Justin Martin

of course doing this in prep for ALIEN EARTH which i feel like is gonna go super hard on Tuesday.

watched PROMETHEUS a couple of weeks ago and ALIEN: COVENANT today, and their senses of pitch-dark scale and warm confinement and human emotion and obsessive rage are as good or better than anything in the original ALIEN.

no clue why people held these at a distance originally.

New Chance The Rapper album on Friday and I don't think I've ever gone into a piece of art by someone I've already liked with less idea of what to expect than is the case here.

That last album was horrible lyrically and musically, the drama around it even worse, and I just want this to be good.

Listen, I had to.

It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday
The unholy thing shambles in
He’s too big for the chair sitting next to me
And he makes an unbearable din

Sing us a song, you’re the piano man
Your skin is a wooden facade
You’ve brass pedals for hands
And your hair’s copper strands
Give unbearable insult to god

All of the penicillin in use worldwide comes from a strain of mold that was growing on a cantaloupe bought at a grocery store in Peoria, Illinois in 1942.

finally finally hired an aide! not all the way to freedom yet but closer than I've been in years!

thing I am unpersuaded by that people say all the time: "fiction is worse now because phones solve miscommunication/lack-of-knowledge problems for characters"

thing I am VERY persuaded by that people say almost never: "fiction is worse now because in real life fewer and fewer people go anywhere"

seems like it really matters what we teach about culture in high school

no one goes 'hip hip hooray' anymore :(

I’m not sure anyone ever fit more first names into a first and last name than this guy.

we have had to drag them kicking and screaming to this point but they are, at long last, starting to Get It

keep yelling, and don’t forget to call and tell them they’re doing a good job when they actually do something good

Old man take a look at my life, and he's eatin' me out, is it casual now

Trump describes normal things like they’re outrageous and they feel outrageous. Democrats describe outrageous things like they’re normal and they feel normal.

lol she cancelled

Holy crap, they did it, they finally did it.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is closing down. What are we even doing here?

cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

best short story 2025?

aide interview today: last two have ended up either ghosting or being really good and then backing out. good vibes appreciated. I want a future.

Trans women can no longer attend:
- Columbia University in New York
- Harvard University in Massachusetts
- Brown University in Rhode Island

And they tell us we'll be safe in blue states. And they tell us it's not a pogrom.

"Unless"?

Yes, unless.

What's an unless?

Just a faraway word, just a faraway thought

A thought? About what? About something I ought?

Well... A thought about something that *somebody* ought…

a big question i think that is increasingly relevant in almost every aspect of american life, from politics to the workplace to art to even just everyday social settings Are We Ever Going To Get Sick Of Being Bullshitted

PlatformERs

it's so good

gimme gimme. you have dms.

i love games that make you feel like you've accomplished something -- that celebrate the little triumphs down to like, art design and special little music motifs -- and these games made like, every step of each heist so satisfying. Would cut off my arm to still have Animals With Panache platforms.

It’s a perfectly rewatchable sleepover movie too. I can see folks who aren’t nerds at all loving this, and not because they changed anything, just nailed and updated what was already legendary. Make five more films about this cast.

I’m that weirdo who liked Fantastic Four: First Steps more than Superman. Hella fun, best casting since RDJ, near-Biblical pathos, and a brilliant twist on the original Galactus story that fixes one of the central flaws of the Marvel Universe. Seems blasphemous to say this improves on comics but…

(don't have more time, natch, because I'm about to go see a movie about four friends who got really irradiated that one time and made a family about it.)

In particular, if you've never read "Jefty Is Five", "Shatterday", "A to Z in the Chocolate Alphabet!", "Behold: A Tiny Man!" or especially "The Beast That Screamed Love At The Heart of The World" you have to. cc @davidmann95.bsky.social @garrettmerz.bsky.social

I realize "Harlan Ellison: Good!" is not exactly breaking news, but gosh if you're like I was and you've only read I Have No Mouth or The Tick-Tock Man, he has so much more range and verve and pathos than you know. This collection will be an absolute north star for me going forward.