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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Like Don Henley, the Ataris, and the kid driving the car in Hereditary said, "Don't look back. You can never look back."

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

So Kentucky fans, what happened here?

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Was waiting to see this again this morning. Sorry, Steven.

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

My favorite part of the #StrangerThings finale is when Eleven comes up with the ad for "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke."

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Luis Illingworth @heyraguio.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Trump: “One year ago, our country was dead!” The Economist, one year ago:

The
Economist
Anatomy of Trudeau's fall
Inside Iran's sanctions-busting
Russia's spies go feral
Starship and the economics of space
OCTOBER 19TH-25TH 2024

THE ENVY OF THE WORLD
AMERICA'S ECONOMY:
A SPECIAL REPORT

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Michael Pina @michaelvpina.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Kawhi Leonard is off to the best start of his career on by far the worst team he’s ever played for. Amidst an unmitigated disaster of a season that feels like the end of an era, it’s time for the Clippers to trade him: www.theringer.com/2025/12/03/n...

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The Clippers Have Run Out of Rock Bottoms

Los Angeles’s season has become an unmitigated disaster. It’s time to move on—and consider trading Kawhi.

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Why does this look like an incel alien leaving their ship to discover Earth?

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

This Chicago O'Hare flight is awful. Pretty much on the tarmac the whole time due to the government shutdown.

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emma 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🔞 @5g.gay · 31/08/2025

so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I'm back here in this cursed no-show site to talk about Coachella. @tombreihan.bsky.social was brilliant in his analysis of the fest poster, and how it speaks to Where We Are Now™. There really is nothing left of the monoculture, is there? www.stereogum.com/2323042/23-t...

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23 Thoughts On The Coachella 2026 Poster

It’s all we have. The monoculture is gone. The American festival landscape is in steep decline. The pop charts are frozen in constant stasis, nothing moving anywhere until the next superstar album com...

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I can't scream "nope" loud enough. I want actual people to make things for me so I can share them with other people and thank the creators for doing good work.

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Hey, I'm on Letterboxd. Let's talk shit about movies together here. I'm going to be really annoying about superheroes, coming of age comedies, and exploitation classics. letterboxd.com/KyleIsMoody/

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KyleIsMoody’s profile

KyleIsMoody uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 3 films watched.

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

So when I heard the Colbert news, my first thought was that it would make a great Studio 60 arc, and I hated myself for it.

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

My God, I just discovered Antenna, and it's got one of my favorite singers from the past 15 years leading it. "Lost" and "Antenna State" are classics in waiting. antennnnna.bandcamp.com/album/antenn...

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Antenna, by Antenna

5 track album

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

SUPERMAN is a great and welcome trip to a different world at the movies. It's filled with characters that want to do the right thing, whatever the cost, and it reminds us that optimism is preferable to political gamesmanship and segmenting of lives as pawns. Plus, Krypto and Jimmy Olsen rule.

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Every now and then I post on this place, and then realize that it'll never be what the Other Site was in its prime. Oh, The Other Site is far worse now, and I deleted my account, but it's all gone. So I'm here now in the wreckage of what was and will never be, how you doin'.

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

buy now pay later is a predatory scheme – another means of luring desperate people into debt – and games are worse for having it

“What you need to think about is the rest of the consumer’s portfolio. If they’re making BNPL payments … maybe they’re not paying off their credit card, maybe they’re not paying their cellphone bill, and that’s actually more concerning,” said Ed deHaan, a researcher who published a paper on the matter in 2023. “They’re essentially substituting one payment for another.”

Additionally, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – which was trying to subject games with robust in-game currency marketplaces to cursory regulation before the Trump administration gutted it earlier this year – published a report in January showing that more than 60 percent of BNPL users had simultaneous loans and held higher balances on other credit lines, and that most BNPL loans went to consumers with subprime or lower credit scores.

If you want more granular examples, social media is rife with them.

In other words, these systems disproportionately target people who are either on a slippery slope or have already hit rock bottom. They are parasitic, yet another byproduct of rising costs, economic instability, and wealth disparity. In a functioning society, there would be no need for such a thing, which is why the ludicrous notion of financing burritos became such a pervasive meme. But here we are.

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I also have a complicated background, so seeing this crusade against Mamdani really pisses me off.

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Do I still read Action Button Dot Net reviews like they are the last gasp of hope for a medium that has had the life choked out of it? Or is it for my misspent youth I can never get back? Hey, who cares, this is great! backloggd.com/u/ACTIONBUTT...

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ACTIONBUTTONNET's review of Out of This World | Backloggd

text by tim rogers ★★★★ “THE BEST VIDEOGAME OF ALL-TIME.” Another World (released as “Out of This World” in the US and “Outer World” in Japan) is, perhaps by default, the best gam...

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

mindboggling that it took this long, but congrats to the remaining staff — just six people — who can finally do their jobs without jim spanfeller meddling and making everything tangibly worse

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Jesse Boo-rascia 👻 @jesseguarascia.com · 02/07/2025

This is an Xbox™️

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Delete Your Spotify. "It puts forth an image of a future in which—as streaming services push music further into the background, and normalize anonymous, low-cost playlist filler—the relationship between listener and artist might be severed completely." harpers.org/archive/2025...

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The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly

Spotify’s plot against musicians

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Hell is real, and we're living in it.

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I loved Better Man. Yes, I loved the Robbie Williams CGI monkey movie. It's one of the best depictions of depression I have seen onscreen, and it is a wildly entertaining bit of fiction that contains some universal truths. It deserves more than some write-off about its box office.

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Oh great, and me with a trip to Italy next month. What the hell?

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

A vital piece by @nathangrayson.bsky.social that feels so needed right now. It reminds me of Joan Didion's "Los Angeles Notebook," which makes me think that this sort of description of LA and its people will get retold with great accuracy each decade. Great stuff, I'm off to subscribe.

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

That moment where you know something can't be real, but dammit if the past decade hasn't proven that we're far past whatever reality we can muster.

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

˙ʎןןɐǝᴚ ˙ǝuıɟ sı sıɥ⊥

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

RIP to the most important songwriter of the 20th century. Brian Wilson was capable of changing the world, and he made it a better place. I once met him, and it was maybe the closest I got to touching divinity. Incredible human being with an angelic voice and an ear for pure melody.

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Brian Wilson Dead At 82

Brian Wilson, the legendary sonic mastermind behind the Beach Boys, has died. Wilson’s family posted the news of his passing on Facebook page this afternoon. No cause of death has been reported, but W...

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I look forward to the calm and measured discourse surrounding the promotion for this.

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I will buy this immediately with my children's college money and hug it with joy while they cannot procure a future. I am that excited about looking at this thing. What a beautiful beast.

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Cloud Nothings were insanely good last night. Been meaning to catch them since last year, finally had the time, and caught a show that could only be described as volcanic. www.setlist.fm/setlist/clou...

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Cloud Nothings Setlist at Alchemy, Providence

Get the Cloud Nothings Setlist of the concert at Alchemy, Providence, RI, USA on June 2, 2025 and other Cloud Nothings Setlists for free on setlist.fm!

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Hell yes, they still shred something fierce on this one.

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I just read Exquisite Corpses 1, and it's the best first issue I've read in a long time. Introducing basically 35 characters with perfect skill and definition while also creating a compelling narrative. These folks make it all look so easy.

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Dua Lipa's "These Walls" is an underrated summer classic, and I'm not taking questions. youtu.be/1TtvG18iSxY?...

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Dua Lipa - These Walls (Official Visualiser)

YouTube video by Dua Lipa

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I'll never forget Halliburton's choke face at the end of regulation. It was joyous.

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I listened to Sleep Token. I didn't care for Sleep Token. I'm quite okay with that.

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Yesterday at grad commencement, I walked down the street wearing my academic regalia. Two separate groups of people thought I was graduating and yelled "Congratulations!" I thought about correcting them, but then I thought, "It has been a long and hard year, dammit."

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 15/05/2025

The federal government is attempting a radical, massive expansion of what constitutes "wiretapping" that threatens everyone working in media/as a journalist today and I hope you'll read this and share it with everyone you know. I'm not just fighting this for me. I'm fighting it for everyone.

Advisory to Journalists: The Dangerous Expansion of the Federal Wiretap Law

Journalists, podcasters, and digital media professionals beware: the U.S. government is currently advancing a legal theory under 18 U.S.C. § 2511—the federal wiretap statute—that threatens to criminalize the mere act of downloading publicly available videos or listening to podcasts. This interpretation risks not only chilling investigative journalism but undermines the very foundation of freedom of the press.

The federal wiretap law makes it a felony to intentionally “intercept”—that is, acquire the contents of—a “wire communication” unless you are a party to the communication or a party has given prior consent. Under 18 U.S.C. § 2510(1), a "wire communication" includes any transfer containing the human voice that travels at any point by wire or cable. Originally meant to prevent unlawful phone taps in 1968, the statute has not meaningfully evolved to reflect digital media distribution in the 21st century.

As a result, many core journalistic practices today—listening to audio on a video stream, downloading a podcast, reviewing livestreamed footage—can be construed as “intercepting” a wire communication. And unlike “oral communications” (which are only protected if private) or “electronic communications” (which are exempt if publicly accessible), wire communications have no similar public-access defense. This leaves journalists legally vulnerable for accessing material that is otherwise freely available to the public.

This is not just a theoretical risk. In Tampa, Florida, the U.S. Department of Justice is actively prosecuting my client, journalist Timothy Burke for allegedly violating the wiretap statute by downloading publicly accessible livestreamed interviews from a video server. The journalist used only a URL—no password, no hack, no deception.

The government claims that because the streams included the human voice and were transmitted in part by wire or cable, they are “wire communications”. Under this interpretation, even if the stream was intended for public consumption, and even if no reasonable expectation of privacy existed, the act of acquiring and publishing the content becomes a federal felony. The government also asserts that the same communications are also “electronic communications,” where the law makes it clear that it is not a violation if the electronic communication is obtained from a server that is configured so that the communication is “readily accessible to the general public” -- however, the government has argued (and the court has agreed) that whether or not the communication was obtained from a publicly accessible server is a fact question that the journalist must prove at trial - not an element of the offense that the government must prove. This means that a journalist that obtains public information may still be subject to search, seizure, arrest, indictment and prosecution.

The implications for the First Amendment are chilling. Under the government’s interpretation of interception of “wire communications”, the government could prosecute journalists based not on their methods, but on the content they choose to listen to or report on. The wiretap law also criminalizes the disclosure of the contents of a wire communication. Thus, quoting from a podcast or a leaked livestream could subject a reporter to criminal liability regardless of intent, public interest, or harm.

This is a dangerous expansion of government authority. It converts the passive act of receiving a communication—something essential to journalism—into a criminal offense based solely on outdated statutory definitions and prosecutorial discretion.

The broader issue is not just technical—it’s constitutional. A law that is so vague or overbroad that it allows the government to pick and choose whom to prosecute based on their speech, targets the very heart of press freedom. It is unconstitutionally vague under the Fifth Amendment and overbroad under the First.

By failing to modernize the statute—or at least to interpret it in line with modern communication platforms—the government risks turning millions of journalists, researchers, and citizens into potential criminals. The law as it stands today is an anachronism of the analog era being misapplied in a digital one.

If you are a journalist, you should be alarmed. If the DOJ’s current theory prevails, simply clicking “play” could one day lead to prosecution. The press cannot operate in an environment where the law punishes access to speech—particularly where that speech is both public and newsworthy.

The press must not only report on this misuse of power, but challenge it—legally, politically, and publicly. Because the right to receive and report information is not just a constitutional luxury. It’s a democratic necessity.

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Mark Rasch
MDRasch@gmail.com
(301) 547-6925

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Kyle M. @kyleismoody.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Are Gorillaz the millennial version of Steely Dan?

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