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If you're the parent of a disabled kid, I just want to tell you I know it's hard and I know you feel like you're failing constantly, but you're doing it and you're doing the best you can and your kid absolutely loves you for it.
November 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
If you're the parent of a disabled kid, I just want to tell you I know it's hard and I know you feel like you're failing constantly, but you're doing it and you're doing the best you can and your kid absolutely loves you for it.
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This is a really remarkable video essay on contemporary film and the theories of Laura Marks. It's making me think about movies in a new way.
Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore
YouTube video by Like Stories of Old
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November 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This is a really remarkable video essay on contemporary film and the theories of Laura Marks. It's making me think about movies in a new way.
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This is a great vid! Immediate subscribe! It kinda reminds me of the points made in this vid that I like a lot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8KZ...
The Real Reason The Thing (1982) is Better than The Thing (2011)
YouTube video by The Morbid Zoo
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This is a great vid! Immediate subscribe! It kinda reminds me of the points made in this vid that I like a lot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8KZ...
How do I get my coffee cup close enough that I can reach it but far enough away that the cat can't dip her tail in it?
November 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
How do I get my coffee cup close enough that I can reach it but far enough away that the cat can't dip her tail in it?
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October 3, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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meanwhile, in heaven
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June 29, 2024 at 1:55 AM
meanwhile, in heaven
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Them Crooked Vultures were so good and this concert has been on repeat for me for like a month. I wish they'd put out another album and I'd fly anywhere to see them
youtu.be/Ty8Yj2FCab4?...
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Them Crooked Vultures live (full show) | Rockpalast | 2009
Setlist | Them Crooked Vultures Live | Rockpalast | 20091. No One Loves Me & Neither Do I 00:00:002. Dead End Friends 00:05:593. Scumbag Blues 00:09:324. Ele...
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May 18, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Them Crooked Vultures were so good and this concert has been on repeat for me for like a month. I wish they'd put out another album and I'd fly anywhere to see them
youtu.be/Ty8Yj2FCab4?...
youtu.be/Ty8Yj2FCab4?...
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>>>In 2022, city councillor Colleen Hardwick said of that project, “How do you reconcile Indigenous ways of being with 18-storey high-rises?” (Hardwick, it goes without saying, is not Indigenous.)<<<
This is a terrific story!
macleans.ca/society/sen%...
This is a terrific story!
macleans.ca/society/sen%...
Vancouver's new mega-development is big, ambitious and undeniably Indigenous - Macleans.ca
In B.C., Indigenous nations are reclaiming power and wealth for their own citizens—no matter what the neighbours think
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March 13, 2024 at 8:31 PM
>>>In 2022, city councillor Colleen Hardwick said of that project, “How do you reconcile Indigenous ways of being with 18-storey high-rises?” (Hardwick, it goes without saying, is not Indigenous.)<<<
This is a terrific story!
macleans.ca/society/sen%...
This is a terrific story!
macleans.ca/society/sen%...
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these people keep being like "oh so you're going to get a COVID shot every year until you DIE?" yeah man! I'm also going to drink water every day! Every few years I buy new socks! Time moves inexorably onwards, what the fuck do you think we are talking about here?
March 9, 2024 at 2:49 AM
these people keep being like "oh so you're going to get a COVID shot every year until you DIE?" yeah man! I'm also going to drink water every day! Every few years I buy new socks! Time moves inexorably onwards, what the fuck do you think we are talking about here?
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If wokeness is everything, maybe its nothing.
Todays example: wokeness is traffic/parking management
Todays example: wokeness is traffic/parking management
March 2, 2024 at 5:36 PM
If wokeness is everything, maybe its nothing.
Todays example: wokeness is traffic/parking management
Todays example: wokeness is traffic/parking management
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David Attenborough [whispering]:
“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”
“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”
February 13, 2024 at 5:37 PM
David Attenborough [whispering]:
“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”
“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”
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For fuck sake, writers, STOP USING AI ART. Stop using it on your book covers, stop using it in your book promos, stop using it to show what your OCs look like, stop using it as "inspiration," STOP USING IT. You want your artform respected, respect other artforms. There is no ethical use. None.
January 31, 2024 at 7:34 PM
For fuck sake, writers, STOP USING AI ART. Stop using it on your book covers, stop using it in your book promos, stop using it to show what your OCs look like, stop using it as "inspiration," STOP USING IT. You want your artform respected, respect other artforms. There is no ethical use. None.
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People often say these kinds of protests are counterproductive but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen so clear a proof
January 31, 2024 at 1:56 AM
People often say these kinds of protests are counterproductive but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen so clear a proof
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Inspired by feeling kind of anxious on an airplane for the first time in many decades, I wrote about the broad industrial movement towards Making Things Worse. Not to give anything away, but I am not really in favor of it. defector.com/how-will-the...
How Will The Golden Age Of "Making It Worse" End? | Defector
One of the more poignant and ridiculous and enduringly popular contemporary American insanities is the belief that one person—it’s almost always a man, although Jennifer Garner did get to do it in...
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January 29, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Inspired by feeling kind of anxious on an airplane for the first time in many decades, I wrote about the broad industrial movement towards Making Things Worse. Not to give anything away, but I am not really in favor of it. defector.com/how-will-the...
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how to win my affection:
- be silly
- be social and chatty
- say nice things about me to your friends
- bring me little gifts
- have beautiful, glossy black feathers
- be silly
- be social and chatty
- say nice things about me to your friends
- bring me little gifts
- have beautiful, glossy black feathers
January 25, 2024 at 6:05 AM
how to win my affection:
- be silly
- be social and chatty
- say nice things about me to your friends
- bring me little gifts
- have beautiful, glossy black feathers
- be silly
- be social and chatty
- say nice things about me to your friends
- bring me little gifts
- have beautiful, glossy black feathers
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Uber: we can't make money if we have to follow the law
Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly
Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor
OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal
media: should shoplifters be executed?
Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly
Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor
OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal
media: should shoplifters be executed?
January 9, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Uber: we can't make money if we have to follow the law
Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly
Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor
OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal
media: should shoplifters be executed?
Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly
Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor
OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal
media: should shoplifters be executed?
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Generative “AI” is a plagiarism machine and copyright infringement engine. Instead of forcing WGA and SAG-AFTRA to strike for months in hopes they could use AI to replace us, studios should be working *with* us to sue the living shit out of these thieves. spectrum.ieee.org/midjourney-c...
Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem
Experiments with Midjourney and DALL-E 3 show a copyright minefield
spectrum.ieee.org
January 7, 2024 at 5:36 PM
Generative “AI” is a plagiarism machine and copyright infringement engine. Instead of forcing WGA and SAG-AFTRA to strike for months in hopes they could use AI to replace us, studios should be working *with* us to sue the living shit out of these thieves. spectrum.ieee.org/midjourney-c...
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triumph at the star wars opening night line is still one of the funniest skits from any late night show ever imo
January 7, 2024 at 6:21 PM
triumph at the star wars opening night line is still one of the funniest skits from any late night show ever imo
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The Onion would like to congratulate its owner, G/O Media, for standing firm in its return-to-office mandate, as we can think of nowhere more conducive to best-in-class thought leadership than a fluorescent-lit room populated with the abandoned desks of terminated colleagues.
January 5, 2024 at 7:12 PM
The Onion would like to congratulate its owner, G/O Media, for standing firm in its return-to-office mandate, as we can think of nowhere more conducive to best-in-class thought leadership than a fluorescent-lit room populated with the abandoned desks of terminated colleagues.
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my friend Ryan, who I wrote about here, now has Netflix's former rental copy.
Remember the Long Tail? It’s Dead.
The end of Netflix DVD marks the loss of something even bigger.
slate.com
December 27, 2023 at 3:43 PM
my friend Ryan, who I wrote about here, now has Netflix's former rental copy.
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I would like to pose some hypothetical questions to the insurrection-deniers: Is there anything Trump could have done that *would* have unambiguously constituted insurrection — anything that you’d acknowledge *does* require disqualifying him? 1/
December 27, 2023 at 2:50 PM
I would like to pose some hypothetical questions to the insurrection-deniers: Is there anything Trump could have done that *would* have unambiguously constituted insurrection — anything that you’d acknowledge *does* require disqualifying him? 1/
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“When I got sober, the career I thought I had was pretty much gone… I didn’t know if I was ever going to write music again. And then I was asked to write the songs for The Muppet Christmas Carol. Every now and then, the universe will line up to do something at the right time in your life.”
The Story Behind the Music of The Muppet Christmas Carol
Death and redemption paved the way for a new Christmas classic.
www.vulture.com
December 24, 2023 at 9:34 PM
“When I got sober, the career I thought I had was pretty much gone… I didn’t know if I was ever going to write music again. And then I was asked to write the songs for The Muppet Christmas Carol. Every now and then, the universe will line up to do something at the right time in your life.”