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aka Fondor Haulcraft/Jean-Luc Lemur. A god walking among men for being relatively handsome and taking the subway.

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Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · Jan 7

The rewards for being clever are meager and cleverness is no guarantee you’ll be right either.

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Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 14h

Octopussy and The Living Daylights, Ian Fleming, 1966

Coffee III: Saison of the Witch @unlox.bsky.social · 1d

more books that are not cookbooks or cocktail books should have recipes added in somewhere

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 14h

Use of the phrase “master crank” lead to “master cylinder” from Frisky Dingo stuck in my head, I’m not unhappy.

Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 14h

Almost everyone online is unhappy and this has become my master crank theory as to why.

Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 14h

Almost everyone online is unhappy and this has become my master crank theory as to why.

Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 14h

My big theory is that the big culprit is that a lot of people increasing think of art (or anything) in terms of what other people think of it rather than developing their own feelings. Partly it’s social media dynamics, partly it’s seeing everything as an instrument of politics.

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Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 14h

I definitely para-knew/read/watched (emphasis on *knew*, none of my moots here are these people) people who went from pretty sophisticaters consumers of film/books/tv in the early 2010s to pretty dumb ones by the end of the decade so it was definitely a sort of acculturation.

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Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 14h

My family: thousands of years in coastal Anatolia, ~two generations on the Great Lakes, and now I live in coastal southern California

Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 15h

I read a chunk of 90s-early 00s 9 Chickweed Lane and the comic strip was much better when Amos was still a virgin, there’s a lessen there for Altman.

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 15h

Daniel Craig was announced as the new James Bond 20 years ago today 👴🏼

Daniel Craig at age 37 standing on the Thames or wherever

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 17h

I gotta be honest I have been historically skeptical of the idea of digital twins but recently I learned that Japan's MLIT built an entire 3D model of every building and road in the country with semantic and underlying use information, so uh... maybe less skeptical

www.mlit.go.jp/plateau/en/

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Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 17h

I do think one freeing thing about pseudonymous online life is, beyond putting up a helpful barrier, is that it I’ve been free of self-presentation: my avatar images are usually thieves, secret agents, and now a “horny little devil” in shorts. I’m not trying to be bad but I don’t have to be good.

Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 17h

That and I think the fact that often one’s taste in fiction’s central in identity-creation (my long-term former handle on the AVC/twitter was a Trek reference and I started out only talking about Trek). “I’m good so everything I like is part of me, so everything I like must also be good.”

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Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 17h

“Dressing for Pleasure” also an all-timer cool album name

Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 7d

Love this whole era of “Jon Hassell puts his spin on jazzy instrumental hip-hop”

Old sticker on the jewel case for John Hassell’s album Bluescreen, hailing it as “the rebirth of virtual cool”

Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 17h

I do not know why people cannot be normal about fiction, it truly puzzles me.

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Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 18h

If Judah Friedlander doesn’t have a different word printed on every mask it’s a true missed opportunity

Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 18h

Not going to piggyback on a moot’s good and tasteful post about the film to say this but one of the things that makes Perfect Blue so good is the (thematically-relevant!) nudity

Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 18h

I’d sum this up with some take about a bunch of idiot Bismarcks propping up a dumber German Emperor but actually I don’t know anything about 19th/early 20th century Germany.

Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 18h

This fear is a big part of why the business class has lined up behind Trump in a way they didn’t last time and part of why there’s such interest in dictatorship + Kulturkampf. Put this in that context and it’s self-preservation, not just acquiesence:

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

chicago.suntimes.com

Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 18h

Despite Bluesky’s reputation this is the only place I saw people say “the killer was prob. disturbed and this is the sort of thing that causes societal breakdown.” I never saw this take among the many even-keeled and tempermentally conservative people I know IRL, they were all “good riddance.”

Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 18h

One small piece of this, I think, beyond rich guy groupcharts being an agar for elite-level brainworms is that these guys saw the response to Luigi Mangione killing the CEO of United Healthcare and started thinking hard about how people would react to their death: celebration, adulating the killer.

Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 18h

Recognize this is a bit crank-like for me (and I hate making threads too) but it’s more like “fastest-growing share of the donor class is socially and culturally conservative donors who are scared of economic populism and want to use it as a Trojan Horse for oligarchy.”

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 23h

Look at this mealy mouthed shit!

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Yr Spooky Friend Camille @yrouttasight.bsky.social · 20h

When D’Angelo appeared in Questlove’s Sly Stone documentary I sighed with relief knowing he was still the coolest motherfucker on the planet

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

tom buchanan should have said this to jay gatsby

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Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 1d

Celebrating Columbus Day

Detective Columbo asking a perturbed Robert Culp “one more thing”

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Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 1d

Who knows about a film, but with a cover like this you know this soundtrack’s going to be good

Album cover for the soundtrack of the French film Le Choix des Armes, what looks to be a very serious-looking ca. 1980 political thriller

Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t find it but David Mitchell had a good quote on this, something along the lines on how odd it is people ask him stuff about Mark Corrigan‘s life and habits because you can see every second of Mark Corrigan’s existence, he does not exist outside of his scenes on Peep Show.