New Episodes

Hulu released three new episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale. I’m a few minutes into episode two. The best description of the first few seasons that I heard was “misery porn.” That is accurate. Painfully, crushingly accurate. The current season is not expected to tow that line. Instead it’s looking like it might be “revenge porn.” Given the state of the real world… here’s hoping.

The Handmaid’s Tale this morning, Daredevil tonight, Doctor Who on Saturday, and The Last of Us on Sunday. Hey television world, why not spread out the riches a little. Share that wealth with the rest of the calendar.

Something is up with my Flickr account. Yesterday my hit count was about 10 times what I usually see. This morning before 7:00am it’s already more than yesterday. I think some bot somewhere is crawling me. It might be time for a new backup. Just in case. I hope the bots enjoy all of the cat pictures.

Okay, I have to post this now. I can’t keep typing up brain droppings while hanging on every word of one of the best television shows Earth has ever produced. Seriously. A million years from now some alien species is going to find our remains and turn our planet into an archeological site and watch this show and think… those beings were seriously fucked up but I cannot stop watching.

#bots #crawlers #Flickr #hulu #miseryPorn #revengePorn #tech #Television #theHandmaidSTale

Irish news is just misery-porn. Every story strives to make you feel worse than the story before.

#Ireland #news #miseryporn

Italy is inundated with long, primetime (therefore costly) #SaveTheChildren #miseryporn TV fundraising ads, featuring emancipated children of color of no clear nationality.
The approach is entirely decontextualised: the children, often shown without parents, are desperate for unknown reasons and need white saviours.
No idea if somebody has started denouncing this approach.
What we really need is #climatejustice. And justice means responsibilities. I will join @fffitalia on Friday!

Yet another series everyone is hyping that I just can't understand why everyone likes.

#MiseryPorn

Okay... things other people think is #weird about me:

I don't do #Horror . I can stomach it, I'm not freaked out by it, I just don't get any positive feedback from it. Same with say rollercoasters. So I don't watch it.

I don't do #MiseryPorn for the same reason. So I've never played say #TheLastofUs , it does just seem... pointless.

I've never played an #JRPG or watched an #Anime that stuck with me. Don't know why, honestly. Calling myself a #Gamer and have never player #FinalFantasy ?? 😉