Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026oooh, right, right I think it's also partially meant as a shot at the industry: "we won't need you, we'll sell our old games" but his fantasy is just modding, with the joy and satisfaction of making something replaced by stealing and pushing buttons his own fantasy is being a guy who's useless 010
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026for clarity — not defending — I don't think he's saying he wants to sell his GTA reskin to _us_ I think he's fantasizing about the possibility of selling his old games for money to spend on generating more mods starring himself "I'm going to use ai to mod a video game so I'M the hero" cool, man 110
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026spent the whole episode wondering why/how this script happened they _must_ know that the writing is boring and the ideas are played out they must! the other flashback episode I could see how they fooled themselves into thinking it was working, but this one I can't see how they couldn't see it 120
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026there's a scene in... I want to say season 2, where they come to a crime scene at night, in the rain slipping on a wet grassy slope, mud and rain and lights the most convincing depiction of "wet and miserable" I've ever seen 010
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026imo likely an unspoken source of trump's appeal, right from the beginning (consider the photos/way he talks about his daughter) 000
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 09/08/2026shout out to john williams, too, for being maybe close to half the reason these scenes work so well 000
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026this movie is sort of the opposite of a rom-com, at least in the key story thread but it's good! I'd recommend it precisely for that reason it's NOTHING like the trailer lol 010
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I would have liked the pink plastic raincoat (in the elevator scene), but this trailer has moved me from pessimistic to paying attention L.A. playing essentially Vancouver (for once!) kind of tickles me, and they got the colour of the Vancouver sky right 010
Reposted by Travis BernhardtNiko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 26/07/2026The crack of the bat. The smell of the grass. The roar of the crowd. You’ve just been viciously attacked by the serial killer they call Baseball Steve 12464417
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Interstellar has some things I like, but it also does my absolute least favourite science fiction thing in the world, a thing I've hated ever since nine year old me grimaced at the "it was _love_ that saved the day" ending in A Wrinkle In Time 021
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026there we go, found it, this one archive.org/details/borg... 010
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026wait hang on I hate this translation this is slightly better, but I can't find the translation I actually like: shorturl.at/fwIpHshorturl.at 100
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026reminded: www.ronnowpoetry.com/contents/bor...ronnowpoetry.comRagnarok 110
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 03/07/2026oh, and while I think my current dentist is basically fine, one of her techs once talked to me about how there was something "sinister" about people being asked to wear masks I said that I thought the "sinister" thing might be the thing that leads to more deaths? she changed the subject 010
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 03/07/2026(by "scam" I mean something like "add on unnecessary procedures to get more money for doing nothing useful") 110
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 03/07/2026dentists in Canada refused to join into universal healthcare back in the day, and they're still like that no idea why I've heard of dentists at parties talking about the tricks they use to scam people, and I personally left a dentist after he scammed me www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...policyalternatives.caWhy dentists are not signing up for the Canadian Dental Care Plan | CCPAAbout the author Brandon Doucet Brandon Doucet is a Nova Scotia based dentist and founder of the Coalition for Dentalcare. 100
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 27/05/2026it's fucked, and I have no idea why it's allowed to be like this (money, probably) 010
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 27/05/2026they may also cancel necessary surgeries, if those surgeries risk causing a miscarriage ER doctors are also "discouraged" from providing plan B, as it's not in line with policy, but some doctors do it anyway the hospital is being moved to a new fancy expensive location, but still run by Providence 210
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 27/05/2026we have a catholic hospital in vancouver, and dark rumours have long circulated about their treatment of pregnant homeless people word is they have declared people mentally incompetent and held them on that basis in the psychiatric ward, without access to abortion, until they deliver 110
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 16/05/2026I asked my black belt friend what the heck that was and he said "it's a calf slicer from top closed guard it doesn't exist because what are you doing" 140
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 07/05/2026front row at a regional show rules, though I mean, sometimes at a regional show floor is all you can get but sitting at the front is great 010
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 30/04/2026not just the egregious privacy violation, not just the boundary issues from "text your therapist any time!" but can this even work as therapy? not the LLM, of course that won't work but like, among many other issues, is emotional co-regulation even possible via text? this is just Health Grifting 120
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 20/04/2026watching from north of the border, that was so weird like, was it working too well, or something? too much energy and goodwill, so they had to stop? 120
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 28/03/2026I don't think it justifies the electricity bill but this is literally the only thing I've personally found a use for "what do you call the type of drinking glass with like a bunch of curves carved into it?" kinds of questions though they still miss things and give inconsistent answers and so on 230
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 10/03/2026fair, but that's just one example where the harm is clearly defined I know somebody who got to the point where they would bring porn into their car and look at it while driving maybe that's not "addiction" according to some technical psychiatric criteria but... kinda feels like splitting hairs 012
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 10/03/2026like, I'm open to the idea of "addiction" being reserved for very specific things, and the rest being called "compulsive" or something and not everyone who calls themselves a porn addict is doing so in good faith but I've met people who struggle (non-religious!) and it feels pretty real to them 210
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 10/03/2026many things get labelled porn addiction, and some of it is just religious guilt, sure, but what would you call someone whose porn habit bankrupts them? there's precedent for process addictions being considered "real" — gambling addiction made it into the DSM! — so why dismiss porn addiction? 120
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 01/02/2026I thought the math was right — "how will these young, inexperienced, hothead revolutionaries come together to form a rebellion?" — but the tone was uncharacteristically goofy (the animal in the jungle? rock, paper, scissors?) and the characters felt like parodies to me I love everything else! 010
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 01/02/2026and now that I think of it, similar to the way the first arc of Andor S2 rings false love that show, but the Yavin scenes in eps 1-3 are its only real misstep 210
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 01/02/2026agreed that phone call is not "inside" comedy from someone who actually knows what they're satirizing, and it rings false (similar to the only false note for me in Tár — that scene worked structurally but the actual words he puts into the mouth of the young woke student felt off to me) 160
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 15/10/2025wtf how have I not heard of this, I've been waiting 110
Reposted by Travis BernhardtAmanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 24/07/2025As well as famine, Gaza is experiencing a "complex environmental disaster," in the words of Amjad Shawa of the Palestinian NGO Network. The soil is toxic from munitions and coastal water is black with sewage. Nearly all the trees are gone now. The effects will linger for generations [gift link]bloomberg.comThe War in Gaza Leaves Toxic Legacy of Garbage, Disease and PollutionThe bombardment of Gaza has left a toxic legacy of contaminated soil, blackened water and disease-spreading garbage that will last generations. 23531
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 23/07/2025if you're in a union actionnetwork.org/letters/hot-...actionnetwork.orgTell the CLC to declare Israeli goods and services Hot Cargo!Send an email & demand unions refuse work for Palestine! 030
Reposted by Travis BernhardtAndrey X @theandreyx.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already 8189052910
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 04/06/2025I definitely want to read a whole book written with the dull, thudding rhythms of a marketing email 020
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 24/05/2025textbook guy who Has Something To Say but whose reach exceeds his grasp 28 days later, sunshine, and dredd are all cool genre work (I love dredd!), but I think maybe at a certain point you need actual thoughts, not just facility with genre 010
Reposted by Travis BernhardtBen Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025*experiencing a fleeting moment of joy* this should be automated, to increase profits for some guy 117415
Travis Bernhardt @tbernhardt.bsky.social · 18/05/2025this is all I know: youtu.be/46KuEzJ0B6Ayoutu.beKids in the Hall Sick of the SwissYouTube video by VHS Comedy And Music Vault 010
Reposted by Travis BernhardtBlue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Guy who loves parking his car: What is Joni Mitchell ON about 59813
Reposted by Travis BernhardtBenny Feldman @feldfrog.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Chekhov’s karate master’s hands 0242