Thursday Night Link Roundup - August 27th
Let’s dive in like people ignoring the “Shallow! Don’t dive!” signs.
So like, I knew that the United States Postal Service was Super Good, and, Very Important. I lived in Scotland for a year and while the free healthcare was everything I’d hoped it would be, I would take the USPS over the Royal Mail any day of the week. I don’t know if it was because I was living in student accommodations or something, but the USPS seems like way less of a pain in the ass to deal with (though I will say, the people working in the RM stores I went to were very nice. Wait, the people at one place were nice, the people at the other place were like, “eh.” But I had moved flats and couldn’t go to the first place anymore >_>).
Well then! Thank you Cody’s Showdy (Some More News) and your information about how the USPS has been slowly degraded and eroded away - mostly by republicans - over the decades. Like… I know they’re all neoliberals a la Reagan or Thatcher and they want to privatize everything, but can’t we just accept that some things are things we’re supposed to have? Like, as humans who exist on this planet who need things to be able to continue to exist?
But then like… there’s a reason why I’m the Family Socialist.
I was deadlifting when I started this video and when the “jaywalking, punk anarchist!” part came up I laughed and dropped the weight. It’s Radical Reviewer with an essay on the stupidity of conservatives pretending that protestors and leftists are making 1984 happen.
I get that PragerU is just propaganda and that Dave Ruben is a propagandist, but I feel like they have to had sold their souls or something to be so intentionally obtuse and not be just… curling inwardly on themselves from the gravitational waves of how dense they are. Like… anyone could read the book and be like “No, you’re wrong,” but Dave blocks people on Twitter, so how would he ever hear them?
Also, Orwell was a socialist so to take his book and literally do the doublespeak shit in the book at his own book?
Speaking of “yikes” did everyone else see Ben Shapiro just own himself like the slavery that he claims wasn’t bad? Love Kurtis Conner’s take: “I fell on my keyboard and my hands typed out ‘WAP Cardi B Megan Thee Stallion I’m Horny’ and the video came up and I accidentally clicked on it and I accidentally watched the whole thing.” Like, how do you “accidentally” watch a video?
You know when you’re in high school and you know someone who’s completely bothered by something or someone and they say, “I don’t even care! I don’t even care! I don’t even care! I don’t even care! I don’t even care!” about 40 times and you’re just looking at them blankly and you’ve just been doing Shakespeare in English class so you’re like, “Methinks the lady doth protest too much,” regardless of their gender? All of the conservative blustering over the song feels like that.
Great song, btw.
So, spoilers, if you haven’t watched Westworld. I haven’t, but I like to live dangerously. Here’s Just Write with Westworld And The Trouble With Ensembles.
So the reason why I wanted to watch this when it popped up was because my comic that I wrote during July (and part of August) is an ensemble cast. So, I think this did a lot to answer my questions on how to make a story with an ensemble cast be good and not a mess, and it even brought up some things that I hadn’t thought of, so, thanks Just Write.
This week’s silliness: When you hit a tritone in medieval times by Daniel Thrasher.
(I bet he doesn’t even skate.)
Just everything about this sketch is great. The king, the knight, the jester, the demon, all of it. I just love the king as a character, he reminds me of something out of a Mel Brooks movie.
Songs of the Week:
I'm a member of the Midnight Crew - (posted by) Amanda met Snor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjhbLDJzXAs
Is this song from--? Yes, it is. And we are all going to sit here and enjoy it!
This song is from 1909 by the way. I just find that kind of cool.
Inception 'Time' , Hans Zimmer - Kalimba cover. - IPIDA SOUND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGqsKAD6ZA8
I really like the way the song sounds on a kalimba. (I’ve thought about buying one and hoooo boy, are they expensive.) I also just love their cat hanging out nicely while they play. Adorable.
System of a Down - Aerials - Medieval Style - Bardcore - Algal the Bard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAVkuRKwuDI
I think, for whenever I get married, I want to hire a band to play metal music, but in a medieval/renaissance way. Ooh, maybe I’ll make everyone do country dances. The Jane Austen kind. Just for funzies, lol.
It’ll be like: “Why aren’t you dancing? You’re the bride.” “They’re very sweaty dances.”
