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pykea.bsky.social
hey man, this sucks
@pykea.bsky.social
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"...fuck did i do?"

if you think political change is a thing that happens on the internet you're fucking insane and your ideas are going to keep losing. yard signs don't vote, go knock doors.
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pykea.bsky.social
a few small rewatches
Vista Theater marquee -- VistaVision screening of One Battle After Another
October 7, 2025 at 4:47 AM
pykea.bsky.social
this sentence from a Post article yesterday is going to end up being the one line every textbook uses to capture how we Weimar'd (first person to do a 'if we have history books' reply gets a big shiny prize for being so clever)
The Chicago effort would further expand Trump's use of military force domestically, even when state and local authorities call the idea unwelcome and unwarranted.
August 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
pykea.bsky.social
watching Liverpool's new attack, as an Arsenal fan
Jack Black in High Fidelity, sadly relaying that he's listened to the EP recorded by the skate punks who steal records from the store all the time and "it's...it's really fucking good" and putting his head in his hands.
August 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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six years from colson whitehead publishing this paragraph --> the 2007 writers strike. another three from there, and the reality TV boom the studios used to break the strike gave us "storage wars."
"She thought about not paying the bills. When Dalmon [storage unit company] finally unloaded the stuff (there must be auctions for such things, an entire culture based on the commerce of the dead or bankrupt, what did they do with what they bought), it would be like they were selling John Henry, not her father. This argument never got very far in her head. It was her father. She paid the bills on time and stopped eating out as much."
July 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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one hallmark of good Seriously Yall Rahm Sucks Ass Stop Listening To His Shitty And Often Evilly Motivated Advice writing is that it expands out to encompass the broader party & show you that the people actively listening to the shitty stupid bad man are harming their own aims:
excerpt from piece linked in previous post: The disability rights movement has a motto: “Nothing about us without us.” It’s a simple principle that Democrats have completely abandoned when it comes to trans issues. Instead of talking to us about our lives and needs, Democratic strategists talk about us as an abstract political problem to be solved. If Democrats actually bothered to have these conversations, they’d discover something Emanuel and his allies seem incapable of grasping: we’re not asking for much. We’re not demanding special privileges or radical restructuring of society. We mostly just want to exist in public without harassment and access the same healthcare everyone else takes for granted. By and large, trans people are not demanding (who even asked for this?) that people announce their own pronouns or whatever corporate/HR nonsense Democratic politicians think trans people want. Talk to trans kids and their parents, and you’ll hear the same themes repeatedly: They want to use the bathroom in peace. They want to play sports with their friends. They want their teachers to use their names. They want to go to school without being bullied. They want to see a doctor when they need to. These aren’t radical demands. They’re the baseline expectations of any child in America. Talk to trans adults like me, and the asks are similarly modest: Keep our jobs without discrimination. Update our driver’s licenses to match our appearance. Access medical care our doctors recommend. Walk down the street without fear. Again, these aren’t special rights. They’re basic dignity.
July 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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(I like to think I gave as good as I got here, though fuck knows the ThinkProgress culture section's review wouldn't have made it into the clips his assistant curated)
Regardless of its historical provenance, Lee's deployment of the sentiment in this specific way carries an unmistakable message in the context of Chi-Raq's story. Parris' Lysistrata can act upon an idea that will ultimately bring her peace, but she can't come up with it on her own. She has to have it handed to her by an erudite elder who doesn't own a television and scorns the distractibility and simplemindedness of her community's young people.
June 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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what if there were a way to opt into a society that contained zero people like this, and then they could have one for just them, and we'd all be happier?
excerpt of NYT article about people's obsession with wearable bio-monitoring devices like the Oura ring: In the eternal human quest to know thyself, it’s tempting to seize on every bit of information we can glean. If you could know, for instance, not just that you slept 6.5 hours last night but also that 12 percent of those hours were spent in REM sleep and that your overall “sleep efficiency” — time asleep versus time awake — was 85 percent, as many pieces of wearable tech can tell you, why wouldn’t you? At least that’s the attitude of many people in our age of the quantified self, in which collecting sheaves of data about our bodies every day seems to hold the promise of bringing about a happier, healthier life. But what if all of that data is also heightening our stress? Is there a metric for that?
May 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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my official statement regarding the news that Mets broadcasts are being run by a Brian De Palma superfan whose lively and groundbreaking directorial choices expand our collective understanding of what a live sports television experience can be, can *mean*
Mikel Arteta from the Amazon documentary about Arsenal Football Club, except instead of saying "when I lose a duel I am upset" he's saying "when something cool happens to Mets fans I am upset"
May 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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when i first saw this post, w/ text partially obscured by the top bar, i thought it said "replacing your fear menu" which sorta also works here
cropped screenshot of how it looked like it said "fear menus" instead of "real friends" at first, as supporting evidence for the idea that both of those phrases work in the original post
May 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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all this has me turning to fucking Wordsworth, and I don't even *like* this fucking poem!
The World is Too Much With Us, by William Wordsworth
May 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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"no-skips album," but make it a novel. absolute fuckin banger. well aware that these opinions break no new ground, but boy did I wait too long to finally pick up some Colson Whitehead. holy hell what a writer.
a copy of Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead, sitting atop my copy of the Black Orpheus soundtrack on vinyl because I wanted this photo to make me seem cooler than I am, because this is the internet where we go to pretend we matter more than we do.
May 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
pykea.bsky.social
here is a photo I took in 2007 in Spain while studying abroad. caption says "who's playing with our kids?"
graffiti from Granada, Spain, in 2007: a child holding a video game controller with an awed look on his face, and a culture hovering over him wearing a tophat with various currency symbols drawn on it, captioned "Quien juega con nuestros hijos?"
May 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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May 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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(alia shawkat voice) across from where?
NYT headline: A Hot Accessory, at the Intersection of Faith and Culture subhed: Seen on influencers, pop stars and White House staff, cross necklaces are popping up everywhere.
April 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I grew up a Yankee fan but I'm so glad I haven't been one for 20 years now, because I can have uncomplicated chills about finally checking this ballpark off the list. (and yes, I'm wearing a Nats hat.)
Fenway skyline from across the road Pedro Martinez plaque outside Fenway Fenway entrance gate
April 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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$40.44 (plus fees) to honor my hated-it-there alma mater Oberlin College, which lost 40 straight in the early 90s, won a single time, then lost 44 in a row.

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donation receipt for this fun college-football-themed charity drive thing i only just learned about
April 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Supreme Court: Do this.
Attorney General: No.
next line? anybody off-book? i uh, i didn't have time to uhhh, my sides are in my trailer, can you um
White House tweet about US Attorney General Pam Bondi declaring that the illegally, incorrectly exiled Kilmar Abrego Garcia "is not coming back to our country," roughly 10 days after the Supreme Court ordered the White House to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return to the country.
April 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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They hate the Constitution and they're bragging about it. They hate America. They hate the values that anybody old enough to read this post was born into and are determined to erase them from the face of the earth.
April 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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trump take curry goat 😔
sign at my neighborhood jerk joint announcing price increases cause of tariffs
April 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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had to check that this was real and buddy, hoo-boy, boy-howdy is it real
screenshot from the NYSE's website confirming the quoted tweet's screenshot of a NewsMax press release about how the person doing the honors of opening the trading day tomorrow after Trump's tariffs announcement is the CEO of NewsMax
April 3, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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see even the mods are roasting me -- specifically and only myself -- for April Fools
fake April Fools Day Bluesky announcement of increased character limits for posts
April 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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character limits are a crime of repression against me specifically.
(phone note) i just know that sometime two-ish years from now a bunch of reporters know and admire will be touting books called, like, AMERICAN COWARDICE, each of them with between one and four genuinely new nuggets of reporting about Columbia and Paul Weiss and Bezos and all the other knee-bending institutions that are helping accelerate a fascist crypto-coup, scooplets that end up breaking in coverage of the book release without anyone buying enough copies to cover your advances. and I'm sorry in advance that your diligence and talent just happened to arrive in the stage of human history where we let a bunch of tech dorks destroy our attention spans and convert our souls into "down payment on my third yacht," when a sane civilization would have exiled them to desolate wilderness where the animals could have devoured their pathetic vengeful little existences before they returned to harm the tribe.
March 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
pykea.bsky.social
so under this policy, you theoretically could get kicked out for wearing a "DUKAKIS '86" t-shirt
The ballpark's policy states that anything "intended to draw attention to international, political or other similar events, causes or conflicts" are banned to not "detract from the experience of other fans."
March 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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people will write in to the Washington Post and say anything. "it's hard to write important emails." no it isn't. that's not true. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
excerpt: This saves time, but it also alleviates what Sharp refers to as cognitive burden. "We all know how hard it is to write an important email," he said. “Now imagine doing that dozens and dozens of time a day." He told me Stanford's internal research shows that the Al-generated responses tend to be longer and more empathetic than what clinicians would write.
March 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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me in the national security team group chat
Buster Bluth (panicking under pressure to read a nautical chart): Obviously this blue part here is the land.
March 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM