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"But commercials suck now." Look, you're not wrong, but the Flintstones was selling cigarettes in the 60s, McDonald's was ripping off Sid and Marty Krofft to sell fast food in the 70s, the failed war on drugs played out in celebrity PSAs in the 80s, Bob was selling boner pills in the 90s...

No, no no no, that's WHY we need to preserve this shit, that's why things like commercial collections are important in framing the moment, showing us what we were being sold, what politics were being fed to us.
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Thinking about how we probably won't have "2025 Nostalgic Ad Compilations" videos twenty years from now because we don't record TV anymore.

First result was my second big feature, a chronology of the Trails series from the fan perspective and why it was so enduring despite being niche. Thought it was gone forever after Input was axed, but some dear soul archived it. Bless you anonymous friend

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"this whole thing smacks of surveillance" I holler as I demolish my neighbors wifi router and turn the Internet of Things into the Internet of Shit

I am grateful that I shed all the pearl clutching "respect the dead" types from my followers when Rush Limbaugh died. Been pretty chill to hate on dead evil people since.

Nick India and Haha Nick from China are the most vastly different from the original, so a breakdown could be really interesting. Maybe Belgium? Started as an all-nicktoon block split into 15 minute chunks with music videos on TMF mixed in before becoming the first feed to ever timeshare with MTV

so late I know, rarely post here, but Nick Japan has so many interesting narrative threads to weave (reluctance to air Japanese programming in contrast to competitors, partnership with NHK, struggle of competing with domestic products, hey did you know Japanese Alex Mack was Utena???). (1/2)

I've never seen your account before today but I love you

is this really the world you want your children to live in, and your children’s children,

They did back in 2012 with Kenan and Kel and All That, it tanked and they never did it again. In a post-Nick Rewind world it would be a great move but the sitcoms they have are way bigger draws than any of their classics could hope to be

Donate to Keep Nick financially stable during lung transplant recovery, organized by Julien Belanger Hey everyone. This is Nick's husband Julien. Nick was diagnos… Julien Belanger needs your support for Keep Nick financially stable during lung transplant recovery

I’ve been in the hospital since October recovering from a double lung transplant. I’m in desperate need of financial aid for my bills— I’m down to only $500 in my entire life savings. If you can help even a dollar, it helps tremendously, as does sharing this GoFundMe. gofund.me/4146e677

I've been watching the Gamespot Show every week and it's fantastic. Exactly the type of show I wanted to see rise up after the tragic death of G4. @kurtindovina.bsky.social kills it as host, please never cancel this @gamespot.com

Got sussed from twitter for half a day because I told a nazi mocking police brutality to game end himself, how we doin blueskyers

Alright, you know what, I'll allow it, but only if after it comes out, 80s sequels & reboots are fucking dead. That's it. No Back to the Future 4, no Gremlins 3, no more Ghostbusters, no more Indiana Jones, no more Willow, no more Top Gun, no more Rambo, no more Beverly Hills Cop. Let. It. All. Die.

doesn’t matter if they’re wrong, either. their goal is to de-legitimize the system and perpetuate the idea that its clumsy construction warrants equally wanton destruction. the less thought they put into their pursuits, the more they reinforce their central message

this is the kind of accelerationism i can get behind

We should start shooting

I have been interviewed in the paper of record! I am honoured! Read this if you want to hear me really go off! (I forget what I said)

my favorite people are the ones who are drunk on learning, who check more books from the library than they have time to read, who stay up all night on wiki rabbit trails, who need to know everything about stardust or the sea or Icelandic sagas and just. never. stop.

Just because you personally didn't see something doesn't mean that something had no marketing and conflating your social media bubble the wider marketing landscape is annoying.

YouTube video by KING RECORDS Swanky Street／the pillows

Been stewing over my thoughts on The Pillows today. There's a treasure trove of great songs, but Please Mr. Lostman as an album is an incredibly tight, memorable piece that always sounds just as good as you remembered it. I wonder where J-rock would be without Swanky Street.

Growing up for me, I’d post about a band on on a forum and someone would reply “That’s not post-hardcore at all” and I’d go “Fuck, what IS it then!” and I’d read more because I wanted to understand a shared language for talking about music, something that helps us understand one another.

It doesn’t matter! Of course it doesn’t matter. But at this point nobody knows what slowcore is either. We’re losing recipes.

I’m trying not to be the cartoon of a condescending middle aged dude here but a very nice young woman working a record store picked Cocteau Twins, Horse Jumper of Love, and the Sundays as 3 albums to get into shoegaze and

but if we don’t get a handle on what is and isn’t shoegaze pretty soon, we’re gonna have to come up with a new word for what happened in the UK in 1991

I like genre hair splitting as a forum nerd kind of thing to do, helps contextualize albums/bands/scenes in relation to one another, which help me understand how things fit together. I get that not everybody loves it and generally I think it’s fine to let people call anything whatever they want

they want to erase us completely. do not let them, we will outlive these fascists. create art, take pictures of yourself or your trans friends, make something lasting. we will outlast them forever

YouTube video by courtneybarnett Courtney Barnett - If I Don't Hear From You Tonight [Official Video]

the thing that really draws me into her music is the drawling vocals, they're just so captivating and make me want to hang on to her every word even as she describes the most mundane scenes. Detached but engaging.