erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 15mIt's like when people bemoan modern television. I simply cannot take seriously people who think today is worse than the 90s. I remember the heyday of Jerry Springer and Maury. I promise you, whatever Isekai slop you hate is better than those were. So much better. 030
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 15mThink about how unbelievably racist and sexist the working man of 1930 was. Now imagine the slop that was churned out as disposable entertainment for him. 120
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 15mPeople who think DCC or other such represent a unique, or even unusual, nadir have not spent enough time reading old pulp novels. No, I don't mean Burroughs or Lovecraft I mean the ones that a century has culled from memory. I mean the things that lurk in forgotten corners of Powell's. 120
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 17hOkay, that is just cool and I had no idea it was a thing. 000
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 20hI have no idea. The only people around me who seem to know or care what is happening are the same ones I see at protests. The rest, they sound like Russians. 010
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 21hI'm so glad I got to see it in person years ago. 000
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 23h☝️ Even today, choosing fetus over mother halves your caregivers while increasing dependants. It's hard to argue that a family with two parents and two children would be better off becoming a single father with three children, one of whom is an infant, than losing the infant/fetus. 000
Reposted by @erictaysom.bsky.socialMichael Senters the Sigillite:ABD (Uma 7th Next Week) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Shut the fuck up you Russophile rag of a publication. 626923
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 14/10/2026In all it's decadent degenerate horror. 020
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 14/10/2026static.klipy.comRon Swanson (Nick Offerman) Says InshallahALT: Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman) Says Inshallah 010
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 13/10/2026static.klipy.comElmo Surrounded by Intense FireALT: Elmo Surrounded by Intense Fire 070
Reposted by @erictaysom.bsky.socialSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Maybe the stuff they said about Roman emperors was real 1526238
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Just had to glue some fingers back on to my figure of her after dropping the arm piece. 😭 000
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 13/10/2026This and JVL's infinite hatred for the median voter are among the reasons I consider my part of the Bulwark wing of the party. 020
Reposted by @erictaysom.bsky.socialKo-tutankhamun @kingoftheu.bsky.social · 13/10/2026This is how The Bulwark sees the world. 1124
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Of the models that pass the joke bench, are there noticeable differences in their style of humor? 010
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Depends on what you mean by high altitude, but Sudan and Ethiopia are bombing things right now and generally fly high enough to avoid being targeted by shoulder fired anti-air missiles. Both use guided and unguided bombs as far as I know. So... at least 2? Plus Morocco and Algeria practice. 070
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Why would the market going global for mass media make what the critics or award committees love calcify? 000
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 13/10/2026But why would 'prestige' media, particularly the kind that gets these sort of awards, have become so rigid/formulaic? Isn't the whole idea of prestige media is that it doesn't fall into the formulas or tropes of mass-market media? 100
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 13/10/2026And it's never been easier to pursue other forms of entertainment. Is there a person who is going into a bookstores, seeing a shelf of romantasy, and having a fit? Probably somewhere. But I think that's more something people who write about people reading imagine is happening. 000
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It feels, to me at least, that the argument that men don't read because there aren't enough books from a male perspective/author is coming from people who don't actually know why people don't read. As you said, a lot of guys who don't read, don't read because they'd rather do something else. 100
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I question whether those guys are going to bookstores at all? As you said, the people who a hypothetical modern sci-fi/fantasy epic would ostensibly be for, aren't reading the existing ones to begin with. 110
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 13/10/2026In dataset after dataset I come away with the same question, what the hell is wrong with Gen-X? 000
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Can't speak for Dune, but the people who read Tolkien read plenty of other stuff by both male and female authors. I don't know of any guy who has read Lord of the Rings and feels woefully underfed because there just aren't any other *male* writers writing the next LotR. 120
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 12/10/2026There are people who enjoy things. And then there are the people who we use a shorted version of 'fanatic' for. And there are reasons for that! 000
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 12/10/2026😄 Lunch usually! It useful for surviving summers without AC. Berry/spinach smoothie with oatmilk makes me sound very trendy, but really it's because I have the same palette as a 4 year old and think berries are great! 010
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 12/10/2026May I suggest berry and leafy green smoothies? I like doing half&half higher protein soymilk with the oatmilk with fat in it. Get the proportions right and it will even come out like a very soft serve icecream. 130
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 11/10/2026It's true. If you spend some time talking to every person you can rather than the natural filtering effects that we use by default, for good reason, you will quickly discover that people are far weirder than you think. Also, the conspiracy theorist is the default, not the exception. 020
Reposted by @erictaysom.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap 122870861801
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Boy that was an easy block. What a useless person. 000
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I think Tucci would have a lot of fun with this. 041
erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Yeah, and there's a whole lot of those Florida developments where a storm surge flood is deadly if you can't climb. 000