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Mack the Knife

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Given how long it's taken me to reconcile with my nature, I can't see me changing it on your account.

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War of the Monsters let's gooooo

06.03.2026 05:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

X Com 2 and Bloodborne were VERY nearly on mine as well, and if I were more honest and less nostalgia-inclined, Slay the Spire ABSOLUTELY would be too

06.03.2026 05:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yakuza makin the list that's my dawg right there

06.03.2026 05:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wild and kind of sweet that this was still very hard for me to figure out lol

06.03.2026 04:23 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

Dude I'm losing it

05.03.2026 18:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

05.03.2026 05:17 πŸ‘ 17081 πŸ” 5653 πŸ’¬ 128 πŸ“Œ 101
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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

β€œNo front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

05.03.2026 04:01 πŸ‘ 4196 πŸ” 2109 πŸ’¬ 62 πŸ“Œ 75

I am the tallest person at this Mitski concert

05.03.2026 01:56 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They're calling it "a new postmodern classic"

04.03.2026 20:11 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We're gonna run the city @snzarate.bsky.social (no one's ever thought this before)

04.03.2026 17:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Bernie Sander’s 2028 litmus test would strangle America’s golden goose

Bernie Sander’s 2028 litmus test would strangle America’s golden goose

Surprise! The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against my 5% billionaire wealth tax. I wonder why?

If enacted, Bezos would owe $12 billion in taxes, and an average family of 4 would receive a $12,000 direct payment.

Poor Jeff would be left with just $224 billion to survive.

03.03.2026 17:09 πŸ‘ 6823 πŸ” 1967 πŸ’¬ 187 πŸ“Œ 109

Oh BABY

03.03.2026 19:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was really sad to have missed this one, but I'm really excited to listen - and you should be too!

03.03.2026 16:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks! Lemme know if you know anybody hiring out here lol we can't all work at the damn Times

03.03.2026 01:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Apt hunting! Charlie got a job at the NY Times so we're moving pretty soon. We are actually gonna hit up Blake tonight but he was on your pod lol - hope it went well

03.03.2026 01:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Extremely weird and bad time to be distracted from world events BUT Charlie and I were just talking through Astoria and she pointed to a second story brownstone and said "They're playing Kingdom Hearts up there, he's in Traverse Town," so whatever else happens

03.03.2026 01:10 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Human Enough – Perisphere |Harry Mackin| "Did you ever take that test yourself?" Whenever an institution of power has wanted to exploit, enslave, or just murder another group of people, they've gotten away with it by convincin...

We are not covering BLADE RUNNER for @trylovepodca.st (blame @aarbypls.bsky.social idk what to tell you), so I wrote a Perisphere piece on it instead. Big thanks to Perisphere editors @finnematic.bsky.social and Olga for putting up with my tardiness!
www.perisphere.org/2026/03/01/h...

01.03.2026 18:07 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

This is the real reason we cannot have universal healthcare.

It has never been about the cost, the taxes, the "socialism" it has always been because as a people we'd be too mobile, too able to fight.

02.03.2026 21:45 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A still from the film THE DOOM GENERATION with the film's title and the caption "Writing by Natalie Marlin"

A still from the film THE DOOM GENERATION with the film's title and the caption "Writing by Natalie Marlin"

Some news: I'm hosting a screening of Gregg Araki's THE DOOM GENERATION at the Heights Theater in Columbia Heights, MN!

This Saturday night (3/7) at 9:30 pm! Come by, say hi, support an indie theater showing cool queer films!

ticketing.useast.veezi.com/purchase/629...

02.03.2026 18:11 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Managing hostesses in Yakuza 0's cabaret club is a surprisingly feminist mini-game Club Sunshine, it seems, can change the lives of all who enter

Amanda Tien analyzes a fan-favorite Like a Dragon mini-game in her first story for Mothership: "At Club Sunshine, I can make sure that women are taken care of."
www.mothership.blog/yakuza-0-cab...

02.03.2026 14:33 πŸ‘ 168 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 10

That means a lot, because the fact that BR has been written about to death was weighing heavily on me as I went into this, and I wanted to find an angle I hadn't seen too much. Thanks for reading!

02.03.2026 15:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyway here is a poem I wrote about my Palestinian dad

20.09.2025 14:43 πŸ‘ 755 πŸ” 217 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

If you've ever celebrated being featured in a Critical Distance roundup, please help them keep the lights on. They put in a lot of work for not very much pay (most members are purely volunteer!) and help keep what remains of the game criticism community together

26.02.2026 17:58 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Harry is my friend so I have to stress this isn’t favoritism β€” PLEASE read this essay!

01.03.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Human Enough – Perisphere |Harry Mackin| "Did you ever take that test yourself?" Whenever an institution of power has wanted to exploit, enslave, or just murder another group of people, they've gotten away with it by convincin...

We are not covering BLADE RUNNER for @trylovepodca.st (blame @aarbypls.bsky.social idk what to tell you), so I wrote a Perisphere piece on it instead. Big thanks to Perisphere editors @finnematic.bsky.social and Olga for putting up with my tardiness!
www.perisphere.org/2026/03/01/h...

01.03.2026 18:07 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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cherry blossom

28.02.2026 23:24 πŸ‘ 908 πŸ” 383 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What the genocide in Gaza reinforced is that there are no "civilians" when it comes to Israel and the United States. The rest of the world learned the same lesson and the consequences are going to be felt across the world.

28.02.2026 14:35 πŸ‘ 3364 πŸ” 1109 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 0

Why is it that the victims of the so-called, most moral army in the region, are mostly kids? The biggest death toll in the past 3 years by Israel's genocidal strikes has been kids, babies, and don't get me started on the amount of orphans who will suffer potential PTSD their entire lives.

28.02.2026 15:12 πŸ‘ 188 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

28.02.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 17015 πŸ” 6538 πŸ’¬ 469 πŸ“Œ 549

This is huge

26.02.2026 16:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0