Charles PM
@charlespulliam.bsky.social
Now: Film & TV writer @ The Verge. As previously seen in: io9 + Gizmodo + NPR. GLAAD Award-winning comics wonk. Adjunct Pokémon Professor. Quite gay. Friend to all cats. [email protected]
Happy turkey day from me and King Itis✨
November 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Happy turkey day from me and King Itis✨
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This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
Stranger Things 5 is...fine and gets right to giving hardcore fans more twists to get excited about. But this thing where TV characters speak almost exclusively in recap-y exposition — which isn’t unique to this show — is getting a little out of hand. My review:
Stranger Things 5 begins with a frantic race to the finish line
Stranger Things 5 begins with a frantic race to the finish line
Netflix’s hit series is finally coming to an end.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Stranger Things 5 is...fine and gets right to giving hardcore fans more twists to get excited about. But this thing where TV characters speak almost exclusively in recap-y exposition — which isn’t unique to this show — is getting a little out of hand. My review:
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He’s right and and I support this aspect of the socialist agenda
🚨 BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all NYC students to carry a 3DS.
November 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
He’s right and and I support this aspect of the socialist agenda
Looks like chocobo's back on the menu, boys✨
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Looks like chocobo's back on the menu, boys✨
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when its definitely not a hostage situation
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
when its definitely not a hostage situation
Wrote about how the hype around Stranger Things 5 feels pretty subdued compared to past seasons and why Netflix is probably ok with that
Stranger Things is ending, and so is Netflix’s reliance on tentpole shows
Stranger Things is ending, and so is Netflix’s reliance on tentpole shows
Netflix is putting more of its energy into building out its IP catalog.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Wrote about how the hype around Stranger Things 5 feels pretty subdued compared to past seasons and why Netflix is probably ok with that
share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 AM
share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
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The EIC of Semafor is trying to out-argue Chotiner and it is going as well as you might expect
Does he not have any friends or family that can snatch that phone out of his hands
Does he not have any friends or family that can snatch that phone out of his hands
I generally try not to comment on Twitter but Isaac Chotiner is over there giving Semafor body blows right now and I just want to say I find it alarming that he's allowed to come for you without warning (asking for an interview)
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The EIC of Semafor is trying to out-argue Chotiner and it is going as well as you might expect
Does he not have any friends or family that can snatch that phone out of his hands
Does he not have any friends or family that can snatch that phone out of his hands
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A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
Joked about it before but Welcome to Derry really makes it easier to think of Pennywise as a flop that other eldritch monsters make fun of cause he settled down in a podunk town to hang out with kids
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Joked about it before but Welcome to Derry really makes it easier to think of Pennywise as a flop that other eldritch monsters make fun of cause he settled down in a podunk town to hang out with kids
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Love to get my news from Daddy*
*a 26-year-old
*a 26-year-old
If reading about college students using AI to cheat made you feel crazy, wait till you hear about where they get their news
Why college students prefer News Daddy over The New York Times
Zoomers get all their news from TikTok — and refuse to go elsewhere
www.theverge.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Love to get my news from Daddy*
*a 26-year-old
*a 26-year-old
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It’s probably not great the vast majority of American journalists and other media zeitgeist people are letting their brains marinate in this toxic sludge
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
It’s probably not great the vast majority of American journalists and other media zeitgeist people are letting their brains marinate in this toxic sludge
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i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?
“I’m never leaving this site,” and it’s a pool full of the most rancid piss imaginable
X’s messy About This Account rollout has caused utter chaos
X’s messy About This Account rollout has caused utter chaos
X’s About This Account location data is either completely useless, or everyone is a foreign troll.
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November 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
“I’m never leaving this site,” and it’s a pool full of the most rancid piss imaginable
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Got out some thoughts about Sora, gen AI nostalgia videos, and how the idea that this kind of content is the future of entertainment is an insult to people's intelligence
Who is AI nostalgia slop even for?
Who is AI nostalgia slop even for?
Video generators like Sora rely on a monoculture that no longer exists.
buff.ly
November 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Got out some thoughts about Sora, gen AI nostalgia videos, and how the idea that this kind of content is the future of entertainment is an insult to people's intelligence
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Love to learn terrible things about awful people against my will 🙃
November 18, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Love to learn terrible things about awful people against my will 🙃
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Hell yeah @rianjohnson.bsky.social (reposting with alt text)
November 22, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Hell yeah @rianjohnson.bsky.social (reposting with alt text)
lol
Marjorie Taylor Greene announces she is resigning from Congress
"I will be resigning from office with my last day being January 5, 2026”
"I will be resigning from office with my last day being January 5, 2026”
November 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
lol
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Also v funny that the movie adamantly sticks to this framing for Dorothy & co.
November 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Also v funny that the movie adamantly sticks to this framing for Dorothy & co.
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Thoroughly enjoyed Wicked: For Good and was impressed by the way it shifts between being a comedy of errors and a commentary about petty tyrants othering/dehumanizing people for being different. My review:
Wicked: For Good is a soaring second act that brings it all full circle
Wicked: For Good is a soaring second act that brings it all full circle
Splitting Wicked into two parts was actually a stroke of genius
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November 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Thoroughly enjoyed Wicked: For Good and was impressed by the way it shifts between being a comedy of errors and a commentary about petty tyrants othering/dehumanizing people for being different. My review:
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Asked @charlespulliam.bsky.social to ruminate on what it means to watch AI Fred Rodgers chop it up with AI Tupac -> www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Who is AI nostalgia slop even for?
Video generators like Sora rely on a monoculture that no longer exists.
www.theverge.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Asked @charlespulliam.bsky.social to ruminate on what it means to watch AI Fred Rodgers chop it up with AI Tupac -> www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Got out some thoughts about Sora, gen AI nostalgia videos, and how the idea that this kind of content is the future of entertainment is an insult to people's intelligence
Who is AI nostalgia slop even for?
Who is AI nostalgia slop even for?
Video generators like Sora rely on a monoculture that no longer exists.
buff.ly
November 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Got out some thoughts about Sora, gen AI nostalgia videos, and how the idea that this kind of content is the future of entertainment is an insult to people's intelligence