tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 12hDon't forget the genre that, to me, stands as Neil's finest achievement. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqO5...youtube.comHyakugojyuuichi!!! by Neil CicieregaYouTube video by AlbinoBlackSheep 000
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026And Lost's ending is perfectly fine; it's just the whole last season was dull, and the audience was so primed to be disappointed, they invented reasons to be. (The show explicitly says "You came here after dying on the island," and multiple people later were like "So they were dead on the island?!") 020
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Breaking Bad stuck the landing?! Walt gets revenge on the nerd who cucked him, sets up his family for life, magic-sciences mass murder (but it's Nazis so it's fine), teleports past cops to be semi-forgiven by his wife, saves Jesse, dies happy instead of slowly. Everything he did was worth it; he won 000
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I certainly would never say it's good a man died young, but there's alternate timelines were Bill Hicks is the worst person anyone can think of. 040
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Carlin actually sucked a lot (his last handful of specials are not great at all, not even to mention the sitcom) but he responded to critics by shrugging and going "Fuck that, I disagree with your take," and not thinking about it any more and it turns out that's a useful skill! 1130
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This image is... not a good representation of AI slop, at least in my mind? AI slop sucks. Baffling, vaguely eerie nonsense that would never fool anyone and isn't intended to is, like, the only good thing AI does. 100
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Which version has interminable mood shots of like the clouds moving super-fast and basically an entire music video and the extended scene where we're supposed to laugh at a fat girl dancing? Because I sure hated whichever that was. 010
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Short answer yes, but only if you're a weirdo already. As a kid I loved the ultra-formula Sailormoon, but what drew me in was the bizarre Lynchian influence on the edges. Mostly pap, but as I got older, it led me to seek out the interesting rather than the comforting. There's usually something. 000
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I cannot tell you how many dudes' brains I've broken simply by saying, "Yes, but what do you WANT?" 010
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I had a blast with it, but I admit the greatest moment was due to a bug: immediately after a dramatic scene where I talk someone down from murder, we drive off to talk about choosing compassion and forgiveness and on the way we just run someone the fuck over and keep driving. 021
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every Disney Afternoon theme is fire. Every one. Bonkers. Duck Tales. Gummi Bears. TaleSpin. Rascue Rangers. (And it's actually really important, because 80s cartoons were largely in a dire state and these themes signaled pay attention we're putting money into this.) 130
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's because he was in a coma for years and so is neurotically terrified of sleep, but also he's a mensch and doesn't want to be a bummer so he expresses it through gusto and positivity. 000
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Judging by the inclusion of Breaking Bad, Lost, Game of Thrones, and probably many others, they tacitly made the wise decision to just ignore last seasons. 010
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026They couldn't let kids shows in, because too many of the good ones have extremely toxic fanbases that make them in retrospect impossible to judge. 000
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 13/09/2026North Carolina: the state where the governor has complete power and voting is notoriously fair, and therefore the only explanation for regressive policies is supporting insufficiently leftist democrats. 0100
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 11/08/2026This is the only thing I'd quibble with, because antifandom really did grope for any hint of the problematic as excuse to be sadistic (and usually sexist) to plenty of niche celebrities. Maybe Matt Stencil's absorbed all of that onto himself, now, though. 001
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I was so irritated by the "Harry wins over his mean adopted family by being born genetically superior to them" that I stopped two chapters in. From what I've seen, she never did solve the muggle problem. 110
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 10/08/2026My theory is GenX never adapted to the parental role. When the boomers started having kids, culture became about having kids. The forgotten GenX had nothing softening the transition to "these younger people think I'm racist, what the fuck?" 000
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Oh no, did people have moral values and express them out loud? That sort of thing will destroy a society! 010
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I remember when Bloom County made a deliberately offputting Garfield parody. Oh wait, I don't, because it happened over a decade before I was born. 010
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 29/07/2026This frees up Batman and Joker to be fun comic book antagonists, while simultaneously giving us a reasonably psychologically dense tragic hero story. 000
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The thing about 2 is, in terms of the structure of the narrative, Batman isn't actually the protagonist. Two-Face is. Batman and Joker are foils to Two-Face, representative of his inner struggle. 100
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I desperately wanted them to go all out at the end and have Odysseus just start doing a powerpoint presentation. "Okay, this is the Library of Alexandria..." 020
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I'm right and everyone else is wrong when I was the only person in the theater laughing uncontrollably after the line "So the rumors were true. Our civilization IS dying!" 130
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026It's easy! A well-made movie that flounders thematically and has some terrible dialogue ("So the rumors were true. Our civilization IS collapsing!"), but should be graded on a curve because it somehow manages to tell a coherent, focused story from its scattered source material. 000
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Was it about what a goddamn professional Anne Hathaway is for having to try to act dialogue like "So the rumors were true. Our civilization IS collapsing!"? That's all anyone should be talking about. 020
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026As batshit as Jon Haidt is, his moral foundations has one insight: people on the right, who tend to be intolerant of moral complexity, tend to have contradictory values and thus get into dilemmas more often. What fascism supplies is relief from this. 172
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 16/07/2026It's not just "you're not the boss of me," it's "you should be forced to call me smart for doing whatever I want to do, because otherwise your existence makes me feel stupid." 000
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 16/07/2026They can't help but respect expertise, even as they loathe it. Which means experts can hurt their feelings but they also want to do the opposite of what experts say. Therefore, experts must be forced by law to never think they're doing anything stupid. 000
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Not saying my experience is universal by any means, but the years I spent with this belief system made a lot more sense when I realized I was trans. 011
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I think it's more a sign of how internet sophistry became actual thought. You can't argue you're not immoral, so you change the subject to make an attack. Problem is, people did and saw this so much, they started actually THINKING that way. 100
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 22/06/2026"Wokeness" is simply morally correct (even to most conservatives, who also hate it) and that's actually the problem: it makes the right feel threatened and bullied. Which in turn makes the left look condescending for daring to have morally good values. 050
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Stupidity (or narcissism) + Luck has ALWAYS been the recipe for the most unusually successful people, because being unusually successful requires you to make foolish risks that happen to pay off. We've just reached the point these people have become the entire economy. 020
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 22/05/2026All the way back to, like, Slick Rick, I got used to liking rappers because I assume they're not the persona they play in their songs. It's a little fun to find an inversion. 000
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I can tell you from personal experience (watching him try to bait grad students by being racist in public) that he's immune, because he takes it as that much more evidence of cancel culture trying to cancel him. 010
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Well yeah, if they were in a room with him, they'd see that he's very old and very sick and very frail. As it is, they never encounter that information, and can keep on imagining he's just like he was thirty years ago. 000
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Innuendo Studios had like ten banger videos about this sort of thing. I remember he noted another factor: the way other people's choices threaten your ability to stay ignorant about harms you might be doing. 010
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 06/05/2026He can't, because doing so would be engaging in the left's worst impulses. 030
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Believing that anyone, anywhere is morally bad in any way, particularly by seeing them as racist or sexist or whatever. 130
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I prefer the other female characters: Christ But Atheist, and Retrograde Amnesia Nerd. 010
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 15/04/2026This was actually shocking to me, when I first encountered it. Dude just did not understand what James was even saying, but he's talking about it anyway. Didn't he know what he was saying didn't make sense? Why wasn't he *embarrassed*? 130
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Real answer: They baby-stepped their way worse and worse gradually, so when they look back, they never feel as if they crossed any big lines. 000
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Also, all of these people, if you ask them, will say they're "moderate," and that's not because they're hungering for a truly moderate choice, it's because they don't want to have to answer specific followup questions. 040
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Well sure; the alternative is the greatest sin a person can commit: calling a person's belief sexist or racist. 000
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 26/03/2026I think this is a little unfair; I read it as genuine moral discomfort about two wrongs making a right, not a strategic play. This doesn't change your conclusion, but it does show why it's such a hard hump to get over. 100
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 19/03/2026You're incorrectly presuming they have the ability to know what they themselves want. 000
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 19/03/2026They believe that the number of women you can "score" is a literal score indicating a man's objective worth, and they believe no one can feel good about themselves unless that person has high objective worth. 000
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Nah, it's the fact that when *I* gave one of the Big Five a new name and acted like I invented it as a concept, nobody published *me* in psych science because of it. 000
tedthefed.bsky.social @tedthefed.bsky.social · 16/03/2026True story: When I was interviewed for a position at UPenn, we were chatting about her, and a professor said, "She knows her worth." "Yes," I mused, "a duck." The subsequent ten-second long silence suggested I was perhaps not a good fit at The Happiness Institute. 021
