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i can't stop making video essays about A Goofy Movie youtube.com/@joshwithparentheses contributing irritant for @theessaylibrary.com

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josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · May 5

Now live: we’ve forgotten how to forget. Let the map from A Goofy Movie remind you how to let it all go. Stops at Steven Johnson, the West Wing, the ethics of cartography, and at least seven different Goofy family trees.

An open letter to the weird-ass map from A Goofy Movie.

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We've forgotten how to forget.

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josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 8h

Deleting this paragraph about whether a rutabaga can be an airline pilot (with citations to three different government resources and the Code of Federal Regulations) because i have begrudgingly decided that it is not needed in this video about the role of AI in education. o7

A paragraph from a word processing file: "Surely, you might be thinking, there are rules against a rutabaga being an airline pilot. But I’m 100% sure that Federal Aviation Administration does not have a “rutabaga policy.” What they do have is requirements that prospective pilots earn a series of certificates, which requires a bare minimum of 250 hours of flight time, as well as a bunch of other stuff, all of which is enumerated in Part 61 of Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations which does not include the word “rutabaga” anywhere."

josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 1d

a lot of RPGLit and fanfiction work that way by default, too. There have been a few books that I’ve read in book form and then realized “huh, this reads like it was serialized” and then it turns out it was

josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 3d

I think often about the inverse to Clarke’s famous observation: if sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, it follows that sufficiently basic magic is indistinguishable from technology.

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josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 4d

oh jeez katie were you not issued a bingo card

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josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 5d

I genuinely cannot think of a post-XP feature that has improved matters

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 5d

we will retvrn to XP before the decade is out

Lucas Brown Eyes @lucasbrowneyes.bsky.social · 6d

Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10.

Windows 7 use is surging 5x now.

AI is product poison.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 5d

we will retvrn to XP before the decade is out

Lucas Brown Eyes @lucasbrowneyes.bsky.social · 6d

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josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 5d

Chat, can I get away with using “please understand this as shitpost and not attempted scholarship” as my email signature for work

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 5d

I just made this up right now and did not do an extensive search of SCOTUS 25nd amendment case law, if it exists, so please understand this as shitpost and not attempted legal scholarship.

Also I left off prohibition and its repeal.

josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 6d

I know that this essay will be good. I know that when it all comes together my argument will be compelling and interesting and engaging and maybe even persuasive. But also I look at my script and see things like this and like, man. Fighting an uphill battle with what i'm like.

A heading in a word processing file: "Dog Sports Are Real But Dog Sports Can't Hurt You"

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josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 7d

I think my favorite thing about Alex Easton (of @tkingfisher.com’s Sworn Soldier books) is how thoroughly and enthusiastically ka loves a neurodivergent weirdo. Ka just wander around looking for people with special interests and say “infodump on me please.” We weirdos need more characters like that

josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 8d

she comin

Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 9d

Hey @marchxness.bsky.social fans! It's cover reveal + preorders day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social!

Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology

Now available for pre-order: Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: The March Xness Anthology, edited by Ander Monson and Megan Campbell, coming with Split/Lip Press on March 31. Image shows a yellow book cover with a dubbed cassette tape, upon which the title of the book has been written.

josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 8d

I love that your response was not “that’s a silly idea” but “alas the law prevents me from executing that silly idea,” thank you

josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 8d

I am just starting What Stalks the Deep and I don’t know what is going on yet but I have this sneaking suspicion that @tkingfisher.com is retelling Ted the Caver

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Six-Eyed Kitten (But Scary) @andrewkozma.net · 11d

This is a great and inspiring (even hopeful) video by @afterthoughts.bsky.social. It's part of an ongoing series, which is also recommended.

Change-Makers: Opposing Fascism In Daily Life

YouTube video by Afterthoughts

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josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 14d

it's great! and not just because pillar is one of the nine fans of my goofy movie content. i'm constantly amazed by the extent to which pillar is able to take a complex political topic and make it personal in a way that also makes my understanding of the topic feel more meaningful

Pillar of Garbage @pillarofgarbage.bsky.social · 14d

New video live premiering on YouTube in 4 hours from now!

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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 14d

This video is very good, actually. Watch and share:
Change-Makers: Opposing Fascism In Daily Life

h/t @afterthoughts.bsky.social

Change-Makers: Opposing Fascism In Daily Life

YouTube video by Afterthoughts

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josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 14d

as usually, the kids have better sense for bullshit than their grandparents

Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 14d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 14d

Most of the actual thrusting is done by other men before he enters the arena?

Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 14d

I have to assume this means he keeps everything hidden behind fabric and just thrusts wildly as she runs past.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 14d

Katie Miller joked about her husband being a “sexual matador” in an interview with Jesse Watters.

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actual heathcliff comics @realheathcliffs.bsky.social · 16d

22 Sep 2025

Heathcliff leaps from an egregariously high angle at a squirrel, standing next to a pile of acorns holding a sign that says "DEEZ NUTS". Two other squirrels watch, and one of them says "Never brag about your stash."

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josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 16d

I think Stephen king might sue the living shit out of him if so which would be interesting to watch

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 17d

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia