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 · 14/07/2026I like how the picture looks a little like a time lapse photo of the same guy growing out his beard 030
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026It’s just the one watch. I’m going to try again next year and see if it benefits from lowered expectation. And yeah, Psycho is one where it’s the Hitchcock I’m least likely to put on because of how much of it comes straight to mind just from thinking the title. 010
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
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Not sure if it’ll end up being eligible, but the TV movie, Runaway Daughters, is pretty fun and I think worth people’s time if they’ve already seen everything else. 010
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 · 28/03/2026No to a sequel, but yes a Magic School Bus style cartoon with Grace teaching Eridian kids about science. 020
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
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 13/03/2026I grew up a big Heinlein fan and Destination Moon has always been one of those things I was aware of, but never thought I would get a chance to see. But, it looks like the whole thing is now on YouTube, so I guess tonight’s the night. 010
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Man, as someone finishing a PhD, I would be scared to death of having to do an oral defense of a dissertation I let A.I. write for me. But also, maybe it works and you get a fancy degree out of it, but no one is going to hire or publish you if all you’re doing is regurgitating pre-existing work. 020
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
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Not sure how getting rid of the sports section appeases Trump. 040
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 · 28/01/2026There’s also a very good 2017 paper by Vanessa Lux about a seemingly entrenched problem all empathy measures have distinguishing empathy from sympathy 020
Damian Masterson @dtmasterson.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Would be very interested in what you’re working. I wrote a paper last semester on the definitional problem of empathy, and my MA thesis was challenging Bloom’s notion Empathy. Recommend Beltzer’s newest one “The Problem of Isolating and Measuring Empathy.” Had to email her for a copy. Can forward. 330
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