A. Hudson
@austhudson.bsky.social
Award-winning creator, brain tumor survivor, academic, trashy horror aficionado, mildly funny guy, and a hopeless romantic.
This is such a huge thing that nobody is talking about. As a person who exercises and lifts a lot — as in, every day — I'm constantly aware of the pressure from the outside world to be bigger, leaner, and more muscular. But the truth is that our standards are just absolutely misaligned with reality.
'Male Body Standards are Out of Control'
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May 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This is such a huge thing that nobody is talking about. As a person who exercises and lifts a lot — as in, every day — I'm constantly aware of the pressure from the outside world to be bigger, leaner, and more muscular. But the truth is that our standards are just absolutely misaligned with reality.
How does American Idiot manage to continue getting more and more timely each year?
May 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
How does American Idiot manage to continue getting more and more timely each year?
I just made a passing reference to Fred Rogers in a conversation and the person asked me who that was. I sustained serious psychic damage. 🙃
March 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I just made a passing reference to Fred Rogers in a conversation and the person asked me who that was. I sustained serious psychic damage. 🙃
America is awesome because someone will be like, "Hey, my name is Jim 'Kill Everyone Named Todd' Smith, and I'm gonna kill all the Todds," and some dipshit will be like, "He isn't REALLY gonna do it, it's a metaphor," and then a month later go, "Oh my God, he killed my neighbor Todd, WTF???"
March 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
America is awesome because someone will be like, "Hey, my name is Jim 'Kill Everyone Named Todd' Smith, and I'm gonna kill all the Todds," and some dipshit will be like, "He isn't REALLY gonna do it, it's a metaphor," and then a month later go, "Oh my God, he killed my neighbor Todd, WTF???"
It's interesting how the phrase, 'I hope you get to spend your days with people who make you feel exactly how you make others feel around you,' can be both a compliment and an insult depending on who you're sending it to. I can think of people who would fall into both camps, honestly.
February 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It's interesting how the phrase, 'I hope you get to spend your days with people who make you feel exactly how you make others feel around you,' can be both a compliment and an insult depending on who you're sending it to. I can think of people who would fall into both camps, honestly.
I really feel like I’ve been in a rut the last few weeks. I think it’s a combination of the world and the weather but I feel like I can’t just get back into my groove. Something’s gotta give.
February 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I really feel like I’ve been in a rut the last few weeks. I think it’s a combination of the world and the weather but I feel like I can’t just get back into my groove. Something’s gotta give.
It's weird that I find myself agreeing with RFK, too many Americans are on antidepressants. We need to address the root causes of this by fixing income inequality, promoting a healthier work/life balance, making mental health services easier to — wait what do you mean that's not what he meant???
February 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It's weird that I find myself agreeing with RFK, too many Americans are on antidepressants. We need to address the root causes of this by fixing income inequality, promoting a healthier work/life balance, making mental health services easier to — wait what do you mean that's not what he meant???
I just saw this photo on an NPR article today and thought it was excellent enough to share on its own. Photo by Stephanie Keith/Bloomberg via Getty Images.
February 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I just saw this photo on an NPR article today and thought it was excellent enough to share on its own. Photo by Stephanie Keith/Bloomberg via Getty Images.
I sincerely love Fiber One’s original bran breakfast cereal. I genuinely think it tastes great, and it’s pretty good for my gut. But I sorta wish that a high fiber cereal would maybe not be shaped like the solid little poops it makes you produce?
February 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I sincerely love Fiber One’s original bran breakfast cereal. I genuinely think it tastes great, and it’s pretty good for my gut. But I sorta wish that a high fiber cereal would maybe not be shaped like the solid little poops it makes you produce?
Take a half hour and watch this video because in the two months since it was released, it's become horribly prescient. Know what you're up against to know how to resist it.
DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America
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February 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Take a half hour and watch this video because in the two months since it was released, it's become horribly prescient. Know what you're up against to know how to resist it.
The instant he heard the helicopter was a Black Hawk, it was inevitably going to be a racist thing.
January 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The instant he heard the helicopter was a Black Hawk, it was inevitably going to be a racist thing.
Just got a phone call where a customer complained that the weather is bad in their Google Street View photo (you know, the photo taken by a car that drives around) and asking what I'm going to do to change the weather in that photo. In case you were wondering how Tuesday is going.
January 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Just got a phone call where a customer complained that the weather is bad in their Google Street View photo (you know, the photo taken by a car that drives around) and asking what I'm going to do to change the weather in that photo. In case you were wondering how Tuesday is going.
It's a Sunday morning, so there's another meandering post on my blog.
The View From My Desk for January 26th, 2025 — Austin Hudson
The date is January 26th, 2025, and the skies are clear, but the gentle snow flurries that plagued the city all day yesterday have settled onto the roads, making them unexpectedly icy and slick for su...
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January 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
It's a Sunday morning, so there's another meandering post on my blog.
Mood when I realize I've still got an hour to go today:
January 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Mood when I realize I've still got an hour to go today:
Just thinking about this American hero today. 🇺🇸
January 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Just thinking about this American hero today. 🇺🇸
This is a great article, and the comments give a continued list of art museums to check out. The author is correct -- the one here in Salt Lake has some beautiful art in it.
The Wonder Of The Regional Art Museum | Defector
A 24-hour business trip to Cleveland four days before Christmas was a bad idea; I see that now. There wasn’t even that much snow, by Lake Erie standards, but Delta Airlines didn’t seem to care that I ...
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January 22, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This is a great article, and the comments give a continued list of art museums to check out. The author is correct -- the one here in Salt Lake has some beautiful art in it.
This week has been devastating enough, and then the Brooks Brothers 2025 S/S lookbook drops today and it’s low-key tacky? Can we have nothing good any more?
January 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This week has been devastating enough, and then the Brooks Brothers 2025 S/S lookbook drops today and it’s low-key tacky? Can we have nothing good any more?
I’m a regular listener of the Pat Boone Hour on #siriusxm (because I’m 90 years old at heart) and finding out on this week’s show that my fellow listeners are calling themselves the Boone Goons damn near killed me. We out here Boone-in’ and goonin’, fellas.
January 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I’m a regular listener of the Pat Boone Hour on #siriusxm (because I’m 90 years old at heart) and finding out on this week’s show that my fellow listeners are calling themselves the Boone Goons damn near killed me. We out here Boone-in’ and goonin’, fellas.