 1 AM and I just got unreasonably excited about an ad I got to see a screening of The Princess Bride with a live orchestra, before remembering that my VPN is on and my browser/ad thinks I’m in Canada 🙃

I’ve entered a new circle of hell. Not only does my $1000 Hisense TV from 2023 only recognize my soundbar 50% of the time, it now doesn’t remember inputs and opens to their ad infested OS, and also resets the motion smoothing settings any time you turn the unit off. God I hate the state of tech.

Normally, I would keep this private. But I make an exception. 2025 was the worst year of my personal and public lives.

Finale time! I hope we finally meet a Pluribus!

Man, Adobe truly is one of the most one step forward, two steps back companies ever. I got forced to update Premiere to fix FilmImpact since the effects *Adobe gave us* get watermarked when exported through Media Encoder. But now, my timeline randomly flashes and a $100+ plugin doesn't work. 🙃

I love when my thousand dollar television forces me to update the OS I never use on it, only to have said update break my soundbar’s compatibility with it the week before I have time off and can actually use my tv more often. Looooooove it. Totally didn’t buy my first PS5 game in years/UHDs to—

all of my recommended content right now is either muppets christmas carol memes or videos of people making desserts. that’s just where I’m at. mentally. spiritually.

I think the only good to come out of the Mets off season woes so far has been the constant reminder that loyalty is something is often manufactured, packaged, and sold to you by management while they privately work to undercut you. Like, the absolute lack of loyalty from Stearns/Cohen, (plus)

If I may be, as the kids say, a hater for a minute: it’s also because it can’t glance at other people’s writing and go “wow, this is awful… IT SOLD HOW MANY COPIES???” when it’s worried that it can’t tell a story. (True story that happened to me while writing my first book)

every time I see an A-list actor in an ad for some slot machine phone game, I think about how Bill Murray's character in Lost in Translation doing advertisements is framed as basically the highest form of humiliation an actor could go through.

If you do ever say this to me I will use my 10-15 minute allowance of energy for the day to fuck you up in ways your up has never been fucked.

Newsflash: I continue to enjoy Baumbach movies. 🎥 🎞️ 🍿 🎦 boxd.it/bWPNWP

trying to make stuff that feels like breathing

Scientists if you’re like “man I wish more people knew about X” then I humbly suggest hiring an artist to make a thing that communicates X and then put it into the world because it’s so fun, extremely “hell yeah” inducing, you gotta try it.

Fun fact, got an AI generated phishing scam that seemed to use my personal website as a jumping off point to tailor make a job that is so perfectly a fit for my skillset that it was almost too good for me to pass up. I caught the scam because—

I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30. Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50. I’m 58 now. HIV treatment works. Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex. Ensure HIV treatment for all. End HIV stigma. #WorldAIDSDay

Making your contact names identifying details/in jokes between you and your friends is all fun and games until you forget who they are. Who is “Tha Cook,” and why is he in a group chat with me, “Smorgle,” “The Fake Shemp,” and “The White Album is mid guys Who are you people???

Recently shifted all my work stuff to an old Android phone to stop While You Were In Do Not Disturb notifications from messing with my mental health and wow, what a huge difference it’s made. Kinda makes me want to ditch smart phones in general. But alas, iMessage, Google Maps, and a few other—

An excellent read from @ninametz.bsky.social!

"I watch all videos at 2x speed." And this is why you're incapable of understanding art and will only be able to consume "content" with a hunger that can never be satiated. People spend hours/days/weeks making videos and you can't even bother to actually watch them at normal speed?

There is literally a 20 year old West Wing episode about Molly Orchansky and exactly why the poverty line is a problem, and this is why it’s important to take humanities and the arts seriously. It is often oracular, because it’s written by research nerds with an obsession for human behavior.

“Poor people have a right to art!” They sure do. So get to it.

the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)

you just can't have a meaningful conversation about the potential benefits of "AI" while this stuff is happening. it's like trying to talk about how useful an airplane might be during a hijacking

Give us one reporter with this energy please.

Good times

Guys it’ll be fine. Our medical premiums are doubling at the same time our electrical bills are for this

As we are now T minus 3.5 days from Thanksgiving, if you need to deploy Operation Avoid The Boundary Tramplers, tonight is when you post where they snoop about a headache or a queasy kid, or a funny noise from your car, or your pet acting strange, or a serious work issue or an unexpected paper.