Tuxedo Catfish
@tuxedocatfish.bsky.social
evaluated? buddy they keep me in a temperature-controlled vault so they can measure all autism accurately against mine
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On Ballet: Fran Lebowitz and Nick Mauss | Live from the Whitney
YouTube video by Whitney Museum of American Art
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this was my old pinned post on Twitter, Fran Lebowitz is one of the best to ever do it, just the clearest and most powerful articulation of my beliefs about the arts and their relationship with criticism i've ever seen from another person
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4XV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4XV...
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December 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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DHS’s post suggesting “if you help kick people out of the country you’ll be able to afford housing” is OG Nazism.
December 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
DHS’s post suggesting “if you help kick people out of the country you’ll be able to afford housing” is OG Nazism.
where's my invitation to the ugly sweater party. where the heck is it. are those losers afraid they can't compete if i show up?
new bit in Dec is to ask anyone wearing a sweater, "oh nice are you going to an ugly sweater party later?"
December 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
where's my invitation to the ugly sweater party. where the heck is it. are those losers afraid they can't compete if i show up?
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Anyway to come back to this what Lewis hated and feared wasn’t girls or women or sex but seduction. Being so enamoured or impressed that your bests judgement is overwhelmed. Not sexuality but influential eroticism
Thinking about CS Lewis’ precise constructions of sin as per gender, presentation, interaction, glamour, eroticism… my #1 pastime sometimes
December 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Anyway to come back to this what Lewis hated and feared wasn’t girls or women or sex but seduction. Being so enamoured or impressed that your bests judgement is overwhelmed. Not sexuality but influential eroticism
Audience is everything. I've spent an inordinate amount of time teaching TTRPGs and board games to people who don't normally like those hobbies but were either REALLY enthusiastic about the idea and came to me because I was the nearest expert, or, admittedly, sometimes because they were humoring me.
I’ve taught a lot of games, and one of the easiest to teach was Pathfinder 2e and one of the hardest to teach was Masks.
This isn’t an indicator of quality necessarily, but more that I think people make a mistake when they assume math = complexity and lack-of-math = intuitive.
This isn’t an indicator of quality necessarily, but more that I think people make a mistake when they assume math = complexity and lack-of-math = intuitive.
December 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Audience is everything. I've spent an inordinate amount of time teaching TTRPGs and board games to people who don't normally like those hobbies but were either REALLY enthusiastic about the idea and came to me because I was the nearest expert, or, admittedly, sometimes because they were humoring me.
Apart from being grotesque on its face, denying the existence of (actual) anti-Semitism is intellectually crippling for left-wing thought, because so many other modern bigotries resemble it. It's like a Rosetta Stone for TERFs, anti-immigrant sentiment, and anti-Muslim sentiment for that matter.
Je suis extrêmement gêné et découragé de voir tant de collègues signer cette tribune et par là même valider le texte indigent de J. Théry sur l'absence d'antisémitisme à gauche (le niveau de déni sur l'URSS est à peine croyable), sans parler du "soutien" apporté à quelqu'un repostant cette abjection
December 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Apart from being grotesque on its face, denying the existence of (actual) anti-Semitism is intellectually crippling for left-wing thought, because so many other modern bigotries resemble it. It's like a Rosetta Stone for TERFs, anti-immigrant sentiment, and anti-Muslim sentiment for that matter.
i briefly stayed with family in the Chicago suburbs when i was between undergrad and law school, job-hunting. the shit that other, and especially older white men said to me when they thought nobody else was listening was fucking bananas
In my experience a lot of guys use openly racist or homophobic jokes/slurs/remarks with people they don't know as a kind of filter to find other shitty guys like them
December 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
i briefly stayed with family in the Chicago suburbs when i was between undergrad and law school, job-hunting. the shit that other, and especially older white men said to me when they thought nobody else was listening was fucking bananas
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I love seeing the horrified reactions that non-Americans have to normal American things.
December 2, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I love seeing the horrified reactions that non-Americans have to normal American things.
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Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
some of this, i think, is a literacy problem (the harder reading is the harder it is to develop ANY other theoretical skill), some of it is a product of constant high-focus demands on people's attention, and some of it honestly just sounds like depressive symptoms but on a massive societal scale
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
some of this, i think, is a literacy problem (the harder reading is the harder it is to develop ANY other theoretical skill), some of it is a product of constant high-focus demands on people's attention, and some of it honestly just sounds like depressive symptoms but on a massive societal scale
okay Soulframe is amazing. i just turned into a flying rat, flew down a corrupted bear-god's throat, retrieved a sacred seed from his stomach acid, and flew out his butthole
November 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
okay Soulframe is amazing. i just turned into a flying rat, flew down a corrupted bear-god's throat, retrieved a sacred seed from his stomach acid, and flew out his butthole
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I just need you all to know the Something Awful Bathroom Renovation House is still for sale. It's been listed since at least May.
November 30, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I just need you all to know the Something Awful Bathroom Renovation House is still for sale. It's been listed since at least May.
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We're close to the world's first-ever broad-spectrum antiviral. In a breakthrough, researchers at the City University of New York have identified a promising path to the development of an antiviral that could be used to fight a wide range of deadly viruses, including future pandemic threats.
November 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
We're close to the world's first-ever broad-spectrum antiviral. In a breakthrough, researchers at the City University of New York have identified a promising path to the development of an antiviral that could be used to fight a wide range of deadly viruses, including future pandemic threats.
i'm pretty sure if you convert my salary into an hourly wage *I* don't make this, and i'm in legal aid, a job literally invented for nice gentleman lawyers to give the poor just enough hope that they don't murder you
I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
November 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
i'm pretty sure if you convert my salary into an hourly wage *I* don't make this, and i'm in legal aid, a job literally invented for nice gentleman lawyers to give the poor just enough hope that they don't murder you
what this tells me is that higher ed was already a hollow fucking wasteland where nobody in charge believes in what they're doing (and nobody who believes in what they're doing is in charge) and AI is just the plague ripping through the town with an open sewer and no germ theory
November 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
what this tells me is that higher ed was already a hollow fucking wasteland where nobody in charge believes in what they're doing (and nobody who believes in what they're doing is in charge) and AI is just the plague ripping through the town with an open sewer and no germ theory
there are no good dubs but i will never forgive amazon for forcing me, like a fey lord trapped between two unbreakable oaths, to defend actual human dub performances against something a million times worse
Amazon has rolled out AI dubbed anime and I’m truly appalled. Like it or loathe it, the medium has a rich, incredible history of English performances. There’s already a million reasons to hate Amazon, but fuck me.
I wanna hear about your fav dub. Your fav VA. Let’s celebrate these folks. 💜
I wanna hear about your fav dub. Your fav VA. Let’s celebrate these folks. 💜
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
there are no good dubs but i will never forgive amazon for forcing me, like a fey lord trapped between two unbreakable oaths, to defend actual human dub performances against something a million times worse
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
hollywood and the american media class in general has done things like this more than once, cyclically, for nearly a century. not just rehabbing abusers exactly but fighting against ANYTHING that gives women political leverage. Susan Faludi's "Backlash" is a pretty good overview of the topic.
I'm flummoxed by the underground movement to rehab cancelled figures. There's a rumor that a studio head is planning to begin bringing cancelled people back. It's bananas. The industry has contracted, leaving writers, directors and actors scrambling for work and we're making space for sex criminals?
November 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
hollywood and the american media class in general has done things like this more than once, cyclically, for nearly a century. not just rehabbing abusers exactly but fighting against ANYTHING that gives women political leverage. Susan Faludi's "Backlash" is a pretty good overview of the topic.
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The pretty simple fact of the matter is that Weinstein was the only true “casualty” of MeToo in Hollywood, and that is solely because he was a bully to men too and everyone pounced on the excuse to oust him. If he’d nicer to directors and male stars he’d still be free and working.
I'm flummoxed by the underground movement to rehab cancelled figures. There's a rumor that a studio head is planning to begin bringing cancelled people back. It's bananas. The industry has contracted, leaving writers, directors and actors scrambling for work and we're making space for sex criminals?
November 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The pretty simple fact of the matter is that Weinstein was the only true “casualty” of MeToo in Hollywood, and that is solely because he was a bully to men too and everyone pounced on the excuse to oust him. If he’d nicer to directors and male stars he’d still be free and working.
i spent about two hours today babysitting a 1yo for a friend having a medical emergency, and my position has evolved from "national fully subsidized childcare would be a good idea" to frothing at the mouth and demanding the blood of anyone standing in its way
November 30, 2025 at 12:31 AM
i spent about two hours today babysitting a 1yo for a friend having a medical emergency, and my position has evolved from "national fully subsidized childcare would be a good idea" to frothing at the mouth and demanding the blood of anyone standing in its way
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youtuber who does old console ROMhacks for a hobby: i made the n64 do raytracing just to see if i could and it does five thousand FPS or something
triple-A game studio: if you're experiencing stuttering on the lowest settings, consider just not being poor? your graphics card is five months old??
triple-A game studio: if you're experiencing stuttering on the lowest settings, consider just not being poor? your graphics card is five months old??
November 29, 2025 at 11:46 PM
youtuber who does old console ROMhacks for a hobby: i made the n64 do raytracing just to see if i could and it does five thousand FPS or something
triple-A game studio: if you're experiencing stuttering on the lowest settings, consider just not being poor? your graphics card is five months old??
triple-A game studio: if you're experiencing stuttering on the lowest settings, consider just not being poor? your graphics card is five months old??
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it's unfair to expect industry devs to do the kind of clever optimization that can be achieved by an experienced programmer who's not sleep deprived and has seen his family and friends in the last three years
November 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
it's unfair to expect industry devs to do the kind of clever optimization that can be achieved by an experienced programmer who's not sleep deprived and has seen his family and friends in the last three years
Path of Achra is already close to my ideal for a messy, mechanically ambitious game (not my all-time favorite type of game but it's kind of apples-to-oranges compared to the "perfectly elegant, no wasted verbs" stuff) and I am beyond hype for a grand strategy version
used this art spree as motivation to update the steam page, which I hadn't checked in a while
15,000 wishlists...damn, thank you
soon the lands will roll forth
15,000 wishlists...damn, thank you
soon the lands will roll forth
November 29, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Path of Achra is already close to my ideal for a messy, mechanically ambitious game (not my all-time favorite type of game but it's kind of apples-to-oranges compared to the "perfectly elegant, no wasted verbs" stuff) and I am beyond hype for a grand strategy version
american conservatives were always fucking fascists and you're seeing the result of the contradictions gradually resolving themselves
Hitler was bad.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
Perry: The pro-Hitler problem with the American right
"We need to get back to the basics: Hitler was bad. The people who suggest otherwise are also bad," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
american conservatives were always fucking fascists and you're seeing the result of the contradictions gradually resolving themselves