Ironic that the potato chip commercial kicked the ass of the Tyson βeat healthyβ commercial
09.02.2026 03:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@robsalk.bsky.social
Author, educator, consultant, Eisner Award nominated writer and sayer of things about comics and pop culture, Senior Media/Entertainment contributor for Forbes
Ironic that the potato chip commercial kicked the ass of the Tyson βeat healthyβ commercial
09.02.2026 03:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Love was definitely stronger on that play.
09.02.2026 02:53 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the TaΓnos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
09.02.2026 01:38 β π 15452 π 4158 π¬ 88 π 146Patriots offense bright to you by the number 3 and the word Out.
09.02.2026 02:00 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Bad Bunny came to play yo!
09.02.2026 01:30 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If this performance isnβt getting your blood pumping, you may already be dead
09.02.2026 01:27 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Did they just bleep Bad Bunny?
09.02.2026 01:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Look, I liked the 80s as much as the next guy, but after 40 years, maybe theyβre ready to be over?
09.02.2026 01:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0AI, Crypto, sports betting and Trump: the four horsemen of enshitifcation. (Not necessarily in that order)
09.02.2026 01:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thoughts and prayers
09.02.2026 00:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0AI, Crypto, sports betting and Trump: the four horsemen of enshitifcation. (Not necessarily in that order)
08.02.2026 23:58 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0What's the over/under on how many atrocious Draft Kings spots we will be subjected to?
08.02.2026 23:49 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0On brand
08.02.2026 23:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Didnβt think theyβd play American Idiot. Good on them.
08.02.2026 23:10 β π 34 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Evergreen analyst of most of what Trump utters.
07.02.2026 20:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0He was a cool young rabbi used to dealing with wiseass precocious kids, and it was a Reform congregation, so not as bad as it could have been. Something about "some people believe those stories are true and calling them 'myths' is impolite." He did not disagree that Hercules would kick Sampson's ass
07.02.2026 19:34 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0As a myth-obsessed kid, I particularly remember the time (age 8or 9) I asked the rabbi at our congregation if Bible stories were just Jewsβ less cool take on Greek myths.
07.02.2026 18:58 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Itβs at least 5 administrations beyond that. Congress should have moved as soon as GHW Bush let the Iran Contra people off the hook.
07.02.2026 18:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"The sexual politics of the nameless castle in SalΓ² (or Epstein Island) become the actual politics of society once those people manage to seize the machinery of the state." Some disturbing parallels between life and one of the most shocking films ever made. www.forbes.com/sites/robsal...
05.02.2026 16:37 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 150 years later, one of the darkest and most shocking movies ever made provides some of the clearest insights into the connections between Epstein, oligarchy and fascism, today at Forbes. www.forbes.com/sites/robsal...
05.02.2026 16:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Itβs about showing people whoβs boss. Since they are utterly incapable of earning respect, it is the only actual thing MAGA wants, and itβs the one thing democratic politics canβt offer them.
04.02.2026 19:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0MAGA clowns, realizing that taking over elite, legitimate institutions does not make them either elite or legitimate, have decided to destroy them. We have met the barbarians and they are us.
04.02.2026 18:23 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Paul Allen's sister seems ok too. I dread what pile of human garbage or Borg-like sovereign wealth fund buys the Seahawks from her, although it sounds like the money will go somewhere good.
04.02.2026 15:56 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I know it's naive to expect this, but does a single person in our current generation of oligarchs consider public interest for its own sake, rather than some instrumental means of power or reputational whitewashing? When you have that much money, maybe occasionally just do something good?
04.02.2026 15:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Just did an interview with NHK on the impact of AI in the anime industry, including issues around IP, copyright, the Disney deal and more. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
03.02.2026 21:17 β π 9 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0Yes. Policing how we express disgust with an objectively disgusting regime strikes me as a bad use of time.
02.02.2026 18:15 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Yeah, it was on indie cinema from about 1968-77. Bonnie and Clyde, McCabe & Mrs Miller, Mean Streets, 5 Easy Pieces, The Last Detail, Nashville, etc.
31.01.2026 15:13 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.
Politics of International Relations (Brzezinski)
Civil War & Reconstruction (Foner)
Intro to World Cinema (Sarris)
Philosophy of Art (Danto)
Asian Humanities & Lit (de Bary)
After that, nothing intellectually intimidated me.
Colleges cling to the ideal that we should resolve problems through inquiry and debate but students see how today's America works: by asserting power in support of ideology. Nobody wins a debate. They win the fight or they lose it. We are educating students in de-civilization, and they are learning.
30.01.2026 23:24 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0When decency and conscience conflict with their sense of tribal identity, it's almost always resolved in favor of the identity. Otherwise, they have to accept they've become something they've been taught to define themselves in opposition to.
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