animation lead: hey did you finish work on that shot of mario and luigi in the grass yet?
animator: yeah, real post-coital just like you asked
animation lead: real what?
thinking about how jkr and people like her could be using their massive amounts of wealth to pay it forward and singlehandedly fund a robust and multidisciplinary local arts scene with generational benefits to culture and the world. but instead...!
Check out my essay “The Horror of Performance” about I Saw The TV Glow and Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal sites.google.com/view/abundan...
Just heard about Fredrick Brennan's death. He was a genuine example of how a person can try to make right the things they did wrong and do better. He got 8chan taken down and essentially deplatformed. And he never misrepresented who he was or the mistakes he made. We could all do that more.
Just found out Fredrick Brennan died. I only met him in person once, but I always had a lot of respect for his personal growth and ownership of his past. More than anything, I respected his commitment to changing himself for the better.
He was a good guy. So it goes.
TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by Al 29 Apr 2025 - Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20% to 30% of code inside the company's repositories was "written by software" - meaning... Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com Microsoft admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 1 day ago - Except it's not totally terrible. What makes it terrible is the privacy invasions and the consent issues Microsoft has with its users, along ...
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Anya Taylor Joy maxxing
Does he also play the drums
Tinker Swift, Taylor Swift, Soldier Swift, Spy Swift
Drew Gooden: "You have to wonder if we've finally reached a point now where the greed has gone too far ... no amount of gaslighting about how the economy is good will convince people who are dying because they can't afford to go to the doctor."
Lyrics from sufjan stevens’ age of adz that reads “when I die when I die I’ll rot but when I live when I live I’ll give it all I’ve got” this is featured in a dark background with white speckles. In the corner are Angel wings and a banjo
Some Sufjan Stevens fanart!
AI Hasbara: Israel Pours Millions Into U.S. Influence Efforts, Targeting Evangelicals in Churches and ChatGPT
This story is bonkers
archive.is/csVPb
Also 31, and I surprised myself by wearing the appropriate footwear for a chilly day while I have almost certainly never dressed correctly for the weather
The podcast’s new season is actually genuinely very fun!
In case you were disappointed by the Ophelia reference in Taylor’s life of a showgirl, checkout my totally queer Ophelia oriented short story “Unsexed” wildscapelit.com/issue-2-c-sh...
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@jakerockatansky.bsky.social it was a pleasure for you to read my story on the newest QAA ep! (The one about being a teacher) and I gotta tell you I’m one of your fabled Southern listeners!
hey, Wild Faith has sold 21,000 copies! that is pretty neat. 21,000 people more informed about what christofascism looks like and its impact on women and children
join the knowledge elite here 🧿👁️:
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If a bear attacks you, stay calm. Try to see the situation from their point of view
“Severance" actor Tramell Tillman has won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. He is the first Black man ever to win the award #Emmys
Rosa Parks moved to Detroit after the Montgomery bus boycott because she was fired from her seamstress job and blacklisted from work in the city
i’m actually fine not having malcolm “koreans can’t fly planes because they’re too polite & the chinese are better at math because of the epigenetic memory of rice” gladwell on my side.
i’m sure there’s a lovely garden party where he can go burn a cross with the other harper’s letter signatories.
I was psyched to learn you’re Arkansan! Teens have so many questions like for example I explained to them why I don’t use the term “Caucasian” & the term’s history. Their response was “so you’re not white?” Love them.
Thank you so much for sharing! As a white Arkansan teacher, I’ve had so many students asking each other questions about race and ethnicity that people around them just tell them to hush up, and they just stay confused. I’m so glad you’re talking about this
@ifbookspod.bsky.social jumpscare
I’m a professor &today was surreal. I did a lesson on the swatting at colleges across the U.S. including at one in my state. I had my students analyze the rhetorical situation of a social media post about it and then during work time one of my students informed me of the Minneapolis shooting
@knowrogan.bsky.social I wanted to say thank you for this podcast bc you have helped me breakdown the cognitive dissonance and logical fallacies and paradoxes of the ideology in online fandom spaces. Hearing your analysis of rhetoric has kept my mind sharp!
@ojutel.bsky.social I wanted to say thanks again for ur guest spot on QAA! u inspired me to research fandom spaces & I have discovered that free speech absolutism is rampant & that this rhetoric has been used in fandom to push the Overton Window within the space to allow/protect Alt-Right content
Williams’s argument has found purchase among journalists he might consider fellow travelers — Yascha Mounk, Bari Weiss and Conor Friedersdorf, among others. It’s also not so new; it might remind some people of the debates about political correctness that raged in the 1990s, though Williams might balk at the comparison. He would prefer that we not invoke history (or context, or ideology, or ideas of “moral clarity”) in our debates. He’d rather we understand current events through the facts of what is happening in the here and now. We shouldn’t have tried, he says, to understand the killing of Trayvon Martin on a continuum of racial violence that includes the lynching of Emmett Till, because doing so flattened the incident into a racial drama and did not deal with specific individuals and their actions. Similarly, he argues, the murder of George Floyd should not be seen in the context of racism and police behavior, but in the light of Floyd’s poverty and drug addiction (and I suppose we are not allowed then to contextualize those factors in terms of race, or the history of labor markets, or the pharmaceutical industry — they are just individual characteristics).
a sharp review of the chatterton book that notes the author’s total refusal to engage with history and his insistence that a “serious” or “good faith” discussion requires participants to exist in an eternal present where individuals exist free of context www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
