John

John

@afiendishthingy.bsky.social

he/they. Probably smokes a lil too much weed. Fuck Trump, Free Palestine, Be Gay, Do Crime, etc etc Currently: Watching — Foundation Listening — Florida Water Blues - Twisted Teens Playing — TLoZ: Echoes of Wisdom & Play Date Season 3

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John reposted

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

Gianmarco Soresi@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

I swear, Disney execs are a fuckin cancer. You can’t crack the premise for The Muppet Show??? There are Muppets, and they put on a variety show with a different guest star each week. You literally just keep doing the thing you just did.

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net

There are currently no active conversations for a full ‘MUPPET SHOW’ series revival. Disney, The Muppets Studio and Point Grey Pictures have had difficulties with deciding on a premise for the series that they can all agree on. (Source: Deadline)

I mean, these are the same people who think Blade needs a premise more than just “Blade kills a ton of vampires and there’s a blood rave at one point”, so I shouldn’t be too surprised.

Thank god @thebaltimorebanner.com is around to be a news source in MD actually worth reading.

paulpro@mariopro.bsky.social

The Baltimore Sun has sparked widespread backlash after replacing traditional editorial cartoonists with AI-generated political cartoons Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) Letter to Baltimore Sun Re: Use Of Artificial Intelligence

John reposted

Person who has seen 100 movies: The best movie ever made is Citizen Kane Person who has seen 1000 movies: The best movie ever made is 8 1/2 Person who has seen 10,000 movies: The best movie ever made is Crank 2: High Voltage

I think the average Bsky user will probably agree with me, but people irl look at me like I’m a fuckin alien when I say that Forrest Gump is a truly hateful film.

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John reposted

Imagine Stephen King, circa 1997, putting out daily press releases promoting his anti-gay org while publishing horror books as Richard Bachman. Imagine George Lucas, circa 2007, announcing a billion dollar fund for anti-Muslim lawsuits, then launching 'The Clone Wars.' This is J.K. Rowling today.

Sam Adams@samadams.bsky.social

Worth reiterating every time that this is not some cancel-culture purity test: JK Rowling has pledged more than a billion dollars of her Harry Potter money towards bankrolling anti-trans lawsuits. This finances that.

John reposted

piracy is the only extant form of media preservation that exists in games right now, you might find it morally reprehensible but there is literally no other institution that will keep games alive in 25, 50 years' time

Ended vacation w/ my family yesterday by smoking a joint, having a couple beers and playing most of a run in the Star Fox remake. Went to bed and met a friend first thing after waking up to see Jackass. Have to go back to the hell of real life tomorrow, but that was about as good as it can get.

John reposted

it's cool that the president is trying to steal two billion dollars from my taxes to give to his pedophile friends and i'm supposed to like keep doing my job or whatever

The best Star War is Andor. If you’re only counting the movies, the best Star War is The Last Jedi. A New Hope > Empire Strikes Back Rogue One is an infuriating movie. It has a few 10/10 scenes, but its structure is utterly broken. And the CG/deepfaked Tarkin & Leia are *abominations*.

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My dream would be to have a little storefront to buy/sell/trade movies and video games. Have a small workbench to service/repair old game consoles. Mod old clickwheel iPods and Game Boys and stuff. I think it could be successful, millennials and Gen Z are hungry for owning their media.

Take a break from the discourse and quote this with a business you would want to start if you could afford to lose money on it

John reposted

sucks that it’s come to this, but if congressional Republicans wanted to put up a national gerrymandering ban or multi member districts etc, it would pass *for sure*. until then fight fire with fire

VoteHub@votehub.com

VoteHub projects the Virginia Redistricting Constitutional Amendment to pass.

John reposted

that the president is making unhinged threats of war crimes on easter sunday should be an immediate presidency-ending scandal and that the media is rewriting this as just a normal negotiating tactic should be a career-ending scandal for everyone involved

Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social

If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.