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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m upset about Jacob Geller. I would almost certainly never work with him after these revelations and I probably won’t ever watch his videos again. I feel the same anger that drives these posts, and I’m not trying to dunk. But I’m not sure I agree with what they actually say. I want to explore that

here's the thing: the question of "can someone redeem themselves after committing sexual assault" is completely separate from the question of "should that person have a career making YouTube videos."

they can be an accountant. they can go into admin work. they can go work on a farm. they are not barred from making a living. they just don't have a basic human right to make money filming themselves talking about video games.

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Had to save a group chat girlie from the fate that befell me

Discord message from mx. emotion:

I tried nair on my face (the special kind the make for faces) a while back and like some hair came off but not even half of it (and I just had some stubble at the time!)
Then I tried it again much sooner than you’re supposed to do that and my whole face just became a wound (still with hair)

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I need the blue and pink dress Anne Hathaway wears in The End of Oak Street. I would look cool and attractive in the blue and pink dress Anne Hathaway wears in The End of Oak Street

Promotional image for The End of Oak Street, featuring Anne Hathaway holding a shotgun and wearing a short blue dress with long sleeves and a loud pink floral pattern on the collar, lapels, cuffs, and hip pockets. Danny would fucking rock this dress

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

if you see this, we implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is the caliber of person showing up in my mentions. Kept thinking these were otherwise-reasonable people who were just weird about one type of thing. Didn’t think about the possibility that they’re all just fucking evil

Screenshot of Bluesky bio:
History teacher, Yankee Fan, Board-gamer.
Unapologetic Liberal, Environmentalist, Zionist

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

From my upcoming book, an excerpt on the ever-useful life lesson I took from a movie about fascists raping teenagers:

One of the problems with life online is that it can make you afraid to trust your own perspective. The people there are good at making things seem problematic. They often have hidden motives for doing so. Pasolini teaches us to examine those motives, inspect statements for more than internal logic, and trust our ethical instincts. If someone sounds like they’re twisting things to manipulate you, they probably are.

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“Acid jazz” should mean jazz with wobbly blobbly words on the front

Cover of Albert Ayler In Greenwich Village

Cover of Eastern Man Alone by Charles Tyler

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Found this treasure from them. Really special kind of brain at work here

The person in question quoted a prompt post that read, “How do you show love to yourself?” with the response, “Having sex with various women and hoping I don’t get AIDS”

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Without downloading new pics, where are you mentally?

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

broadsoundmag.com/2025/03/07/b... Piece of an old essay. Using “Kannon” here at different points to mean both the deity of compassion and the Sunn O))) album about them

I have come to believe in the deep unity of emptiness, to believe that all divisions are as false as they are real. That existence, viewed a certain way at least, is one undivided whole. Therefore, I believe you cannot love the world if you hate anything, you cannot love yourself if you hate anything, and you cannot love anything if you hate yourself. Knowledge of unity necessitates compassion, necessitates Kannon.

Recently, while meditating with Kannon, not trying to clear my mind or avoid all thoughts but simply trying to observe my thoughts and relate to them differently, I suddenly saw myself in a new light. I was all clutch and crave. Needy and worried about everything, clinging to phantoms, rushing from place to place, doing everything but the work that was most necessary. I am ridiculous, I thought. I laughed, actually laughed out loud at the small, silly creature I now saw myself to be.

But crucially, the laughter held no trace of derision. It was a kindhearted, indulgent laughter, a laugh one might laugh at the irrational fears of a small child. I saw myself as childlike—even, perhaps especially, in my most anguished moments and most serious efforts. The laughter momentarily replaced the judgment and self-hatred that are so habitual for me. How could I hate myself? I’m just a little guy.

This is Kannon. Knowledge of unity necessitates compassion, and compassion is what makes the experience of unity possible. Compassion for loves, for enemies, and for the self. Not a jealous, insecure, hypersubjective kind of self-advocacy, but an extension of love to oneself as one would extend love to another. This is Kannon.

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Little slice of my personal canon

Criterion Closet “Polaroid” for mx. emotion, featuring Videodrome, Tampopo, Mulholland Drive, and Design for Living

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Unless one of the people in the screenshot was your alt, this is the first time he posted you. You tagged him. You don’t get to antagonistically tag a big account and then complain about the resultant attention. Or I mean you do get to but we also get to point and say “lol”

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Being just hours away from my book deadline has me getting extra real about some shit in this draft

It is July of 2023. My terrible girlfriend is having a birthday party at my house. Being terrible, she has very few friends, so the guest list is six of my friends and two people she just met. I understand that I’m laying it on thick here. I hate this girl.

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Inside me there are two dipshits

Letterboxd “recent activity” screenshot showing The Four Seasons, Salò, Same Time Next Year, and The Sheep Detectives

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Screenshotting instead of quoting here because I’m not trying to start shit but… this just does not match my life experience at all and sometimes I feel like I’m from a different planet. It has been so easy at every stage of life to find guys to hang out with who aren’t openly despicable around me

Screenshot of post saying, “Underrated trans horror is having vast first hand experience at seeing how men talk abt women behind closed doors”

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The last two paragraphs of that article are somehow dumber than the email. Feels very much LLM written except for the exceedingly bizarre button of “Surprising it is.”

Screenshot of article’s ending, including beginning of author bio:

This is not a matter of another online post sparking debate, but a testament that young professionals with fresh ideas are willing to speak boldly for their rights. The simplicity of this intern has sparked conversations about fostering openness and creative problem-solving in modern workplaces.

WHY?

Because such situations are a reminder that insights from a new perspective can be straightforward and impactful. Surprising it is.

Aditya Farrad
Aditya is a seasoned business expert and the founder of Moneymint. With years of experience

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

About 60% through Iain M. Banks’ The Player of Games and this shit rules. Philosophical sci-fi about games as political processes, molding their players, reflecting/reproducing the ideologies of the societies that birthed them. Chewy, delicious ideas, true and useful. Eager to see where it lands.

German cover art for The Player of Games, under the title of Das Spiel Azad. The art is reminiscent of Giorgio de Chirico, with a black and white checkered floor surrounded by mountains whose distance seems somehow both near and far. Floating above the floor are a metal sphere and a column with three floating, disconnected segments. This contemplative vibe serves the book better, I think, than any of the other cover art I found for it online.

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This is insane to me. They got paid in money. They got paid a normal amount of money that they agreed to be paid. That art director with basically no credits or experience got paid more per day on that film than I’ve ever made in a day doing anything. What are we doing here.

Post with screenshot of Curry Barker interview, claiming that Barker is saying the crew got “paid in exposure”

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

“Verbal littering” is a phrase that could only come from a diseased mind

Post from The Guardian:

The hill I will die on: I really don’t like ‘like’—or other imprecise and redundant speech, by Louis be Bernières

Junk speak, like junk food, encourages verbal littering. It…

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Reply to a post about “ozempic face” kinda giving the game away. “I don’t judge people for exercising bodily autonomy unless I can construct an excuse to do so that makes me feel righteous. Then I go nuts”

“It’s the new botox. Celebs seem to have zero sense for what is a healthy level of use. (I don’t judge people for doing things to their own body, but overdoing it in the public eye is so irresponsible).

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This is her using sarcasm to show how stupid that “torture porn” post she quoted was

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Quote with the last 4 games you’ve played

The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories

Rotting Together

https://grecat.itch.io/rotting-together

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Yo this book is insane? It’s just constantly daring me to form a coherent opinion about it

Cover of Nightmare on Elm Street: Dreamspawn, a novel by Christa Faust. The top half features Freddy Kruger’s face and the bottom half has his silhouette.

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Without downloading anything new, where are you, mentally?

Al Columbia drawing. A young boy and girl drawn in an old fashioned cartoon art style frantically filling buckets in a room filled with buckets, living brains with tails, and an unknown liquid. Both the situation and their goal are unclear.

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Incredible to see someone sincerely attempt the “just following orders” defense in 2026 as if it’s just common sense. To then be informed of the historical context of that particular idea, react like you’ve legitimately never heard of it, and loudly decide it doesn’t matter? Baby that’s art to me.

Mid-thread post from Bechdel Pest:

I mean, it’s at least debatable-what do you think the Marines do? More or less what ICE does in Minneapolis and Los Angeles? A senator can at least plead ignorance (which is probably why Platner wants the job, lol)

Reply from bukee.bsky.social:

??? What the fuck are you talking about? You understand the chain of command, right? You understand that one acts over the orders of the other?

Reply from Bechdel Pest:

The chain of command is entirely irrelevant to my point, “just following orders” is kind of textbook fascism-enabling lmao

Reply from bukee.bsky.social:

Then what the fuck are you talking about? Do youneven know what fascism is?

Reply from Daniel Bikes:

For some context for you, “just following orders” was a failed defense tactic at the Nuremberg trials after WWII.

Soldiers who carry out fascist orders are, per legal precedent, no better than the people who convey the orders.

Beginning of a reply from bukee.bsky.social:

Good thing this isn’t a trial then.

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Favorite first-time watches of April 2026

Shot from Michael Clayton. A gray-haired white man walking purposefully down an alley. Tucked under his arm is a large paper bag from which emerges the ends of at least fifteen baguettes.

Shot from Re-Wind. A young Japanese woman in red sits speaking to a young man whose face is turned toward her and away from the camera. Behind both of them is a large screen showing a woman with her mouth open in distress.

Shot from James Acaster: Hecklers Welcome. A white man with red hair crouches on a stage with his back to seated audience members visible behind him. He is wearing a green sweatsuit with yellow sneakers and holding the mic stand tipped way down towards the floor.

Shot from Star Trek III: The Wrath of Khan. A closeup on the face of a creature that seems like a cross between a crocodile and a dog. He’s a good boy.

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

My 10 favorite films, off the top of my head: Mulholland Drive Kiss Kiss Bang Bang The Sadness I Saw the TV Glow Straight Up Design for Living Drowning by Numbers Tampopo Dellamorte Dellamore Silent Night Deadly Night

Shot from I Saw the TV glow. A CRT screen within the frame shows a bizarre face looking straight into the camera. Its mask-like, humanoid features are emerging from a larger surface that looks like the moon but also fungal, with strange and irregular edges.

A shot from The Sadness. An old Taiwanese woman looks straight into the camera. Her hair is long and stringy, her clothes dirty and smeared with blood, her eyes black and rimmed with red. She has a wide and menacing smile filled with jagged, rotting teeth.

Shot from Dellamorte Dellamore. A young white European woman looks straight into the camera. Her lips are pursed as if blowing a kiss, and she is seen half in shadow and behind a sheet of sheer fabric that covers the entire frame.

Shot from Tampopo. A young Japanese man in a white suit and trilby hat stands leaning forward with his elbow on his hitched-up knee and looks straight into the camera with an air of authority. He is in a brightly lit movie theater, surrounded by seated people. A woman stands behind him and a tray of decadent food sits at their seats.

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

There’s a kinship between Drowning by Numbers, The Company of Wolves, and Joseph Cornell that I don’t know how to explain or what to do with. A certain flavor of fragile world made up meticulously of memory and dream.

Shot from The Company of Wolves. A closeup of a bird’s nest containing some downy white feathers, four small, mottled, blue and grey stones shaped like eggs, and a small circular mirror which perfectly reflects a young girl’s face.

A shot from Drowning by Numbers. A game of tug of war with 14 participants and a referee, centered on a small wooden structure near a coastline, composition mostly flat and mostly symmetrical, with a table, some chairs, and a little dog in the foreground.

A shadow box by Joseph Cornell. Centered in the back is an old portrait of a young child. This is positioned behind a blue shelf with a little red ball, and surrounded with fragments of maps, small cards with smaller reproductions of similar portraits, little tiles featuring images of birds and leaves, and various other mysterious objects and images.

A shadow box by Joseph Cornell. A little white ball is suspended on a little track consisting of two thin rails. Below lies a clay pipe. Behind these objects is a collage of various constellations in blue and black, with rough, unfinished swaths of white paint.

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Trump can promise to nuke Iran and the IDF can openly riot about their right to rape people but I have to be coy if I want to say the only truth that matters about any of these parasites. I wrote this today in a different context but it fits here, everywhere.

The world that’s been built up around us, the selves we’re asked to inhabit, are such tie-your-wrists, steal-the-air-from-your-lungs bullshit that they can only be dismantled by gouging, gashing, slicing, slashing. The potential for this violence suffuses every moment, and its suppression is just another kind of violence. A more honest society would just peel my fucking skin off.

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The liberation of doing stuff you are not good at

Panel 1: A bunny looking at a computer monitor that says, “something infuriating”

Panel 2: Slightly zoomed in view, monitor now says, “something terrifying”

Panel 3: More zoomed in, monitor now says, “something unbearably sad”

Panel 4: Bunny faces the reader, saying, “Look. I know what the problem is. This insight is not a remedy. Just let me do this.”

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

old tweet of mine feels applicable here

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Yeah I just think right now does actually look worse. More diverse I’ll give you for sure, I was taking issue with the “smarter” part of your claim

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Four Christmas movies to know me by:

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

If you know me I think it’s hard to be too surprised by my taste but Goon might be a bit of a curveball (curve… puck?)

Seann William Scott in a hockey uniform with the number 69, his face battered and bloody

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Quote post with you being a hottie in a dress 👗🔥👗

Danny in a blue denim dress with knee-high socks and a white belt, singing at a karaoke event with the words “Lovecraft in Brooklyn” projected behind them

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

I want to program a Chrysler Building double feature

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Some of it is folks who fear that an effort to sanitize him risks sanitizing him.

Jenkins claiming Kirk, “argued with civility.”

Jenkins saying, “… he was growing, and his death is a significant loss for those who believe engagement can help bridge disagreements.”

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

King of the shitlibs. Here is his thumbs-up to the silencing of anti-genocide protest. There is no progressive principle he won’t sell out under pressure because he doesn’t actually hold any.

Stephen King wearing a knockoff Shepard Fairey shirt featuring Kamala Harris and the words, “I’m speaking.”

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

My partner saw it live and told me

Screenshot of text exchange

Her: It’s the Patel guy
Me: Wow wow wow
Me: Wow wow wow wow wow
Her: Motherfucker, they’re not letting you into Valhalla

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I am going to go insane trying to explain to liberals what an unambiguous Nazi signal the Valhalla thing is

Screenshot of a YouTube video titled, “‘Rest Now, Brother… See You in Valhalla’: FBI Director Kash Patel Honors Charlie Kirk | APT”

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

2 and 6 are cop shit. Regulars don’t care about genre or skill. If you don’t live there you don’t know the rules, and if you can’t have fun while someone sings a sad song like shit well maybe it’s you who’s not fun

Screenshot of a skeet:

anyway the rules of karaoke are

1) no songs over 5 min, ideally under 4
2) no showtunes
3) no signing people up w/out consent
4) NO AMERICAN PIE (see rule 1)
5) NO SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT (see rules 4, 1)
6) NO DOWNERS UNLESS YOU CAN KILL IT (and if you don't know, there's your answer)

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mx. emotion @mx-emotion.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Four favorite Twilight Zone episodes, top of my head

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