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Flavio Sette @flaviosette.bsky.social · 15h

Like, I love a good trashy slasher flick. I laugh at the crappy dialogue and the shitty special effects but I don't act like I'm too good for it, y'know what I mean?

Flavio Sette @flaviosette.bsky.social · 15h

I think often (not always) this "I love my trash" reaction betrays this weird insecurity about being "cool". Like, they want to share their enjoyment of certain works of art, but have to hide behind layers of detached irony lest their peer call them "cringy" or something.

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Flavio Sette @flaviosette.bsky.social · 16h

(There are bound to be exceptions of course; I'm sure we can all think of some off the top of our heads)

Flavio Sette @flaviosette.bsky.social · 16h

If you can find something of worth in a work of art, then you don't have to be embarrassed of loving it, nor does it have to "transcend" genre by tackling certain weighty themes or whatever.

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Flavio Sette @flaviosette.bsky.social · 16h

So you love that thought provoking novel about fighting against cultural hegemony set in a world of witches and goblins and dwarfs. You don't have to defend it by knocking other genre fare

It's got dwarfs in it. Of course it's every bit as silly as [insert other popular thing in nerdy circles here]

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Flavio Sette @flaviosette.bsky.social · 16h

This post-ironic "I love my trash" bullshit has done some serious damage.

Sci-fi, fantasy, superhero stuff - these are almost inherently silly genres. That isn't a bad thing. Embrace it.

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 1d

If you didn't notice the Supermoon last night, maybe it was wearing glasses and a different hairstyle, and you were fooled by its secret identity as a mild-mannered ordinary moon.

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Flavio Sette @flaviosette.bsky.social · 2d

Sea shanties too: someone please do a similar remix for Barnacle Bill the Sailor.

Flavio Sette @flaviosette.bsky.social · 2d

There isn't a single spoken word or a capella tune that couldn't be improved by the addition of '90s house music-style beats. Just imagine: Henry Rollins' monologue about his first time dropping acid, but with thundering beats and the occasional sampled horn part.

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Flavio Sette @flaviosette.bsky.social · 3d

"I know Darkseid is searching for the anti-life equation so he can enslave all sentient beings and erase free will even as an abstract concept, but he's paying me enough to look the other way."

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Nick Arvin @nickarvin.bsky.social · 4d

An amazing graph, what happens when you destigmatize a behavior.

Graph, titled "The history of left-handedness," shows the rate of left-handedness among Americans by year of birth. The graph illustrates a significant increase in the percentage of left-handed people from the early 1900s to the 1960s, after which the rate stabilized.

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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 4d

today in Halloween preparations - a water feature! He's been on the cider, poor chap.

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Flavio Sette @flaviosette.bsky.social · 4d

Fun (?) Fact: L Ron also seduced Jack Parsons' girlfriend. I think the guy just liked to find women who were in committed relationships and figure out some way to sleep with them.

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Flavio Sette @flaviosette.bsky.social · 5d

He would show up and it would immediately stop being funny. It felt almost like the SNL crew found a random guy walking around midtown Manhattan & told him if he came with them he'd get to be on TV. There were times I half expected him to wink at the camera.

Flavio Sette @flaviosette.bsky.social · 5d

Glad to see I'm no longer the only one who hates Pete Davidson.

He was the worst thing about every SNL sketch because he always played the same character: Pete Davidson, the painfully unfunny guy who's seemingly incapable of delivering a line with a straight face, even when the role called for it.

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Brian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 6d

GUY WHO JUST CAME BACK FROM DOING THE JABBA'S PALACE COMEDY FESTIVAL:

You know, I gotta say they're really great in there, they're just like us. I thought it was only gonna be women in chains and a trapdoor monster they feed slaves to but like, they also have a band that plays cool music.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 8d

(solemnly) You've had mail.

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caveat empress @heliotrash.bsky.social · Aug 8

all this "stomp clap" "worst song" discourse is attacking songs that might've at least been genuine while missing an obvious choice for worst 2010s radio hit - Renegades by X Ambassadors, a song *literally* commissioned to sell the Jeep Renegade

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Just George Oh🍂 @timmytwoshirts.bsky.social · 9d

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Flavio Sette @flaviosette.bsky.social · 8d

Back in the good old days, crystal balls would emanate smoke, bringing forth figures from other dimensions.

But they don't anymore, because of woke.

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Flavio Sette @flaviosette.bsky.social · 8d

Reminds of me of this post by Dan Olson of Folding Ideas:

Flavio Sette @flaviosette.bsky.social · 9d

Considering the fact that Trump forged a path for game show hosts to become politicians, I guess it's just a matter of time before Mr Beast runs tor office, huh?

(That's a great premise for a horror novel/movie right there)

Flavio Sette @flaviosette.bsky.social · 9d

You're soooo close. Follow that line of thought to its logical conclusion, please.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 9d

Content creators tend to think any spectacle is defensible if they can say health and safety concerns have been attended to behind the scenes, but that’s not really it imho. Mr. Beast’s whole thing is that his subjects’ desperation for cash allows him—a wealthier person—to indulge his sadism.

@KillaKreww
MrBeast had a contestant TRAPPED inside a BURNING house to win $500,000 in his new video [link]

@MrBeast
This blew up, if you're curious obviously we had ventilation for the smoke and a kill switch to cut off the fires. We had professionals test this extensively and the guy in the video as stated is a professional stunt man. I take safety more serious than you could ever imagine.

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Eugenio Garza Sade @chicxsinportico.bsky.social · 11d

Homer sleeps nude in a medbed which he believes gives him sexual powers

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