max knightley (real)
@maxknightley.bsky.social
composer, podcaster, game designer, and novelist. you have probably seen screenshots of my tumblr posts
Pinned
HIRING MANAGER: What's your greatest strength?
ME: I was born with the soul of a demon, which grants me incredible power in times of need as long as I surrender to my suppressed bloodlust.
HIRING MANAGER: I see. And your greatest weakness?
ME: Well, at the risk of repeating myself,
ME: I was born with the soul of a demon, which grants me incredible power in times of need as long as I surrender to my suppressed bloodlust.
HIRING MANAGER: I see. And your greatest weakness?
ME: Well, at the risk of repeating myself,
Reposted by max knightley (real)
Larry Summers had an "insight" in an email to Epstein.
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Larry Summers had an "insight" in an email to Epstein.
Reposted by max knightley (real)
(Zoom meeting presenting a bar chart): any questions on Q3 before we move on to forecasts?
Me: uh, can we imagine the bars as skyscrapers where the data works? Or are they little smokestacks at a data factory?
Presenter:…they’re stelae, that the data can’t understand but worship regardless
Me: uh, can we imagine the bars as skyscrapers where the data works? Or are they little smokestacks at a data factory?
Presenter:…they’re stelae, that the data can’t understand but worship regardless
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
(Zoom meeting presenting a bar chart): any questions on Q3 before we move on to forecasts?
Me: uh, can we imagine the bars as skyscrapers where the data works? Or are they little smokestacks at a data factory?
Presenter:…they’re stelae, that the data can’t understand but worship regardless
Me: uh, can we imagine the bars as skyscrapers where the data works? Or are they little smokestacks at a data factory?
Presenter:…they’re stelae, that the data can’t understand but worship regardless
Reposted by max knightley (real)
This is actually the original definition of emotional labor, as defined by Arlie Hochschild, the sociologist who coined the term. It refers to the labor of performing emotions in order to do your job. It is not enough to just do your job, you have to put on a performance
There is something really wrong with people who need workers to be not just competent, but slavishly fake-happy. "Slavishly" used on purpose, bc that's where this grotesquerie comes from.
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
November 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
This is actually the original definition of emotional labor, as defined by Arlie Hochschild, the sociologist who coined the term. It refers to the labor of performing emotions in order to do your job. It is not enough to just do your job, you have to put on a performance
Reposted by max knightley (real)
By Collecting This Star, You Are No Better Than Bowser
November 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
By Collecting This Star, You Are No Better Than Bowser
Reposted by max knightley (real)
whether games are action or turn based; developed in america, japan or china; whether they're on steam or console or gacha games you play on your phone; have an audience of millions or an audience of double digits; what's important is that games are about choosing one from a list of three things
November 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
whether games are action or turn based; developed in america, japan or china; whether they're on steam or console or gacha games you play on your phone; have an audience of millions or an audience of double digits; what's important is that games are about choosing one from a list of three things
Reposted by max knightley (real)
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
The single most important thing a creative can have is "at least one friend or romantic partner who will Gas Them The Fuck Up when they talk about a new project." The second most important thing is money.
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The single most important thing a creative can have is "at least one friend or romantic partner who will Gas Them The Fuck Up when they talk about a new project." The second most important thing is money.
Reposted by max knightley (real)
They should kill you if you go to see this
Toy Story 5 | Teaser Trailer | In Theaters June 19 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGBg...
November 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
They should kill you if you go to see this
2026 might be the year I finally get fed up and start using hand lotion. I'm sick of dry palms.
November 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
2026 might be the year I finally get fed up and start using hand lotion. I'm sick of dry palms.
Reposted by max knightley (real)
Reposted by max knightley (real)
I will stand by, this remains the funniest mistranslation in manga localization history
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I will stand by, this remains the funniest mistranslation in manga localization history
Reposted by max knightley (real)
videogames are *so* art they have attained the cultural position of being primarily an instrument of financial speculation for the already-wealthy
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
videogames are *so* art they have attained the cultural position of being primarily an instrument of financial speculation for the already-wealthy
Reposted by max knightley (real)
So, next week is my birthday. It's been a rough one recently ngl so if you want to help with stuff or just get me a birthday gift, consider this friendly link www.paypal.com/paypalme/ava...
Pay Ava Ayers using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/Avagardra and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
www.paypal.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
So, next week is my birthday. It's been a rough one recently ngl so if you want to help with stuff or just get me a birthday gift, consider this friendly link www.paypal.com/paypalme/ava...
Reposted by max knightley (real)
the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.
Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.
Reposted by max knightley (real)
i think if the democrats had dug in their heels and said "this is the epstein shutdown. trump is starving the country because he doesn't want the epstein files to come out" they probably could have ended him. so it was very kind of them to not do that
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
i think if the democrats had dug in their heels and said "this is the epstein shutdown. trump is starving the country because he doesn't want the epstein files to come out" they probably could have ended him. so it was very kind of them to not do that
Reposted by max knightley (real)
Reposted by max knightley (real)
blink-180 (they're younger): homework sucks, i know
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
blink-180 (they're younger): homework sucks, i know
They should make it so grinding your teeth is good for them. Like a combination of exercise and polishing a rock.
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
They should make it so grinding your teeth is good for them. Like a combination of exercise and polishing a rock.
trying to decide whether to buy tea on this wintry morn when I have the thought "more sugar means more happy." I try to stop it but it is too late. I'm now being assailed by psychic visions of greggs man
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
trying to decide whether to buy tea on this wintry morn when I have the thought "more sugar means more happy." I try to stop it but it is too late. I'm now being assailed by psychic visions of greggs man
what really kills me about all this is that it's not like the republicans are any good at governing either. an opposition party that actually felt like being opponents could run circles around them. how fortunate that no such party exists!
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
what really kills me about all this is that it's not like the republicans are any good at governing either. an opposition party that actually felt like being opponents could run circles around them. how fortunate that no such party exists!
Reposted by max knightley (real)
i think comparing vote blue no matter who type democrat stans to sport fans isn't especially apt because if a sports team's GM was always making the roster worse on purpose in an attempt to win over fans of their most bitter rival, that man would be killed
August 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
i think comparing vote blue no matter who type democrat stans to sport fans isn't especially apt because if a sports team's GM was always making the roster worse on purpose in an attempt to win over fans of their most bitter rival, that man would be killed
I'm not always in the mood to listen to funk or r&b but I have to say. When the mood hits. It is a blessing.
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I'm not always in the mood to listen to funk or r&b but I have to say. When the mood hits. It is a blessing.
Reposted by max knightley (real)
soulslikes resonate because they simulate turning 40
you can really feel the collapse of time in souls type games because there's no difference between something happening 100 years ago, 1 year ago, or last week
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 AM
soulslikes resonate because they simulate turning 40
Reposted by max knightley (real)
no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one
Reposted by max knightley (real)
The problem with “it’s not a choice” as the core of a defense, whether of being transgender or simply being fat, is the frequency of an implicit underlying “because nobody would ever want to be like this,” which is simply not true in either case.
November 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
The problem with “it’s not a choice” as the core of a defense, whether of being transgender or simply being fat, is the frequency of an implicit underlying “because nobody would ever want to be like this,” which is simply not true in either case.