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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 2h

Steven Universe is the reason why the internet broke tv

Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 2h

Like, you have the intellect of a small child if you need capes and masks as a gimmick to care about gender, sexuality, and racism for that matter

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 2h

the assholes who turn to comic books to affirm their politics are the reason why democrats keep losing elections

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 16h

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 5h

With the exception of maybe Putin, almost everyone in Trump’s orbit is an abusive relationship with him. They’re practically preemptively thanking him for not hitting them.

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 7h

It's the story of the last ten years--kiss his ass in the most debased possible way, and this is what you get in return.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 7h

Trump complains about his Time Magazine cover photo in new post:

"the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They "disappeared" my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown... Really weird!"

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 5h

“appreciate” Houellebecq’s pessimism but without fail all of his actual adoring fans are vile, terrible people

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 8h

the thing is that Murdoch is a news man first and foremost and has a sense of pride and identification with his industry. Which is part of why the WSJ did not buckle under when Trump threatened it. Bezos just regards the Post as one of his many assets

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

Rupert Murdoch is awful, but he was an actual newspaper person who understood that alienating your core audience is not good business. For Bezos, the Post was a vanity project, and is now a loss leader to protect his other interests.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 23h

Yes AND the right has really run with some canonical things associated w/leftist organizing — they regularly reference Alinsky, for example. The learnings don’t seem to go in the opposite direction.

@himself.bsky.social’s post (linked in Matt’s tweet, which I also read today) is worth a read.

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 23h

It would be a great idea for the left to learn right-wing organizing techniques.

This doesn't happen because left elites cannot distinguish between ideological deficiency and political prowess.

They wrongly suppose that bc righties have dumb policy ideas, they must have stupid organizing ideas.

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 1d

www.programmablemutter.com/p/what-the-l...

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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 1d

I think it was actually good that Democrats kept the Very Online Left out of the party, especially after seeing what the Very Online Right has been doing with Republicans

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

hhngngngngngngn

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 1d

Gibson repeats in interviews and conversations that he didn’t predict anything. He was—and I’m paraphrasing him—writing about the present. I can’t remember the exact terminology that he used but it sounded similar to Darko Suvin’s Brechtian appropriation of Cognitive Estrangement.

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is in response to the Information Age in general and a hyper saturated media environment. Most cyberpunk is/was about mass media. Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World featured that trope and it was written in the mid 1980s.

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 1d

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
@dieworkwear • 2h
i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 1d

I take that back: Sayaka Murata.

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently most of Ryukishi07’s games possess Sekai-Kei elements? I wondered what a Sekai-Kei game would look like if it was targeted towards women…and Silent Hill f fits the bill? It reminds of what Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World would’ve looked like if Mieko Kawakami authored it.

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of people forget that the Matrix and Fight Club were taught in undergrad liberal arts classes during the aughts before Manosphere weirdos hijacked the Red Pill metaphor.

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 2d

That’s also pretty much the Feminist reading of Fight Club as well. Like, Tyler Durden’s jeering remark about Calvin Klein models happens all the time among certain women.

Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 2d

I'm reminded of those comments about how manosphere shit is basically just men subjecting themselves to the same body image problems that women have dealt with for generations and getting one-shotted by it

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 2d

A huge part of current twitter is eating disorder content for racist guys

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t make me tap the sign again

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2d

we have had to endure 190 months of your fucking mayoral election, i don’t want to hear shit out of new york

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 3d

I don’t think we should be gassing up people who live in Portland like this. You’re going to get so much bad art out of that.

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 3d

Silent Hill f is easily the best original entry in the franchise since Silent Hill 2’s release in 2001.

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 3d

Something that a friend reminded me is that there is an argument that art and culture actually thrived during the Edo Period. And it’s a “Leftist Myth” that the country was trapped in the Dark Ages during its closed door policy.

Matt Alt @mattalt.bsky.social · 3d

I actually think this mindset is key to the whole enterprise. It is certainly key to anime’s authenticity.

For too long we’ve seen “Galapagos” used to denigrate Japan’s inward focus. But in a world gone crazy, it has made Japan (and things from Japan) an oasis. Stay tuned for more about this soon.

Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 4d

Fascinating: "When I asked the editor of a major manga magazine how much thought they gave to foreign consumers when planning new series, they told me none — because how would they know what foreign people wanted?"

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 3d

That stuff does not expand your mind or make you smart. It just makes you weird.

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 3d

The other problem with Thiel is that he’s very likely dabbling with other medically assisted forms of quackery that explains why he’s going Full Elon.

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 3d

it’s been around for at least the Livejournal era of social media. The philosophy group that I used to be a part of aggressively bullied these types out of their communities—hence why they got the attention of Encyclopedia Drammatica.
P.T. Anderson kinda sorta documented them in Magnolia.

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Levi McLaughlin @levimclaughlin.bsky.social · 3d

Friends in Soka Gakkai have been circulating this analysis by Ide Eisaku, Keio University economist, which breaks down policy resonances between Komeito, Soka Gakkai, Japan's most powerful union, and opposition parties (thread to follow):

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 4d

I’m convinced that the Nobel Prize in Literature is the one thing that’s close to impossible for the Polymarket to predict or influence. And this aggravates critics and media kids to no end.

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 5d

I seldom see anyone take responsibility for what criticism has become. Most of BlueSky is like this except sincere

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