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Jesse Raub
@jesseraub.bsky.social
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writer and coffee professional, formerly at Serious Eats, stuff in Bon Appetit, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Vulture, HAD, Polygon, and other places.

I also have a newsletter: https://linktr.ee/jesseraub
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yeah see this is what i was talking about
11:544 • Overcast Post Jesse Raub @jesseraub.bsky.social • 1h every day logging on is a race to get a dumb joke off before you read the most terrifying news you've ever heard 6 ₴ 63 448 贝 山… .Christopher.@schmails.bsky.so... • 1h I feel the same. I come here for a silly jokes, photos, animals and good comics... then I get the update on the news and the dumb shit the dumbshit says .... And I close the app disgusted with myself and my countrymen. Repeat tomorrow. 1 02 山 •.• Xullcorr @xullcorr.bsky.social Follow Add porn to your feed. It won't help but at least you'll have a better chance of getting a good three minutes outta this. Nov 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM 贝 ① Write your reply
November 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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who do you think you are i am guy posting snoopy army thanksgiving AI slop that suggests one of the snoopys procreated with woodstock
pete_weber_official o # Holiday Music & Sounds • A Charlie Brown Th... NOT EVERYONE GOES HOME FOR THANKSGIVING THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE photo of dozens of snoopies in army gear around a table but also there’s a woodstock / snoopy hybrid
November 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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every year, @sprobeforebros.bsky.social makes fried chicken and watches a patrick swayze movie for thanksgiving. it is called Swayzegiving. this is the first year i’ve been able to try the fried chicken. it’s very, very good 👍🏻
a plate of fried chicken, collards, stuffing, green beans, mashed taters
November 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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flanders saying “give me a… white wine spritzer!”
November 27, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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really lovely showing today
cross section of a sourdough loaf of bread with big open alveoli
November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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👍🏻
sunset over a lake with three ducks and a crescent moon
November 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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ALRIGHT MOTHERFUCKERS I NEED TO SEE SOMEONE GET HURT OUT THERE! WANNA SEE YOU OPEN UP THE PIT!
pope talking into microphone
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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never not thinking about this part in fear and loathing in las vegas where hunter s thompson perfectly editorialized the crumbling of a movement
History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time-and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened. And that, I think, was the handle-that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting-on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. ... So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark —that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
November 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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the milwaukee bucks
richie tennenbaum shaving
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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does this answer your question
ozymandias saying he did it 35 minutes ago
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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ALEX CHILTON: this one’s kind of a ballad

THE REST OF BIG STAR, NODDING:
complex syncopated triplet sheet music
November 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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just took a 2.5mg edible
milllenium falcon cockpit with lightspeed stars streaking forward towards it
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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deported :(
November 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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cloudy day means shadowy laughing but a well developed crumb all the same
cross section of a loaf of sourdough with a big open crumb structure
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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once you think it you can't do anything until you make it
Disney's Moana poster, but it's "Mona" and it has Mona and Tony from Who's the Boss' faces over the character. it's a very sloppy and bad photoshop.
November 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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when i say too many, i mean here’s the sidecar
the above salad with a small bowl containing only bacon and croutons
November 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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baby gems, marinated tomato vinaigrette, too many croutons, too much bacon, shaved parm
the above described salad piled high in a white bowl on a wooden cutting board
November 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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He said: "The last time we saw Cole, he was blown to smithereens – how will they get past the fact he is dead with a capital D? I think that was a mistake, because Cole is a legend. He belongs to everybody, he is eternal – except in that film.”
shea whigham as Cole in Kong: Skull Island holding up two grenades moment before he’s tail whipped into the side of a mountain and explodes
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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bond emerging form the sea in casino royale
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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bacon and spinach rigatoni with pecorino
the above dish in a green bowl on a wood table
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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right in the sweet spot
November 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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31°F
espresso cup in the sunlight on a bamboo table i found in the garbage on the forbes porch
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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the framing on both of these shots
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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why Civil War and Eddington are not
Civil War, in particular, is a blank slate open to anyone’s political interpolation. Set against an authoritarian federal government under siege by secessionist state alliances, Civil War is mainly a story about a group of journalists putting the scoop above everything else. By refusing to define the opposing ideologies in Civil War, Alex Garland refuses to engage with the real world audiences live in. He doesn’t depict the people in political struggle. The end result is a movie that has more questions about the role of journalism during war than questions about how modern politics created the conflict in the first place. Because of this, the war in Civil War exists in a vacuum. The America it shows is as real as any fantasy realm: The conflict on screen could be any conflict anywhere. It’s story of ethics in war journalism plays the same in the US as it would in Middle Earth—though there are arguments to be made that even Middle Earth has clearer political mapping to America’s current state than Civil War does. Similarly, Eddington’s main focus is on Sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) and his fears of being cuckolded, even as the politicized world around him starts to collapse. As the early events of the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests break out in his small New Mexico town, Joe can’t stop fretting about his wife running away with a handsome and charismatic far-right cult leader. Ari Aster’s vision for the movie lacks political conviction—just like his characters in the film. Racial justice protestors are treated as misguided youths, the liberal mayor is a hypocrite, the far-right are grifters, and Sheriff Joe’s center-right politics are formed entirely through personal grievances. Though Eddington is the most blatant reflection of the landscape of 2020 we might have on screen, Aster is seemingly unconcerned with discussing the weight those events had on the larger population. Instead, they serve as catalysts for Joe’s descent into madness. Because of this, Joe’s struggles could very well have been any version of civil unrest at any time in American history. It’s hard to imagine how Eddington would be any different if it were set against the astroturfed Tea Party movement of 2010 or the swine flu pandemic of 2009. In short, Eddington is a political film, but it is not a film made politically. It’s difficult to imagine crowds leaving the theater being inspired to examine their relationship with the systems of governance that drive their daily lives. It’s easier to imagine them worried about their spouse’s close work friend, instead.
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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why Parasite is so effective
In 2019, the world of Parasite is a world in which those wealth signifiers are not just common but are necessary for life. At the start of the movie, the Kim family loses access to the free Wi-Fi they’ve been siphoning, dramatically threatening their only source of revenue: a one-time gig folding pizza boxes. The mother of the family, Chung-sook (Jang Hye-jin), must be able to receive a WhatsApp message on her smartphone to coordinate the work. Later, when son Ki-woo (Choi Woo-sik) is given the chance by his wealthy friend to take up a tutoring gig, his sister Ki-jung (Park So-dam) needs computer access (provided at a gaming café) so she can forge an education certificate for him. As Ki-taek prepares to take over as driver for the Park family, he bluffs his way through multiple dealership test drives with Ki-woo to ensure he’s up to date on car technologies. In Godard’s world, lack of access to these modern necessities would frame the Kim family as the true proletariat, ready to take up arms with their comrade in revolution. But Parasite director Bong Joon-ho has a different approach. Yes, the Kim family lives in absolute poverty, but the signifiers of wealth feel achievable if they can just scheme their way into a higher status. In short, the Kim family doesn’t long for revolution: they long for class ascendancy—so much so that they’re willing to fight their fellow workers for it. Godard’s prescriptions for how to “make films politically” are rooted in the power of fiction. America saw the immense power of Uncle Tom’s Cabin shifting views on slavery when it was released in 1852 (though the book has been rightly criticized for generating racial stereotypes in the ensuing 150 years or so). By pursuing relative truth, the novelist, playwright, or filmmaker is able to clearly state their perspective through their work rather than concern themselves with adherence to fact. That is to say, any message the artist wants to pass along is more powerful as an allegory. In Parasite, the fictional Kim family elicits more sympathy than a real-world Kim family would. Fictional murder is a point of consideration; real-life murder is nothing but tragedy. The Kim family’s actions in getting the Park family’s driver and housekeeper fired are framed initially as a lark. Viewers celebrate their schemes to assume all open service positions (the Jessica Jingle becoming a popular meme online, as evidence) because Bong shoots these scenes to highlight the cleverness of Ki-woo and Ki-jung. Framed like a fun heist movie, the Kim family delicately shaves peach fuzz into vials to trigger the allergies of housekeeper Moon-gwang (Lee Jung-eun), captures her in an emergency room selfie, and plants a hot-sauce-stained napkin in the trash to frame her as a tuberculosis disease vector. When the Park family leaves for a camping trip, the Kim family indulges in the luxuries of the house: they sample expensive liquor, feast on the pantry, take lengthy baths in the jacuzzi tub, and read books on the sunny lawn. They even fantasize about becoming part of the Park extended family if Ki-woo’s budding romance with Park daughter Da-hye (Jung Ji-so) leads to marriage.
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM