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hey man, this sucks@pykea· Jun 29

Gabriel to Casemiro at halftime

the bit from THE DEPARTED where one of the surveillance techs says "who the fuck are you" at an angry mark wahlberg and wahlberg spits back "i'm the guy who does his job, you must be the other guy," which is approximately how Gabriel Maghalaes must feel today watching the turgid and gassy corpse of Casemiro utterly fail to protect the middle of the park in Brazil's round-of-32 match against Japan, which by the way is happening way too early in the tournament, both of these teams are awesome and this should be a quarterfinal! anyway haha casemiro sucks ass now, if he was a horse you'd shoot him, etc etc.

hey man, this sucks@pykea· May 18

recognizing of course that the demands of liveblogging are what they are, and that one has presumably fought hard to disambiguate one's blog title in a competitive namespace, I am excited to hear a more fulsome, well-rounded and muscular take on this moment on tomorrow's pod @arseblog.com

arseblog underselling the moment when Piero Hincapie's meaty ass was fully displayed into millions of living rooms

hey man, this sucks@pykea· May 6

all Martin Ødegaard know is press, eat hot chip, and left foot

hey man, this sucks@pykea· May 4

damn I didn't realize there's a sequel to WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

title card for the movie KEVIN CAN F**K HIMSELF (2021), which appears to be a rom com empowerment comedy and so probably not in fact a direct follow-up to Gus van Zandt's heartbreaking movie about being the parents of a school shooter, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN (2011)

hey man, this sucks@pykea· Apr 25

lower in same piece there's this one, making a different/adjacent point. again though, consider the before and after trajectory of the physical places connected with this -- what's radical closure rates of brick and mortar banks across retail zones and town centers meant for the overall ecosystems?

financial times line chart showing that bank teller jobs held more steady than you might guess over the first 15 years of ATMs becoming widespread, and did not crater until we all started using our phones to do all our bank transacting ca. 2010

hey man, this sucks@pykea· Apr 25

this is from a perfectly reasonable piece about how we can't know for sure what AI's effect on jobs will be in the aggregate. go ask Hartford CT how these charts felt to live through.

Financial Times line chart showing how bookkeeping jobs have dropped by a million+ from the late 70s because of spreadsheets, but accountants and analysts *each* gained that same million+ jobs over the same period, intended to illustrate how technology advances can generate such a demand spike within a field that it still employs as many or even more humans as it did before, albeit in a different mix of roles with a different mix of skills and qualifications.

hey man, this sucks@pykea· Mar 18

really excited to share the name of my new Panic! At The Disco cover band

new york times headline: Trapped! Inside a Self-Driving Car During an Anti-Robot Attack.

hey man, this sucks@pykea· Mar 14

live footage of Anthony Taylor dealing with Chelsea players

news archive photo of federal agents kneeling in solidarity with protesters to deescalate a crowd in 2020

hey man, this sucks@pykea· Feb 21

sighing heavily and updating my list of Nouns That Can Be Quashed

Bloomberg headline "Trump Plots New Trade
Course After Supreme
Court Quashes Key
Tariff Cudgel"

hey man, this sucks@pykea· Dec 31

the first match I ever went to at the Emirates was Arsenal 4 -2 Spurs. singing "two one and you fucked it up" down at the retreating Tottenham fans is a favorite memory. I'll never hate Unai Emery. I found this newspaper clipping just last night while packing for a move. (also: shake man's hand!)

Times of London sports page from December 2018 with headline "The Emery Revolution Hits Derby Day"

hey man, this sucks@pykea· Dec 31

good evening 😇

a tweet from the Seinfeld Modern Day account that reads "George gets an OkCupid message from an ex who dumped & doesn't remember him. George goes on the date so HE can dump HER. She dumps him again."

hey man, this sucks@pykea· Dec 25

these two things feel conceptually connected. are we 'running out of good ideas,' or has 4 decades of unchecked private equity profiteering destroyed perfectly viable good-idea systems like news and health? how many data centers do we need to build to generate the Good Idea 'end private equity'?

post about how the collapse of local and regional newspapers has begotten a dumber chattering-class argument show version of TV news since TV news can't pick up original hard-news reporting from ground level anymore if it's not being produced.

post mocking Vox's recent article about how everybody hates AI but maybe it's the only way to come up with new big ideas and innovation

hey man, this sucks@pykea· Oct 7

a few small rewatches

Vista Theater marquee -- VistaVision screening of One Battle After Another

hey man, this sucks@pykea· Aug 24

this sentence from a Post article yesterday is going to end up being the one line every textbook uses to capture how we Weimar'd (first person to do a 'if we have history books' reply gets a big shiny prize for being so clever)

The Chicago effort would further expand Trump's use of military force domestically, even when state and local authorities call the idea unwelcome and unwarranted.

hey man, this sucks@pykea· Aug 15

watching Liverpool's new attack, as an Arsenal fan

Jack Black in High Fidelity, sadly relaying that he's listened to the EP recorded by the skate punks who steal records from the store all the time and "it's...it's really fucking good" and putting his head in his hands.

hey man, this sucks@pykea· Jul 17

six years from colson whitehead publishing this paragraph --> the 2007 writers strike. another three from there, and the reality TV boom the studios used to break the strike gave us "storage wars."

"She thought about not paying the bills. When Dalmon [storage unit company] finally unloaded the stuff (there must be auctions for such things, an entire culture based on the commerce of the dead or bankrupt, what did they do with what they bought), it would be like they were selling John Henry, not her father. This argument never got very far in her head. It was her father. She paid the bills on time and stopped eating out as much."

hey man, this sucks@pykea· Jul 17

one hallmark of good Seriously Yall Rahm Sucks Ass Stop Listening To His Shitty And Often Evilly Motivated Advice writing is that it expands out to encompass the broader party & show you that the people actively listening to the shitty stupid bad man are harming their own aims:

excerpt from piece linked in previous post:

The disability rights movement has a motto: “Nothing about us without us.” It’s a simple principle that Democrats have completely abandoned when it comes to trans issues. Instead of talking to us about our lives and needs, Democratic strategists talk about us as an abstract political problem to be solved.

If Democrats actually bothered to have these conversations, they’d discover something Emanuel and his allies seem incapable of grasping: we’re not asking for much. We’re not demanding special privileges or radical restructuring of society. We mostly just want to exist in public without harassment and access the same healthcare everyone else takes for granted. By and large, trans people are not demanding (who even asked for this?) that people announce their own pronouns or whatever corporate/HR nonsense Democratic politicians think trans people want.

Talk to trans kids and their parents, and you’ll hear the same themes repeatedly: They want to use the bathroom in peace. They want to play sports with their friends. They want their teachers to use their names. They want to go to school without being bullied. They want to see a doctor when they need to. These aren’t radical demands. They’re the baseline expectations of any child in America.

Talk to trans adults like me, and the asks are similarly modest: Keep our jobs without discrimination. Update our driver’s licenses to match our appearance. Access medical care our doctors recommend. Walk down the street without fear. Again, these aren’t special rights. They’re basic dignity.

hey man, this sucks@pykea· Jun 12

(I like to think I gave as good as I got here, though fuck knows the ThinkProgress culture section's review wouldn't have made it into the clips his assistant curated)

Regardless of its historical provenance, Lee's deployment of the sentiment in this specific way carries an unmistakable message in the context of Chi-Raq's story. Parris' Lysistrata can act upon an idea that will ultimately bring her peace, but she can't come up with it on her own. She has to have it handed to her by an erudite elder who doesn't own a television and scorns the distractibility and simplemindedness of her community's young people.

hey man, this sucks@pykea· May 21

what if there were a way to opt into a society that contained zero people like this, and then they could have one for just them, and we'd all be happier?

excerpt of NYT article about people's obsession with wearable bio-monitoring devices like the Oura ring:

In the eternal human quest to know thyself, it’s tempting to seize on every bit of information we can glean. If you could know, for instance, not just that you slept 6.5 hours last night but also that 12 percent of those hours were spent in REM sleep and that your overall “sleep efficiency” — time asleep versus time awake — was 85 percent, as many pieces of wearable tech can tell you, why wouldn’t you?

At least that’s the attitude of many people in our age of the quantified self, in which collecting sheaves of data about our bodies every day seems to hold the promise of bringing about a happier, healthier life. But what if all of that data is also heightening our stress? Is there a metric for that?

hey man, this sucks@pykea· May 14

my official statement regarding the news that Mets broadcasts are being run by a Brian De Palma superfan whose lively and groundbreaking directorial choices expand our collective understanding of what a live sports television experience can be, can *mean*

Mikel Arteta from the Amazon documentary about Arsenal Football Club, except instead of saying "when I lose a duel I am upset" he's saying "when something cool happens to Mets fans I am upset"

hey man, this sucks@pykea· May 13

when i first saw this post, w/ text partially obscured by the top bar, i thought it said "replacing your fear menu" which sorta also works here

cropped screenshot of how it looked like it said "fear menus" instead of "real friends" at first, as supporting evidence for the idea that both of those phrases work in the original post

hey man, this sucks@pykea· May 7

all this has me turning to fucking Wordsworth, and I don't even *like* this fucking poem!

The World is Too Much With Us, by William Wordsworth

hey man, this sucks@pykea· May 5

"no-skips album," but make it a novel. absolute fuckin banger. well aware that these opinions break no new ground, but boy did I wait too long to finally pick up some Colson Whitehead. holy hell what a writer.

a copy of Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead, sitting atop my copy of the Black Orpheus soundtrack on vinyl because I wanted this photo to make me seem cooler than I am, because this is the internet where we go to pretend we matter more than we do.

hey man, this sucks@pykea· May 4

here is a photo I took in 2007 in Spain while studying abroad. caption says "who's playing with our kids?"

graffiti from Granada, Spain, in 2007: a child holding a video game controller with an awed look on his face, and a culture hovering over him wearing a tophat with various currency symbols drawn on it, captioned "Quien juega con nuestros hijos?"

hey man, this sucks@pykea· May 2

hey man, this sucks@pykea· Apr 29

(alia shawkat voice) across from where?

NYT headline: A Hot Accessory, at the Intersection of Faith and Culture
subhed: Seen on influencers, pop stars and White House staff, cross necklaces are popping up everywhere.

hey man, this sucks@pykea· Apr 19

I grew up a Yankee fan but I'm so glad I haven't been one for 20 years now, because I can have uncomplicated chills about finally checking this ballpark off the list. (and yes, I'm wearing a Nats hat.)

hey man, this sucks@pykea· Apr 18

$40.44 (plus fees) to honor my hated-it-there alma mater Oberlin College, which lost 40 straight in the early 90s, won a single time, then lost 44 in a row. @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social @newap-georgia.bsky.social

donation receipt for this fun college-football-themed charity drive thing i only just learned about

hey man, this sucks@pykea· Apr 18

Supreme Court: Do this. Attorney General: No. next line? anybody off-book? i uh, i didn't have time to uhhh, my sides are in my trailer, can you um