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Mike Van Esler

@mikevanesler.bsky.social

associate prof. of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. bad movies, streaming media, anime, and jrpgs

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incidentally, i guess this was Robert Redford's final acting gig, playing chess in jail against fellow EP George RR Martin in a very brief scene that I can only describe as tonally pulling from Twin Peaks S1

18.11.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Despite only rarely watching Dharma and Greg as a tween, I was still somehow able to clock Jenna Elfman in a role in the latest season of Dark Winds. THIS is the millennial superpower

18.11.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Mssingno - Think Of Me
YouTube video by Mssingno M1 Mssingno - Think Of Me

wow, the don is back finally #blessed www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtNd...

17.11.2025 03:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

can't wait to go fake surfing on some poorly filtered sewer water

15.11.2025 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Step By Step
YouTube video by Jeff Lorber - Topic Step By Step

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sel...

14.11.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

lmao truly pathetic

14.11.2025 01:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

RIP to a real one. some of my favorite work of his was collaborations with hideo gosha

11.11.2025 03:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Oneohtrix Point Never - D.I.S. (Official Video)
YouTube video by Oneohtrix Point Never Oneohtrix Point Never - D.I.S. (Official Video)

folks, it brings me great pleasure to say that 0PN is back after like a decade in the wilderness (safdie bros movie work notwithstanding) www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEeC...

10.11.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i'd also say you're better off completely ignoring MSNBC (I mean MSNOW) and CNN if you want to be politically informed

08.11.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

double salute to whoever is programming the 90s Vevo channel (or their wideorbit lol), going from Vogue to Another Night

08.11.2025 04:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

good news, GOP saves Dem leadership from itself

07.11.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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David Ellison’s Paramount Inks Five-Year Streaming Deal for Professional Bull Riders’ Unleash the Beast Tour Paramount and TKO Group's Professional Bull Riders set a new five-year media rights agreement that will make Paramount+ the primary streaming home of PBR's premier tour, Unleash The Beast, starting in...

alright, it's pretty clear that ellison has no idea what he's doing at this point (this is from a pure strategy perspective, nothing to do with a personal feelings lens that most view skydance/paramount through). Ari's gotta love that he has such a huge sucker with bottomless pockets

07.11.2025 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

underrated story of the past several years is larry krasner continuing to fend off cuomo-type lickspittle

05.11.2025 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

getting all my AlterNet millennials together to have a huge rager this weekend to celebrate Cheney dying

04.11.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

goodbye dick cheney you huge piece of shit

04.11.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Coca-Cola | Holidays Are Coming
YouTube video by Coca-Cola Coca-Cola | Holidays Are Coming

just saw a coke ad with a disclaimer for and invitation to use their own AI platform. this is so transparently strange-looking that i get depressed thinking about my parents thinking it looks fine www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy6f...

04.11.2025 04:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We are so back

03.11.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

alright, with the offseason here i can officially start hoping that the cardinals will finally rebuild with Chaim Bloom as the GM

02.11.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fox must be absolutely loving this post-season. Seems like MLB ratings are going to keep going up next year

02.11.2025 05:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the people who reach the upper echelons of coaching (or any athletes) are insane people who live off the competition

31.10.2025 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

first bari weiss and now this. ellison's kid is speedrunning his failson trajectory

27.10.2025 02:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Meta lays off 600 employees within AI unit The cuts come as Meta has been pouring billions of dollars into AI

Another canary in the coal mine. Wouldn’t it suck if the US economy was leveraged to the hilt on AI? www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/10/...

22.10.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

why do journalists and industry types assume this is what audiences want? i don't even mean marilyn in [x], just this idea of little kid imaginary story stuff

14.10.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

softbank getting in, you know it's a secure investment now

10.10.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

people are flipping out about these sora vids that look really bad if they have to do anything that isn't a cartoon

03.10.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Got a parking ticket and not only are they using surveillance tech to keep track instead of someone physically chalking tires, YOU have to pay the city for their choice of parking surveillance platform. Fuck you!!

30.09.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

jealous? πŸ’…

30.09.2025 07:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

same thing i hear from my students about MLB players when we discuss the possibility of a cap

26.09.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Harvard’s Public Health Dean Was Paid $150,000 to Testify Tylenol Causes Autism | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard School of Public Health Dean Andrea A. Baccarelli received at least $150,000 to testify against Tylenol’s manufacturer in 2023 β€” two years before he published research used by the Trump admini...

Another L for the Ivies

24.09.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can Liberalism Be Saved? The legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues for a more expansive definition of an ideology under threat.

Cass Sunstein is just off… He should engage with more scholars in an interdisciplinary way to avoid being Chotiner-ed like this. It’s as if he writes about people and institutions as he wants them to be, not as they are. And he is totally unaware of his blind spots. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

23.09.2025 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 198    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 18

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