Aaron Jacobs
@ajacobs.bsky.social
Your friendly neighbourhood Jewish communist. Hope you like weird books, bad dungeon synth and worse movies.
He/him, free Palestine, trans rights are human rights
He/him, free Palestine, trans rights are human rights
I mean I love them all, Porco Rosso is an underappreciated classic that's only gotten better as I've gotten older, Howls is borderline-perfect, but Spirited Away is in a three-way tie with Alien and 2001 as movies I've gone out of my way to rewatch on the big screen as often as they're shown
I feel like a standard millennial for picking it, but Spirited Away is something that fundamentally rewired how my brain approaches storytelling, with Princess Mononoke as a very close second. I could watch the two of them over and over forever and never fall even a micron out of love with either
In honor of Hayao Miyazaki's birthday, what's your favorite Studio Ghibli film? Doesn't have to be the one you think is "the best," just the one that nestled in your heart. Mine is Howl's Moving Castle.
January 6, 2026 at 5:24 AM
I mean I love them all, Porco Rosso is an underappreciated classic that's only gotten better as I've gotten older, Howls is borderline-perfect, but Spirited Away is in a three-way tie with Alien and 2001 as movies I've gone out of my way to rewatch on the big screen as often as they're shown
I feel like a standard millennial for picking it, but Spirited Away is something that fundamentally rewired how my brain approaches storytelling, with Princess Mononoke as a very close second. I could watch the two of them over and over forever and never fall even a micron out of love with either
In honor of Hayao Miyazaki's birthday, what's your favorite Studio Ghibli film? Doesn't have to be the one you think is "the best," just the one that nestled in your heart. Mine is Howl's Moving Castle.
a painting of howl 's moving castle shows a cloudy night sky
Alt: a pixelated gif of Howl's Castle sitting on a hillside under an evening sky.
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January 6, 2026 at 5:23 AM
I feel like a standard millennial for picking it, but Spirited Away is something that fundamentally rewired how my brain approaches storytelling, with Princess Mononoke as a very close second. I could watch the two of them over and over forever and never fall even a micron out of love with either
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The GOP didn't have the votes for many years but that didn't stop them from pulling out every procedural trick possible while screaming at Dems on TV. And now they're in charge.
Lot of people yelling recently "but we don't have the votes!" True! That doesn't mean "immediately quit." (Also not what propter is saying here, to be clear.) It means create a spectacle, make things cause celebres, make the Republican position untenable.
Create bargaining position and force votes.
Create bargaining position and force votes.
January 6, 2026 at 1:31 AM
The GOP didn't have the votes for many years but that didn't stop them from pulling out every procedural trick possible while screaming at Dems on TV. And now they're in charge.
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the next century really will be like being a medieval peasant gawking at roman ruins and wondering "how'd the ancients manage that?"
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service
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January 5, 2026 at 8:54 PM
the next century really will be like being a medieval peasant gawking at roman ruins and wondering "how'd the ancients manage that?"
Sometimes I wonder just how much it's warped our politics that a generation and a half grew up on media where you beat the final boss and his whole army collapses. Manifesting in both conservative (decapitation strike on Maduro) and liberal (we just gotta get rid of Trump/Bibi!) mindsets.
January 4, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Sometimes I wonder just how much it's warped our politics that a generation and a half grew up on media where you beat the final boss and his whole army collapses. Manifesting in both conservative (decapitation strike on Maduro) and liberal (we just gotta get rid of Trump/Bibi!) mindsets.
Title screen iconic to me... cheating a bit since EQ didn't *really* have a traditional title screen, but I spent so much of ages 14-16 looking at either this login screen or the loading splash of the vanilla, Kunark or Velious eras - probably Kunark more than the others, that was my peak timewaster
January 4, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Title screen iconic to me... cheating a bit since EQ didn't *really* have a traditional title screen, but I spent so much of ages 14-16 looking at either this login screen or the loading splash of the vanilla, Kunark or Velious eras - probably Kunark more than the others, that was my peak timewaster
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"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.
January 3, 2026 at 1:24 PM
"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.
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if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
January 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
I wish I could be surprised by anything my rabid country did any more.
January 3, 2026 at 7:11 AM
I wish I could be surprised by anything my rabid country did any more.
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This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
December 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
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In a statement, an emotional Grok told me it was "shaken" by the revenge porn it had generated. "It's not epic, and not based," Grok said. "It's neither. Frankly, it's cringe. And gay." An emailed request for comment to X received an auto-reply of a rofl emoji and a custom swastika emoji.
January 3, 2026 at 5:29 AM
In a statement, an emotional Grok told me it was "shaken" by the revenge porn it had generated. "It's not epic, and not based," Grok said. "It's neither. Frankly, it's cringe. And gay." An emailed request for comment to X received an auto-reply of a rofl emoji and a custom swastika emoji.
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Drop Site spoke w/ Eliza, 27, a Brooklyn resident who held up a photo of 5-year-old Palestinian child Hind Rajab throughout the event. Eliza said she supports Mayor Zohran Mamdani but wanted to make clear that political victories should not eclipse...
@areebafatima.bsky.social | @dropsitenews.com
@areebafatima.bsky.social | @dropsitenews.com
January 3, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Drop Site spoke w/ Eliza, 27, a Brooklyn resident who held up a photo of 5-year-old Palestinian child Hind Rajab throughout the event. Eliza said she supports Mayor Zohran Mamdani but wanted to make clear that political victories should not eclipse...
@areebafatima.bsky.social | @dropsitenews.com
@areebafatima.bsky.social | @dropsitenews.com
I often liken it to wandering between wild west towns full of small, passionate specialist enclaves vs being locked in a shopping mall with an infinite number of screaming lunatics but this also works.
browsing the internet used to feel like you were uncovering hidden new zones and getting rid of fog of war now it’s like a bunch of cannibal maniacs are chasing after you with crossbows trying to roast you alive
January 3, 2026 at 1:30 AM
I often liken it to wandering between wild west towns full of small, passionate specialist enclaves vs being locked in a shopping mall with an infinite number of screaming lunatics but this also works.
As someone who's based a significant chunk of his ethical code and morals on humanistic judaism, it is nice to get reinforcement every now and then that the thousands of years of chavershaft, doikayt and tikkun olam haven't been entirely hijacked or displaced by Herzl's vision.
They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition | Molly Crabapple
When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him as an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York
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January 3, 2026 at 12:41 AM
As someone who's based a significant chunk of his ethical code and morals on humanistic judaism, it is nice to get reinforcement every now and then that the thousands of years of chavershaft, doikayt and tikkun olam haven't been entirely hijacked or displaced by Herzl's vision.
greatest city in da world bay-bee
On his first day as NYC’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani scrapped the IHRA antisemitism definition as an enforcement standard & affirmed that political boycotts, including of Israel, are protected speech. It set off a familiar bout of outrage from the Israeli Foreign Min., which labeled the move...
January 3, 2026 at 12:33 AM
greatest city in da world bay-bee
Last year I had to devote most of my brainpower to working on game writing and then moving house, so it felt *very* good last night to light a nice scented candle, have a small glass of whiskey and boot up scrivener to work on a novel draft for a few hours for the first time in months.
January 2, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Last year I had to devote most of my brainpower to working on game writing and then moving house, so it felt *very* good last night to light a nice scented candle, have a small glass of whiskey and boot up scrivener to work on a novel draft for a few hours for the first time in months.
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once again thinking about how goddamn good and beautiful Strange Days is
August 25, 2025 at 6:11 AM
once again thinking about how goddamn good and beautiful Strange Days is
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As we enter the New Year remember fear of making bad art is holding you back. Fear of people not liking your work is holding you back. Rejection is holding you back
You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative
You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative
December 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
As we enter the New Year remember fear of making bad art is holding you back. Fear of people not liking your work is holding you back. Rejection is holding you back
You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative
You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative
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To mark Alien Day, we head back to the late 1970s to see how HR Giger designed the Space Jockey - and its fate after the film's premiere...
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Alien | The birth and curious death of HR Giger’s Space Jockey
To mark Alien Day, we head back to the late 1970s to see how HR Giger designed the Space Jockey - and its fate after the film's premiere...
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December 30, 2025 at 11:25 AM
To mark Alien Day, we head back to the late 1970s to see how HR Giger designed the Space Jockey - and its fate after the film's premiere...
filmstories.co.uk/news/alien-t...
filmstories.co.uk/news/alien-t...
Late to the party, but I finished up Dread Delusion and really enjoyed it. "Morrowind-lite" is appropriate enough, but undercuts its own delightful weirdness *and* its confidence in letting you luxuriate in the setting without just vomiting codex entries about everything at you (1/3)
December 30, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Late to the party, but I finished up Dread Delusion and really enjoyed it. "Morrowind-lite" is appropriate enough, but undercuts its own delightful weirdness *and* its confidence in letting you luxuriate in the setting without just vomiting codex entries about everything at you (1/3)
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Just thinking about...them.
December 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Just thinking about...them.
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in your 20s, you'll come across someone who's wrong online. it's very important than you spend the next 40 years of your life learning and arguing about this topic online long after they've moved on, built a career, and raised a family.
December 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
in your 20s, you'll come across someone who's wrong online. it's very important than you spend the next 40 years of your life learning and arguing about this topic online long after they've moved on, built a career, and raised a family.
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"And I never say no"
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
December 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
"And I never say no"
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
I've been chasing the LaMC dragon for a long, long time.
THIS IS NOT A DRILL: Scott Hawkins' second novel comes out in 2026!!!!!! The Library at Mount Char is one of my favorite books of all time and I have been waiting for this day for almost a decade oh my goddddd bookshop.org/p/books/blac...
Blacktail: A Novel
A Novel
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December 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I've been chasing the LaMC dragon for a long, long time.