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ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 11h

This is the Ed Gein show
It’s not the Gein Ed show

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 19h

If you're so worried about government waste, you should really be worried about the billions we're spending on capturing a few thousand people.

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 20h

Cops are just CTE-riddled GED cases. We don’t need more of them and we don’t need to make excuses for them either.

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 20h

That last run of WTF episodes proved the show should end lol

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 1d

what is your favorite flavor of boot

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 1d

Is there another oasis show

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 1d

Austin are you British now

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 1d

CTE + GED = APD

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 1d

Come to think of it, this is how the entire field of Classics works at progressive colleges: find a new angle on the troubled text.

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 1d

Could we start thinking about Annie Hall as a miracle of editing? Could we learn about how Ralph Rosenblum Wendy Greene Bricmont salvaged it, reshaped it, changed its genre?

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 1d

Any serious retrospective on Diane Keaton is basically also a Woody Allen film festival.

But: is this how we can salvage canceled art? By seeing it through another lens?

It feels arbitrary and petty to ignore someone's best work over another artist's trespasses.

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty funny that the proliferation of the MFA writing program coincided with a near-total collapse of literary fiction eh

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 1d

Good call. I guess I should have specified “original” franchise because there are a ton of abandoned adaptations (Golden Compass, Narnia, Percy Jackson)

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 1d

Every release feels like a tech demo that no one asked for.

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 1d

Is Tron the only huge budget franchise without a single great movie?

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think ICE is recruiting professionals.

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 2d

damn who could have foreseen that giving every desperate redneck in america a bonus, a mask, and carte blanche to hassle city dwellers could have negative consequences

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 3d

…shit

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 3d

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 3d

I misheard someone say “Cage in Longlegs” as “Cajun Longlegs” and I think that’d be a really good Halloween costume

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 3d

Should I buy this on DoorDash or what

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 3d

There’s technically a No Right On Red sign in here somewhere.

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 3d

A baby onesie that says ONE RATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

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Medium @medium.com · 3d

Is an "In between drafts" tote bag performative?

Maybe. You should still get one.

medium.com/store

ponce city marxist @butterfinger.bsky.social · 3d

we have always meowed in the castle