squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 13hfirst time in my life my power has ever gone out for longer than a couple of hours. it's not very fun. even when staying in somaliland it would go out at carefully allotted times. brushing one's teeth in the dark whilst worrying about food going off is bizarre 010
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 22hstaying up for days in the chelsea hotel, writing sad eyed lady of the lowlands for you ... 000
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026have my own problems with the greens but i think “you shouldn't be attending synagogues that materially support israel if you're a member of the party” is level zero discipline. then again i know that a fairly prominent leftist party has police officers and people from the navy in so what do i know 000
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026nine of anything is too many to say that it made you. either go with three or go with thirty. let's not take the piss 000
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026open.spotify.com/track/35PVGA...open.spotify.comRadio Sweetheart - My Aim Is True OuttakeElvis Costello · My Aim Is True - 49th Anniversary Edition (2026 Remaster) · Song · 2026 010
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026amazing! my header picture on here is of his illustrated troilus and criseyde which looks even better in person 110
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026i used to find ai fascinating. i signed up for a chatgpt account the day it was first released in 2022. i was actually quite a stem focused person for most of my life which you wouldn't think of me now. i got an a in further maths. i liked the dalle image account on twitter. unenthused by it all now 010
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026if you're a non fiction author who talks about the modern world i think it kind of is your business to know about ai. i like knowing things about the world. i don't like or use ai personally but that doesn't bar one from taking an interest in its development, even if a highly skeptical one (as i do) 110
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026decided to unmute some accounts that cropped up lots in people's replies. terrible choice. if you're over thirty there should be a legally instituted limit on how many times you can be sardonic in a day. either be rude or be witty 010
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026doctor who. it's been around for sixty odd years and there are maybe two or three people that have good opinions on it. common line atm is doctor who always looked shit it doesn't need a budget. as if this isn't a gorgeous and striking image that is from 1986 ! 084
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026purest and best expression of love ever? ” you fuck like a volcano and you're everything to me ” open.spotify.com/track/0xQ8FP...open.spotify.comSupernovaLiz Phair · Whip-Smart · Song · 1994 000
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026had this album on repeat over the last week. i think it's absolutely fantastic which really surprised me, because box for buddy really slid off of me. pretty solid alt/country. very anodyne coded open.spotify.com/album/24cxez...open.spotify.comThe Singer in My Band - Album by This Is Lorelei | SpotifyThis Is Lorelei · album · 2026 · 11 songs 000
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026probably the whole not showering thing. i don't really care about her. an online friend of mine tangentially knows her and doesn't have anything bad to say 010
Reposted by squed ⛳Finn @thegoblinpoet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026are LLMs just an attempt to recreate Americans from first principles 110120
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026someone using a decade+ old popular and somewhat funny/accurate tweet in such a wrong way you wonder how they even tie their shoelaces? on bluesky? perish the thought... 000
Reposted by squed ⛳Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The obvious questions regarding the Kindertransport is: why it was privately run and didn’t permit Jewish parents to accompany their children? There is continuity between the British govt’s refusal to accept hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees and its present-day refusal to accept refugees 513844
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i'm giving this up because this will be 200 posts in maybe a day or two. but my a level english teacher said that the first act of othello reads like the last act of a different comedy written by shakespeare about othello and desdemona falling in love. which is true. 1.3 is so beautiful and sweet 000
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026second thing i see after opening the app is a prompt from fucking threads asking people how they'd ruin shakespeare. you can't do anything to make him better. she loved me for the dangers i had passed / and i loved her that she did pity them. that's gold. sugar ! open.spotify.com/track/2MRQP0...open.spotify.comHoover DamSugar · Copper Blue (2012 Deluxe Remaster) · Song · 1992 100
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026young thug when vaguely enunciating has one of the best voices ever imo. amazing range, somehow able to infuse a level of grit and gravitas into his higher notes and fantastic depths of emotion when singing in a lower pitch or rapping. what a guy 000
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026it happened again. maybe every time i get really annoyed by something on this app i should post some tunes. most of what i do anyway. bob's if not for you. i like george's cover a lot but there's something delightfully quotidian and small scale about this rendition open.spotify.com/track/0bTY3E...open.spotify.comIf Not for YouBob Dylan · New Morning · Song · 1970 100
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026love immediately getting back from holiday and getting really annoyed because i went on the annoying app to be annoyed. listening to some tribe on the way back. what a fucking band open.spotify.com/track/5N5fp1...open.spotify.comBonita ApplebumA Tribe Called Quest · The Anthology · Song · 1999 100
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026remember seeing someone post the curtains for zoosha tweet (which is kind of funny/true) for something featuring gucci fucking mane. he's been around since before i was born. tbh it's kind of racist! someone posted it about chase infiniti. she was a big part of the best picture winner LAST YEAR! 010
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the whole i'm 40 & i don't know about popular music or modern celebrities thing that people do is the flipside of annoying teens on tiktok making fun of people into arthouse cinema by being like HAHA this film is made from a pigeons pov in vichy France. we need to repopularise knowledge as a virtue 110
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026labelled as adult content for some reason. it's not. no naked ladies or men i promise. some blood and a naked baby but they loved painting those back in the day. a continental museum hates to see me come and stand close to some paintings and zoom in to take a picture & buy a fridge magnet & postcard 010
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026highlights: -american walking into a beautiful cathedral saying “people used to be really into god” -really nice brie, honey, and walnut sandwich from a bakery that gave me and a friend an extra slice of millionaires shortbread by accident -fun bookshops -sat by the river for a long time and chatted 000
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026other shows i listed more. and i haven't touched on what i think tv is best at, sci-fi! in one sense i'm divorced from doctor who but on the other hand it has taken up so much of my life, and transcends simple ideas of the best and worst tv. it can be great and terrible. often at the same time. 000
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i think what annoys me about how television is spoken about today (aside from the comfort/cosy plague) is the constant ranking of it. if you asked me what the best tv shows are i would umm and ahh for a long while. i didn't have breaking bad or fleabag on my original list. i love them but i like the 100
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026what makes three hours of film doesn't make three hours of tv, and i would argue a passable iteration of the former is much easier to come by than the latter 100
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i think the main reason (though its reliance on constant flows of capital is a very large reason as well) for why so much tv fails is that it's much harder to both come up with ideas that merit being the length of a tv series, and much harder to execute these ideas. 100
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026oh i agree wholeheartedly. there was a short moment when web series were a big thing, and i would even argue things like lets plays on youtube share a similar spirit and format (if not being nearly as comparable to tv). there's no room for autodidacts or hobbyist television though, which is a loss. 100
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026the exception is how i met your mother, which is foundational to my life, for better and for worse. it introduced me to lots of music i love now, and some films too. and also all consuming love, so swings and roundabouts 000
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026most of my favourite tv shows (arrested development, cxg, peep show, 30 rock, catastrophe, i would argue the sopranos counts) fit into this cringe/black comedy mould. most of the rest are character focused dramas (mad men, the americans, better call saul). 100
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026occur there. i think art should always be created with high expectations of its potential viewers & a lot of tv doesn't make that mark. so does a lot of cinema & literature. i'm not saying that things can't be judged for missing that mark (they should be), but it shouldn't write a whole medium off 100
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i agree with this wholeheartedly. the cottage industry around comfort tv shows puts me off greatly, but i don't think that negates the need for comfort in one's life & what comfort is for people varies! the film i find most comforting is probably the darjeeling limited but a lot of unpleasant things 100
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026my favourite tv show, crazy ex-girlfriend, is fantastic and needs the trappings of television to convey its mixture of cringe, black comedy, and deep emotion successfully. 100
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026in spite of what i said i think that a lot of fantastic television exists only because of the medium rather in spite of it. in fact, i tire of the current limited series format because it seems to just turn 7/10 films into 6 hour dirges. 100
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026a wider range of voices, and usually working better outside of the homoglossia/single voice and vision that i think tv succeeds with. more boringly tv is like a chocolate hobnob and cup of tea to cinema's sit-down meal. one is clearly more interesting but a good life also has to have the former 200
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026as a tv aficionado i'd disagree (though i mostly watch films if i have time to watch anything) but i don't think you're wrong on the need for the medium to have a much stronger unified vision than cinema. i think cinema is heteroglossic, to borrow morettis description of prose, being able to accept 100
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i do love this app. either i scroll the for you feed, which is filled with complete imbeciles and weird pornography that has literally nothing to do with me, or the following feed, which has about ten posts and doesn't even show all the posts from everyone i follow. what's the point?! 000
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026to prop the centre right up? they do have an answer to this last question, being, of course, to support people who advocate for a kinder, gentler austerity and aren't too racist. not just an acceptance of these people's roles in society, but an incitement for leftists to work in re-establishing them 000
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026am always fascinated by this insistent plea from centrists for there to be a “decent centre-right”. i have never seen it anywhere apart from bluesky, which is a decidedly leftish political sphere. do they think that the left managed to destroy one nation tories? how do they expect people on the left 100
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026goodreads app maybe the most non-functioning major app ever. absolute shite at doing almost anything. if storygraph weren't so unbelievably millennial coded i would use that. but also all of my friends use goodreads and i can't convince them to do a large scale migration 000
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026the only exception is if you're posting a months 5x5. which i don't do but i have no qualms with 000
squed ⛳ @squed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026if you post a topster (which you shouldn't. please don't.) posting a 10x10 grid should land you in hot water with some sort of legal authority. karl marx speaks of this 100
