Alex Forsythe

Whenever I interact with a server who’s a trans woman, the old-Southern-man part of my brain tries to convince me that casually calling her “hon” would be very progressive and gender-affirming of me, and then I have to gently remind that part of me that a weird-old-man ally is still a weird old man

Thank God we have our priorities straight

Intrusive thought: what if the driver, sleep-deprived and in a mad rush to keep his algorithmically-computed wages above starvation levels, makes one bad move and we careen into a ditch? As the life drains out of my mangled body, pinned in the back of the car, I’ll still be generating ad revenue

I’m in an Uber on a dark, rainy morning, hurtling toward the airport on slick, misty roads, in a world where tablet computers are such a cheap commodity that there’s a screen attached to the headrest in front of me, serving really bright ads into my eyeballs for the benefit of Uber shareholders

"Nobody to challenge me. Nobody to exclude me. Nobody to trap me with expectation or accountability. Nobody to disappoint me. Nobody to disappoint. Nobody to make me feel shame or guilt. Nobody to tell me 'no'. No one. No one."

They're selling you their own dreams, and it's the saddest grift.

YouTube video by Cathy Fink Marcy Marxer IT AINT GONNA GO AWAY - ODE TO THE EPSTEIN FILES

love me some old-time music www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8AG...

Yeah, I eat phở:
-   Pig
- buttHoles
-   Ởver leftover broth

YouTube video by smalin Brahms, In stiller Nacht, zur ersten Wacht (WoO 33 No. 42, Scholl/Halperin) ©

This is the video that introduced me to Mr. Malinowski's work. I'm a sucker for folk songs, so this arrangement by Johannes Brahms of a traditional German Volkslied, brought to life by countertenor Andreas Scholl, sure did win my heart www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Gk...

This fella, Stephen Malinowski, has been consistently publishing these super cool visualizations on YouTube for the past 20 years, as part of a project that first came to fruition on an Atari 800 in 1985. Every upload makes me smile. www.stephenmalinowski.com/index.html

YouTube video by smalin God weighs in on SNAP

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_4l...

I had a dream that Al Jolson died, and I felt conflicted about celebrating his life and legacy in the public sphere because most people just know him for being the single most famous blackface act in Hollywood history… but then I woke up and realized that Jolson has not, in fact, lived for 139 years

I've never been into Zachtronics-style games, and Kaizen has definitely been a slow burn, but it's hooked me. I'm so proud of my dogshit coffee-maker manufacturing process

A baked potato smothered in butter, salt, pepper, paprika, stewed okra and tomatoes, and beef jerky bits shredded by mouth

I thought this might be a foolish mistake, but I’m not gonna lie, it was pretty fuckin tasty

A bag of Sweet Baby Ray’s branded Beef Jerky, a can of Margaret Holmes’s shelf-stable take on stewed tomatoes and okra, a package of pre-cut, ready-to-bake Pilsbury sugar cookies (20 of them for some ungodly reason) with festive spooky ghost design, and a single russet potato

Sometimes you’ve just got to enjoy the seasonal foods of your people

YouTube video by Ariane Roy Ariane Roy et Lou-Adriane Cassidy - Fille à porter

Québécois banger of the week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ2d...

When I was a teenager and had very little UK cultural context, hearing the name of this show infuriated me, because my brain just interpreted it as a sentence fragment.

Like, the doctor who *what?!* The Doctor Who Loved Me? The Doctor Who Got Away? The Doctor Who Was Thursday?

do they got grits tho

🇫🇷 Culture shock upon visiting France: damn, so many people still smoke here, don’t they realize how addictive and harmful cigarettes are

🇺🇸 Culture shock upon returning to the US: holy shit why are children walking around drinking 20oz bottles of soda with 65g of sugar per serving

ngl ma cherie, ils étaient bangin

Hot Dog (16€): Saucisse façon Francfort (porc des plaines Champenoise), ketchup maison, moutarde miel/épices, oignon confit, oignon frit, pickles et cantal juste fondu

Hot Dog (€16): Frankfurter-style sausage (Champagne-region pork), house-made ketchup, spiced honey mustard, caramelized onions, crispy fried onions, pickles, and gently melted Cantal cheese

The best thing I’ve eaten in Paris, no lie, is le Hot Dog à 16€

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A public waste bin outside le Place de la Bourse, which is barred by an iron gate

A close-up of the contents of the trash can - a bouquet of red roses - adorned with a cigarette garnish

Paris: a story in one trash can

YouTube video by Jon Peck Fujian Xiamen. John Peck

This is what the internet is supposed to be youtu.be/_pO7BRNdJdc

Illustration by Yoshitaka Amano of an early concept for the Chocobo as a much larger and scarier-looking flesh creature

Bring back the FF2j Amano concept art chocobo

Goddamn this makes me miss the ol’ jitbo. I can’t tell you how many sausage biscuits and breakfast burritos I crushed in the wee hours after 1am. I can still feel the grease on my fingertips

[self-aggrandizing story told in the form of pithy, provocative statements, one sentence per paragraph, punctuated with emojis, concluding in some trite, empty moral]

Stop what you’re doing and watch these pro wrestling intros for FF Tactics jobs classes. 🤼 #wrestlesky

This is almost as exciting as when my ‘98 Ford Escort rolled over to 100,000 miles

YouTube video by Mariachi Entertainment System (MES) SNAKE EATER | METAL GEAR SOLID DELTA | MES

I love this, all 7 minutes of it youtu.be/j9V504V7-9k

YouTube video by ARIatHOME I Got RANDOM NYC Singers & Musicians to JAM in Union Square

This dude is the Lawrence Welk of our generation youtu.be/CGJrtALLUCU

YouTube video by Hana Zagorová neoficial Hana Zagorová, Stanislav Hložek & Petr Kotvald - Spěchám (Queen of hearts) (1982)

I love a good 1980s Czechoslovak fever dream youtu.be/K-lXdx_ytSE