josh (with parentheses)
@joshwithparenthes.es
i can't stop making video essays about A Goofy Movie
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contributing irritant for @theessaylibrary.com
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The best video essays of 2025
Now in its ninth year, our annual poll showcases 255 vital video essays, nominated by 72 international voters.
www.bfi.org.uk
Delighted to say that the BFI's Best Video Essays of 2025 poll released yesterday, and I was delighted both to participate as a nominator and to be mentioned myself! A brief thread: 1/
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
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blackout is an (almost entirely) asynchronous journalling game for two players about redacting, interpreting, & straining against the confines of language. it's played by creating & communicating through blackout poetry. playtest version with community copies out now satah.itch.io/blackout
December 28, 2025 at 1:05 AM
blackout is an (almost entirely) asynchronous journalling game for two players about redacting, interpreting, & straining against the confines of language. it's played by creating & communicating through blackout poetry. playtest version with community copies out now satah.itch.io/blackout
Rudolph is queer, right? We’re all on the same page about that?
December 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Rudolph is queer, right? We’re all on the same page about that?
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Don’t forget to leave a brick out for Ben Folds this morning
December 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Don’t forget to leave a brick out for Ben Folds this morning
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I wish we could explain to small children that some day, getting in bed and going to sleep will become the highlight of their lives.
December 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I wish we could explain to small children that some day, getting in bed and going to sleep will become the highlight of their lives.
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[first day as a shepherd]
boss: where are you going?
me: [pointing] star
boss: what? why
me: [shrugging] baby
boss: where are you going?
me: [pointing] star
boss: what? why
me: [shrugging] baby
December 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
[first day as a shepherd]
boss: where are you going?
me: [pointing] star
boss: what? why
me: [shrugging] baby
boss: where are you going?
me: [pointing] star
boss: what? why
me: [shrugging] baby
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Reviewers and commenters call Terra Nil “peaceful” and “hopeful.“ Nothing could be farther from how I feel.
Hope y’all enjoy this casual little video about hope(??) in the apocalypse.
youtu.be/-_ZbAeUs7Tk
Hope y’all enjoy this casual little video about hope(??) in the apocalypse.
youtu.be/-_ZbAeUs7Tk
Terra Nil: A hopeful(?) apocalypse
YouTube video by Afterthoughts
youtu.be
December 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Reviewers and commenters call Terra Nil “peaceful” and “hopeful.“ Nothing could be farther from how I feel.
Hope y’all enjoy this casual little video about hope(??) in the apocalypse.
youtu.be/-_ZbAeUs7Tk
Hope y’all enjoy this casual little video about hope(??) in the apocalypse.
youtu.be/-_ZbAeUs7Tk
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I fell off of art for nearly a decade, after I started college. Now I am back and having more fun than ever
You can always pick up your passions again
You can always pick up your passions again
Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:
December 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I fell off of art for nearly a decade, after I started college. Now I am back and having more fun than ever
You can always pick up your passions again
You can always pick up your passions again
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the 50th and final review for the Extremely Overdetermined Adventure Game Tier List: Norco. one of the best adventures ever made.
nebula.tv/videos/innue...
nebula.tv/videos/innue...
Innuendo Studios — Adventure Game Tier List 50: Norco
Part 51 of 52
nebula.tv
December 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
the 50th and final review for the Extremely Overdetermined Adventure Game Tier List: Norco. one of the best adventures ever made.
nebula.tv/videos/innue...
nebula.tv/videos/innue...
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Call for Applications!
Ways of Undoing invites videographic makers, scholars, and artists to apply to one of three intensive, week-long residential workshops (St Andrews 2026 | Vancouver 2027 | Tokyo 2028).
Funded accommodation & board provided.
Deadline: Feb 1, 2026
waysofdoing.com/ways-of-undo...
Ways of Undoing invites videographic makers, scholars, and artists to apply to one of three intensive, week-long residential workshops (St Andrews 2026 | Vancouver 2027 | Tokyo 2028).
Funded accommodation & board provided.
Deadline: Feb 1, 2026
waysofdoing.com/ways-of-undo...
December 22, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Call for Applications!
Ways of Undoing invites videographic makers, scholars, and artists to apply to one of three intensive, week-long residential workshops (St Andrews 2026 | Vancouver 2027 | Tokyo 2028).
Funded accommodation & board provided.
Deadline: Feb 1, 2026
waysofdoing.com/ways-of-undo...
Ways of Undoing invites videographic makers, scholars, and artists to apply to one of three intensive, week-long residential workshops (St Andrews 2026 | Vancouver 2027 | Tokyo 2028).
Funded accommodation & board provided.
Deadline: Feb 1, 2026
waysofdoing.com/ways-of-undo...
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Reminder on this day of Advent:
If your Christianity isn't oriented around bringing down the powerful, liberating the oppressed, feeding the poor, and sending the rich away empty, the Theotokos says you are doing it wrong.
#Advent
#Magnificat
If your Christianity isn't oriented around bringing down the powerful, liberating the oppressed, feeding the poor, and sending the rich away empty, the Theotokos says you are doing it wrong.
#Advent
#Magnificat
December 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Reminder on this day of Advent:
If your Christianity isn't oriented around bringing down the powerful, liberating the oppressed, feeding the poor, and sending the rich away empty, the Theotokos says you are doing it wrong.
#Advent
#Magnificat
If your Christianity isn't oriented around bringing down the powerful, liberating the oppressed, feeding the poor, and sending the rich away empty, the Theotokos says you are doing it wrong.
#Advent
#Magnificat
Meat Loaf voice:
“All dogs go to Heaven /
But bad dogs go everywhere”
is that anything
“All dogs go to Heaven /
But bad dogs go everywhere”
is that anything
December 20, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Meat Loaf voice:
“All dogs go to Heaven /
But bad dogs go everywhere”
is that anything
“All dogs go to Heaven /
But bad dogs go everywhere”
is that anything
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What we should learn from this is that it’s actually pretty easy to change things, and would be even easier with popular things.
saw someone say the next dem administration should learn from trump & simply enact their agenda without thought to norms or procedure, & i hate to break it to that person but the dems already do exactly what they want with power. they don't try to do things & fail, they try to do nothing & succeed
December 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
What we should learn from this is that it’s actually pretty easy to change things, and would be even easier with popular things.
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“When people try to sell you on the idea that the future is already settled, it is because it is deeply UN-settled.”
Needed to hear this today. Thank you, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social.
Needed to hear this today. Thank you, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social.
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
“When people try to sell you on the idea that the future is already settled, it is because it is deeply UN-settled.”
Needed to hear this today. Thank you, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social.
Needed to hear this today. Thank you, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social.
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Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
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Delighted to say that the BFI's Best Video Essays of 2025 poll released yesterday, and I was delighted both to participate as a nominator and to be mentioned myself! A brief thread: 1/
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
The best video essays of 2025
Now in its ninth year, our annual poll showcases 255 vital video essays, nominated by 72 international voters.
www.bfi.org.uk
December 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Delighted to say that the BFI's Best Video Essays of 2025 poll released yesterday, and I was delighted both to participate as a nominator and to be mentioned myself! A brief thread: 1/
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
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Oops I'm rewatching @joshwithparenthes.es 's AI video (after the BFI list released and it got 6 mentions) and it is still SO GOOD THAT IT MAKES ME MAD.
Damn you Josh stop being so good at this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5wL...
Damn you Josh stop being so good at this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5wL...
You are a better writer than AI. (Yes, you.)
YouTube video by josh (with parentheses)
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Oops I'm rewatching @joshwithparenthes.es 's AI video (after the BFI list released and it got 6 mentions) and it is still SO GOOD THAT IT MAKES ME MAD.
Damn you Josh stop being so good at this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5wL...
Damn you Josh stop being so good at this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5wL...
Apropos of nothing, I am reminded of Ernesto Cardenal’s poem “Somoza Unveils Somoza’s Statue of Somoza at Somoza Stadium.”
www.divasofverse.com/2016/11/somo...
www.divasofverse.com/2016/11/somo...
December 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Apropos of nothing, I am reminded of Ernesto Cardenal’s poem “Somoza Unveils Somoza’s Statue of Somoza at Somoza Stadium.”
www.divasofverse.com/2016/11/somo...
www.divasofverse.com/2016/11/somo...
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Reading @metallicaisrad.bsky.social's new book about Guitar Hero and Rock Band and apparently the games "doubled the world's need for drumsticks"
December 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Reading @metallicaisrad.bsky.social's new book about Guitar Hero and Rock Band and apparently the games "doubled the world's need for drumsticks"
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18 Dec 2025
December 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
18 Dec 2025
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Bring this energy with you int 2026 (yes this is a threat)
December 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Bring this energy with you int 2026 (yes this is a threat)
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I feel free from having to make this video now. youtu.be/8kL9ncWBfA8 this is well researched and hits almost everything I would have.
I'm Autistic and I Became an ABA Therapist
YouTube video by Autistic AF
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I feel free from having to make this video now. youtu.be/8kL9ncWBfA8 this is well researched and hits almost everything I would have.
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They want you to believe it's inevitable so you give up and cave. Don't do it.
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
They want you to believe it's inevitable so you give up and cave. Don't do it.
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my name is cow
and wen its nite
and when a star
is shiyning brite
and three wise men
give me the nod
i walk up close
I lik the God
and wen its nite
and when a star
is shiyning brite
and three wise men
give me the nod
i walk up close
I lik the God
December 15, 2025 at 2:24 AM
my name is cow
and wen its nite
and when a star
is shiyning brite
and three wise men
give me the nod
i walk up close
I lik the God
and wen its nite
and when a star
is shiyning brite
and three wise men
give me the nod
i walk up close
I lik the God