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kpop fan (snsd, twice, viviz, aespa, xg, nmixx) video games, food, social sciences, humanities, politics, and maybe some writing about any of the above? (with any luck not about kpop) https://astra.bearblog.dev/blog/
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if you’re queer and feeling despondent these days, i really can’t recommend reading about our community’s history enough. very little we’re dealing with is new, and there’s so much joy & vitality, you’ll learn about the most fascinating people

jennie cleared the blackpink colosseum showdown imo. amortage was solid and cohesive but short and *very* straightforward, alter ego was just a big letdown compared to lisa's pre releases, and rosie was just not my style

It’s pretty interesting that both Tim Walz and Gavin Newsom are clearly positioning themselves to run for President and one thought he should publicize that he’s having diplomatic conversations with Canadian provinces close to Minnesota and the other thought he should publicize that he sucks

thoughts are just this on loop lately

I think the second one can be solved by so much capital having accrued into the hands of such a small amount of people that they individually outrank even other collections of billionaires - even if they are currently experiencing stimulant-induced psychotic visions of techno-divinity

this is so fricking good... all thoughts are about high horse rn

You: Oh my god the house is on fire! Me (wise, has read books): And you're surprised? Houses have been on fire before [as the flames consume us both] Furthermore,

interesting that people watch breaking bad and think walter white was a cool guy. putting aside broad sweeping conclusions about the themes, just look at him. this guy is a loser. this guy is so clearly meant to be a fucking loser cosplaying a tough guy

the support column is nonsense obviously but the unspoken funniest part about this is that the image is signed with bsky name and id. gotta make sure you get that clout when this pops

I'm convinced sullyoon akgaes are a psyop. every nmixx tweet that's about lgbt at all attracts a new handful of hilariously edgy anime pfps accounts that are upset about it. it's so consistent and perfectly comedic I struggle to even get mad about it. there's nothing else like this in kpop fandom

it's wild that the feminism 101 concept of freedom of sexual expression never entered the mainstream. people just bounce back and forth between "a woman exposing her body is always liberation" and "a woman exposing her body is always perpetuating objectification" as needed for their other biases

i think it's worse because like 90% of the people believe in it, even if they fall short, and 95% of the money is from people who are trying to buy indulgences to get Roko's Basilisk off their back after completing their life's work: a machine which turns puppies into high-quality mulch

this is so fucking funny. IQ correlated with Posting frequency. so true dude

bae jinsol is so cool

I'm not a health nut by any means, nor do I think a "real" one-size-fits-all optimal health diet even exists, but it is pretty funny/stupid that the new genre of health nut in the last couple of years is like, slamming down sugary produce and ridiculous amounts of indulgent proteins like steak

DEI is the most popular thing in this list lmao

Let’s see what motivates this guy to join DOG…oh

remember when a bunch of kpop fans celebrated these guys for urging the blacklisting of newjeans on account of them breaching contract (something that even on a purely legal basis has not been settled)

Saw someone say, "End your friendships with people who are going about life like nothing is wrong." I will never understand people who think that further isolating ourselves from everyday people who don't get it is going to save us. It's not. Your judgment and disdain will not save us.

finally finished better call saul for the first time. I would die for kim wexler

the problem is this tedium about putting everyone left of the status quo in a box. "I got death threats on the internet from leftists and that really says a lot about leftism" you're participating in unserious internet fandom flame wars, otherwise you'd see how asinine this is

Amazing article. "More recently, researchers have found that the viral outrage disseminated on social media ... actually reduces the effectiveness of collective action. The result is a media environment that keeps us in a state of ..fear and anger... instead of organizing against [our oppressors]."

You can’t post your way out of fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

Over a thousand people chanting “Do Your Job” as Democrats speak at a rally defending USAID. Environment seems as agitated with Democrats as with Trump/Musk’s efforts to seize agencies. Yells of “What are you gonna do about it?!” in response to Democrats talking about situation.

I feel like there must be some confusion about what "doing politics" is. doing politics is not "the challenge of identifying the worst guys in the room." yes, right now the worst guys have the reins and that's bad. tweets correctly identifying that they're the worst guys are not going to change that

well golly. this particular passage seems relevant right now

"Our politics revolve around the idea that scarce resources mean keeping people out. We are utterly unprepared for a world in which perhaps the scarcest resource will be people." - @polgreen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o...

Amazon workers in Quebec became the first in the company's history to successfully unionize... so Amazon closed all its warehouses in Quebec. Laid-off workers are responding with a massive boycott campaign. Big things happening!!

In today's newsletter I talked about the DeepSeek freakout and what I think it means for the U.S. going forward. Short version: it will probably result in something both dumb and counterproductive. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

very strange that the democratic party has their own tankies now.