Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


Ali Macofsky

I found her! This is the woman I was writing about the other day, the one on TikTok. I spent hours watching female comedians on the service and she never showed up. But scrolling today, while doing my back exercises, she appeared! Nearly instantly! Her TikTok handle is: @notalimac I’m now following her. I don’t […]

The Instagram Fracas

Evolve or die. Every time a tech company capitulates to its audience and rolls back the future it’s a mistake. The best example being Netflix saying it was going to become a streaming company and the hoi polloi bitching that they still needed to rent DVDs by mail. Who’d want to stream movies? Well, despite […]

Keffals

“The trans Twitch star delivering news to a legion of LGBTQ teens – Known online as Keffals, Clara Sorrenti’s streams are one of the few spaces in media where people can hear the news from a trans person”: https://wapo.st/39WizDj This is what I’m talking about. The above article is not behind a paywall, and you should […]

Protests Don’t Work

Stay home. When you get the clarion call to go to some destination to wield signs and slogans in support of your mission I hope it makes you feel good, because it has no effect on the cause whatsoever. Mass protests in America are all based on those that took place during the Vietnam era. […]