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Nick Capozzoli

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 1d

New blog post up. It's about a few things—chiefly, the impulse to jettison literary criticism as if it were ballast. www.arcadence.com/abundance-re...

Abundance Reigns!

The Reminder is a watchword: though it may ascribe a problem to us, the offenders are assuredly others.

www.arcadence.com

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 20h

Sharing this one more time before the long weekend. I wrote about the value of literary games criticism, the loss of said critics' jobs, and "the delirious fantasy that this could all be good for us." www.arcadence.com/abundance-re...

Abundance Reigns!

The Reminder is a watchword: though it may ascribe a problem to us, the offenders are assuredly others.

www.arcadence.com

Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 1d

Baby Steps (2025)

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 1d

well it's not happening today

Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 1d

I think so. Staring at that area now. Here's my current view:

Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 1d

this is "trending," to me

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 1d

god i hope the part I'm currently stuck at is fucktown

Peter Silk / KestrelPi @kestrelpi.bsky.social · 1d

I did, or at least to it's landmarks.

Awkward Ramp
Banana peel
Seagull
Weird colour rock
The bit before the cutscene that I like to call "fucktown"
Platform
Scary but easy planks
Horrible ledges
Deceptively slippery slope

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 1d

New blog post up. It's about a few things—chiefly, the impulse to jettison literary criticism as if it were ballast. www.arcadence.com/abundance-re...

Abundance Reigns!

The Reminder is a watchword: though it may ascribe a problem to us, the offenders are assuredly others.

www.arcadence.com

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 1d

I'm on to nested parentheticals, baby. The double IPAs of writing.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2d

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 1d

Best bet I've found is to set up (and pay for) an advanced call filter that allows blocking unknown numbers by area code (in my experience they seem to come from certain codes in bulk) , then turning those notifications off. But they'll still fill up your voicemail, no way around that AFAIK.

Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 1d

Short answer: Ajit Pai

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

This administration is a dull-minded, paranoid, gullible old man surrounded by twenty cranks, thousand-year-reich zealots, and single-issue lunatics, all with phones, running around saying, "Show him this! He'll like this! Make sure he sees this!"

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 1d

If there's one thing I'm very jealous of brit crits for it's their preternatural ability to euphemize self-serious video game terms. You can be as po-faced abt your milsim as possible but you can't stop those lads from calling your operators "naughty kittens" www.rockpapershotgun.com/battlefield-...

Battlefield 6 review

Battlefield 6 is a tale as old as the FPS genre: a vapid military fable salvaged from total irrelevance by a robust but fundamentally unadventurous multiplayer.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 1d

I guess if his is corkscrew shaped like a pigs that's your bottle opener covered at least

Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 1d

trying to imagine what the "16 function" Swiss army-dick must look like

Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 1d

Feel like if circumcision caused autism, it would have made the signs at the intactivist parade.

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 1d

(very much back-on-my bullshit with this one, which also means "doing fussy stuff with footnotes," hopefully they actually work)

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 1d

New blog post up. It's about a few things—chiefly, the impulse to jettison literary criticism as if it were ballast. www.arcadence.com/abundance-re...

Abundance Reigns!

The Reminder is a watchword: though it may ascribe a problem to us, the offenders are assuredly others.

www.arcadence.com

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · Jul 30

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 2d

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · Jul 20

art but make it Subterfuge

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Scans of parking lots, antennas, and pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

Many of these “illustrations” aren’t based on verified intelligence at all.

Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 4d

same energy as that time the Jonas Brothers played with Stevie Wonder and the one kid tried throwing it to him by saying "take it away Stevie!" or w/e but his voice cracked

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 4d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 4d

i suppose you could say that I too have a meta storyline that's a little on-the-nose and probably going nowhere but that i'm contractually obligated to perpetuate

Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 4d

ah shit they got us, the ubisoftlikes

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