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Isak Glaser @isakglaser.bsky.social · Feb 3

Some quotes should be left where they were found

Isak Glaser @isakglaser.bsky.social · 14h

Ditto, also every few months we have the discourse "Why don't we talk about Indonesia more"

Isak Glaser @isakglaser.bsky.social · 14h

the other thing about the high-population of most African countries and many Asian ones is ofc how *young* those populations are - so if you're in your 30/40s, many have easily doubled since you were in school, rocketing them up

Isak Glaser @isakglaser.bsky.social · 14h

Even though it was policy for most of my life-time it is still chocking that they kept 1 child policy basically intact right up until the point until every developed nation including them started freaking out about birthrates

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 15h

the far side should have panels before and after the main one so you know what led up to it and what happened after

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

Isak Glaser @isakglaser.bsky.social · 16h

By the accounts I've read it seems like he was just personally burnt out, not much you can do about that; it is *just* enough that it doesn't feel meager or rushed, but you're right that it was far from overstaying its welcome. Notable how little he's worked since though (maybe a bad contract tho).

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Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · Jul 13

Up Corcaigh 🤙

Isak Glaser @isakglaser.bsky.social · 20h

Here's hoping! Maybe they'll luck into some new bizarre juggernaut who's completely sui generis. Or the left will. Who can tell. If there's anything elections have taught us, it's half MoneyBall and half PowerBall

Isak Glaser @isakglaser.bsky.social · 22h

A real city mouse opinion I have is that schools should never be one story - they should be five levels tall and leave a towering psychic image-imprint in its aluminium who will always vaguely dread stairs

Isak Glaser @isakglaser.bsky.social · 1d

Bougainville independence for me admittedly a bit more glamorous

Isak Glaser @isakglaser.bsky.social · 1d

Canada is basically the US market for streaming though right, with quibbles here and there

Isak Glaser @isakglaser.bsky.social · 1d

This would've been a great subplot
I guess they'd have to be more interested in Bajoran politics in the backhalf to do that though

Isak Glaser @isakglaser.bsky.social · 1d

You know the real guy had an identical twin brother? Biggest missed opportunity by far

Isak Glaser @isakglaser.bsky.social · 1d

There are like dozens of people here who think this guy is endorsing "blood and soil" rhetoric who are just too mad to read. Do you think he's endorsing the use of "untermenschen" too? Or making a rhetorical point in a way you've seen a thousand people make one before

Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 1d

This joke is funny because it's saying Israelis are fake, rootless people who steal all their culture, see? Not a real ethnicity whose material culture is rooted in their blood and soil. No, some kind of sub-people.

This meme was heavily pushed by an influencer who claims Israel killed Charlie Kirk

Isak Glaser @isakglaser.bsky.social · 1d

The Liberian Whig party is also supposedly still around

Isak Glaser @isakglaser.bsky.social · 1d

The world gov being evil isn't really foregrounded until like 15 years into the run, when Oda really starts hitting that beat. Did somebody describe it to him or is he out there watching a bunch of One Piece?

Isak Glaser @isakglaser.bsky.social · 1d

Also his description of it until the Christ-stuff* isn't really off, but does sort of match the description somebody who watched A LOT of it would end up giving, like a kid whose surprised at how political it is in hindsight.

*but I assume that's his brainworms coming out

Isak Glaser @isakglaser.bsky.social · 1d

I have some evidence-less assertions and gut feelings to the contrary which nestle into a spurious but nefariously-tinged web of connections

Isak Glaser @isakglaser.bsky.social · 1d

Isak Glaser @isakglaser.bsky.social · 2d

Listen maybe you can slap *more* dysfunctional and sclerotic institutions on top of it with duct-tape
sort of a fuck your way into this, fuck your way out of it

Isak Glaser @isakglaser.bsky.social · 2d

easy fix every state gets a third non-voting Senator

Isak Glaser @isakglaser.bsky.social · 2d

I could never take Goofy serious as a child, something about him made me ill at ease

Isak Glaser @isakglaser.bsky.social · 2d

It's that age old problem: most writers can write about writing. Most should try and stretch themselves to talk about *something* else at least; even if they do write about writing successfully, it quickly becomes a snake eating itself if they keep doing it.

Isak Glaser @isakglaser.bsky.social · 2d

BUT then, after whatever individual qualities they had coming into the role (childhood, family, etc), what they have left is the experience of being a TV writer, a jobbing or powerful, successful one, and that's what they have left to comment on. And *that* quickly loses novelty.

Isak Glaser @isakglaser.bsky.social · 2d

It's a thing I guess diversity of experiences can solve for. Gray (forgetting the handle) on the other site suggested that "auteur" TV show-runners can really only get 1 great show out, because of how much they put themselves into it, and over so many years.

Isak Glaser @isakglaser.bsky.social · 2d

And a lot of great stuff has come out of this sort of thing, but it does get a bit samey and a bit "Oh, bohoo you" after a lot of them. There are other ideas out there, even ones writers can comment on

Jordon Nardino @jnardino.bsky.social · 2d

I do find most tv shows wind up becoming about the showrunner and their attitude towards work. When your entire career is based on writing, it’s all you have to draw on.