🟠🟤 Reese's Pieces

⭐ Welcome to AndyK250's 2026 Media Thread!⭐ For the past couple of years, I've tried to thoughtfully keep track of and post about the things I've watched, played, or read over the course of a year. I'll be continuing that tradition this year, starting with this post.

Hey this is cool as hell and y'all should check it out. Some of the channels even have retro commercials!

Talking to guy from the year 120: Yeah, and this is called a tablet. Hey, you guys have tablets, huh? Well this one’s… a little bit different lol. This one tells me when anyone in the world has gotten lip fillers or Sammy Hagar gets married

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Horror has always had a place in Indigenous storytelling. Our stories carried warnings about dangerous spirits and unexplained forces. redpopnews.com/7-dark-and-u...

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

The Andromeda Galaxy, low in the sky over New South Wales, Australia.

This may be my favorite X-Files commercial ever. “WHAT’S SO SPECIAL ABOUT YOU!?!?”

The creaking sound effect for the lid opening on Thing's box in The Addams Family TV series is one of the best sound effects of all time.

despite everything, there's still beauty and wonder out there

I presume that the trend where YouTubers make grotesquely outsized facial expressions in their thumbnails must exist because a lot of people find it compelling, and I just want to say: I look down on those people.

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

baby’s first tibetan book of the dead

when you see what happened after the first hundred years of the printing press spreading, it becomes pretty obvious, this was gonna be what it was gonna be

It turns out Jolly Ranchers are strongly fluorescent under UV illumination. Bottom image taken with visible light Top image taken with 395 nm UV flashlight www.aiweirdness.com/jolly-ranche...

I also wanted to pull out a special part of the piece: fuck Jensen Huang. By forcing customers to take early delivery of GPUs to boost quarterly revenues, he artificially inflated the price of RAM and every consumer electronic. What he and his hyperscale paypigs have done is morally reprehensible.

House Of Leaves Of Grass

KIM KITSURAGI - “The pinball machine?” The lieutenant glances at the machine. “Gurdi's Goats. A classic.” REACTION SPEED - Oh it's more than just a classic -- a must-play. All serious pinballers have attempted a *tempo-run*.

In 2017, I wrote about my obsessesion with nun cinema for Cléo: A Feminist Film Journal (RIP). With the re-release of The Devils, I thought it was an appropriate time to reshare the essay, which includes many observations on Ken Russell’s masterpiece. cleojournal.com/2017/04/21/w...

Isn't this a Mumford & Sons' song?

Good Mythical Morning? More like "Inoffensive But Utterly Ho-Hum" Milquetoast Morning

All this time, I thought "Mr. Brightside" contained the line "turning snakes into the sea," as an allusion to Saint Patrick.

INLAND EMPIRE - It's all gone now. You never became a poet or an entroponaut.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Rashomon: the 8-part HBO Max prestige drama limited run series

legume of zeldork

I’m laughing my ass off oh my God this whips

art, blip, magazine (1983) archive.org/details/blip...

They're renewing Baywatch for a 12-episode revival season in 2027 and I can't think of a better encapsulation of everything wrong with the current media environment. You can't distill the essence of Baywatch into a tidy 12 episodes; it needs a fully-bloated 24-episode season where *nothing* happens

Ginkgo biloba, a living fossil, the last surviving species of its genus.

Have you looked at the night sky recently? It is ABSURD how many satellites there are, and it will get >1000× worse in our lifetimes. A few billionaires and state actors will ruin the night sky for the next few *centuries*. This ought to be a much, much bigger story than it is

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

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California Raison d'être

I just heard "Wake Up" by Imagine Dragons for the first time... What are we doing here, man?

A celebrated singer getting into a life-consuming conflict with an upscale boutique over a clockwork bird is a thing that would happen in a French symbolist short story.

"These people, they feel like nobody looks upon their works and despairs. Certainly ye mighty don't. It makes them feel boundless and bare. It just shatters their visages. Well, I look on their works and despair. And you should, too."

Shane Gillis' face looks like the leftover bits of cereal floating in a bowl full of milk.

I deserve kudos for somehow killing the pretentious pedant in me at the other night's film club discussion in which people were talking about which Nosferatu is better, "the old Nosferatu" (Murnau) or "the new Nosferatu," (Eggers) while failing to recognize "the 'Janus Films' Nosferatu" (Herzog).