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Nick Capozzoli

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 5d

New blog post up. It's about a few things—chiefly, the impulse to jettison literary criticism as if it were ballast. www.arcadence.com/abundance-re...

Abundance Reigns!

The Reminder is a watchword: though it may ascribe a problem to us, the offenders are assuredly others.

www.arcadence.com

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 6h

like sure the RFK jr red meat wasn't mentioned but what else was she going to write a book about, her journalistic know-how? maybe what it's like to be friends with Milo Yiannopolous

Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 6h

Gleaned this from a @rusty.todayintabs.com post almost a month ago tho?

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 11h

He really put a "but I'm different" in his eulogy. What a mind.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 11h

(i'm undaunted but slightly bummed that I didn't even fall trying to make the last step—I was staring at Nate's toes trying to gauge distance and he just kinda keeled over)

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 11h

well,

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 16h

Imagine, you are buzzing after the last sip of your third Kim Crawford sauvignon blanc. You just met a lovely retiree whose daughter-in-law is going to phone you about the condo in Hallandale. You walk up to my tent, I smile at you. I have Golgotha loaded up in Classic.

Cold email from marketer:
"Good morning Jason, are you or Brian Bucklew the right person to speak with about influencer partnerships?

We recently signed on as the exclusive influencer partner for the South Beach Wine and Food Festival, activating creators across 35 of their events."

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 1d

Latest blog post is featured in the Critical Distance roundup for this past week: www.arcadence.com/abundance-re...

Nicholas Capozzoli rejects a reductive critical impulse towards the misremembered simplicity of a good ol’ days that never were (Further Reading: Grace Benfell on the state of criticism).

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 1d

Latest blog post is featured in the Critical Distance roundup for this past week: www.arcadence.com/abundance-re...

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 3d

like is the fact that i'm not upset about not doing better gonna be the thing that accidentally produces a lifetime challenge: "Man, 89, From Deathbed, Finally Surmounts Video Game Mountain" because I do not want that for me

Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 3d

idly wondering if I have the perfectly wrong—or reasonably right—attention span for the manbreaker: I don't care if the game's sitting on my hard drive and I don't beat it for 2 years, but I also start losing focus about 2 minutes into every climb

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meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social · 3d

what a refreshing change to see a politician stand firmly on trans rights, refuse to concede the right-wing framing of trans people as "a problem", and rightly call out ridicule and bigotry in the guise of "common sense"

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 4d

Sharing this one more time before the long weekend. I wrote about the value of literary games criticism, the loss of said critics' jobs, and "the delirious fantasy that this could all be good for us." www.arcadence.com/abundance-re...

Abundance Reigns!

The Reminder is a watchword: though it may ascribe a problem to us, the offenders are assuredly others.

www.arcadence.com

Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 4d

Baby Steps (2025)

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 5d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 4d

well it's not happening today

Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 4d

I think so. Staring at that area now. Here's my current view:

Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 4d

this is "trending," to me

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 4d

god i hope the part I'm currently stuck at is fucktown

Peter Silk / KestrelPi @kestrelpi.bsky.social · 4d

I did, or at least to it's landmarks.

Awkward Ramp
Banana peel
Seagull
Weird colour rock
The bit before the cutscene that I like to call "fucktown"
Platform
Scary but easy planks
Horrible ledges
Deceptively slippery slope

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 5d

New blog post up. It's about a few things—chiefly, the impulse to jettison literary criticism as if it were ballast. www.arcadence.com/abundance-re...

Abundance Reigns!

The Reminder is a watchword: though it may ascribe a problem to us, the offenders are assuredly others.

www.arcadence.com

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 5d

I'm on to nested parentheticals, baby. The double IPAs of writing.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 6d

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 5d

Best bet I've found is to set up (and pay for) an advanced call filter that allows blocking unknown numbers by area code (in my experience they seem to come from certain codes in bulk) , then turning those notifications off. But they'll still fill up your voicemail, no way around that AFAIK.

Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 5d

Short answer: Ajit Pai

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 5d

This administration is a dull-minded, paranoid, gullible old man surrounded by twenty cranks, thousand-year-reich zealots, and single-issue lunatics, all with phones, running around saying, "Show him this! He'll like this! Make sure he sees this!"

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 5d

If there's one thing I'm very jealous of brit crits for it's their preternatural ability to euphemize self-serious video game terms. You can be as po-faced abt your milsim as possible but you can't stop those lads from calling your operators "naughty kittens" www.rockpapershotgun.com/battlefield-...

Battlefield 6 review

Battlefield 6 is a tale as old as the FPS genre: a vapid military fable salvaged from total irrelevance by a robust but fundamentally unadventurous multiplayer.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 5d

I guess if his is corkscrew shaped like a pigs that's your bottle opener covered at least