Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 10h100%. Spanish (at least Costa Rican Spanish) makes a distinction between being hungry and wanting to eat/craving food. It's a super useful - and in my experience true to life - idea that's just kind of semantically absent in English. But yeah, it's absolutely a thing and it's all kinds of strange. 130
Reposted by Gabriel UrbinaMicah @rincewind.run · 21hgetting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week 554042801
Reposted by Gabriel UrbinaGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 22hMf gonna turn me catholic 201475184
Reposted by Gabriel UrbinaJamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The problem I have with so many AI evangelists is they are fundamentally anti-human 1123649
Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 26/09/2026Friends, I need a new fidgety, absorbing-yet-simple phone game, the sort of thing I can tap on while listening to podcasts. Bonus points if it’s something I can just buy upfront, rather than subscribe/deal with ads. In the past the biggest hits have been Mini Metro and High Rise. Suggestions? 870
Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 25/09/2026WHOA, wait wait wait, did they NOT put Orphan Black on there?!?! 010
Reposted by Gabriel UrbinaGabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 24/09/2026Welcome back, Dr. Adam Blackwell. We've been expecting you. The Harbingers. Episode 18: Good Grief. In which answers are sought, histories are explored, and a new alliance is forged. Out now everywhere. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comEpisode 18: Good GriefPodcast Episode · The Harbingers · S2 E2 · 38m 1199
Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 25/09/2026No Avatar: The Last Airbender No Hannibal No Gravity Falls Only 3 non-English shows We've had a very different 21st Century, guys 😂 2130
Reposted by Gabriel UrbinaDavid K. Barnes @davidkbarnes.com · 24/09/2026My sitcom Wooden Overcoats has 4 x new episodes! RUDYARD RUINS EVERYTHING a very miniseries It begins today! You can listen to it for free on your podcast apps! Please do. I think it's the best thing I've written - and maybe the best run of episodes we've made together! 34920
Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 24/09/2026And for today's episode title track: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWCB...youtube.comBastille - Good Grief (Official Music Video)YouTube video by BastilleVEVO 030
Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 24/09/2026Welcome back, Dr. Adam Blackwell. We've been expecting you. The Harbingers. Episode 18: Good Grief. In which answers are sought, histories are explored, and a new alliance is forged. Out now everywhere. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comEpisode 18: Good GriefPodcast Episode · The Harbingers · S2 E2 · 38m 1199
Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 24/09/2026Uhhh yeah guys If you can see Of Monsters and Men live You really really should This show maybe rearranged my shit in a way that no show had in a long, LONG time 030
Reposted by Gabriel UrbinaEmily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026They're also almost always about women and queer people in left-leaning spaces, which says whom we reflexively think of as toxic or annoying. I guarantee some fantasy football league is falling apart over some petty asshole, but he doesn't become a symbol for the annoying left. He can just be Jeff. 301444210
Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 23/09/2026A Lord of the Rings cover band called Shoot to Mithril. 020
Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 23/09/2026When so often just saying those three things - or even just one of them - would go a LONG WAY towards everyone feeling like they’re dealing with reasonable humans while in the middle of a very stressful, very awful day. 150
Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 23/09/2026You’ll be shocked to discover I didn’t stay at this job for long. But I often suspect people are operating under similar draconian rules. You can’t say, “I’m sorry.” You can’t act like you’re putting people in a tough spot. You can’t go, “Let me empathize with you for a moment.” 250
Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 23/09/2026I never got a satisfactory answer to why this was such an ironclad rule. I suspect it involves words like “lawyers” and “liability.” But friends, it was IRONCLAD. Twice, after I thoughtlessly said the forbidden words in passing, my manager asked me to step into the back to yell at me. 210
Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 23/09/2026When I was 23, I worked retail for a big chain that shall remain nameless. I was not great at this job. Made plenty of mistakes. Literally the only one that I was ever reprimanded for was Saying “I’m sorry” to the customers. Even if it was just in passing. Even if we *had* screwed them over. 241
Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 23/09/2026Yes, this post is brought to you by the new heights achieved by my eyebrows when they saw that the New York Times put both House of Cards and Louie in their Top 100 TV Shows of the 2000’s. (Top 50, in fact) Because BOY I HAVE QUESTIONS. Questions like, “What are we doing?” and “In the year 2026?” 020
Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 23/09/2026Because a part of what’s fun about art is that a dimension of it IS the conversation around it. How a piece of art weathers that conversation growing and evolving does speak to a measure of its robustness and multi-dimensionality. And parsing that can be a messy task, but it’s a part of the job. 110
Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 23/09/2026Which, up to a point, might be a feature. There’s something compellingly messy about what “best” means. But end of the day, you should maybe keep it to art that you can look people in the eye and recommend that they consume/engage with it today. Because… on some level that’s what you’re doing! 110
Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 23/09/2026One of the problem with “Best Of” retrospectives is that they need to choose if they’re aiming at “best stands up as art today” or at “historically illuminating on how we got to where we are today.” Most don’t make this distinction, and so we end up with this uncomfortable synthesis of the two. 230
Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 22/09/2026This Thursday... THE HARBINGERS • Episode 18: "Good Grief" Out September 24th. 053
Reposted by Gabriel UrbinaScott "KaiserNeko" Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A.I. versions of cute animal videos are NOT the worst thing one can make with A.I. But they feel so immensely, deeply infuriating, because the entire appeal of cute animal videos is something cute, wholesome, and heartwarming *actually happening.* Their reality IS THE POINT. 181330299
Reposted by Gabriel UrbinaPreeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Honestly at this point just bring back cable. I would rather have cable. 15692110
Reposted by Gabriel UrbinaEoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs? 25982431644
Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 19/09/2026I think getting to do something as simultaneously simple and experimental as writing Episode 14 as a two-hander. 120
Reposted by Gabriel Urbina👻Skulliam🎃Boo-tler🍂Yikes🕷️ @yeets.biz · 19/09/2026i need to know what happened 309163473178
Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 19/09/2026*as the flames rise higher:* SONGS OF INNOCENCE WAS A GOOD ALBUM, AND SURE, HAVING ITUNES JUST PUT IT ON EVERYONE'S SHIT WAS A BAD IDEA, BUT DID YOU ACTUALLY HEAR IT? BECAUSE THERE'S SOME BANGERS ON THERE, AND - 121
Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 19/09/2026My favorite band is U2 and I say that with all my chest, a fact that will one day get me burnt in the village square. 😂 240
Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 19/09/2026I've got some time to kill tonight and haven't done one of these since the start of the Harbingers Season 2. So all right - anyone got anything they wanna ask? About Wolf 359, Harbingers, Hit Singles, or anything else? AMA 541
Reposted by Gabriel Urbinakattsdogma.bsky.social @kattsdogma.bsky.social · 20/11/2024playwright: i call this one “aspersions” casting director: no 1249770
Reposted by Gabriel UrbinaPeter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Given the outrageous, dangerous, and outright false statements made about how the polio (and other) vaccine was a "fraud" (at the Children's Health Defense conference), here's a reminder of what a massive success it was. RFK Jr. & his minions must be stopped from destroying the US healthcare system. 9300133
Reposted by Gabriel UrbinaGabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 10/09/2026THE HARBINGERS Created by me Produced by Eleanor Hyde Directed and Sound Designed by @euripidesredux.bsky.social An Audacious Machine Creative Production Season 2 begins TODAY with Episode 17: The Perfect Opening Line Here's everything you need to know. 21914
Reposted by Gabriel UrbinaDavid Autovino @davidautovino.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Shel Silverstein somehow clocking AI all the way back in 1981 161572461
Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 15/09/2026I got to talk to the brilliant @laurenpassell.bsky.social about The Harbingers for Podcast the Newsletter! If you want a bit about what's coming in Season 2, refreshers on what happened in Season 1, or the hard pitch on our show, check it out! podcastthenewsletter.substack.com/p/10-podcast...podcastthenewsletter.substack.com🤳10 podcasts I texted my friends (airports, hot moms, the dead, podcasts?)🍭 👂 All I think about is buying cows 🌈 🤸♀️ 073
Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 15/09/2026Joke’s on you, David - in 150 years that vertical drama will be a Penguin Classic!!! 130
Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 15/09/2026Was rereading the script for The Harbingers Episode 18 today, and I got a chuckle out of this little moment I'd forgotten I'd put into the stage directions. Anyway, next week... THE HARBINGERS. Episode 18: "Good Grief" The Return of Adam Blackwell. Out September 24th! 1213
Reposted by Gabriel UrbinaElla Watts is making Camlann Season 2! @gejwatts.bsky.social · 14/09/2026You would not BELIEVE how excited I have been to tell you this (!!!) 44113
Reposted by Gabriel UrbinaGeorgia Cook @georgiacooked.bsky.social · 14/09/2026As we slip into the middle of September and Halloween Eve, please consider picking up one of my horror books for your evening read! Or listening to one of my many horror-adjacent audios available online. 11712
Reposted by Gabriel UrbinaCamlann 🔥| Season 2 Coming 2027! @camlannpod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026WE'RE MAKING SEASON 2! Following our live show at London Podcast Festival, we are thrilled to let you know that we are making a second, 9-episode season of Camlann, releasing in 2027, funded by Creative Scotland and YOU, our listeners. Thank you. Keep the fires burning 🔥 33518