Jacob Earl

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9 Dec 2024

being friendly and nice is some of the top best stuff you can do, classic being alive type vibe. This is controversial somehow

Woah

defector.comFrancis Fukuyama Is The Last Grandpa | DefectorIf you’re not following Francis Fukuyama on Instagram, you’re missing out. His posts exemplify a Boomer picaresque aesthetic: the occasional typo in his captions, pictures of electronic parts that he’...

finally read that Gruber piece on why he's back on twitter. lots to unpack lol but two big ones: all "non-political" spaces are simply spaces whose politics are invisible to you, and two if your bluesky feed seems dead follow more people?! its up to you who you follow??

real bummer of a thing to read from a guy you've followed for like, 15 years. AI brainrot comes for everyone who touches the damn stuff I guess

"uh well Sesame Street is still there checkmate. and? the dictionary" dumbass

aftermath.siteStar Wars: Galactic Racer Gives Me What I Want: To Go So Fast That I ExplodeI missed going at sublime speeds and bursting into flames.

“The heart of Galactic Racer is your Scouse-coded, four-armed alien ape mechanic doing significant levels of fraud so she can weld together a death machine that’s about to turn the wife of rival podracer Temu Pringles into a fucking widow. “ incredible stuff @papapishu.bsky.social

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The American Prospect

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The U.S. Senate election in Alaska signals another red state on the brink of flipping blue, with polls showing voters narrowly preferring the Democratic nominee, former Rep. Mary Peltola, over Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan. buff.ly/6poWTFE

buff.lyIn Alaska, Senate Candidates Claim the Oil Industry Creates Local Jobs. It Doesn’t. - The American ProspectThe state’s own data shows an increasing number of oil and gas industry jobs have been going to nonresidents.

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defector.comMr. Monk And The Unfinished Book | DefectorOne of Monk’s most Monk-like episodes in all of Monk occurs in Season 2, Episode 7: “Mr. Monk and the Sleeping Suspect.” Adrian Monk, Tony Shalhoub’s impersonation of Eeyore if the donkey had severe O...

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Faine Greenwood

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Replying to @baseballmad.bsky.social

it’s nice when I’m talking to another hyperactive person and we can just happily interrupt each other

19 Sept

Is there an @bookshop.org but for comics

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How many kids did DOGE kill? Watch the full video on YouTube: youtu.be/6kZR638ARN8

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reactormag.comTeenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Comes to Streaming Next Week - ReactorYou have MUBI, right?

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Ed Zitron

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@iwriteok.bsky.social Declaring force majeure on the podcast

23 Sept

@the-film-verdict.bsky.social hey did you know your website's down

letterboxd.comA ★★ review of Heart of the Beast (2026)This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

22 Sept

the $5 mystery movie was the brad Pitt man-and-his dog thing but the twist is that he's a bush pilot in Alaska who crashes so I had, a few notes, letterboxd.com/jacobearl/fi...

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Sasha Rose Hansen

@sasharosehansen.bsky.social

20 Sept

The Gates of Horn and Ivory #illustration #illumination #vellum #watercolor #alchemy #sketchbook

19 Sept

ready player one is only from TWENTY ELEVEN!? no wonder everyone clowns on it I thought it was from like, 1999

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19 Sept

stuffjonahmade.substack.comEating Onion Rings with Roland BarthesI wrote a series of essays in 2022, with the goal of one day releasing a collection of memoir-essay-things of my own. Here’s the second.

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Letterboxd

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16 Sept

With The History of Concrete opening in theaters, John Wilson tells Carlos Aguilar about looking beneath the cracks in society’s surfaces and celebrating physical media at Low Cinema. https://boxd.it/3mM

boxd.itExactly one close-up of a leathermanA list of 2 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Project Hail Mary (2026) and Speed (1994).

boxd.itTime Travel Themed legacyquel with exactly one kinda forced close up of a Hamilton watchIt’s weird it happened twice

6 Sept

Infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters sure we know it we love it BUT who is feeding the typewriters? Is this a paperclip machine scenario where all sentient life is now some variation of a monkeys secretary? And who’s checking the work in this Borgesian library of babel here

6 Sept

never a bad time to watch project Hail Mary again

5 Sept

It is perfectly legal to listen to the audiobook of neuromancer in a dark room late at night

5 Sept

oh you *know* this guys 24

2 Sept

One nice thing about gremlin is he will come and knock my phone out of my hand and bonk his head on my nose as hard as he can if I’m looking at Instagram reels for too long. One bad thing about him is he’ll also do this if I’m reading a book

2 Sept

His favourite thing is if I’m watching a movie with headphones in at my desk b/c I’m reclined (but not too much), my hands are free, and it’s quiet

2 Sept

@popfeed.social Hi! The link for “Feedback” on your website links to an apparently closed zendesk, and I was wondering how to add a book thats not showing up when I search?

@lindsayellis.bsky.social

1 Sept

somebody needs to do a @bookshop.org but for comics

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Lindsay Ellis

25 Aug

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youtu.beYes, Dolly was Actually That GreatYouTube video by Lindsay Ellis

24 Aug

30 mins into watching fatal attraction for the first time and like. if I were married to Anne Archer and she left town for the weekend I would simply wait for my beautiful wife to come home

17 Aug

you’ll never believe what I found on the sidewalk

17 Aug

Planned to hang out at a cafe that, turns out, is closed, while my car gets worked on so I am being driven insane by the dealership music playlist!

17 Aug

Public music is psychic warfare

16 Aug

just remembered I saw this on the way back from a recent road trip, had to pull over

16 Aug

the opening credits of apple tv's sugar has a mushy, AI look that from what I can tell is incidental but man I hate it

president curtis is just inside job but worse

but cartoons are good and people should be employed to make them, so, mixed

must've been so embarrassing for ari aster when he realised the prisoner already copped his shit

must've been so embarrassing for the get smart production team to realise gilbert and sullivan already copped their shit

must've been so embarrassing for gilbert and sullivan to realise this is where my historical knowledge falls apart. Idk, some, greek, probably, or Shakespeare perhaps, already copped their shit

must've been so embarrassing for ari aster when he realised the prisoner already copped his shit

must've been so embarrassing for the prisoner production team to realise get smart already copped their shit

The prisoner is in conversations with tom scott’s great english road trip

The mountain goats show at amoeba Hollywood!! @themountaingoats.bsky.social @amoebamusic.bsky.social

10 Aug

I can't be a part of the larger literary commentariat b/c I have spent half of the book “Babylon, South Dakota” passively trying to triangulate where they are through context clues