this weeks update from the $5 mystery movie letterboxd embargo: brink of war bad
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Last couple train trips into town there’s been at least one guy playing whatever out of his phone speaker the entire time and man I am on my last nerve with that shit
im being, embargoed, I guess lol so I'll just say: sex purge movie good
Whenever I see this style of office building outside of my childhood memory of anchorage it’s like finding out a building you thought of as singular is actually a crashed imperial spaceship
All the trains I rode in Los Angeles: defector.com/all-the-trai...
All The Trains I Rode In Los Angeles | Defector
This is not, really, a blog about trains. A blog about trains in Los Angeles, and my experience with them across 10 days, would ultimately be very short: Despite its notorious gaps in coverage, L.A.…
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Glorious deep dive on belt stanchions here. (Subscribe to Flaming Hydra!)
Flaming Hydra@flaminghydra.com · 2w agoTODAY: @jdconnor.bsky.social on the history, science, and technology of waiting in line. “Queuing theory is a real thing, with real math and real consequences for our lives. There are mathematical models for lines, and there are agent-based simulations.” flaminghydra.com/retractatus/
Cold pizza restaurant where they take your order 12hrs ahead of time
Any nerds got even one idea as to why this might be happening, at a seemingly random schedule, at the rate until I turn bluetooth off or restart the iPad
📚 Really appreciate wells’ commitment to space being Full Of Gender
Artificial condition • Notes by Jacob Earl • Popfeed
Really appreciate wells’ commitment to space being Full Of Gender
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filming the tv is like micing an amp cabinet: I understand why you do it but theres gotta be a better way
huge shoutout to these AirPods for knowing when I've gone to sleep and pausing my audiobook wish they were putting the heart rate data into a big graph, like I thought they were supposed to, but the sleep thing is great
Watching The Prisoner on criterion and I gotta say, this is the sort of nightmare you can only think up with socialized medicine. Oh no, a free house, oh, ooh, scary, I cant leave a beautiful little idyllic village. Ive got to wear a hat. What a nightmare
Sometimes I accidentally open threads and find myself getting sucked into it in a way I don’t for bluesky, but if I consciously block algorithmically suggested morons instead of engaging with obvious bait I can snap out of it
My journey inside the world of LARPing, where hustlebros pretend to be rich for TikTok.
How I Bought a Private Jet By Selling $10 Subscriptions to 404 Media
My journey inside the world of LARPing, where hustlebros pretend to be rich for TikTok.
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Your podcast pal and mine @dankmccoy.bsky.social on @mcsweeneys.net She rear-ended his car as he left the wake. She didn’t have insurance because “‘Preparing’ is just another word for closing off possibilities,” but she paid him back with a coupon book, good for a hundred New Experiences.
My Manic Pixie Dream Femme Fatale
“Her legs went all the way up to the fringe of her baby-doll dress. Presumably further than that, but that’s where the bright polka dots distracted me from t...
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My new essay, on bodycams and capturing the first-person perspective, is now available on Nebula. It is a relatively enormous video and one I am very proud of. nebula.tv/videos/jacob...
Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · last mo.Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
I just put out a new video 🙂. it's about American visual culture—where it's been (derogatory) and where it's going (vaguely ominous). viewable by tRUE PATRIOTS ONLY rAAHH 🦅🇺🇸 youtu.be/45ynsws5zVk
The New Americana
YouTube video by pagemelt
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People ARE stupid but you should do subtext anyway. You can spell it out as blatantly as possible and people will still willfully misinterpret it. I don't want all art to become shows for preschoolers, personally