nick
@ratioclub.bsky.social
Radical leftist disgruntled former academic. A thin-ice-walker and a freelance writer.
Trying to understand the thought process of making a "sizzle reel" for your news site and scoring it with "Money For Nothing", a song about appliance installers making crude comments while watching MTV, which drops like three f-slurs lol
Literally, the plan was to speedrun everything that happened in 2010s online journalism, only it was supposed to work out differently this time because Jimmy Finkelstein is built different, I guess.
January 31, 2024 at 11:36 PM
Trying to understand the thought process of making a "sizzle reel" for your news site and scoring it with "Money For Nothing", a song about appliance installers making crude comments while watching MTV, which drops like three f-slurs lol
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Deeply unethical to use "The Prestige" cloning machine for this
January 30, 2024 at 12:52 AM
Deeply unethical to use "The Prestige" cloning machine for this
Explaining it to Europeans it's like "oh yeah we have no coalitions and the one time they talked about trying it there was an uproar that it was 'undemocratic' so if the conservatives get 100 seats and the left parties get 99 seats each the conservatives form the government" and they're like ????
January 29, 2024 at 11:22 PM
Explaining it to Europeans it's like "oh yeah we have no coalitions and the one time they talked about trying it there was an uproar that it was 'undemocratic' so if the conservatives get 100 seats and the left parties get 99 seats each the conservatives form the government" and they're like ????
This unlocked a memory of the Slick Shoes/Cooter split and when I later heard one of Cooter's tracks from it in one of the EA Sports NHL games (after they made them change their name ofc lol) but it was a sped-up nightcore version?? Why did they do that?
I wish record labels were still doing collabs and splits... feels like we'll never get another converter/asche/morgenstern situation
January 29, 2024 at 11:12 PM
This unlocked a memory of the Slick Shoes/Cooter split and when I later heard one of Cooter's tracks from it in one of the EA Sports NHL games (after they made them change their name ofc lol) but it was a sped-up nightcore version?? Why did they do that?
48 hours after the updated vaccine I'm still experiencing side effects, I have suffered unjustly more than anyone maybe ever
January 29, 2024 at 7:12 PM
48 hours after the updated vaccine I'm still experiencing side effects, I have suffered unjustly more than anyone maybe ever
This feels like a "magical realism bot" post
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — An aging mobster gets no prison time for stealing a pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in “The Wizard of Oz.”
January 29, 2024 at 5:08 PM
This feels like a "magical realism bot" post
King's deid
(seriously though I do think they did aggressive medical procedures to keep Elizabeth alive until her 70th jubilee for no purpose other than to avoid "69" jokes)
(seriously though I do think they did aggressive medical procedures to keep Elizabeth alive until her 70th jubilee for no purpose other than to avoid "69" jokes)
January 29, 2024 at 4:34 PM
King's deid
(seriously though I do think they did aggressive medical procedures to keep Elizabeth alive until her 70th jubilee for no purpose other than to avoid "69" jokes)
(seriously though I do think they did aggressive medical procedures to keep Elizabeth alive until her 70th jubilee for no purpose other than to avoid "69" jokes)
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i am tired of fishing if you make me fish in your game i will kill myself
January 29, 2024 at 12:52 PM
i am tired of fishing if you make me fish in your game i will kill myself
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Had to look for the tweet because I think about it literally all the time lol
January 28, 2024 at 12:56 AM
Had to look for the tweet because I think about it literally all the time lol
I have a friend from rural California near the Nevada border and he says that 90% of what's in New Vegas is already like that – the desolate landscape, the random burned-out cars strewn around, the abandoned dilapidated shacks, the guns – it's just the scorpions aren't quite as big lol
look on the bright side once civil war 2 is over fallout will be Real
January 28, 2024 at 12:47 AM
I have a friend from rural California near the Nevada border and he says that 90% of what's in New Vegas is already like that – the desolate landscape, the random burned-out cars strewn around, the abandoned dilapidated shacks, the guns – it's just the scorpions aren't quite as big lol
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in honor of the late great Norman Jewison and the full moon tonight, thought I'd share my essay on Moonstruck here. the Platonic ideal of the rom-com. www.patreon.com/posts/moonst...
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January 26, 2024 at 2:15 AM
in honor of the late great Norman Jewison and the full moon tonight, thought I'd share my essay on Moonstruck here. the Platonic ideal of the rom-com. www.patreon.com/posts/moonst...
This reminded me of this song, from an album I loved when I was a teenager, and I just now learned that the keyboardist 1) was Alsatian as in from Alsace and 2) was Poppy Corby-Teuch who went on to act in The Royals and Fantastic Beasts, I had no idea
January 25, 2024 at 2:25 AM
This reminded me of this song, from an album I loved when I was a teenager, and I just now learned that the keyboardist 1) was Alsatian as in from Alsace and 2) was Poppy Corby-Teuch who went on to act in The Royals and Fantastic Beasts, I had no idea
Lol @ the surgical mask
Bin-kun is a bottle of yomeishu, a medicinal tonic (14% proof) for physical fatigue.
January 25, 2024 at 2:02 AM
Lol @ the surgical mask
It's cheating because it almost certainly isn't actually someone's name but one time my sister came into work and the fill-in receptionist had written down a message from "Funge Kungecosi"
January 24, 2024 at 7:23 PM
It's cheating because it almost certainly isn't actually someone's name but one time my sister came into work and the fill-in receptionist had written down a message from "Funge Kungecosi"
It's my most dad-coded music enthusiasm but I love how mark knopfler can somehow romanticize it while simultaneously making it seem shitty
January 23, 2024 at 7:33 PM
It's my most dad-coded music enthusiasm but I love how mark knopfler can somehow romanticize it while simultaneously making it seem shitty
Just thinking about how in Musk's ludicrous fantasy, the actual literal WWII nazis, currently engaged in the holocaust, aren't banned from twitter
An auspicious anniversary
January 23, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Just thinking about how in Musk's ludicrous fantasy, the actual literal WWII nazis, currently engaged in the holocaust, aren't banned from twitter
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"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of dril’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have made their postes to eight people on Friendster." -steve jonds
January 23, 2024 at 3:56 AM
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of dril’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have made their postes to eight people on Friendster." -steve jonds
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Bell Labs has an EGOT (five Emmys, a Grammy, an Oscar, and five Turing Awards).
January 21, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Bell Labs has an EGOT (five Emmys, a Grammy, an Oscar, and five Turing Awards).
An auspicious anniversary
January 23, 2024 at 12:39 AM
An auspicious anniversary
I'm not one of the people who thought he was Jewish because of his name and "Fiddler on the Roof" but I *did* think he was catholic because of "Moonstruck"
RIP Norman Jewison, it’s still so weird that you were Protestant
January 22, 2024 at 9:15 PM
I'm not one of the people who thought he was Jewish because of his name and "Fiddler on the Roof" but I *did* think he was catholic because of "Moonstruck"
Apparently some asshole downloaded my thesis and is selling it as a publisher through websites including Barnes and Noble, Blackstone's, etc. Presumably some print-on-demand crap, with my name on it. I'm not entitled to any money, it's the university's property, idk if they'll care though. Ugh.
January 22, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Apparently some asshole downloaded my thesis and is selling it as a publisher through websites including Barnes and Noble, Blackstone's, etc. Presumably some print-on-demand crap, with my name on it. I'm not entitled to any money, it's the university's property, idk if they'll care though. Ugh.
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Can’t stop thinking about the description of DeSantis as having the mannerisms of Nathan Lane trying to act like John Wayne in The Birdcage
November 3, 2023 at 9:53 PM
Can’t stop thinking about the description of DeSantis as having the mannerisms of Nathan Lane trying to act like John Wayne in The Birdcage
Every time I see this picture I think of the tweet that captioned it "90's and 2000's Steven Seagal"
January 22, 2024 at 12:42 AM
Every time I see this picture I think of the tweet that captioned it "90's and 2000's Steven Seagal"
Me and who?
January 21, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Me and who?
I hate Collinsworth as an announcer and Dungy as a person but I gained sympathy for Rodney Harrison during the time when they had Dungy control the replays and he never figured out how to pause it, only rewind over and over, and Rodney would glare at him like he wanted to punch him just like I did
Is there a less likable media team than Rodney Harrison, Jac Collinsworth, and Tony Dungy? The dirtiest player this century, a talentless nepo baby, and a bigoted imbecile.
January 21, 2024 at 10:18 PM
I hate Collinsworth as an announcer and Dungy as a person but I gained sympathy for Rodney Harrison during the time when they had Dungy control the replays and he never figured out how to pause it, only rewind over and over, and Rodney would glare at him like he wanted to punch him just like I did