Reposted by ozyKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Every year the acting awards ignore my stunning performances as the attentive father in dramas like "Absolutely, I'd Love to Hear About Your New Fortnite Skins" 1806728283
Reposted by ozyTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 06/12/2024One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.” 104107802619
ozy @ozymandias272.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Thailand basically solved aesthetics by 1800 and ever since then it's been a slow decline shepherded by Americaboos. RETVRN. REJECT MODERNITY EMBRACE TRADITION (shirtless men, everything being as red as possible) 030
ozy @ozymandias272.bsky.social · 06/12/2024I like the concept of "medianworlds" (worlds where you're the average person) because it offers much more scope for unreasonable complaining. No longer must my complaints reckon with "no one else wants that" and "people would not just." in a world of OZYS we would do this PROPERLY 080
ozy @ozymandias272.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Sworn enemies joined in a common cause for this one battle. 181
Reposted by ozySam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Of course ideally a writer should revisit one, maybe two ideas at most, obsessively and without regard for plot, consistency, character, over the course of a long and increasingly constrained career which ends abruptly and without resolution 46713
ozy @ozymandias272.bsky.social · 05/12/2024it's a normal human impulse to go "good" about someone you think is evil getting shot, but it's better if this sentiment isn't in the public discourse where it can inspire more shooters etc. 140
Reposted by ozytar-minyatur’s court twink ✵ @caranthirs.bsky.social · 04/12/2024sometimes people are surprised that the silmarillion as a book has an active fandom but the thing is that there’s a fandom poster for everything imaginable. there is someone out there saying “rereading just to see pookie bear 🥺” and pookie is like shakespeare’s titus andronicus or something 416931
ozy @ozymandias272.bsky.social · 04/12/2024"it's just as I warned. we stopped irrationally hating gay people for their harmless romantic choices. now people want us to stop irrationally hating poly people for their harmless romantic choices. where will it end? not being allowed to irrationally hate ANYONE? ALWAYS minding my own business?" 0272
ozy @ozymandias272.bsky.social · 03/12/2024my solstice needs 2-3 more general volunteers and 1 more kids' room volunteer, please email drethelin@gmail.com if you're interested! 010
Reposted by ozyAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice! 22079776616139
ozy @ozymandias272.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Moana 2 replaced Lin Manuel Miranda with composers with two notable achievements, one of which is Taco Bell promotional musical Mexican Pizza: The Musical 110
ozy @ozymandias272.bsky.social · 01/12/2024"they can't do Wicked 3, the musical only has two acts" like Stephen Schwartz wouldn't keep writing songs for Wicked as long as the checks cashed 000
Reposted by ozyDJ Boozy Brunch @griph.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Beloved American writer Saul Bellow (born Samuel Clemens) got his pen name from his time as a riverboat captain on the Mississippi; when the anchor detached from the sea bed the mate would yell “s’all below” to indicate it was safe to pull up 1116810
ozy @ozymandias272.bsky.social · 30/11/2024me: if I were immortal I would definitely create an annotated House of Leaves with my own five-page sex story footnotes friend: what if you had a century, starting now me: ...maybe. two centuries for sure friend: that is an insanely high priority to put on that task 050
Reposted by ozyBlazer @blazingdarkness.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Most things I could say about #wicked already have been (and by people I know), except that among the thousands of incredible details that cost a ton of money to get perfect, there were two cheap things I really liked: the swirl on Elphaba's glasses and the shape of the Grimmerie. 141
ozy @ozymandias272.bsky.social · 30/11/2024I think a lot of the trouble with romantic relationships has nothing to do with feminism or the apps or porn or TikTok or video games or the innate evil of men, but rather is a product of The Human Condition 140
ozy @ozymandias272.bsky.social · 30/11/2024some people say that they're nonbinary so any attraction to them is gay attraction. I say I'm nonbinary so any attraction to me is heterosexual. sorry about that 180
ozy @ozymandias272.bsky.social · 30/11/2024while I'm all for equal gendered divisions of labor, as my household's Thanksgiving cook I do NOT want to share the cooking. leave me alone. the food will appear by magic in five hours 161
Reposted by ozyWith A Merry Complex @withamartyrcomplex.bsky.social · 29/11/2024"The problem with the parable of the talents is that it fails to account for how changes in the money supply effect value. Here's how you can iterate on Christianity for your BTB SaaS" 031
ozy @ozymandias272.bsky.social · 29/11/2024how do I convince the algorithm of this website that I don't want to see cat pictures, I want to see the most rancid discourse takes possible 140
Reposted by ozyP H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social · 29/11/2024ICYMI I had a new story come out yesterday and it's good. 064
ozy @ozymandias272.bsky.social · 29/11/2024I said this post was dumb and unvirtuous but @p-h-lee.bsky.social told me to publish it anyway so here it is thingofthings.substack.com/p/weird-nerd...thingofthings.substack.comWeird Nerd MoralismLet's talk about Nietzsche without having read him! 241
Reposted by ozySaloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 28/11/2024As many people have said, this is genuinely a game-changer in the global fight against HIV/AIDS. I think it brings the possibility of HIV elimination to the table. But it requires willpower and coordination to actually make that a reality. 1504
ozy @ozymandias272.bsky.social · 27/11/2024I am NOT receiving therapy from or forming any sort of relationship with an LLM because I have read many blog posts warning that superintelligences will be very good at manipulating people into things + it has got to be harder to do that if I'm exclusively using them as a thesaurus 150
ozy @ozymandias272.bsky.social · 26/11/2024I wrote some 200 word RPGs! it's a really fun format ozybrennan.substack.com/p/200-word-r...ozybrennan.substack.com200 Word RPGs200 Word RPGs is a yearly challenge to write a complete, playable RPG in 200 words or less. 130
Reposted by ozySaloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 26/11/2024Now I've come across several instances of people writing, essentially: 'Let me provide a very rough estimate. Don't take this number literally, because it has several flaws.' And then their number becomes cited as the canonical figure on the topic. 2726441
ozy @ozymandias272.bsky.social · 25/11/2024these newfangled kids and their pronouns. this venerable one speaks only in the third person as Confucius intended 054
ozy @ozymandias272.bsky.social · 24/11/2024my best friend is the only other person I've met who not only knows that Oz has sequels but has read all forty of them. this is why he is my favorite <33333 040
ozy @ozymandias272.bsky.social · 24/11/2024whenever people are like "romance novels make women have unrealistic standards for men" they always seem to follow it up with "like that he will be nice to you" 140
ozy @ozymandias272.bsky.social · 24/11/2024some tweet suggested coming up with hot gender takes by describing the behavior of the worst person you know and then putting "men" or "women" in front. this is a fun game 160
ozy @ozymandias272.bsky.social · 24/11/2024some monogamous people have a tendency to go "men do this" or "women do that" when they mean "all four people I've had a serious relationship with do..." 090
ozy @ozymandias272.bsky.social · 24/11/2024the choreographer for Wicked also did some Disney Channel Original Movies and you can tell. this is not a criticism. Disney Channel Original Movies are the last holdouts for fun, high-energy choreography in Hollywood. I am so happy for him getting a few million dollars to play with 140
Reposted by ozyCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Wish more people realised that for most art businesses, there's only one person doing all the work. Creating, shipping, admin, promotion, starting feuds with other artists, painting unflattering portraits of them into historical scenes, trying to poison them, it's all one person. 194155501873
ozy @ozymandias272.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Having a shirt that says "fuck" on it, and many occasions to which it would be inappropriate to wear a shirt that says "fuck" on it, adds excitement and spice to getting dressed in the dark 050
ozy @ozymandias272.bsky.social · 22/11/2024can someone recommend to me a series of articles where someone sane goes through Project 2025 chapter-by-chapter and tells me exactly what's in the thing. Ideally a domain expert but at this point I will accept like a blogger who isn't hysterical 240
