In the 1870s, the German biologist Max Schultze, lying on his deathbed, observed that he was leaving a world where “all the important questions . . . had now been settled.” All of them, that is, “except the eel question.”

Hey, hey hey.. Kill yourself

There's 30 other people (digitally) ahead of me waiting to check out Vineland from the local library, but the newest Pynchon is just sitting on the shelf lmao

One battle after another has some pikmin-ass music (complimentary)

it is not polite to say so but no discussion of the state of the games industry/press can really avoid the reality that the audience is just. really really bad.

Lino Brocka's furious melodrama Manila in the Claws of Light (1975), a film of exhilarating and pugnacious energy amid the horrors of a corrupt police state and the unredressed injustices that go with it; at the Roxy at 7:30, introduced by Harris Dickinson: www.newyorker.com/goings-on-ab...

Oh, neat, they found new therapy speak jargon to bastardize, now that nobody takes "emotional labor" seriously from people who think that pissing in an alley os a capital crime.

Bioshock infinite as a narrative is God awful ass, as a character study of Booker and Elizabeth it's messy but manages to keep me engaged even after playing it for the first time a few months back

everyone refers to 2014 tumblr as a kind of catch-all for furry drama and neopronouns etc but when I was on there the real drama was like Sasuke otherkin and picrew teenagers pretending to have dissociative identity disorder

Ran into my previous WQED bosses at the Marina concert last week lmao

i wrote about consume me for @theverge.com ✨

I'm inconsistent on being pro road rage or not, because sometimes people should be yelled at while driving a car

BAD BUNNY is headlining the Super Bowl Halftime Show. If you to want understand him cinematically, @filmiliarface.bsky.social wrote up a listicle on @ebertvoices.bsky.social of movies to watch if you love his music.

"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

not digging chainsaw man

Metroidvanias are either Protestant or Catholic. Castlevania? Catholic, of course. Metroid? Protestant. Blasphemous is Catholic. Dead Cells, Protestant. Hollow Knight is Protestant, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is Catholic. That's why people are complaining the game is hard. Cause it's Catholic now.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Baby Steps starts as an elaborate shitpost before slowly revealing itself to be a sincere game about male insecurity. A deconstruction of the kind of idealized picture of manhood that video games helped create wrapped in a terrific slapstick comedy. My review. www.polygon.com/baby-steps-r...

Guy on the street is vacationing in Lisbon in a few hours and sold me his Xbox one and Wii and a few games for 70 bucks, holy holy holy shit

That new shit from Team Reptile tho?? "HYPERFUNK is 2 seconds per second of evolved funkstyle" is such a raw opening sentence www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDzg...

coates is genuinely a generational writer

One hour into Golden Sun Lost Age and it's crazy the jump in quality from the first game, First game was solid but WOW

Antoni Gaudí’s wild design for the Sagrada Família, begun nearly 150 years ago, has been obsessively realized over time, creating the world’s tallest church—and an endlessly debated icon.

Muriel Rukeyser

I've been saying! prospect.org/education/20...

reviewed Silksong, whose friction is fundamental to its humanism. (may we, twisted by this historical moment into alienated vermin, be like the bugs) www.slantmagazine.com/games/hollow...

"The logical endpoint of 21st-century America: An influencer shot to death at a school in front of a crowd of smartphones." Ryan is very good at his job. An excellent summary and analysis of the last 24 hours.

the downtown pittsburgh church bells are ringing out Sound Of Silence for 5 pm, idk how to feel

Anthony Lane writes about the legacy Christopher Marlowe: a spy, a murder victim, and the boldest poet of his day.

An excerpt from “Silence Is a Wall Furnace" by Nichole Turnbloom. Read the full piece in garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-6

The city of Pittsburgh is having a moment. buff.ly/Ulil6yM

golden sun is the first turn based game I'm getting into (because the mechanics are lovingly babyfied)

cucked behavior. if someone merc’d newsom in the same way, Charlie wouldn’t have skipped a single beat before saying it was newsom’s own fault for his “divisive rhetoric”. He would’ve joked about it. We gotta stop with this shit.

Our wonderful friends Archipel are working on an extremely exciting book with none other than Yoko Taro! Please consider checking it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/arc...

Boys Go To Jupiter screening this past weekend at Harris Theatre with Julian Glander Q&A

i reviewed NBA 2K26 for @endlessmode.bsky.social because someone had to while you're all playing silksong: www.endlessmode.com/article/comm...

"It is the blurring between the ridiculous and the grotesque that sustains the critique put forward in this novel." Oluwatayo Adewole examines the three victims of power in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Autumn of the Patriarch:

Yeah here’s an essay I wrote about Crimson Peak, what I see in @realgdt.bsky.social’s work and how tragedy is the most misunderstood dramatic form in our day & age, back in 2015 medium.com/@somebadidea...

A lot of the establishment keeps missing out that Del Toro doesn’t even make horror films any more; he makes existential gothic romantic tragedies.

Borges on Kafka

The Molina Family Latino Gallery at the National Museum of American History has served as the temporary location of the nascent National Museum of the American Latino. After Trump’s hit list against the Smithsonian, the gallery space has quietly closed for the next nine months.

Playing too many vidya games heheheheh (not pictured is Bombrush Cyberfunk)

when they are mean to quasimodo it makes me cry :(

Wrote about capitalism as mechanics and Promise Mascot Agency as the anti-cozy game 💕

If I’m doing a vampire book they needed to be killing Nazis are starting a MLM to survive capitalism. This book is so damn good, can’t wait for yall to meet Brokeula

Thank you to @poetryaspromised.bsky.social for nominating this little piece for Best Of The Net!!! Yay yay yay!!!!

"For a long time, the perception of Chinese literature among Western readers has been quite fixed. It's often seen as either heavily influenced by Chinese culture, or focused on people living rural, impoverished lives. Which has nothing to do with our lives today." www.npr.org/2025/08/15/n...

san antonio is a fascinating place to me because it seems like the city version of Some Other Shit. like what goes on there besides the Spurs and the military

Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.