Lex Joy
@aeneas-nin.bsky.social
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. Occasional game dev. Author of LEGEND OF THE RIVER KING (Boss Fight Books) and editor of FLAXMAN LOW: OCCULT DETECTIVE (MIT Press). He/him. alexanderbjoy.com
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
I enjoyed Train Dreams. It really did feel like an entire life crystallized in film form.
November 23, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I enjoyed Train Dreams. It really did feel like an entire life crystallized in film form.
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Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday
Knowing absolutely nothing about this game, I can only conclude it's about skateboarding ghosts.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Knowing absolutely nothing about this game, I can only conclude it's about skateboarding ghosts.
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Night like tonight you really start to think about how much fun it's gonna be when it happens.
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Night like tonight you really start to think about how much fun it's gonna be when it happens.
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THEY ADDED NEW GARBAGE reblog to save a life
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
THEY ADDED NEW GARBAGE reblog to save a life
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My god, GDT's Frankenstein puts you through an emotional wringer, on top of being smart and visually stunning. What a film.
November 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
My god, GDT's Frankenstein puts you through an emotional wringer, on top of being smart and visually stunning. What a film.
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We should talk more about how conservatives were massive crybabies about the new lightbulb regulations and yet it ended up great and I basically never have to change lightbulbs.
November 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
We should talk more about how conservatives were massive crybabies about the new lightbulb regulations and yet it ended up great and I basically never have to change lightbulbs.
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I think one of the greatest losses of social media is no one knows how to muse anymore. You can't surface a curiosity without someone citing a fucking podcast, reel or youtube video. Rich thought is subsidized by "smart content I agree with". Everyone just reverberates the media they follow
November 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I think one of the greatest losses of social media is no one knows how to muse anymore. You can't surface a curiosity without someone citing a fucking podcast, reel or youtube video. Rich thought is subsidized by "smart content I agree with". Everyone just reverberates the media they follow
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Stop Caring is, to be frank, one of the best websites covering video games right now. Artemis created something incredible and it - and she - deserves support. So you know what you gotta do, right?
Last week, my former housemate punched me multiple times in the eye, forcing me to break the lease for the beautiful apartment we shared and move in with a trusted friend
As I try to rebuild my life and find more permanent housing, I would greatly appreciate any support you could offer Stop Caring
As I try to rebuild my life and find more permanent housing, I would greatly appreciate any support you could offer Stop Caring
Stop Caring
A publication about video games focused on the ways they evoke unique cultural conversations as well as the personal lessons we can learn from them as artistic media.
www.stopcar.ing
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Stop Caring is, to be frank, one of the best websites covering video games right now. Artemis created something incredible and it - and she - deserves support. So you know what you gotta do, right?
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one of the underrated factors for the rise in scamming across U.S. society is the death of local media.
It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.
Fond memories of that time Mike Johnson was president of a local law school that never opened its doors, in part because it was attached to a Baptist college that was losing its accreditation, and in part because it was always a scam from the start
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
one of the underrated factors for the rise in scamming across U.S. society is the death of local media.
Bugs are cool (horrifying).
Queens of some ant species have evolved an unusually hostile mode for colony takeover: they infiltrate colonies of other ant species and manipulate the worker ants into killing their own queen — their mother — then accepting the intruding queen as their new leader, according to a recent study.
Game of tiny thrones: Parasitic ants grab power by turning workers against their queen
Queens of some ant species have evolved an unusually hostile mode for colony takeover: they infiltrate colonies of other ant species and manipulate the worker ants into killing their own queen —…
news.mongabay.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Bugs are cool (horrifying).
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New salutation just dropped
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 AM
New salutation just dropped
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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
Shower thought: Why did the football community settle on "pick-6" instead of "INTD?"
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Shower thought: Why did the football community settle on "pick-6" instead of "INTD?"
Houston-Buffalo has been an immensely satisfying hatewatch so far.
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Houston-Buffalo has been an immensely satisfying hatewatch so far.
I'm intrigued when people criticize something as "boring," because it's often un-self-aware shorthand for "doesn't align with my interests." And if such a person dubs something boring, I'm positive there's good stuff to be found in there!
November 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I'm intrigued when people criticize something as "boring," because it's often un-self-aware shorthand for "doesn't align with my interests." And if such a person dubs something boring, I'm positive there's good stuff to be found in there!
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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doing meal prep (organising my meds)
October 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM
doing meal prep (organising my meds)
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Ironically, if we actually treated the actual seditious behavior of the Jan. 6 coup with the severity it deserved, we would have never had to see social media posts like this ever again.
Trump posts again about Democrats, saying their behavior is “punishable by DEATH!”
November 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Ironically, if we actually treated the actual seditious behavior of the Jan. 6 coup with the severity it deserved, we would have never had to see social media posts like this ever again.
Worth the read even if DeviantArt was never your thing: "If I were a novice artist today, my only way to contribute would be to upload a picture, like some posts of artists I already follow, and hope to god that others would do the same in return. And that, my friends, is how an art community dies."
Liked this post I think I saw @narfnra.bsky.social discussing about the effects of commercialization/professionalization on social media: torrent-empress.leaflet.pub/3m37b3rvq4c22
The Death of DeviantArt and the art-site shaped hole haunting the Internet - Multi-hyphenate
Why every new "Art Community" fails. Equal parts eulogy, condemnation, and mourning.
torrent-empress.leaflet.pub
November 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Worth the read even if DeviantArt was never your thing: "If I were a novice artist today, my only way to contribute would be to upload a picture, like some posts of artists I already follow, and hope to god that others would do the same in return. And that, my friends, is how an art community dies."
I can hear this image.
November 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I can hear this image.