Steve Coy

Steve Coy

@mcleemz.bsky.social

screenwriter and bean to bar bad boy

440 Followers 136 Following 290 Posts Joined Aug 2023
2 days ago

ah thanks boss for ending our check-in early and giving me seven minutes back. might fuck around and write a sonnet that makes the angels question their nature before our team stand-up

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3 days ago

Scheduling daylight savings on international women’s day so that we lose an hour of female respecting time 😒

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5 days ago

/r/thriftygifting

/u/3footlocks

what should I (29) get my husband (32) for Christmas? We don’t have a lot of money and he already has a beautiful gold pocket watch

UPDATE: thanks for the advice, found a buyer for my hair! so excited for DH to unwrap his watch chain

UPDATE 2: fuck you guys

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2 weeks ago

yeah we’re doing bean to bar again. everything’s going great life-wise

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2 weeks ago

just got back from my Shark Tank pitch for Cacao Gummies. it was going great until the guy from Marty Supreme destroyed the (very clever!) portmanteau I came up with for a brand name

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3 months ago

not with that attitude

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4 months ago

okay, I was out amongst the reapers helping carry the last of the sheaves of wheat and I caught a chill. the good news is I don’t think it’s going to confine me to my bed indefinitely or anything

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4 months ago

soooo I’ve got some news. During a ramble on the moor I glimpsed some ill portents and I think the highlands air is lowkey poisoning all against me

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4 months ago

just moved to a desolate and forbidding moor and honestly it’s really chill. I’d love to see this ever-present fog try to envelop me in madness

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4 months ago

I really think it’s all gonna work out with him and that dark priest

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4 months ago

dawg I hate to tell you this but…ya girl Morfryd furnished me with a clothbound ration of provisions for my journey north. no, nothing kingly, but it was nourishing as hell. well I think the horse was her dad’s but. yeah it’s a piebald gelding

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4 months ago
Tony Hopkins in silence of the lambs (I call him Tony)

A bluesky highbie tried to put me in a starter pack once

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4 months ago

When eating chips out of the bag, one must continue until one surfaces the Goated Morsel, possessed of the the crunch, the heft to sate the hardiest treatman. And if the Goated Morsel never comes? So be it. We stay snacking

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5 months ago

"sloptimization" on my woty candidates to watch list

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5 months ago

This is good, you should read it

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5 months ago
a big ass orb that floated in off the set of Dune Part II (negative?) Sloptimization may kick out a banger or two. But like other seemingly hegemonic tech-enabled forces, it’s not an immutable fact of life. There are worthy avenues for intellectual stimulation and creative integrity—smash that Subscribe button to get a year’s worth of Hell World for just over the cost of one hour of Orb Time! A post-postmodern reinterpretation of the public cultural space may feel as wildly out of reach as universal basic income, but you do what you can to keep your own face out of the slop trough.

I can’t say I got nothing out of spending an hour amongst Instagrammable Orbs, but we don’t have to keep drinking that garbage. Creative integrity is all around you, maybe even within you, idk it’d be chill to nurture that imo

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5 months ago
the famous rotunda at the San Francisco palace of fine arts, or Naboo from the Star Wars prequels

I tell you very mordantly that the whole thing is staged at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, a publicly funded, no-cost space with a nice lagoon. It also has an escape room if you’re not blackpilled

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5 months ago
an adult ball pit with a descending ceiling mounted sphere playing genAI video at sloptimized art exhibition Emotionair San Francisco To wit, Emotionair’s centerpiece, a football field-sized ball pit. Signs, and thankless proctors with megaphones, admonish guests against jumping into, throwing, or lingering too long amidst the balls. Instead, visitors are instructed to pay attention to “The Performance,” a video display of AI-generated squirmy, cuddly, and fluffy imagery projected on wraparound LED screens and a sphere suspended over the center of the pit. Two neutered, enraptured minutes later, it’s on to the next room–the exhibit, we’re told, is woefully behind schedule today.

Here’s the centerpiece exhibit at Emotionair, an immersive inflatable art experience by the Balloon Museum USA LLC (a division of Lux Entertainment S.p.A.). It’s half womb, half tomb, and all slop

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5 months ago
Mediums like art, film, and food once reliably promised occasional enrichment via the unpredictable, even uncomfortable thrill of discovering something new. Lux Entertainment and its cohort have something else on offer: a familiar, frictionless, reduced-agency complement to the tech-enabled capital and labor-market forces grinding us all into dust.
It’s all delight, no surprise. The things we get to do for fun are now fully sloptimized.

Sloptimized experiences like adult ball pits and $20 milkshake grotesqueries run on infantilization, conflict avoidance, anti-social disengagement—and the same rails as the enshittified technologies with which they share venture investment

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5 months ago
Preview
It’s cozy in here and I hate it Pop-up pop-art; Sex Change and the City; You Are in a Museum

New writing up at Welcome To Hell World! I went to a pop-up art exhibition that inspired a piece on the tech-enabled, emotionally blunted cultural “movement” I call Sloptimization:

www.welcometohellworld.com/its-cozy-in-...

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5 months ago

I found this one a really enjoyable and silly mashup that reminded me of Knives Out. Our girl still has it; she just can’t be bothered to summon it for the entire runtime

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5 months ago

You can. And black tea once cooked down makes a fine substitute for wine

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5 months ago

“daddy, these instructions are just a United Airlines flight manifest”

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6 months ago

wow just heard about something more satisfying! the cool crisp taste of diet pepsi

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6 months ago

few things more satisfying to me than a seamless, efficient trip from the airport on public transportation. It’s possible and it’s good for the soul

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6 months ago

pondering life’s mystery, its glittering complexity (imagining Juliette Binoche pronouncing the word “squirrel”)

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6 months ago

happy birthday to one of da goated posters

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6 months ago

ATM max daily withdrawal limit ass bribe

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6 months ago

I’d be chill with weaving one though. Can’t get caught in your own web!

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6 months ago

I’m not sure they understand how fucking frustrating it is for Computer to misunderstand you and do the wrong thing just one (1) time

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