Reposted by MaxGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 20/08/2026one time i said "anyone can write a book if they just sit down and put the work in" and people started screaming at me about ableism 1642424
Reposted by MaxBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences 115208695341
Reposted by MaxRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I had replied to the below: Paper maps are great. Never run out of juice, let you see the close-up detail and the big picture at the same time (because they're three feet wide, unlike your phone), and the more you use them the more you learn your way around without them, unlike obeying a machine. 1472512314
Reposted by Maxkoba @ GWF 304 @kobacake.bsky.social · 10/06/2026also psa for all musicians.... stop using fucking ai generated thumbnails for your real actual human made music!!!!!! i don't care how good your songs are that shit is making me actively block your channels for stuff i would otherwise really be into 5415167
Reposted by MaxIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Honestly nice to to see I'm not the only one contending with this 41116209
Reposted by MaxDr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 09/05/2026I have metastasized breast cancer that resulted in two brain tumors, since removed. I've lost vision and get chronic migraines. All my books are written solely by me, with 10 fingers and 85% of a brain. No AI needed. The answer to disability isn't AI, it's community. 81079213
Reposted by MaxDr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!? 484112352256
Reposted by MaxStephan Krosecz @stephank.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I get so mad when I see older films get the life sucked out of them for the sake of making them seem more modern. I WANT the rougher texture and the original artistic intent! It's PART of it! Also, this is subjective but: why do so many attempts to modernize something make it look like shit? 15367129
Reposted by MaxZaki Hasan @zakiscorner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Man, this is such a nihilistic take. Forget Lord of the Rings. My kids have watched The Wizard of Oz. The Godfather. Planet of the Apes. TONS of classics that are quite a bit older than 30 years, and they’ve enjoyed and appreciated them all. 5162584296
Reposted by MaxGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Capitalism lives in the eternal "now". It doesn't want you to know about history, it doesn't want you to know art has existed for tens of thousands of years, it wants you slavering for whatever's coming NEXT, whatever's HOT and NEW, and ignoring everything else. You do not have to do this. 101695550
Reposted by MaxGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 12/05/2026TFA: Boring and much less interesting retread of A NEW HOPE TLJ: Deeply flawed, ultimately a mess, but intermittently exciting and beautiful TRoS: Insulting, creatively bankrupt garbage Overall, I do not like them and have never experienced a desire to rewatch them. bsky.app/profile/allt... 1202
Reposted by MaxGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 06/05/2026It's like eating food flavoring instead of food. 416423
Reposted by MaxGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 28/04/2026The Cozification of Genre Fiction by the Coward Online Book Group 735029
Reposted by Maxcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 25/04/2026should have left her ass in there 1135822
Reposted by Maxcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/04/2026okay but they did all that and the "shoplifting epidemic" wasn't and still is not real. this is a nothing argument because it's not actually happening 251672226
Reposted by Max〽️ax krieger wants to port YOUR indie game to switch! @maxkriegervg.bsky.social · 26/04/2026the mf who just took 36 duck breasts out of the sous vide 184597673
Reposted by Maxcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/04/2026me when I am very busy working. don't you understand that i'm WORKING? I don't even want to be here, on the red carpet 3243638
Reposted by MaxAnna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 25/04/2026There is a direct throughline from this and the rise in global authoritarianism. Authoritarianism is actively hostile toward the arts and intellectualism, and thus imagination. When people say that AI is a “fascist project,” this is explicitly what they’re referring to. 129591070
Reposted by MaxKotaku @kotaku.com · 22/04/2026A woman is suing MrBeast's company for alleged sexual harassment and verbal abuse She claims MrBeast's mom runs his HR department and that the company handbook allegedly says 'It's okay for the boys to be childish.' kotaku.com/a-woman-is-s...kotaku.comMrBeast's Company Sued By Woman Over Claims Of Sexual HarassmentThe lawsuit claims that MrBeast's company handbook says: 'It’s okay for the boys to be childish' and 'No does not mean no' 1071629376
Reposted by Maxcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 23/04/2026did Bill Kristol have the opposite of whatever kind of stroke Fetterman had 1560049
Reposted by Maxcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 23/04/2026no i'm not bc i don't use that shit. skill issue 132457508
Reposted by Maxcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 23/04/2026i've worked at several doctors offices and unfortunately policy has to be annoying as fuck because otherwise people will move, change their phone number, and get several major surgeries, and then tell you to your face that nothing has changed since their last visit 2089869
Reposted by Maxleon @leyawn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026bluesky is making fun of her for being a conservative moron, but i just checked twitter and conservatives are on there making fun of her for being an unhinged feminist lol 461786179
Reposted by MaxDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 20/04/2026Again: young people might not realize that this kind of repugnant racism was unacceptable to express publicly, *not that long ago*. 1153860805
Reposted by Maxcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 20/04/2026true crime brain has fucked people up so bad and they get really mad when you point that out. and also that the entire true crime industry is predatory and exploitative 793648457
Reposted by Maxshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 19/04/2026the quality of each star trek show is directly proportional to how often you see the characters engaging in hobbies 514477881
Reposted by Maxbrent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 18/04/2026MLK had a 63% *unfavorable* rating with Americans in a 1966 Gallup poll. Nelson Mandela was legally considered a terrorist by the U.S. government until 2008 (!!). People saying this shit almost certainly would have hated both and found a way to delegitimize their causes at the time! 431211244
Reposted by MaxGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 18/04/2026If you snitch tag artists into people being nasty about their work, you are adding to the quotient of misery in the world for no reason beyond your own love of conflict. 327920
Reposted by MaxGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 12/04/2026"Fandom deserves to be taken seriously" I actually can't think of anything more desperately in need of being taken LESS seriously. 5238051034
Reposted by Maxcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 04/04/2026the thing about it is you care less what people think of you online when you have an actual offline life. I get people mad at me for stupid shit all the time and I log off and spend time with my husband and our cat and we all adore each other. living well is the best revenge, etc 201073110
Reposted by MaxMaggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Everyone is making jokes about this, but I actually agree. I've done visits with high schoolers and been shocked that so many of them struggle to handwrite their own names. It's not about cursive exclusively. It's about fine motor skills, which our kids are losing. 2048285
Reposted by MaxBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/03/2026NASA might have been the coolest organization on planet earth — a real life/larger than life organization that the smartest people in the world respected, kids dreamed their whole life of working for, & even Hollywood couldn’t make larger than it already was. So of course Trump ruined it in a year. 683581930
Reposted by MaxAlan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 23/03/2026The internet is the last democratised media we have left. It's no coincidence that as all other media is consolidated into the hands of a few billionaires, those same billionaires are poisoning the internet by flooding it with AI slop and distrust in the biggest act of enshittification to date. 33212
Reposted by Maxcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 22/03/2026actually I am shading that entire category of practitioners 32938119
Reposted by MaxIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 19/03/2026This is why you don't feed wild animals, or otherwise make food you have easy for them to get at. Once they start viewing people as snack dispensers, they can get dangerous. 115840
Reposted by MaxGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Over on threads they are inventing new types of racism every day 1435022
Reposted by MaxAbigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 18/03/2026One of the Big Three agencies in Hollywood just fired 3% of their staffers 😬 Every year since I graduated drama school it’s been “the worst year the industry’s ever had” www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...hollywoodreporter.comWME Cuts 30 Staffers In Restructuring MoveCo-chiefs Christian Muirhead and Richard Weitz said the goal, in part, was "reducing layers." 733728
Reposted by MaxGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 18/03/2026I reviewed THE SECRET AGENT, a muted but deeply thoughtful and gorgeously made political thriller with a real whip-crack of a final act. www.patreon.com/posts/153313... 41106
Reposted by Maxmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 01/03/2026criterion channel rn has a collection called YEARNING and a collection called STUNTS! and between them exits the entire spectrum of human art and emotion 222657420
Reposted by MaxKristen Lopez @kristenklopez.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Looks like I have a story to write about in my growing file on "Influencers Are Taking Journalists Jobs and We're Surprised This Shit Happens." variety.com/2026/film/co...variety.comJake Shane’s Questions at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party Prove Influencers Shouldn’t Be Red Carpet ReportersHis "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You" interviews were awkward proof that influencers aren't journalists 110024
Reposted by MaxRami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16/03/2026Generative AI has led to entirely new paradigms and unprecedented accelerations in the fields of fucking yourself over in public in the most embarrassing and humiliating way possible 91565264
Reposted by MaxAyo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 15/03/2026not trying to be mean or pick a fight but humanoid robots are 100% a manifestation of a deep-seated desire to have slaves 91982484
Reposted by Maxspooky dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 12/03/2026Considering that Grace Tame is known for her advocacy for victims of child sexual abuse, and that it's her engagements on that topic which have been cancelled, I can only assume that anyone who is trying to prevent her from speaking has a vested interest in preventing her from speaking about that 36324
Reposted by MaxVajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 11/03/2026this probably won't be enough to drive them out of business, but I suppose every little bit helps 1436
