Joe Scott
@joexscott.bsky.social
Podcast producer, creator of Downlow.d & [REDACTED], the latter of which is coming soon to a podcast listening platform near you.
The best part of waking up in North Carolina today were the wins we achieved in the most perversely gerrymandered of voting districts. Our state’s GOP sliced every Dem county so that our voting maps looked like a gang of red tumors picked with tiny blue pimples. But even that couldn’t save them.
My kid, named Ripley, dressed up as Ellen Ripley from ALIENS for Halloween. I think she did a pretty good job!
Temu James Carville-ass mf’er… 😂
NY Times Pitchbot@nytpitchbot.bsky.social · last wk.There it is baby. The good stuff.
The fate of way too many Gen X heroes be like...
Matt Brignall@mattbrignall.bsky.social · 2w agoThe punk to MAGA pipeline is real. Even on the west coast.
She doesn't even know that someday her little boy is going to outer space.
I've talked about how this was inevitable. Generative AI has made superficially polished "perfection" universally accessible. But things that are universally accessible have much less social or artistic value. Even disregarding the moral an political objections: Gen AI is the new "Looks cheap."
Cartoon Brew@cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 2w agoChina’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend. By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...
I live in North Carolina, and I’ve fortunately never been subjected to these ads. But also, so many conservatives I know here love drag queens in kind of a weird, closeted way that it’s funny they used an ad like this as an insult.
Angry Donkey News@angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 2w agoThe ad, which was paid for by the National Republican Congressional Campaign, approved by Balkcom, and posted by the North Carolina Republican Party’s official X account last week, features AI-generated images of Ager dancing with a drag queen in a barn while children look on.
I’ll always remember when TINY FURNITURE was released, and thinking this Lena Dunham person is surely going places! And while I admit she might have contributed to this to some degree, I really hate us and our culture for the way we always seem to chew up so many of our artists and spit them out.
matt lynch@colonelmortimer.bsky.social · 2w agoMight sound silly but after sitting with it a little this really reminded me of TINY FURNITURE (complimentary).
There’s a few story nits to pick with EVERWOOD, the newest film from Laika, but the final act is so beautiful that it was impossible for my critical mind to not give it a full, unconditional surrender.
A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2w agoRFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
Don't know about you, but I'm dog-tired of drug-addled trillionaire rapists complaining about what's wrong with anyone at all. Don't they own mirrors?
When a group of YMCA campers needed to be rescued during the wildfires on our northern border, it was Canada who immediately helped. Not a word from Trump.
Politico@politico.com · 3mo agoTrump announces 50 percent tariff increase on Canada for vehicles, steel after trade talks collapse
YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING is many things -- a quasi non-fiction remake of VERTIGO, a deep dive into the intersection between sociopathy and neurodivergence, etc. But my fave is the story about two filmmakers fighting to produce a documentary in the way they used to be made vs. how they are made today.
A really mean thing to say about children.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3w agoI actually just think libertarians are children.
I loved Mike Flannigan's take on CARRIE. It has fantastic actors and expands the novel's story into the lore of the Stephen King universe in ways I found to be interesting. But more importantly, it shows telekensis is nothing compared to the psychic power social media has over young minds today.
It’s hilarious that they did this instead of finding a way to let people play the actual games again without spending 100-300 bucks on old copies.
Nintendo Life@nintendolife.com · 4w agoPSA: Pokémon Red & Blue Game Boy Jukebox Back In Stock (Repost)
It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.
My favorite part of @josie.zone’s #beckbook. I started this book about the life and music of Beck wanting to know “what happened” at the turn of the century that made his music simultaneously more personal but less expressive. I ended this book wanting him (and all of us) to be okay.
Happy beckbook.com day! So glad my local grocery store decided to honor the release of @josie.zone ‘s latest book release with this fitting endcap display next to actual jars of Cheez Whiz! Guess it’s time to finally pick up a copy of @beckbook.com and ‘get crazy’ with it?
