Norbert
@norbertmadao.bsky.social
Writer and photographer. Published in Anime News Network, IGN, Playboy, Nerdist and more. Used to have a minorly notable podcast about cartoons.
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Norbert
@norbertmadao.bsky.social
· Dec 7
NEW ARTICLE:
I wrote over 2,000 words on Carol & the End of the World and why I don't like it.
I talk about the genre of "the office is your home," the show's first world tunnel vision and I say the word "orgy" a lot. Excerpts below:
saturdaymorningblockparty.com/2025/12/07/c...
I wrote over 2,000 words on Carol & the End of the World and why I don't like it.
I talk about the genre of "the office is your home," the show's first world tunnel vision and I say the word "orgy" a lot. Excerpts below:
saturdaymorningblockparty.com/2025/12/07/c...
This Aranofsky thing is confirming my bias that the revolutionary period is the most dork-ass part of American history to be passionate about. Join us in the 19th-century, losers. We have trains. We have guns that don't suck.
January 29, 2026 at 8:59 PM
This Aranofsky thing is confirming my bias that the revolutionary period is the most dork-ass part of American history to be passionate about. Join us in the 19th-century, losers. We have trains. We have guns that don't suck.
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December 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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This is all stupid bullshit but I remain pretty disgusted at how things like marriage and having children are treated like Xbox achievements instead of actually loving and caring for someone else. Yeah I’m going to work 70 hours a week but definitely need a spouse, her name is Beth or something idk
January 29, 2026 at 1:07 PM
This is all stupid bullshit but I remain pretty disgusted at how things like marriage and having children are treated like Xbox achievements instead of actually loving and caring for someone else. Yeah I’m going to work 70 hours a week but definitely need a spouse, her name is Beth or something idk
Since there's another fake internet general strike this Friday, I feel I should remind you that if you think a 0.8% day-over-day dip in a stock price is evidence of anything then you're dumb and don't know how money works.
January 29, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Since there's another fake internet general strike this Friday, I feel I should remind you that if you think a 0.8% day-over-day dip in a stock price is evidence of anything then you're dumb and don't know how money works.
If you lock your replies to followers-only it's probably smart to do that with quote posts too. Cuts off an avenue for those weirdos who decide to scold you in the quotes because being forced to click one (1) extra button to talk to you offended them.
January 29, 2026 at 5:51 PM
If you lock your replies to followers-only it's probably smart to do that with quote posts too. Cuts off an avenue for those weirdos who decide to scold you in the quotes because being forced to click one (1) extra button to talk to you offended them.
It's hilarious how The Secret/Manifesting/The Law of Attraction goes through all the trouble of doing woo woo new age hippy spiritualism just to repackage the concept of praying for money.
January 28, 2026 at 8:36 PM
It's hilarious how The Secret/Manifesting/The Law of Attraction goes through all the trouble of doing woo woo new age hippy spiritualism just to repackage the concept of praying for money.
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I'm tired, grandpa.
January 27, 2026 at 6:54 PM
I'm tired, grandpa.
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when trump rolled out the line about haitians eating people’s pets during the debate kamala just laughed it off. she didn’t defend them, didn’t stick up for them, didn’t say shit because her immigration platform was she was going to Really do border security. we were always going to wind up here
January 27, 2026 at 5:12 PM
when trump rolled out the line about haitians eating people’s pets during the debate kamala just laughed it off. she didn’t defend them, didn’t stick up for them, didn’t say shit because her immigration platform was she was going to Really do border security. we were always going to wind up here
A pop punk/nu-metal rock opera about an Ohio girl and Florida boy falling in love.
January 27, 2026 at 7:18 PM
A pop punk/nu-metal rock opera about an Ohio girl and Florida boy falling in love.
*buries your sushi in shredded cheese to make it Cincinnati-style*
January 27, 2026 at 5:35 PM
*buries your sushi in shredded cheese to make it Cincinnati-style*
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I'm not telling you anything you don't already know but they don't want money going to the performers even in a roundabout way, they want it going to tech freaks who hate women, because the app stores are all run by tech freaks who hate women
There's something so insane about the fact that the app stores will, to the best of their ability, prevent you from accessing consensual pornography while letting pornography that is, by default, nonconsensual pass with a shrug
A review of the app stores “found 55 nudify apps on Google Play and 47 in the Apple App Store…”
January 27, 2026 at 3:52 PM
I'm not telling you anything you don't already know but they don't want money going to the performers even in a roundabout way, they want it going to tech freaks who hate women, because the app stores are all run by tech freaks who hate women
(talking on the phone)
"No, that's not Snoopy. When he has the sunglasses on his name is Joe Cool.
...
No, I haven't fed the kids yet."
"No, that's not Snoopy. When he has the sunglasses on his name is Joe Cool.
...
No, I haven't fed the kids yet."
January 26, 2026 at 10:22 PM
(talking on the phone)
"No, that's not Snoopy. When he has the sunglasses on his name is Joe Cool.
...
No, I haven't fed the kids yet."
"No, that's not Snoopy. When he has the sunglasses on his name is Joe Cool.
...
No, I haven't fed the kids yet."
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Nothing Doing no. 62
January 26, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Nothing Doing no. 62
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It'll never stop being funny to me that Steven Universe got away with doing an episode parodying the Charles Whitman Clocktower Shooting and the Kennedy Assassination. Wild to say this about a 2010s cartoon but they couldn't get away with that today.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Mz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Mz...
Steven & Buck Dismantle The Establishment (YTP)
YouTube video by SHINIGAMIEATER
www.youtube.com
January 24, 2026 at 9:18 AM
It'll never stop being funny to me that Steven Universe got away with doing an episode parodying the Charles Whitman Clocktower Shooting and the Kennedy Assassination. Wild to say this about a 2010s cartoon but they couldn't get away with that today.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Mz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Mz...
The Flobots Cycle
13 y/o: Woah, music can be political? Amazing!
21 y/o: I liked this when I was a teenager therefore it must have been cringe and the politics must have been dumb.
29 y/o: Oh shit they were rapping about Gaza in 2010 this isn't cringe at all.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7w4...
13 y/o: Woah, music can be political? Amazing!
21 y/o: I liked this when I was a teenager therefore it must have been cringe and the politics must have been dumb.
29 y/o: Oh shit they were rapping about Gaza in 2010 this isn't cringe at all.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7w4...
Superhero
YouTube video by Flobots - Topic
www.youtube.com
January 24, 2026 at 8:25 AM
The Flobots Cycle
13 y/o: Woah, music can be political? Amazing!
21 y/o: I liked this when I was a teenager therefore it must have been cringe and the politics must have been dumb.
29 y/o: Oh shit they were rapping about Gaza in 2010 this isn't cringe at all.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7w4...
13 y/o: Woah, music can be political? Amazing!
21 y/o: I liked this when I was a teenager therefore it must have been cringe and the politics must have been dumb.
29 y/o: Oh shit they were rapping about Gaza in 2010 this isn't cringe at all.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7w4...
Flobots is putting clips of an anti-ICE song on their Facebook and seeing a lot of conservatives flooding the comments made me realize something. Facebook shoving posts from pages/groups you don't follow into your feed is basically invented what we know here as the Discovery Feed experience.
January 24, 2026 at 8:10 AM
Flobots is putting clips of an anti-ICE song on their Facebook and seeing a lot of conservatives flooding the comments made me realize something. Facebook shoving posts from pages/groups you don't follow into your feed is basically invented what we know here as the Discovery Feed experience.
"Soda Pop" is the worst song in KPop Demon Hunters. It sounds like a song written for a cell phone carrier commercial.
January 24, 2026 at 4:41 AM
"Soda Pop" is the worst song in KPop Demon Hunters. It sounds like a song written for a cell phone carrier commercial.
Okay, another idea on how to save GameStop:
Move every GameStop location to a second floor addition to a Cambodian donut shop. If there is no Cambodian donut shop in the area, we will have to build one first.
Move every GameStop location to a second floor addition to a Cambodian donut shop. If there is no Cambodian donut shop in the area, we will have to build one first.
January 23, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Okay, another idea on how to save GameStop:
Move every GameStop location to a second floor addition to a Cambodian donut shop. If there is no Cambodian donut shop in the area, we will have to build one first.
Move every GameStop location to a second floor addition to a Cambodian donut shop. If there is no Cambodian donut shop in the area, we will have to build one first.
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and don't tell me we need true insurgency if you're just posting. Do it or don't. I don't want to hear someone righteously whine about how someone else should put their life on the line. Fuck off
January 23, 2026 at 2:58 AM
and don't tell me we need true insurgency if you're just posting. Do it or don't. I don't want to hear someone righteously whine about how someone else should put their life on the line. Fuck off
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the story of my 1st ever cosplay purchased online.
January 22, 2026 at 5:52 PM
the story of my 1st ever cosplay purchased online.
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Whenever people talk about how teenagers "deserve" or "need" to be bullied you gotta remember that it's coming from people in their 20s who wish they had the balls to be the highschool bully. They're mad that they just kinda blended in.
January 21, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Whenever people talk about how teenagers "deserve" or "need" to be bullied you gotta remember that it's coming from people in their 20s who wish they had the balls to be the highschool bully. They're mad that they just kinda blended in.
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A big part of US internet now is someone posting "America must be cleansed. Women are eating a new food called 'salad.'" And then random people start making shit up like "What even is 'salad?' I had never heard of this until yesterday." And if you don't stop reading that shit you will go insane.
January 22, 2026 at 3:29 AM
A big part of US internet now is someone posting "America must be cleansed. Women are eating a new food called 'salad.'" And then random people start making shit up like "What even is 'salad?' I had never heard of this until yesterday." And if you don't stop reading that shit you will go insane.