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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 8d

Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 6h

Prob not good that "you have to vote for them, also they can't do anything good and it's your fault if they lose" is the Dem superfan line.

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 6h

Villeneuve managed to wrestle the first novel into a coherent, well-paced narrative but sanded off all the weirdness that makes it compelling. A Pyrrhic victory.

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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 6h

Still think @pixelatedboat.bsky.social nailed the Trump 1 era

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 6h

is hesburger

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 7h

What the hell are you talking about, David?

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 9h

Mamoru Oshii planned it. A young Satoshi Kon took the lead on its layouts. The result: a stunning moment from Patlabor 2.

We're looking inside the film's martial law sequence, including storyboards and production art:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/life-under...

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 8h

it's hard to get mad at Kamala over anything except Gaza because otherwise the party treated her horribly and she nearly saved them from oblivion anyway

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 12h

The other fun one is where people retcon the joe biden being forced out by leftist posters rather than like a bunch of dem insiders leaking to the times axios and other rags starting early spring 2024. like pelosi was leaking this shit by march and most of the ones pushing it early didnt want harris

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 8h

Has anyone ever looked better than Denzel and Sarita in that movie?

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 8h

up practicing the hornpipe

Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 9h

I hope he's doing well.

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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 9h

you can and should train your taste. if you're a grownup you should aim to get good at enjoying reading things that require decades of reading to understand and enjoy

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 19h

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

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 9h

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 9h

Columbus was perhaps the luckiest fraud in history.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11h

I know it’s the most obvious thing in the world but it’s really sad that so many people have absolutely no desires or dreams in life except to accumulate money and our entire world is becoming a fucking pit because of it

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 10h

Coyote only falls if he looks down.

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 10h

it’s good when novels are huge and long and even occasionally boring, it’s fundamentally a durational form

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 19h

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

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, it's a lot of sensible takes.

Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 10h

People get mad about this, but it's true. An audiobook can convey the information in a book, but listening to one is a different thing than reading, which is its own practice and should be cultivated by every person who is able to do it.