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Cole Martin

@coleboy.bsky.social

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Atlantic Canada Writer (derogatory) https://asilaytrying.substack.com

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Cole Martin @coleboy.bsky.social · Jun 12

🪑 RE9 waiting room 🪑

Cole Martin @coleboy.bsky.social · 8h

He's contractually obliged to make 5 more Happy Feet movies before he dies (copium)

Cole Martin @coleboy.bsky.social · 1d

I was fortunate enough to visit the d'Orsay in Paris recently, and I really fell in love with Tissot's "The Dreamer (Summer Evening)". For me, it captures such a devastating kind of exhaustion and ennui.

Oil painting of a tired looking woman in Victorian dress, lounging on a wooden reclining chair by what might be a park's pond

Cole Martin @coleboy.bsky.social · 3d

The Wailing (2016) is a great companion piece to SILENT HILL f

Cole Martin @coleboy.bsky.social · 5d

There are of course political reasons for why our didactic tales have changed since the Greeks, but it is just fun to think how inept these characters would be without miraculous intervention

Cole Martin @coleboy.bsky.social · 5d

Been reading Homer's Odyssey for the first time, and I find it very interesting how our concept of protagonists has changed. Nowadays, many scoff (or find it uninteresting) when a heroic character is overtly privileged. Yet, not only is Odysseus a king, but Athena essentially wipes his ass for him

Cole Martin @coleboy.bsky.social · 6d

Aftersun, NOPE, and Drive My Car would be in my running. Honorable mentions to TITANE, I Saw the TV Glow, and Another Round.

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 6d

One Battle After Another has been getting a lot of “best movie of the decade” talk, and I’m inclined to agree but I’m curious — what’s the competition?

Cole Martin @coleboy.bsky.social · 9d

I love playing video games that are made for adults. They should make more of them

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 12d

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee.
You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

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Cole Martin @coleboy.bsky.social · 13d

Not super far into Silent Hill f yet, but man I can't wait for that soundtrack to release.

Cole Martin @coleboy.bsky.social · 15d

The MJ Lenderman cover of "Just Be Simple" is obviously really good, but holy, this Horse Jumper of Love cover of "Blue Factory Flame" is insane

Cole Martin @coleboy.bsky.social · 16d

We're censoring a fresco? Bsky, what are we doing here

Cole Martin @coleboy.bsky.social · 16d

OK maybe Baudrillard was right about the Hyperreal

Why Is Everyone Talking About The Damn Rapture Again? | Defector

Wake up, sheeple! It’s the end of the world. Everyone’s saying it. And by everyone, I mean a gazillion conservative content creators who made TikToks this past weekend warning everyone to be awake and...

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Cole Martin @coleboy.bsky.social · 20d

Real

Cole Martin @coleboy.bsky.social · 20d

Y'all ever just think about Mrs. Dalloway?

Cole Martin @coleboy.bsky.social · 22d

Google AI overview, while largely useless, does provide one a chuckle here and there

Screenshot from Google's AI overview that accompanies Google searches which says "The statement "the identity of difference is repetition," or more precisely, "the identity of difference is repetition".

Cole Martin @coleboy.bsky.social · 26d

Working a 9-5 has really made me miss existing in the public sphere during the week. What does my favourite cafe feel like on a Tuesday afternoon? I'd love to know!

Cole Martin @coleboy.bsky.social · 28d

For a non-defunct recommendation, check out the new Shallowater album:

Cole Martin @coleboy.bsky.social · 28d

I hate discovering a band and then finding out they're defunct. This album rocks

Cole Martin @coleboy.bsky.social · Sep 7

Shit rips

Bad Brains - House of Suffering (Live Florida - 1987)

YouTube video by Felipe

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Cole Martin @coleboy.bsky.social · Sep 3

I was recently staying in a Dutch hotel and one of the only English TV channels available was showing a history documentary that had AI generated recreations of the Nanjing massacre.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · Sep 3

New from 404 Media: AI generated history videos are flooding YouTube, and drowning out real history. "It’s worrying to me just for humanity. It’s not good for the state of knowledge in the world. It makes me worry for the future."

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AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History

"These AI videos are just repeating things that are on the internet, so you end up with a very simplified version of the past."

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Cole Martin @coleboy.bsky.social · Sep 2

Found the heat

Cole Martin @coleboy.bsky.social · Sep 2

Gonna see if my signature gym-shorts/Alpine beer shirt combo passes the bar at Berghain

Cole Martin @coleboy.bsky.social · Sep 2

Spending the day thrifting in Berlin and steadily realising how uncool I am

Cole Martin @coleboy.bsky.social · Aug 31

Translation is a fickle beast

A box of Oreo cookies on a Dutch supermarket rack. Large text reads "Oreo", with "Enrobed White" beneath it.

Cole Martin @coleboy.bsky.social · Aug 28

Can't believe they ripped off Deathconsciousness