Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just finished WICKHILLS by @premeemohamed.com ... "But it's not elves exactly" 000
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There's a lot of good folk stuff on socials, this particular singer from Georgia (country) is one of the best. www.instagram.com/reel/DdwUNu5...instagram.comInstagramCreate an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. 000
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Tangential, but it seems we have more people than ever before with access to big words, and they have fewer venues than ever before in which they are incentivised to use them. 000
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026There was a little buzz a while back about THE STEERSWOMAN books by Rosemary Kirstein, which was how I came to read them. It was not NEARLY enough buzz. About discovery, and they perform discovery so well; just so special when a book can bring you along on just all the levels. 0208
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Seeing the word "boons" does give me a sudden itching feeling, that I haven't played Hades II in a while... unrelated. 000
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026There might be something about youth sports in the US that should be preserved, but I can't think of anything at the moment. 000
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Nerd alert! Big C.J. Cherryh dump on Humble Bundle. www.humblebundle.com/books/best-c...humblebundle.comHumble Book Bundle: The Best of C.J. Cherryh by Daw BooksEnter new universes of adventure and mystery with this bundle of ebooks by C.J. Cherryh! Pay what you want and support BINC! 000
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Real small: you can now stream the Gattaca soundtrack. Used to not be available, and now it is. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...music.youtube.comGattaca (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)Album • Michael Nyman 000
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026A lot of people got a little too into critiquing Obama, Hamilton got dragged in 070
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Note that white male characters in Hollywood narratives have been nurturing the next generation of female & minority leadership ... for SEVERAL generations now. 010
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Tarski? ... could be two novels, if you play your cards right. 040
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026The guy dropped out of the race, then got back in when it became clear that they were going to give it to him. The "movement" was cash, flowing. 010
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026How much of what people are saying to justify their Hank Green AI takes could also be said of social media? 000
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026We keep getting pathetically excited to recognize something, with our eyes and ears, in the future, on a screen (cf Neuromancer...). It is 100% our fault that there's a dearth of creativity in big budget movies and TV. 010
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026There is barely a story, barely a character to reinterpret or continue; whatever was there has been thoroughly exhausted. "Infinite possib--" shut up. 110
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Daniel Craig made one (1) decent spy thriller as this character. The movie was good for generic reasons, not IP reasons. There is no reason to believe even a "really different" Bond is going to be or do anything good. 110
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I live in Wisconsin, and the first word I heard from any D candidate except Hong was in the debate. Video, print... nothin. 510110
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Nonsense. This divide in Ghibli canon does exist, but HMC is well on the right side of it. The movie has everything it needs, PLUS the scenes that everyone actually misses when plot, "coherence," etc. are prioritized. Boy and the Heron is the actual hot mess. 000
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I'll never buy a laptop with that fucking key on the keyboard. 010
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 31/07/2026They're (some of them) expert at looking like they're not trying too hard, sure (cf. Tom Nicholas' video on holding microphones). And I like it, I think it's cool. But it biases them against an aesthetic that values "trying hard" -- using involved figures of speech, for instance. Which is also cool. 000
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026From where I sit, Wilson seems like she's enjoying herself and flexing where she has every right to flex. A rhetorical flourish that would fall flat in a video essay (though oddly I can hear Joel pulling off a version of it) or...a newspaper(?)...is actually fine really. 230
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026YouTube has started auto playing upon opening again. Delightful. Exactly what I need right now. Something to keep me on my toes. 010
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Can tell you right now, will be way more effective than cops. 020
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026There's addiction, and then there's Hollywood's relationship to white men. 010
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026There's a way in which a film about Odysseus could have been a film NOT about a white man, because the story predates race. Matt Damon as an actor was just never going to be that, though, and Nolan was probably never going to be interested in it, either. 020
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026It's not like the relatively successful commentators on YouTube, Bluesky, etc. are setting the world on fire with their originality, but the gap between producers and the replying consumers is startling. 000
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Looking through, e.g., the absolute homogeneity of the comments section on a Pod Save video, one gets the feeling that the chat bots have already won. 100
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026There should be a better shorthand way of calling out an utterance as worthless, engagement-seeking behavior - something with more juice than "rage bait" or "feeding the trolls." 120
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Wisely decided not to verbalize much of the lingo in the trailer, but even 'jack' had my whole nervous system going NOPE. The move here was/is to center the AI story, which is wayyy more interesting these days than orientalist cowboy nonsense. Probably at least 10 years too late... 000
Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Patrick Willems' take that it's a quintessential 'vibes' movie is correct, I think. 031
