koboldstyle.bsky.social
Creative Technologist & Animator/Dev in LA. Tabletop and Videogames, Weird Culture, He/Him. Operating at about 0.42 self-actualization.
One half of Scuttlebutt: https://www.youtube.com/@scuttlebuttery
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this is kinda the best thing ever
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I don't know, man. Even if Zoe was guilty of crudely handling her relationships (like any of our 20s relationships weren't messy), it must be weird to be in the company of all the internet nerds fixating on it and demanding she be punished forever.
Move on, brother. It'll be good for your heart.
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I’m trying to understand all the “thirdworldist” accusations. This idea that an immigrant infects us somehow with “low wealth culture” or something, especially when the US is hurtling towards the third world RE corruption, despotism, secret police, etc solidly on its own
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Man how is it humanly possible to hold a grudge for this long
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Hahahaha if someone honestly expressed this to me it would be impossible not to tell them how cooked they are
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Perhaps you’re not appreciating how difficult it probably is for them to keep their cool in the face of the constant drama of the universe when their side is the one with zero nuance or layered humor or grey area appreciation or cultural supportiveness to help balance a perspective
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Basically every single face Tim Blake Nelson makes in O Brother
“We thought you was a horny toad!” etc
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This is a goddamn cool thing
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I’ve only just learned about this guy, patient zero in the influencer theory of “the mask becomes the face” huh
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“Strength through budget-cutting” is their line here, I assume?
A leaner, meaner Medicaid. Efficient. Hungry. Desperate to do more with less. Alpha energy.
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I sorta consider myself a liberal leftist in recognition that the country I’ve grown up in still maintains a tiny grain of grudging (mostly) cross-spectrum appreciation for liberal principles.
It’s not too hard to shrug off the leftist vs liberal infighting once you get offline.
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“My wife still loves me, I totally swear to God, but country comes first.”
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Boy this really validates the Social Media Made The Rich Go Insane in the 2010s theory, that the new operating assumption for wealthy and powerful people is now "They Will Eat Us If They Get The Chance" and so now even the most self-destructing strategies are on the table.
Anyways, 🍴🧐🍴
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Yup
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Like, anyone remotely left that gets elected has to fight the two-front war of entrenched institutional opposition AND culture war alarmist bullshit, what an exhausting nightmare. Of course, we seem to have most of the cool people, some of whom might just pull it off.
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How are (hopefully sane) candidates expected to "keep their approval rating high" in the media misinformation environment we live in where the powerful have fully figured out how to bury policy analysis under a mountain of dishonest smearing?
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(locks the door, reaches for the kleenex box)
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Haha not even bookselling, it was “Play Fortnite, especially this one special online event.” 🙄
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The 2003 speedrun we’re doing here is just breathtaking. Beyond my wildest imagination.
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What’s a quarter of a billion dollars to make some rocks hot? It’s not like we need healthcare or anything.
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Like of all the hilariously dumb things in history that someone will absolutely stare at you and insist is real, a Large Language Model trained on the internet feels… not actually the worst thing ever. Pretty dumb still, but I knew folks who were convinced that crystals sent energy to them.
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It really was amazing to see Elmore Leonard characters just come to life one by one, each pretty unique.
Quarles was a liiiittle paper thin but everything else I remember as being rock solid.
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Officially yes but since 9/11 we’ve been in some sort of emergency power state that lets the president do “police actions” or something
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He probably has a whole tirade ready too on all the money being left on the table because these whippersnapper presidents now are too lazy to let the military contractor complex pretend to nation build for a decade.
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"Is a tornado damaging to homes, or beneficial? Cultists of the Blessed Funnel Cloud say it is a boon, but others disagree."
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NYT gotta do what the NYT does I guess
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I know that "good riddance" is absolutely not the moral or wise thing to feel if one really cares about the long-term stability or generosity of this country but in a teeny tiny voice, I do wonder if I would end up saying "good riddance"?
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Now I think with FEMA getting hollowed out in the face of worse and worse climate disasters and Trump fully yanking around the economic levers of power pitting red states against blue, well, feels like U.S. balkanization actually just might be on the board here in the 21st Century.
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Grown up in the US my whole life and the idea of balkanization has always seemed impossible but the COVID response where Trump 1.0 was basically "uh, bad things are happening I guess" and the states woke up and were like "holy shit dealing with this is entirely on us huh" has reshaped my thinking.