i've been saying "groceries" my whole life and i'm v. northern and not a speaker of AAVE???
― contorted filbert (harbl), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
this is similar to, but not as bad as the time felix thought you couldn't leave butter out
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
then that makes it even weirder! I mean it’s a very minor point in his off the dome rant but I was like “he’s probably very literally never heard ‘Grits Ain’t Groceries’ on the radio”
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
tbh i'm not sure what the right word is supposed to be, am i stupid
― contorted filbert (harbl), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 21:23 (three years ago) link
Brace is bullying Nathan J. Robinson on Twitter and I approve.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 23:57 (three years ago) link
The 'lo-fi beats' Youtube aesthetic is an interesting choice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdQrz4ke4Jw
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Thursday, 3 September 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
Death, the ultimate hot couch guy.
I've now heard the linked episode, was good. Agree the quoted movie has a weird use of "groceries" but I imagine it's perfectly cromulent somewhere. I really glaze over when he starts rambling about squibs and little movie things. But I don't bother with superhero or action movies nearly as much as he does. You have to admire his sacrifice.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 3 September 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link
yeah I neglected to mention you can safely stop that stream I linked when he starts going off about squibs lol
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 4 September 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
i've been saying "groceries" my whole life and i'm v. northern and not a speaker of AAVE???― contorted filbert (harbl), Wednesday, September 2, 2020 2:37 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― contorted filbert (harbl), Wednesday, September 2, 2020 2:37 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
in the context he was talking about?! i have never ever heard that and i am shocked it's a thing!!!
― TRANCED INTO RADIOACTIVE PUREE (Will M.), Friday, 4 September 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
oh i never actually found where he said it, i was thinking this was some kind of "food shopping" vs "grocery shopping" thing
― contorted filbert (harbl), Friday, 4 September 2020 20:17 (three years ago) link
he's saying once you bring groceries into your home they are no longer groceries. they are food (or more specifically, they're bananas, peanut butter, beef, etc.) the line in the movie is something like, some people look in their fridge and see that it's empty, and proclaim, "we're out of groceries"
― TRANCED INTO RADIOACTIVE PUREE (Will M.), Friday, 4 September 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
GROCERY BAG
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 4 September 2020 21:26 (three years ago) link
“I’m out of groceries” is some kind of uncanny valley of language. It doesn’t sound right but it’s not wrong either.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Friday, 4 September 2020 21:32 (three years ago) link
"out of groceries"About 7,490,000 results (0.42 seconds)
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 4 September 2020 21:40 (three years ago) link
have to be more specific
"well dear it looks like the grocery store ran out of groceries"About 7,489,999 results (0.42 seconds)
"i'm out of groceries"About 1 result (600 seconds)
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Friday, 4 September 2020 21:49 (three years ago) link
https://www.thefabulous.co/qa/what-is-your-go-to-meal-when-running-low-on-groceries/
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 4 September 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link
so alienated from the concept of "food" are the fabulous
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 4 September 2020 21:55 (three years ago) link
tbh I think "we're out of groceries" is fine and "I'm out of food" is correct but the singular "I'm out of groceries" sounds wrong
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 4 September 2020 23:02 (three years ago) link
You're out of foodI'm out of groceriesBut I'm out of my headWhen you're not around
― contorted filbert (harbl), Saturday, 5 September 2020 00:09 (three years ago) link
i'm so lost but i'll probably never watch that and find out what the hell's going on
― With deep regret I remove my bookmark from this thread (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 5 September 2020 05:36 (three years ago) link
in certain parts of new orleans you make groceries
― adam, Saturday, 5 September 2020 10:47 (three years ago) link
We're just dancing around the fact that we all love each other very much
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 5 September 2020 10:58 (three years ago) link
xp❤️
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 5 September 2020 10:59 (three years ago) link
cushvlog grillstream is a go: https://t.co/dtkkrteC4h & https://t.co/PFQ96jw5zj— bad posts for bad people (@saywhatagain) September 9, 2020
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link
Briahna Joy Gray and Virgil have a new podcast.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Friday, 11 September 2020 02:10 (three years ago) link
first ep ft. Glenn. seems like a great way to keep tedious bullshit safely stowed away on a pod I'll never listen to.
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 11 September 2020 03:45 (three years ago) link
I assume it's going to be wonkier and that's a hard pass from me. The Virgil and Matt horserace episodes were unlistenable
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Friday, 11 September 2020 03:47 (three years ago) link
yeah, the only two strains of content I need from any of these ppl are the reading series and some of Matt's more cogent/reflective big-picture solo stuff. and as little amber as possible
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 11 September 2020 03:50 (three years ago) link
and the occasional movie ep. I ended up watching and sort of loving Assassin 33 AD.
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 11 September 2020 03:54 (three years ago) link
xxxpost sounds like it will be better than CTH to be honest
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 11 September 2020 12:28 (three years ago) link
Hit/ miss ratio def ain’t what it once was but I still get a lot out of it. Last one on the main feed was good as hell imo
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 11 September 2020 12:48 (three years ago) link
Not all the way through the Pepe episode but really enjoying it. Will is such a sharp and articulate guy and a very good interviewer, and I think his energy gets kind of squashed by the others at times, or he focuses it more on keeping the show moving. I'm sort of bored of Felix and Amber and Virgil and would really listen a lot more to content consisting solely of Matt's rantings and Will's interviews.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 11 September 2020 14:32 (three years ago) link
Pepe episode was very good - they are often good at those kinds of episodes when they aren't filling space as they often seem to be recently.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Saturday, 12 September 2020 06:50 (three years ago) link
Amber should stick to writing - this book review / screed is solid.
As it functions now, a hashtag campaign is largely an exercise in liberal networking. It offers in-group recognition, the illusion of power, the potential for moral absolution, and sometimes, conveniently enough, professional advantages for the enterprising white-collar progressive. For the more earnest social justice advocate — who probably works at a “job” rather than a “career” — Twitter allows them to participate in “the conversation,” where they can bear witness to suffering among like-minded people, even if it results in little more than a collective, therapeutic wailing into the privately owned digital void. If the authors’ political goals are largely PR campaigns, therapy, and consciousness raising for a more merciful middle class, it’s fair to say that Twitter has been wildly successful.Only a few paragraphs of #HashtagActivism refer to the potentially nefarious machinations of Twitter — and they are all buried in the book’s afterword. In a publication about politics on social media, fewer than six pages are dedicated solely to the politics of social media. Net neutrality, surveillance, censorship, trolls, misinformation campaigns, and bots all appear to be minor concerns in the otherwise auspicious estimation of Twitter as a powerful and positive force. The authors do, however, appear to be concerned about Russiagate.This paranoid insularity and PMC subculturalism can only exacerbate atomization and political obscurantism, even more than the New Left ever could. Yet there is a resistance to any consideration of its weaknesses, and a failure to even to address its potential detriments. Much of this stems from a fetish for novelty that has flourished since the cultural turn pronounced the death of dusty old class politics. Social media’s newness is taken as evidence of its potential, even when its own partisans write a book explicitly chronicling its 100 percent failure rate. At the heart of this denial is an ideology of will; this has to work, because it’s all that we have left — all the while, its greatest advocates sing its praises amid an unbroken record of defeat.
Only a few paragraphs of #HashtagActivism refer to the potentially nefarious machinations of Twitter — and they are all buried in the book’s afterword. In a publication about politics on social media, fewer than six pages are dedicated solely to the politics of social media. Net neutrality, surveillance, censorship, trolls, misinformation campaigns, and bots all appear to be minor concerns in the otherwise auspicious estimation of Twitter as a powerful and positive force. The authors do, however, appear to be concerned about Russiagate.
This paranoid insularity and PMC subculturalism can only exacerbate atomization and political obscurantism, even more than the New Left ever could. Yet there is a resistance to any consideration of its weaknesses, and a failure to even to address its potential detriments. Much of this stems from a fetish for novelty that has flourished since the cultural turn pronounced the death of dusty old class politics. Social media’s newness is taken as evidence of its potential, even when its own partisans write a book explicitly chronicling its 100 percent failure rate. At the heart of this denial is an ideology of will; this has to work, because it’s all that we have left — all the while, its greatest advocates sing its praises amid an unbroken record of defeat.
https://catalyst-journal.com/vol4/no2/the-poisoned-chalice-of-hashtag-activism
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Saturday, 12 September 2020 12:37 (three years ago) link
They're very good at selling movies that otherwise sound terrible.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Monday, 21 September 2020 05:07 (three years ago) link
The Richard Jewell ep really is driving home how the majority of modern media critics are either too craven or too stupid to actually do their jobs anymore
― Thoia Thoing, Maryland (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 21 September 2020 05:15 (three years ago) link
yeah I actually stopped listening partway through cause I decided to actually watch it, which is impressive because I hate every latter-day Clint movie I've seen
― Simon H., Monday, 21 September 2020 05:26 (three years ago) link
the long TrueAnon interview w/ Mike Davis is some really heavy shit. Do not listen if you can't handle a heavy dose of (totally reasonable) pessimism.
― the typo doer (Simon H.), Sunday, 4 October 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link
(also spookily well-timed as I'd started in on Old Gods, New Enigmas that same morning)
― the typo doer (Simon H.), Sunday, 4 October 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
yeah that was a heavy listen
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Sunday, 4 October 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
what the FUCK is Johnny Knoxville doing on this DSA fundraiser endorsing @Bradshaw2020!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/ozGtdtPl4y— Henry Druschel (@henrydruschel) October 5, 2020
Putting the dirtbag in dirtbag left.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Monday, 5 October 2020 04:46 (three years ago) link
good for him
― the typo doer (Simon H.), Monday, 5 October 2020 10:05 (three years ago) link
Pretty fun episode but what on earth was amber going for with her “lol libs think the virus transmits through the air” thing?
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 18:09 (three years ago) link
do not feed the amber
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 09:55 (three years ago) link
Gets hard for me to listen to an Amber episode anymore
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 13:14 (three years ago) link
eh her “bad takes” still I still really appreciate when she does stuff like deep dives on Kim Klacik etc.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
ok that one got away from me—her “bad takes” still make me consider things in ways I hadn’t As for the libs and Covid I need to relisten bc it sounded like there was some talking past each other and she got in the weeds with her original point.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
she said something about how liberals thought covid was an airborne toxic event, which is pretty imaginative on her part
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
yeah I wasn’t following her riff at all there but I feel fairly confident she understands (as well as any non-insane layperson) that CV-19 can spread through airborne transmission
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
I mean you can feel confident about that but she said what she said
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link