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i can't stop making video essays about A Goofy Movie youtube.com/@joshwithparentheses contributing irritant for @theessaylibrary.com

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as long as at the end you promise you’ll never make a video this long again everyone will understand and believe you

06.03.2026 23:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This caused me to remember my ICQ#

06.03.2026 05:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this should be the end of the Gavin Newsom 2028 discussion. the party has spoken, full stop

04.03.2026 21:00 πŸ‘ 4036 πŸ” 834 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

03.03.2026 20:10 πŸ‘ 10708 πŸ” 3251 πŸ’¬ 198 πŸ“Œ 244

Every picture of you I’ve ever seen that is not on a book jacket has you making some sort of anatomically unlikely face so this kinda tracks for me

04.03.2026 16:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sister Minnie and the Ramadan Cats is a truly phenomenal band name

04.03.2026 13:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Michael B. Jordan holding two Actor Awards

Michael B. Jordan holding two Actor Awards

I didn't realize everyone who won for the ensemble cast got one and briefly thought they gave him two for winning Best Actor as a bit

02.03.2026 20:18 πŸ‘ 1423 πŸ” 248 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 6
Waiting For Guffman - Corky Dance.wmv
Waiting For Guffman - Corky Dance.wmv YouTube video by Tony R

youtu.be/W0zGgkRKbVo?...

01.03.2026 23:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Too many β€œmiddle ground” AI argumentsβ€”β€œI have concerns, too, but we have to adapt”—proceed from what is to me a peculiar embrace of β€œinevitability” which seems to be magical thinking, a way of depoliticizing the political, of self-soothing in the face of an overwhelming challenge.

01.03.2026 16:41 πŸ‘ 416 πŸ” 102 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 15
26.02.2026 22:47 πŸ‘ 728 πŸ” 185 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 1

What happened in Kansas is *exactly* why you need to get rid of Newsom at the primary.

He will not protect trans people.
He will not protect homeless people.
He will not protect anyone.He considers outside of the cultural norm.

... that's Republican shit.

26.02.2026 21:09 πŸ‘ 1019 πŸ” 349 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Trump economy so bad even microagressions are experiencing inflation

26.02.2026 17:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

bear ate the hermit, is all

26.02.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
"The sins of my homeland are my sins as well" said by El the Swordsman in Octopath Traveler 0

"The sins of my homeland are my sins as well" said by El the Swordsman in Octopath Traveler 0

More of us Americans should feel this way

26.02.2026 17:09 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.

If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.

If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

24.02.2026 16:04 πŸ‘ 3757 πŸ” 853 πŸ’¬ 54 πŸ“Œ 50

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

23.02.2026 23:47 πŸ‘ 5697 πŸ” 1977 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 40

wait which time

24.02.2026 14:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like this implies that the "higher power" invoked by AA is Ganondorf

23.02.2026 22:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

what even is the fucking point

23.02.2026 15:34 πŸ‘ 2867 πŸ” 725 πŸ’¬ 213 πŸ“Œ 297

Ngl and don’t tell your boy but I feel like there’s a strong argument to be made that a yugioh game is itself a trauma response

23.02.2026 15:55 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

21.02.2026 13:35 πŸ‘ 10129 πŸ” 2943 πŸ’¬ 145 πŸ“Œ 58

Hey, just in case anyone is curious, I am not in any way associated with this magazine. I didn’t make this video for them, nor did they contact me at all. They simply reposted my video. I appreciate the share, but I don’t feel great about them asking for donations based on my work.

21.02.2026 21:23 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

die hard is a metroidvania

19.02.2026 01:39 πŸ‘ 596 πŸ” 124 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 23

thee/thou

18.02.2026 18:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Seems like most people on here are anti-evil. That's the kind of insular groupthink that loses elections :/

08.06.2025 03:18 πŸ‘ 8744 πŸ” 1219 πŸ’¬ 71 πŸ“Œ 28

A shockingly direct statement of an idea I hadn’t heard quite so clearly articulated from @knowledgefight.bsky.social:

β€œThe [Republican] party exists as a means of maintaining Trump’s hold on power.”

This is also the problem with the Dems, of course. There is no longer policy in politics.

17.02.2026 16:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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16.02.2026 20:30 πŸ‘ 2688 πŸ” 1162 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 30
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Wow.

17.02.2026 03:59 πŸ‘ 35894 πŸ” 16632 πŸ’¬ 1297 πŸ“Œ 2470
A tag on a fitted sheet. The tag says β€œTOP OR BOTTOM”

A tag on a fitted sheet. The tag says β€œTOP OR BOTTOM”

…
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question ...

16.02.2026 21:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.

16.02.2026 19:38 πŸ‘ 6206 πŸ” 1276 πŸ’¬ 138 πŸ“Œ 54