Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I remember being excited about the Google glasses for like a minute because of how many pictures of my kids I missed because my hands were full or I couldn’t get my phone out in time. But I have never thought of another pro-social/non-creepy use for these things. 000
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026When I finally watched Jaws last year, it did nothing for me. I realized while watching it that I had already absorbed even the smallest elements of the film through cultural osmosis. It had been more than spoiled. It had been completely neutered into a meme collage. 100
Reposted by Damian MastersonSCREAM Drafts @screendrafts.bsky.social · 19/06/2026☀️JULY☀️ JOE DANTE w/ @drewmcweeny.com & @ericvespe.bsky.social and @dtmasterson.bsky.social JANE CAMPION SUPER w/ @thathagengrrl.bsky.social & Taylor Blackburn 21st CENTURY PALME D'OR w/ @812filmreviews.com & @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social and @thesmark88.bsky.social And in August... BROOKS MONTH! 3346
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Yes, Emily Blunt is amazing, and for as messy and clunky as it is, I still ended up liking it a surprising amount, but my top-line review of Disclosure Day is: THAT IS NOT WHAT EMPATHY IS 000
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026The mistake was thinking that it hadn’t already been decided that Susan Collin’s was going to keep her seat. 000
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 12/05/2026It’s been a real dang long and circuitous path getting here, and I still have to take my comps and a write a dissertation, but I did just hit send on the paper that completes all the coursework for my PhD. 020
Reposted by Damian MastersonStefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Out now: The full proceedings volume of this year's #Evolang @evolangconf.bsky.social - 575 pages full of interdisciplinary research on the origins and evolution of language! doi.org/10.17617/2.3... 05316
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I wouldn’t mind at all if the byproduct of all of this was a bipartisan fervor for non-partisan maps. 000
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Had known there was a new Tom Waits/ Massive Attack protest song coming, but hadn’t heard anything ahead of time about the video that goes with it. youtu.be/L-57FrioeuE?...youtu.beMassive Attack, Tom Waits - Boots on the GroundYouTube video by Massive Attack 000
Reposted by Damian MastersonThey Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Our new LP The World Is to Dig is everywhere 4/14, but grab your headphones and tuck in for the weekend because you can download it NOW. It’s a fundraiser for our studio work! Help sustain our project and hear all 18 new song before the rest of the world does! Exclusively at TMBGshop.com. 14567189
Reposted by Damian MastersonKeith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 08/04/2026I've created a list for Bluesky users who were part of philosophy Twitter back in the day. Help me populate it! Also happy to add people who wish they had been part of the old community. I've added a few names already. (Ask if you'd like to be removed.) bsky.app/profile/did:... 9715760
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 21/03/2026So, obviously not what “disarray” means, but also, there are no shortage of examples where fields being cleared and candidates going untested is why they later lost in the general. This is what the process is supposed to look like. 000
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 19/03/2026These security questions are all only things I either have no answer to, or a wishy washy answer I won’t be able to remember 5 years from now when I need it. 000
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Not nearly enough Oscars went to The Toxic Avenger. 000
Reposted by Damian MastersonDrew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 12/03/2026If just five of you buy an annual Bundle in the next few days, it would make a huge difference. If ten of you did, I could breathe easy for a while. 064
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Not really sure what the AI future looks like when there is nothing new being written by humans to summarize. futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comEvidence Grows That Google's AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media IndustryGoogle's AI overviews have eviscerated the media landscape, with some top publications losing up to 97 percent of their web traffic. 100
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026So, what exactly are the constitutive features of a ‘world war’? 000
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 03/03/2026This is such a weird book to have been this prescient. 020
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 10/02/2026If you find yourself anyplace that carries Outsider Magazine, my article on Macon Blair’s recent The Toxic Avenger reboot is in the new issue out now. 000
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026It is kind of a marvel. For a live recording it’s a fairly clear sound, the vocals are up in the mix, Stipe has a powerful controlled delivery, the instruments aren’t overpowering, the pacing isn’t terribly fast, but after the first 5-6 words I’m just completely lost. 020
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 08/02/2026I could be sympathetic to someone with the radical free speech take that a platform for anyone needs to be a platform for everyone. It’s not my position, but I get it. It is something else though when you’re intentionally cross promoting nazi content and knowingly taking a cut of their profits. 020
Reposted by Damian MastersonMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 08/02/2026"We came here today to play the game, and we came here to win. I don’t give a damn if you’re only ten weeks old--when their linebacker hits you in the face like a bag of dicks, you need to get up, nip him in the belly, and run the ball down the field."buff.lyA Puppy Bowl Coach’s Pre-Game Locker Room SpeechAlright, you sad excuses for athletes, listen up. If you were expecting some uplifting, motivational bullshit, too fucking bad. Go cry to your godd... 25321
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Muting the phrase “says all that you need to know”, as I’m finding that any post ending that way only ever seems to be reiterating something I do in fact already know. 000
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 05/02/2026New muppet special is kind of perfect because it’s not trying to be anything more than a new episode of The Muppet Show. Would watch however many of these they want to do. 040
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Not really sure how Netflix comes by their graphics, but marketing The American President with a picture of a very serious looking Michael J Fox is a crazy choice. 020
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Great premise. Psyched to see this series unfold. 021
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Nope, Harry Potter has just been replaced with Dungeon Crawler Carl. 030
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Rilo Kiley Rainer Maria Cyndi Lauper Regina Spektor The Dresden Dolls 010
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 18/01/2026This reminds me of a thing Bill James wrote forever ago about Yogi Berra having the ideal body type for base ball. 041
Reposted by Damian MastersonSleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Please note that our screening of Frankenhooker at The Community Theater is on Saturday and is not to be confused with the Pre-K Matinee on Sunday. Any one of pre-k age who tries to get into Frankenhooker will be turned away. We are sorry for the inconvenience. 😉 011
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 16/01/2026I heard that Beltran has asked if he can be inducted as a Dodger. 010
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Either (1) William Basinski’s The Disintegration Loops, or (2) Brian Eno’s Ambient 1: Music for Airports. 030
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Feel asleep listening to music and got woken up by my own dancing because of how sick the bounce to this is. open.spotify.com/track/5A2r83...open.spotify.comthree days 131
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Wife got mandated at the hospital. I get the kids solo an extra 5 hours. She gets to try to keep folks alive until 11:30, then cross her fingers that she stays awake the whole drive home. This is definitely better than just hiring more nurses. 010
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 03/01/2026“We’re gonna run the country” invites a great many questions, but at least they have the rest of the weekend to work that bit out. 000
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Perhaps it would be best if a different country hosted the United Nations. 010
Reposted by Damian MastersonEdouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 31/12/2025The podcast will start again early 2026! Our first guest will be my colleague David Wallace. 172
Reposted by Damian MastersonTamar but spooky @heartinamber.bsky.social · 31/12/2025I have a friend who's a leftcath from upstate New York and his review of Wake Up Dead Man was literally just 'I've met both of these priests in real life just in the diocese of Albany' 1619