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jumanji ito @naxuu.bsky.social · 14h

i'm only happy when it's strange
i'm only happy when it's obfuscated
my understanding is overrated
i'm only happy when it's strange

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Hi, it's Abby. Yep. @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 2d

Got kicked out of my work’s holiday party planning committee for suggesting the theme be “man’s inhumanity to man”

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jumanji ito @naxuu.bsky.social · 3d

oops I can't read and some of these folks are dead in the ground. oh well!

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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 4d

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

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jumanji ito @naxuu.bsky.social · 3d

i don't pay attention to lyrics all that much compared to other people, but my answers would be fairly boring and obvious: Leonard Cohen, The Mountain Goats, Joanna Newsom, Scott Walker, MF Doom come to mind. any of these would wipe the floor with Taylor Swift and leave bloodstains in their wake

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 7d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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oriana schwindt @schwindter.bsky.social · 5d

🎶 capitalism as totalizing ideology 🎶

Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 5d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 5d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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Elementary Penguin @elempeng.bsky.social · 5d

A four panel comic of Calvin’s Dad talking to Calvin.
Panel 1: All bands and musical acts can be classified as either Joy Division or New Order

Panel 2: Nirvana? Joy Division
The Strokes? New Order
Charli XCX? Joy Division
Taylor Swift? New Order

Panel 3: here's the thing... New Order? Joy Division, then New Order

Panel 4: Calvin lies awake in bed, looking completely confused

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jumanji ito @naxuu.bsky.social · 14d

good thread here to catch up on Kaleb Horton's genius-level writing

Jake-o-lantern @gloriousnoise.bsky.social · 16d

Here’s Kaleb Horton on Charles Portis.

slate.com/culture/2020...

The American Anthropology of Charles Portis

Arkansas is a state of mind and Portis was peerless at capturing it.

slate.com

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jumanji ito @naxuu.bsky.social · 15d

stuff i've been into in 2025:
-walks, walking in general
-reading a book quietly
-drinking a coffee slowly
-staring into the middle distance

as an aging dad of two i'm acutely aware of all of these activities being luxury & leisure, rare treats to indulge in

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 16d

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee.
You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

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Marie (same one) @marieberd.bsky.social · 16d

my husband @kalebhorton.bsky.social hated the phrase “passed away” and had nothing but scorn for softening euphemisms in general. he was a firm believer in the comedy rule of threes, but only if the third thing can hit as a surprise. and he just died

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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · Sep 13

Stop reading the news and normalize lounging inside “Visiona 2” by Verner Panton at the Cologne Furniture Fair in 1970.

“Visiona 2” installation at the Cologne Furniture Fair, 1970. Image courtesy of the Vitra Design Museum.

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jumanji ito @naxuu.bsky.social · Sep 12

seems like i've got the next half year of gaming fully locked in here

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jumanji ito @naxuu.bsky.social · Sep 10

Busytown metroidvania now

Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedytcooper.bsky.social · Sep 8

"I CANNOT beat this boss in Silksong, he's terrifying!"

The boss in question:

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Aunt Mrgladys @mrgan.com · Sep 9

'Flow' cost $4M. 'Hundreds of Beavers' was shot in 12 weeks and cost $150,000. Artists rethink what movies are, techbros rethink how to shaft the people who make them.

www.theverge.com/news/773584/...

$Article excerpt: "Critterz is reportedly being made on a budget of less than $30 million in just nine months, fractions of what is normally required for animated features. OpenAI, alongside LA- and London-based partners Native Foreign and Vertigo Films, will…"$

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · Sep 4

A lot of video-game publishers spend hundreds of millions of dollars chasing after "realistic graphics" and "massive open-worlds" when what players really want is just a shitload of weird little guys

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · Sep 4

After an hour of playing, I am happy to confirm that Silksong is exactly what I wanted: an endless parade of weird little guys

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jumanji ito @naxuu.bsky.social · Sep 1

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jumanji ito @naxuu.bsky.social · Sep 1

cross-section of my watchlist

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jumanji ito @naxuu.bsky.social · Sep 1

legitimately much better catalog than Netflix. LOTS of off-kilter bangers

Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · Sep 1

Once again, I want to mention that many libraries will give you free access to Kanopy, a streaming service jam-packed with amazing films and TV shows.

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jumanji ito @naxuu.bsky.social · Sep 1

same story with this clip - people share it to gawk, not appreciate what the person is doing www.tiktok.com/@rushadicus/...

pole jester encountered by amused police

TikTok video by rushadicus

www.tiktok.com

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jumanji ito @naxuu.bsky.social · Sep 1

i first saw this clip a few days ago in a reddit thread where the poster was gawking at the unhinged person. this is how most people see this stuff I think

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jumanji ito @naxuu.bsky.social · Sep 1

there are also various aspects of copyright law that are hard to detect/enforce but that doesn't stop the law from trying, either...

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jumanji ito @naxuu.bsky.social · Sep 1

there are ways to write laws to account for this. "knowingly" etc. you can also regulate platforms to require that artists must at least answer this question before work is uploaded. maybe most cases will be unenforceable as a result of this, but it's at least something. but yeah this will be hard

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jumanji ito @naxuu.bsky.social · Sep 1

the bandcamp page says nothing about AI, and the rest of the label's output is non-AI, so people are buying this without knowing any better. i see this as a form of fraud

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