Heelies
@achilles-heelies.bsky.social
(he/him) You might know me from TheFPl.us podcast, if you're a weirdo on the Internet.
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I'm also on Sounds About Light, a Kingdom Hearts podcast
Video Games | Books | Backpacking
I'm also on Sounds About Light, a Kingdom Hearts podcast
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Anyone who is part of the federal government who is not doing everything in their power to stop this administration, regardless of the assumed cost to normalcy or career, is a coward and a collaborator.
January 24, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Anyone who is part of the federal government who is not doing everything in their power to stop this administration, regardless of the assumed cost to normalcy or career, is a coward and a collaborator.
I'm very excited to listen and read along LOTR with Shelved by Genre for the wonderful Lord of the Year! I'm pretty sure I was exactly one of these annoying middle school boys Michael described, and if you were too, you're going to love this show.
With a knock on your door, a kindly wizard invites you to join us on Shelved By Genre's LORD OF THE YEAR, in which we will consider the popular but contested works of JRR Tolkien, kicking things off with a long rumination upon the first four chapters of THE HOBBIT: rangedtouch.com/2026/01/02/t...
January 2, 2026 at 4:35 PM
I'm very excited to listen and read along LOTR with Shelved by Genre for the wonderful Lord of the Year! I'm pretty sure I was exactly one of these annoying middle school boys Michael described, and if you were too, you're going to love this show.
I started reading the Hobbit again to get ready, a book I haven't read since I was a kid. I gotta say, this book is delightful.
our first episode on the hobbit will be released less than 24 hours from now
the first episode on the hobbit will be released less than 48 hours from now
January 1, 2026 at 6:30 PM
I started reading the Hobbit again to get ready, a book I haven't read since I was a kid. I gotta say, this book is delightful.
Klaus is a good Christmas movie. It's very sweet, and it teaches that providing basic government services can radically improve a community
December 26, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Klaus is a good Christmas movie. It's very sweet, and it teaches that providing basic government services can radically improve a community
@vicmmic.bsky.social Upland Geese I saw in Patagonia
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
@vicmmic.bsky.social Upland Geese I saw in Patagonia
Flush Dave Portnoy down the toilet with all the celebrities that do sports gambling ads. Get this off my television.
November 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Flush Dave Portnoy down the toilet with all the celebrities that do sports gambling ads. Get this off my television.
I know I'm pretty late to the game, but Alien Earth's end of episode needle drops are pretty much all terrible. They don't have anything to do with what happened in the episode half of the time.
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I know I'm pretty late to the game, but Alien Earth's end of episode needle drops are pretty much all terrible. They don't have anything to do with what happened in the episode half of the time.
I have had a rough week, but going to the climbing gym and flashing a few V4's make me feel a bit better.
October 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I have had a rough week, but going to the climbing gym and flashing a few V4's make me feel a bit better.
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I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point
September 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point
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“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
July 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
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You can PREORDER my book about the Assassin's Creed franchise NOW! Please do that. I think it is both a fun and interesting dive into what Assassin's Creed is, how it develops its ideas, and what it says about the world we live in. TOC attached, preorder at the link! bookshop.org/p/books/ever...
July 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
You can PREORDER my book about the Assassin's Creed franchise NOW! Please do that. I think it is both a fun and interesting dive into what Assassin's Creed is, how it develops its ideas, and what it says about the world we live in. TOC attached, preorder at the link! bookshop.org/p/books/ever...
They really fucked up my place in the Donkey Kong timeline. Sorry folks, I no longer exist
June 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
They really fucked up my place in the Donkey Kong timeline. Sorry folks, I no longer exist
Cops are playing fucking Calvinball with this unlawful assembly bullshit
June 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Cops are playing fucking Calvinball with this unlawful assembly bullshit
There are like 12 solid blocks of protestors at the Studio City protest. Sometimes it feels like not enough people are mad about this stuff, but it's good to see that so many people are pissed off.
June 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
There are like 12 solid blocks of protestors at the Studio City protest. Sometimes it feels like not enough people are mad about this stuff, but it's good to see that so many people are pissed off.
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And you know what the talking heads seem to rarely use 'violent' to describe? The systemic destruction of families through ICE detentions and deportations. Breaking a window is framed *primarily* as violence, but taking a grandparent away from their kids or sending someone to a work camp isn't.
June 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
And you know what the talking heads seem to rarely use 'violent' to describe? The systemic destruction of families through ICE detentions and deportations. Breaking a window is framed *primarily* as violence, but taking a grandparent away from their kids or sending someone to a work camp isn't.
I am continually blown away by how much money there is in being wrong on the Internet. All you need is confidence, and a busted moral compass.
June 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I am continually blown away by how much money there is in being wrong on the Internet. All you need is confidence, and a busted moral compass.
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not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
June 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
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What world does bitcoin want to build for itself? I spent last week at the Bitcoin Conference in Vegas trying to find out:
defector.com/what-world-d...
defector.com/what-world-d...
What World Does Bitcoin Want To Build For Itself? | Defector
LAS VEGAS — “We often talk about baseball games as a metric for where we are, and we’re literally in the first inning,” one of the Winklevoss twins gloats. “And this game’s going to overtime.” It’s th...
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June 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
What world does bitcoin want to build for itself? I spent last week at the Bitcoin Conference in Vegas trying to find out:
defector.com/what-world-d...
defector.com/what-world-d...
Hell is an hour long virtual training on how to use the new printers
May 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Hell is an hour long virtual training on how to use the new printers
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To me Rowling exists entirely outside of the “should we support/work with artists with troubling views?” debate. She doesn’t just *think* her opinions, she doesn’t just *say* them, she’s a relentless 24-7 activist whose whole mission in life is terrorizing trans people.
there's also people claiming we trans people are "holding allies to a purity test" here and to be clear:
"Don't participate in stuff that actively funds the campaign to exterminate us" is a pretty fucking low bar. One might say it's not even "allyship," it's just decency.
"Don't participate in stuff that actively funds the campaign to exterminate us" is a pretty fucking low bar. One might say it's not even "allyship," it's just decency.
Also, Lithgow is trying to muddy the waters by giving interviews where he pretends that the controversy here is that he's American, not that he's signing off on transphobia.
deadline.com/2025/04/john...
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April 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
To me Rowling exists entirely outside of the “should we support/work with artists with troubling views?” debate. She doesn’t just *think* her opinions, she doesn’t just *say* them, she’s a relentless 24-7 activist whose whole mission in life is terrorizing trans people.
This show has been a ton of fun to make. I've also jettisoned any knowledge of stupid stuff like the names of all 50 states in order to make room for all of the versions of Xehanort, so it's enriched my life in many ways.
It's our last episode for now! With Melody of Memory and the trailers, we're all caught up with Kingdom Hearts! But Sounds About Light will return... at some point... noisespace.xyz/2025/04/16/s...
S6E27 – Let Him Die (Melody of Memory)
The current Kingdom Hearts ends here! We're talking about the Melody of Memory cutscenes, then the trailers for Missing Link and KH4. We get to see a lovingly rendered 3D Brain! Lucky us! Missing Link...
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April 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This show has been a ton of fun to make. I've also jettisoned any knowledge of stupid stuff like the names of all 50 states in order to make room for all of the versions of Xehanort, so it's enriched my life in many ways.
This makes me long for Coded, I'd rather talk about data.
We're starting Kingdom Hearts Dark Road, the weird Xehanort prequel that may or may not need to exist! This week, we meet a bunch of new characters like the vaguely nice boy and the vaguely nice boy and the vaguely nice girl and the vaguely nice girl! noisespace.xyz/2025/03/19/s...
S6E23 – A Bunch of Losers Run Around in Wonderland (Dark Road Part 1)
We're back in the chibi mines with Kingdom Hearts Union χ Dark Road, a mobile gacha game about what Xehanort and Eraqus were getting up to as teenagers when they weren't playing chess! We've got a new...
noisespace.xyz
March 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This makes me long for Coded, I'd rather talk about data.
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We're starting Kingdom Hearts Dark Road, the weird Xehanort prequel that may or may not need to exist! This week, we meet a bunch of new characters like the vaguely nice boy and the vaguely nice boy and the vaguely nice girl and the vaguely nice girl! noisespace.xyz/2025/03/19/s...
S6E23 – A Bunch of Losers Run Around in Wonderland (Dark Road Part 1)
We're back in the chibi mines with Kingdom Hearts Union χ Dark Road, a mobile gacha game about what Xehanort and Eraqus were getting up to as teenagers when they weren't playing chess! We've got a new...
noisespace.xyz
March 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
We're starting Kingdom Hearts Dark Road, the weird Xehanort prequel that may or may not need to exist! This week, we meet a bunch of new characters like the vaguely nice boy and the vaguely nice boy and the vaguely nice girl and the vaguely nice girl! noisespace.xyz/2025/03/19/s...
Kingdom Hearts is surprising in a lot of ways, but the biggest surprise is that it would make me think Mickey Mouse is very badass.
We finished Kingdom Hearts Re Mind, and it turns out all the good stuff is at the end! The Mickey fans are gonna go nuts for this one! noisespace.xyz/2025/03/12/s...
S6E22 – Mickey Mouse Microwave Hallway (Re Mind Part 3)
We pushed through the Re Mind Re Hash last week, and it's all new stuff from here! Sora is exploring Scala ad Caelum and doing some evil activities Xehanort set up for him. That's nice, I think! After...
noisespace.xyz
March 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Kingdom Hearts is surprising in a lot of ways, but the biggest surprise is that it would make me think Mickey Mouse is very badass.