New sounds ✨ Two queers unite for a first of its kind groundbreaking conversation about pop stars and pop music. Listen to the new bonus ep with @clevver-girl.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3DYv...

This is arguably the worst the X-Men line has been in its 62 year comic history so I can’t pretend say I’m gagging for any new announcements

Kinda ironic that a firing is the best way they came up with to honour Charlie Kirk Yk considering that’s what his shooter thought was the best way to honour him

Kinda ironic that a firing is the best way they came up with to honour Charlie Kirk Yk considering that’s what his shooter thought was the best way to honour him

Every Zane Lowe interview sounds like someone told ChatGPT to be nice to them

reinvented ‘cancel culture’ after whining about it for a decade to start doing the censorship they would always warn the leftists were about to Wild how nearly everything about the American Right is a demented iteration of something a Black person thought of 1st

reinvented ‘cancel culture’ after whining about it for a decade to start doing the censorship they would always warn the leftists were about to Wild how nearly everything about the American Right is a demented iteration of something a Black person thought of 1st

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New sounds ✨ Two queers unite for a first of its kind groundbreaking conversation about pop stars and pop music. Listen to the new bonus ep with @clevver-girl.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3DYv...

I hope Susan Sarandon is having a good day

5. Women in Public 1 Was joined by @iamlaurenp.bsky.social to talk Bravo’s Real Housewives franchise as well as: - Existing as a Black woman in public - Queer panic & RHOA - Colorism & RHOP - Reality vs Storyline open.spotify.com/episode/0FqF...

4. The Vampire Sessions: Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire Was joined by @paradiselaust.bsky.social to talk Anne Rice and: - Adaptations - Early 90s straight-washing  - ‘Demonic White Daddies’ - Queer hierarchies of privilege  - Inter-community conflict podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

2. Critiquing Beyoncé Sat with @antoniajadeking.bsky.social to talk Beyonce and "the discourse" - Black capitalism - The myth of Black excellence - bell hooks’ beef with Beyonce (PS we're a video essay channel on YouTube too) youtu.be/o7p4gX69i6U?...

New bonus sound ✨ Trying something new with @xofwords.com • Podding • Cooking vs burn out • Easing back in • Coming up next on X of Words • Coming up next on REFERENTIAL open.spotify.com/episode/5HE9...

My simplest explanation for this Charlie Kirk decency nonsense is that ‘liberals’ are excited to have an excuse to scold people’s rhetoric about something other than Gaza for a few days

My simplest explanation for this Charlie Kirk decency nonsense is that ‘liberals’ are excited to have an excuse to scold people’s rhetoric about something other than Gaza for a few days

Idk but demanding we mourn or have a ‘respectable’ light touch around discussing a felled bigot feels like a form of social violence. Also (& ijs) pulling out ‘political violence’ to defend the memory of Charlie Kirk is wild when ‘a fascist died’ is the story behind every right we have today.

Idk but demanding we mourn or have a ‘respectable’ light touch around discussing a felled bigot feels like a form of social violence. Also (& ijs) pulling out ‘political violence’ to defend the memory of Charlie Kirk is wild when ‘a fascist died’ is the story behind every right we have today.

I’m not mourning but I am sending bad wishes

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Pop stars used to regularly wake up in the AM to perform their singles to an audience consisting of a drunk blonde morning show host, their PAs and a few camera men. Now they just flood your feed with alt album covers and we’re the worst for it

emerald fennells’ fifty shades of heights

can we start a petition to ban Jack Antonoff from producing for the pop girls for the next five years

New bonus sound ✨ Trying something new with @xofwords.com • Podding • Cooking vs burn out • Easing back in • Coming up next on X of Words • Coming up next on REFERENTIAL open.spotify.com/episode/5HE9...

This season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has ramped up the meta self awareness and I find that it’s made it feel like less of a Star Trek show and more of a show about Star Trek (Also see The Orville)

I dont know about media critique, but I was thinking about whether or not the Lost Fandom taught everybody the wrong lesson about how many layers deep hidden Easter eggs or hints/clues go, and it may have indirectly contributed to conspiracy brain. My thoughts aren't fully formed yet tho

Which fanbase do you think is most responsible for the current pathetic state of media critique and journalism?

Should I be concerned ?

Food poisoning threw me off sched by a few days but REFERENTIAL’s back from brief hiatus with a series of new eps around the end of the week *inshallah* ✨

It's an American thing (violence good, sex evil.) But I suspect that for emotionally adolescent internet commenters, they are glad the violence isn't happening to them, but angry that the sex isn't either.

My superpower is the ability to give you a perfect tv recc based on the last three things you loved

The Peacemaker orgy discourse is wigging me out. I don’t understand people making issue over simulated sex but never a fuss about the simulated violence.

My old ass just swallowed 3 chalk antacid tablets while praising the lord

C'mon now, I taught you a bunch of those classes ;)

Film classes made me think my love for television should be thought of as a guilty pleasure. Elitism is so stupid.

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Consistently surprised by some people’s ability to speak so much without saying anything at all

Wish Lil Nas X well and keep it moving. No one needs your hot take

New episode of REFERENTIAL podcast coming next week ✨ (🤞🏾) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

New episode of REFERENTIAL podcast coming next week ✨ (🤞🏾) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous

We should really talk more about how almost every 'genre innovation' credited to Joss Whedon & Buffy The Vampire Slayer happened on Xena The Warrior Princess first. I wonder how much the queerness of Xena’s central narrative excluded it -

- from serious consideration in the discourse on pop media as that evolved in the years after it ended in the early 2000s. And if the sheen of heterosexuality Buffy put on the things it was cribbing from Xena gave a filter of respectability in remembrances by critics and audiences

And there we are. I'll miss these two and having another episode of Xena to watch I have many many thoughts on the finale and the show as a whole, but I'll save that for the upcoming Xena REFERENTIAL episode with @saracentury.bsky.social stay tuned✨ (also a preview) redcircle.com/shows/6454fa...

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

I'm serious. Give me a single credible reason why these lake boilers don't have to report their water use unless it was so EGREGIOUSLY HIGH that if the volumes were made public we'd be lynching tech bros in the street. Did you assent to this? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

2 days left for you to grab one!✨

Last day!

friends we are trying to raise 1700 Euros more in the next two weeks (latest date) so I can cover August rent, and use rest of the money for bills, and preparations to leave Germany for good by October. I appreciate any amount, and sharing with your circles.

thanks to everyone, now that we managed to pay the July rent (by end of July...), the remaining goal of 2300 Euros is to provide housing for August (due tomorrow) and September and make preparations to leave the country by mid/end September I appreciate all boosts/share and donations, thank you