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Josh Fruhlinger
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I wrote The Enthusiast | I host The Internet Read Aloud | I am the Comics Curmudgeon
Sep 22, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
just occurred to me that this is an absence i that feel during DISCOVERY. the physical sets (probably digitally enhanced? idk) are great at implying that the characters are in big ships/space stations, but everything always feels really underpopulated! as the rest of that thread makes clear, this is probably a budgetary issue. but still, it's weird that in (say) the engineering scenes there's almost always just the 2-4 main characters there. no rando technicians in the background fleshing out the world
Sep 20, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
feel like a lot of the discourse around "who would the characters on this TV show have voted for" really ignores the fact that roughly 40-50% of eligible adults don't vote TV characters i feel strongly are regular non-voters:

*kramer
*michael scott
*nick (new girl)
*pheobe (friends)
*bill (king of the hill)
*entire cast of IASIP
*sam/norm/carla (cheers)
Nov 18, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
baltimore has some very specific dynamics going on that are largely about race; it is and has been hypersegregated and virtually all the working class neighborhoods that gentrified were working class WHITE neighborhoods BUT ALSO, you should in general absolutely expect a gentrifying area to lose population! poorer people tend to have larger families, don't move to the 'burbs as often when they have kids, and are more likely to live in crowded household w/multiple families/adult roommates
Nov 16, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
not sure where this came from but a book i read on cat behavior says the egyptians didn't actualy use the word "miu" for cats until after they domesticated them, which makes sense bc only domesticated cats meow as adults, and generally only at humans, not w/each other but i guess it's possible once they did change the name they applied it to wildcats too. anyway if you want REAL adorable, a few generations after they started using "miu" as a word for cat, they start using it as a name for people!
Aug 24, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
[extremely hasn't watched most of the MCU movies] why the fuck does benedict cumberbatch have an american accent as doctor strange you're telling me it's like plot- and theme-important a weird effette magician character NOT have an english accent? get the fuck outta here
Aug 24, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
everyone is dunking on this guy for not understanding denominators, probably correctly, but i feel like i asked this before and didn't get a straight answer: isn't a high percentage increase in a state w/low COVID a possible sign of a coming delta surge like a lot of these high change-over-two-weeks number are in new england/NE states that didn't really have a late summer surge like the south did. meanwhile some of the worst hit states (FL/MO/AR) have lower or negative rates of change bc their surge seems to be cresting
Jul 29, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
i am an atheist and am usually very prickly about this sort of thing but i'm sorry this is actually not particularly bad in context slate.com/news-and-polit… the question came up in an exchange about the nominee having tweeted that, basically, men only pass abortion restrictions to control women. kennedy was trying to say that he actually opposes abortion because of his religious beliefs
Jul 5, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
i think it was @jwherrman who said that social media is basically the dynamics of a web forum scaled up to include everyone and all topics, which is why it's so uniformally nightmarish the thing about web forums is that you can, in the last resort, kick people off, or leave and start your own on the same topic. but you can't do that on social media sites that have as part of their mission the goal of having every single person using them
Apr 15, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
i feel like the question of which white people list their ethnicity as "American" (as opposed to English/German/whatever) is underdiscussed, and this map is very interesting window into it (i'm admittedly assuming that the vast majority of ppl who say their ethnicity is "american" are white, but i'm willing to bet that's a safe assumption)
Apr 15, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
the fun never stops with LA's most extremely cursed megaproject metro reall wants to do this line as through-running w/the current green line bc they think most of its ridership will come from people who get off the green line now and transfer to north-south buses
Apr 14, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
so years ago -- MANY years ago -- like definitely more than a decade ago at this point, i was helping test a new website design at a place where i was working, which included "social integration" with a number of sites, including LinkedIn i was living in baltimore at the time. in order to test how this all worked, i had to create some fake profiles. my faked LinkedIn profile was named after the 5th century roman empress galla placida en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galla_Pla…
Apr 13, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
regret to inform you, and to acknowledge to myself, that based on the trailer the new synder zombie movie looks incredible and i will see it how are you going to take a zach snyder zombie movie, which sounds like to me like it would be a joyless slog, and give it an utterly generic title like "army of the dead". almost did not watch the trailer to learn it's a ZOMBIE HEIST MOVIE WITH TIG NOTARO IN IT?????
Apr 13, 2021 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
ok i'm a huge dummy about cooking and i have a hyperspecific cooking question that maybe a smart person here can help me with so i'm gonna tweet it out!!! so BECAUSE i am a huge cooking dummy i ordered some meals last month from In Good Company, where local chefs make frozen versions of restaurant meals that you can heat up at home at your leisure. they've been great so far! eatigc.com
Apr 6, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
this is the stock photo on my credit union's website and i think about the y axis on this chart all the time tfw u put the the low values at the top of your y axis so everyone thinks the company's finances are improving
Apr 5, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
look i enjoyed watching PICARD a lot and i've enjoyed not thinking about it for a single moment since it ended even more, but season 2 fucks up the absolutely perfect coda to TNG that was "All Good Things" i'm gonna be pretty pissed off "All Good Things" is a kind of magic trick: it ties a perfect bow around the TNG era from the emotional perpsective of the viewer, but doesn't try to "conclude" the internal action of the show, and in fact tells us the adventures of our friends will continue indefinitely
Mar 11, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
maybe reporters should spend a bit less time on vaccine hestinacy among black people and more on, uh, other groups also, the different ratios between dark and light green bars are an interesting commentary on who wants to get the vaccine but hasn't been able to get it yet!
Feb 23, 2021 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
lol can't believe it took me a whole season of wondering "who's this charsimatic creepazoid they've parachuted into this year's ST: DISCOVERY with little to no explanation" before i finally checked IMDB and realized it was david cronenberg CBS EXEC [on the phone, seeing werner herzog on THE MANDALORIAN and flying into a rage]: get me david lynch. or dario argento. one of these weirdos loved mr spock and i want him on my fuckin show
Feb 22, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
cleaning out my desk drawer and found a cd?/dvd??? with my name and "10/11/14" written on it in magic marker, have no idea what it might hold and am terrified to find out if i my current computer had a disc player i probably wouldn't be able to resist the urge to pop it in immediately. i do have one in a closet somewhere but am very dubious about pulling it out
Feb 22, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
i have decided that the incredibly specific hill i'm going to die on is that obama is gen x under the original definition of the term and was still being referred to as such in 2008 although this article from 1990 doesn't use the phrase "gen x," it was actually very important in The Discourse abt defining the post-baby boom generation and the birthdate range under discussion here is 1961-1972! rolfpotts.com/time-twentysom…
Feb 22, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
an underdiscussed aspect of modern capitalism is that most low-wage jobs tightly regulate what you're doing at all times while you're on the clock and most high-wage jobs consist of hours of unstructured time in front of the computer during which you can do whatever would probably go a long way towards explaining vaccination rate disparities!!!!
Feb 13, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
i'm genuinely wondering how unusual this situation is. is there a straightforward metric that would determine the census cycle where the "most americans were represented by the fewest senators" or something? bc i'm a huge fucking nerd, i actually did the math on this and can say that it Has Been Ever Thus. for each census (plus the 2020 estimates) i added up the population of the states, starting w/the smallest, until i got to about 1/3 the US population