Alex Manthei

Alex Manthei

@alexmanthei.com

I'm Alex (he/him/his). I live in #London but I'm from #Tucson, AZ 🌵 🧑‍💻 I’m currently… 🏦 Working at @monzo.com 🕹️ Playing Pokémon Crystal 📚 Reading The Stasi Poetry Circle by Philip Oltermann 🎧 Listening to The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast

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On Instagram, you can *pay* to view peoples’ stories without them seeing you viewed them. Which tells you everything you need to know about the fucked up status of Facebook’s psychological depravity.

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These Google Workspace ads (for *paying* customers!) are driving me crazy I don't know why I would need a "virtual receptionist", what "Voice Standard" is, who "my callers" are, and why I would need to "guide them automatically" Is Google Workspace losing its mind? What next: proper ads?

Just saw #theodyssey in 70mm IMAX. Here’s my spoiler free review: EPIC! Not what I expected, brilliant, more moral than moving. A work that’s convinced there is right and wrong. Which in our time is needed. It really may be his best film, even if it’s not my favorite of his.

“San Francisco is, after all, the same town that invented Google Glass and NFTs. But it’s also the same place that incubated the internet, social media apps, and the modern office. What happens in tech sometimes becomes a joke, and sometimes becomes ubiquitous.” – Benn Stancil

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Christopher Nolan has done some of us a great service by making a movie that has become a heat sink for all the illiterate chud rage grifters who usually spend all day talking about videogame bustlines

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I think we can take a moment to admire the United States Postal Service's commemorative stamps celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, by illustrator Juan Carlos Pagan. The '1776' in both designs is smart, though where the feathers are elegant that stylised flag is 👌

My first ACE graded card - super nice touch how they “extend” the card art in their grading slip - I wasn't a huge fan of Metagross until I got a hundo one in Pokémon Go, now I really like the design - especially with this super fun snow scene 🌨️

This film is even more miraculous when you learn that 20 years before acting together again they were together for five years and have a child

We’re 26 years into this millennium and I’ve just thrown out my dad’s landline phone he still had stored in his closet “in case I needed to test a landline”

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4 people are flying around that Moon today. The first since 1972, and the first-ever with digital cameras, to see better into the dark craters and textures. The crew will have perfect quiet when the Moon blocks out Earth - a time of peace, alone, together.

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The two #f1 champions who aren’t winning any more now that the regulations have changed saying they’re “not having fun anymore,” etc., is such a bad look. Like, babes, no one is forcing you to be in F1. The first race was surprisingly good. Let’s relax a bit and see what happens.

PIXAR’s been shit for years. I’m happy to simply cast off any nostalgia I have for when their films were actually good.

Jason Bailey@jasondashbailey.com

I mean beyond all of the loathsome obvious shit about allllll of this, the director of the fucking INSIDE fucking OUT movies saying “We’re making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy" is a level of self-unawareness I can only marvel at