materialist media critic. goat. 🏳️⚧️ she/her. 34. does video essays, writes @godfeelsCanon.
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Apr 29, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
it's cool to see bluesky fall over its own dick the same way conservative twitter alternatives have, in that its founders seem to believe that platform moderation is a moral and constitutional evil tolerated only under the most extreme circumstances (trans girl called me a bitch)
moderation should be vibes-based and content-aware, done by people who have been online long enough to recognize bad faith posters and fascist sympathizers. but then again i'm not running a vc-backed for-profit corporate media enterprise, so what do i know
Nov 18, 2022 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
for folks looking to jump ship from twitter to mastodon i want to share some thoughts on the site as a non-tech person who just happens to use masto daily, because a lot of folks seem to not really know what it is or how it works. 🧵
first of all, mastodon isn't "a website" the way twitter is. it's software used to build websites of similar function that automatically communicate with each other on a shared network. there is a guy who makes the software but he's not "in charge" since masto is open source. 🧵
Sep 20, 2022 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
all my friends who were forced to get A Real Job over the last two years have wound up immediately complaining that their employee-provided insurance is worse and more expensive than medicaid
the most fun thing about relying on state assistance to survive is that a modest increase in income can be disastrous. there's a dead zone between abject poverty and financial security where you're pretty much just screwed if anything goes wrong
Sep 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
algorithmic content curation on social media should be highly regulated and open-source, if not outright illegal. the algorithm is just a boss we can't argue with, a mechanical turk separating workers who create value for the platform from those who profit from their labor.
we are all of us employed by an invisible corporation that refuses to tell us what it wants while punishing us severely for not being able to guess. what's worse is that we are expected to be okay with this state of affairs in perpetuity.
it is simply untenable
Jul 26, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
i mean they don't even talk about the fact that half the world's population disappeared for three years and then showed back up looking exactly as they were when they left, which i would argue is the far more sociologically disruptive event
the mcu's continuity is such a joke. and might be a really salient view into how corporate liberals see the world: a series of things that happen that the good guys stop in the nick of time, thus ensuring that the status quo will never change
i'm one of those motherfuckers who was a fan of rebecca sugar back when she was just doing ed edd n eddy nsfw art on tumblr. we need this energy back in our lives
Nov 20, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
if you want a brief summation of how the last few months have been for me personally, i just had a panic attack because too many good things are happening
like yeah, i've signed the lease, i have the keys, we're moving in tomorrow... but there's gotta be a catch here somewhere. good things are just bait. they're rakes on the lawn. why should i bother having any kind of hope when there's no evidence that anything can get better?
Nov 20, 2021 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
if you give me a "compliment sandwich" i'm going to punch you directly in the mouth
i know i'm perilously close to the realm of "participation trophies made a generation of snowflakes" here but holy shit dude it's astonishing to me that such a thing as a "compliment sandwich" ever needed to exist. just tell what's not working so i can fucking fix it dude, yeesh
Nov 20, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
man this album really goes
alan parsons project is like a slightly dumber, more conventional pink floyd. just really straight-forward 8/10 gimmicky concept albums. "has a great mix" isn't something i find myself saying very often but GOD these tracks are mixed so well
Nov 12, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
i am a fan of villeneuve and i have been holding out hope for dune from the beginning yet somehow i am still SHOCKED by how good villeneuve's dune actually is
dune is not an action movie, it's cosmic horror. the plot is basically, what if everyone realized that paul atreides is stuck in the hero's journey and that it spells the end of civilization as they know it and there's literally nothing they can do but watch it unfurl
Nov 10, 2021 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
no, you misunderstand. i don't "dislike" disney. i'm not "not a fan." i genuinely believe that disney, its subsidiaries, and all their products are a catastrophic empire-focused parasitic evil exceeded only by the us military & the cia in its detrimental effect on human culture.
if i seem unhinged when i call disney "the great satan of our time" it's only because i literally believe that disney is the great satan of our time
Nov 10, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
everyone who followed me from my nft posts is now obligated to read all 386,936 words of my ongoing homestuck fanfic series godfeels. i invented an entire metaphysics of intellectual reality for it. there's gender. it is better for you than every nft post. archiveofourown.org/series/1475819
eventually there's a naval battle between a galleon and a giant octopus conveyed entirely from the perspective of a character who is bleeding to death and pinned to the deck with a big lance. this coneys nothing substantial about godfeels i just think this scene is funny
Nov 10, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
buncha new followers today, time to talk about homestuck to thin the herd
i like homestuck, it's a good web comic, there's a part where a girl draws the outline of her body on the ground several pages before keeling over and dying in that exact position, which is how i wanna go
june egbert is canonically transfem and the toblerone wish was a spoiler, if you think june is a tryhard head canon then you have never talked to a trans woman in your life and also you're boring and have boring taste
Nov 9, 2021 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
it is extremely funny how often nft guys, and even people writing nft-critical articles, straight up just don't know how nfts work. for instance: did you know that nft art is NOT stored on the blockchain?
if you buy an nft, the only thing actually on the blockchain is a hyperlink. the art itself is stored on a server just like any other digital file, likely one owned by the company producing that particular brand of nft.
Nov 8, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
i know we've all seen those "if we reported on ourselves the way we report on communist countries" news posts, but it really is just true that our ideological blinders are catastrophically immense in this country
to be american is to spend your entire life barely surviving a vertically integrated ideological consensus machine that demands you compliment the emperor's clothes publicly and in your own head at all times, because obviously that's how YOU want to be treated when YOU'RE emperor
Dec 4, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
i'm just gonna be a codger here and say almost every american movie and television show of the last decade looks the same and sounds the same and feels the same. such inexpressive and disposable media. netflix hbo and disney ought to be nuked from fucking orbit
even when i'm watching shows i nominally enjoy, my praise is like picking flecks of gold out of a bowl of porridge. our idea of "prestige" media is so brainsplittingly bland it's no wonder adults flock to children's media just to remember what colors look like
Dec 3, 2020 • 170 tweets • 31 min read
i am 30 minutes into episode 1 of The Boys. cautiously interested in what this show is doing so far
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Dec 3, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
lrt really cool how 2017 is "ancient history" for some people
dude got fired for sexual harassment and publicly disowned by griffin mcelroy, and yet he still gets millions of views on his youtube channel. i guess this is what "being held accountable" looks like online
Dec 2, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
the idea that trans issues are bourgeois is such an inherently anti-materialist perspective that it doesn't even deserve a response. any leftist who makes such a claim needs to log the fuck off and seriously question the company they keep, imo
if rightwing dingbats assume from twitter trends about elliot page that the transgender cabal has captured the media, it is due to a much larger cascade of circumstances going back decades and actually has very little at all to do with "the left," especially on twitter
Sep 11, 2020 • 352 tweets • >60 min read
bojack horseman season 6 review thread BEGINS. you can hop backwards through the previous threads here:
