Cristian Ramirez

@cristianramirez.bsky.social

That one guy from Cracked, Small Beans, and Gamefully Unemployed. Usually depressed, rarely funny. https://www.cracked.com/members/ramirez421 https://ko-fi.com/jcristianramirez

The Wonder Years, starting with The Upsides (2010), then Suburbia I’ve Given You All And Now I’m Nothing (2011), and ending with The Greatest Generation (2013), is such an all-timer run, showing not just a thematic connection but also growth as a band.

Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d ago

What's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)

I may just be an elder millennial pop-punk/emo, but Jimmy Eat World releasing Clarity (99), Bleed American (01), and then Futures (04) all in the span of 5 years is hard to beat. I also just saw them on the 24th and they’re just as good now as they were when I first saw them 24 years ago.

Four squares going clockwise from top left: a bluish grey shape looking like reflections under water, a red picture of fuzz looking like zoomed in lint, blue sparkly water surface, then what looks like a yellow underwater picture of a tree trunk. The text “JIMMY EAT WORLD. CLARITY” is centered.The top of a cigarette machine with 7 bowling trophies of different sizes against a blue wall. Top text reads, “JIMMY EAT WORLD BLEED AMERICAN”A black and white photo of someone standing in the dark outside of a phone booth, which is the main source of light. There are also small lights dotting a black horizon in the background. Top text reads, “JIMMY EAT WORLD FUTURES”Jimmy Eat World performing live in front of a packed audience. Everyone is bathed in red light.
Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d ago

What's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)

I may just be an elder millennial pop-punk/emo, but Jimmy Eat World releasing Clarity (99), Bleed American (01), and then Futures (04) all in the span of 5 years is hard to beat. I also just saw them on the 24th and they’re just as good now as they were when I first saw them 24 years ago.

Four squares going clockwise from top left: a bluish grey shape looking like reflections under water, a red picture of fuzz looking like zoomed in lint, blue sparkly water surface, then what looks like a yellow underwater picture of a tree trunk. The text “JIMMY EAT WORLD. CLARITY” is centered.The top of a cigarette machine with 7 bowling trophies of different sizes against a blue wall. Top text reads, “JIMMY EAT WORLD BLEED AMERICAN”A black and white photo of someone standing in the dark outside of a phone booth, which is the main source of light. There are also small lights dotting a black horizon in the background. Top text reads, “JIMMY EAT WORLD FUTURES”Jimmy Eat World performing live in front of a packed audience. Everyone is bathed in red light.
Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d ago

What's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)

Or… and bear with me here It’s actually important to society to be the only site that doesn’t benefit the right wing Maybe you should lean into your reputation and instead be friendlier to minorities and the left

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Jess hits the nail on the head here. I’ll just add that the erosion of trust in science has been a concerted effort by conservatives, *but* we shouldn’t ignore the role higher education has played in the issue by pricing out poor students and creating a void of literacy that pundits can advantage of

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 2d ago

The challenge, though, is that for vaccines to be effective, we need people to get them even if they haven't spent decades studying the immune system and evaluating all evidence. Which means we need people to trust scientists, even if they know nothing about science themselves. 1/

Jess hits the nail on the head here. I’ll just add that the erosion of trust in science has been a concerted effort by conservatives, *but* we shouldn’t ignore the role higher education has played in the issue by pricing out poor students and creating a void of literacy that pundits can advantage of

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 2d ago

The challenge, though, is that for vaccines to be effective, we need people to get them even if they haven't spent decades studying the immune system and evaluating all evidence. Which means we need people to trust scientists, even if they know nothing about science themselves. 1/

I know there’s a lot of top-down pressure from capitalists to use ai, but that should just reinforce that this isn’t a minor issue. Have some fucking solidarity with the people ai companies steal from, and the poor communities the data centers are poisoning. Try valuing them above your convenience.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 5d ago

YouTuber Hank Green Admits He Has Unhealthy Relationship With AI After Facing Backlash Over Recent Video 'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Green

I know there’s a lot of top-down pressure from capitalists to use ai, but that should just reinforce that this isn’t a minor issue. Have some fucking solidarity with the people ai companies steal from, and the poor communities the data centers are poisoning. Try valuing them above your convenience.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 5d ago

YouTuber Hank Green Admits He Has Unhealthy Relationship With AI After Facing Backlash Over Recent Video 'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Green