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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 13h

Frog from Chrono Trigger sez:

Beloved video game character Frog shares a heartfelt sentiment.

A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 12h

Kermit once sang to a theremin, lured it under his rainbow, and 9 months later came J*rdan P*terson. And if he's on the way to the end of the rainbow finally, it will not even be any fun. He will be forgotten so hard, this sad creature into whose small and fussy mind the world could never fit.

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 15h

College Republicans have in fact always been this way.

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 15h

"Travel can't help you not to feel depressed, you're still going to be you wherever you go," yeah, I rule. It's where I live that fucking sucks. Anytime I hit the road I'm happier than I've been since the last time I got outta town.

A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 17h

If #GhostOfYotei makes you wanna watch samurai flicks that inspired it, check out the list I organized for @pastemagazine.bsky.social w/ @sinacolad.bsky.social @thesaintoftous.bsky.social @jimvorel.bsky.social & @crumpandy.bsky.social .

www.pastemagazine.com/movies/samur...

Lotta great ones!

The 50 Best Samurai Movies of All Time

Across eras, across types of weapons and armor, there remains the bushido code that compels us. Here are the 50 best samurai movies:

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 19h

I really am disappointed in a lot of people who should know better.

mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 20h

weird phenomenon i keep encountering where “writers” correctly identify the soul-sucking danger that large language models pose to their craft, but for some reason have no problem using generative AI to make images. like….are you stupid!!!!

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 1d

I am trying to write a sequel here man

A screen with some of my manuscript on it. Obstructing the view of it is a misbehaved shinobi who has mastered the ninja magic necessary to assume the form of a cat, but who has not learned the value of not being seen. At this rate I fear he will never become the hokage.

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 1d

If you read my book, you will find that it contains nothing whatsoever about sexts to RFK Jr., and also you will not be giving Olivia Nuzzi money. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSWBF9R4

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 1d

I started Alan Wake 2 finally, and usually I say why didn't you guys tell me it's the best game ever, but you all did, repeatedly.

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 1d

The world lost a genial man, a genius communicator and a supreme artist. I lost a friend - beloved Drew.

Andrew 🐻 @awd.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in Peace, Drew Struzan

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 1d

If you ever want to short circuit some people, just yell "Chappaquiddick" and slam the door behind you.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

I'm generalizing, but why do conservatives remember political irritations for so much longer than liberals?

It's been 17 years since Obama said some voters "cling to their guns, to their religion" and I heard a senator denounce that last month.

Obvious theory: Media ecosystem puts it on repeat

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine caring about Kaepernick in the year of our lord 2025

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 1d

This comes up everywhere, and Bruce Timm and the gang also point out the they used literally the same skin tone for Clark.

Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 1d

Love to get questions that include the phrase "I'm not racist but"

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 2d

An amazing thing doesn't happen when you read my book. You never get served an ad. You can just read it for hours and it never pauses for another dumbass emu insurance commercial. #booksky #fantasy www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSWBF9R4

The Raven Knight, Book One: The Last Burden You Must Discard

Amazon.com: The Raven Knight, Book One: The Last Burden You Must Discard: 9798999746511: Lowe 余, Kenneth, Großlaub, Béla, Pantoja Jr, Jesus: Books

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 2d

As usual, people misremember the actual quote. It's: "The customer is always right in matters of taste." This is to say, don't crap on a guy if he comes into your Blockbuster and wants to rent Wrestlemania XXII for the 8th time or whatever, not that he can yell at you until it's free.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

few ideas have damaged the average psyche more than ‘the customer is always right.’ it should be a little bit humiliating, being a customer. you should walk into any service transaction knowing that the other person, and not you, is in control over whether you get your treats

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 2d

Just because you could fit it in mass market paperback and bombard every wwii doughboy and grammar school with it doesn't mean I need to read it 75 years later.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 2d

You guys didn't need to remind me that her majesty is gone and this polyp still lives.

Vulture @vulture.com · 2d

Woody Allen is mourning his ‘beautiful yokel,’ Diane Keaton, in a new essay. He writes that ‘only God and Freud’ could understand why they broke up.

Woody Allen Calls Diane Keaton a ‘Beautiful Yokel’ in New Essay

Woody Allen is mourning his ‘beautiful yokel,’ Diane Keaton, in a new essay. He writes that ‘only God and Freud’ could understand why they broke up.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3d

When someone buys your pitch and you realize you have to actually write it

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 2d

In many parts of the old continent, crumbling but resolute under the passage of ages, the stones laid by the caesars still endure.

Fat Kid Deals @fatkiddeals.com · 2d

This Dominos is in an old Pizza Hut building 😭😭

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 2d

I look forward to when they rename it “Apple Plus TV” in a year.

Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 2d

Apple says Apple TV+ streaming service is being renamed as Apple TV, with "a vibrant new identity" (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)

Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 3d

It is 2040. Elon Musk, dragging a wheeled IV stand with his amphetamines hanging from it, takes the stage and pulls the cloth off a BattleMech. It takes one step and then pitches directly forward into the audience, killing most of the population of Austin.

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 3d

Only a couple more months for humans to invent the massive kaiju-fighting robots of Pacific Rim, which takes place in 2025. My optimism is waning.

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 3d

Don't forget catamounts.

Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 3d

so no one was going to tell me that mountain lions and cougars are the same animal? as are pumas? and panthers?????????

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 3d

Decatur has a sister city in Japan. Wonder if this thing went on a sisterhood of the traveling sweater or whatever.

Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 3d

Two friends are in Japan right now and found this at a store called "America Obsessed" - calling @mrillinois.bsky.social

A sweatshirt with a red collared shirt underneath it on a mannequin, displaying the crest of Decatur, Illinois with the word "Decatur" in huge text over top of it.

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 3d

As evidenced by the time mark on this tweet, I have been up late writing again. I never know exactly where I will stop. But tonight it was when I realized that writing the next passage would have necessitated a wiki dive to learn about 16th century sewage systems.

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 3d

Now that we're getting closer to having trillionaires, we can directly observe the inverse correlation between net worth and intelligence in ways previously unavailable to science. It's like we're biologists or astronomers finally granted a new kind of glass lens.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 4d

I see we've got some outrage tourism for Ghost of Yotei because it has a lady protagonist (portrayed by a non-binary actor). It's beside the point dunking on these fools, but "lady unleashes samurai vengeance" is classic genre stuff. Just highlighting that for normal folks! youtu.be/bIiuywU9ZJ4?...

Lady Snowblood (1973) 修羅雪姫 - Movie Trailer - Far East Films

YouTube video by Far East Films

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