Will LaPorte
@ghostdown.online
musician, writer, and structural engineer 🇵🇷🇩🇴, they/them, NYC ghostdown.online
Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”
got to play a few hours of the upcoming onimusha game and walked away pretty high on it, although i'm not yet sold on its use of open world zones compared to its more linear, authored sections which tend to sing. more thoughts here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOGa... 💕
Onimusha: Way of the Sword Isn't Sekiro (Preview)
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Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
the el-sayed win shows yet again that centrists are now everything they always claim the left is when it comes to israel: ideologically rigid, in hock to extremists, mistaking online beefs (ie hasan) for mass politics—and toxic to the electorate.
one of the many reasons I am mad at Lost In Translation [2003, dir. Sofia Coppola] is that I can never again hear the MBV song "sometimes" without feeling like ScarJo in the back of that cab circling Tokyo at night
History of Concrete teaser and Fortune's Weave direct back to back absolutely tabletopped me this morning
at the elephant emu and wyvern riding store like 'um can I have Horse please'
The way profit maxxing corpo culture has invaded every form of art through algorithms pushing people into daily posting is really weighing on me lately. Efficiency and regularity of making "content" being prized above all else feels so grim, man.
Robin Williams, Hank Azaria & Dan Futterman all try to hold back their laughter while continuing with the scene after Robin’s unplanned fall in the kitchen in THE BIRDCAGE 🍤 Part of THE CLASS OF ’96, brunch screening of THE BIRDCAGE come to Nitehawk Williamsburg 8/15 & 8/16.
oh you’re not gonna stop at the stop sign. ok well then you’re gonna hit me. and sugar you had just better hope you kill me
i work at youtube, where you can watch anyone who has ever died on camera and get a half dozen neo nazi channels in response to searching “shrek cookie frosting recipe 2026.” please do not use women in our videos unless you’re complaining a brown one got a job somewhere
Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 7d agoa bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...
My scheming vizier when I start to cough after taking a swig of wine from my goblet
I also wrote about Good Time (which is one of my favorite movies ever) and my series of Anxiety Induction Playlists (which my loved ones have been consistently concerned about)
Will LaPorte@ghostdown.online · last wk.much like how bands will have little side gigs around/after festivals, during Aftermath's hater week i have written my own little hater piece about a root beer that made me physically angry to drink. Amidst other stuff.
I also wrote about Good Time (which is one of my favorite movies ever) and my series of Anxiety Induction Playlists (which my loved ones have been consistently concerned about)
Will LaPorte@ghostdown.online · last wk.much like how bands will have little side gigs around/after festivals, during Aftermath's hater week i have written my own little hater piece about a root beer that made me physically angry to drink. Amidst other stuff.
Once again: AI is the reverse printing press that makes asynchronous communication impossible
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · last wk.New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
much like how bands will have little side gigs around/after festivals, during Aftermath's hater week i have written my own little hater piece about a root beer that made me physically angry to drink. Amidst other stuff.
untwisting & untangling these strings i'm in
For this week, a poem, a buncha recs as always, a hatin’ ass root beer round-up, and writing about where anxiety playlists meet one of my favorite movies ever, Good Time.
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This is similar to the phrase "there's no ethical consumption under capitalism," which has been perverted from its original meaning. It's NOT an excuse to buy whatever you want because "lol nothing matters." When people say this they are making an excuse for themselves to keep doing the shitty thing