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<updated>2025-04-05T05:52:24.826Z</updated>
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<name>A Humdrum Life, The Independent Variable, The Life of a Grub, foofaraw, flimflam photography</name>
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<title>Post on The Independent Variable - The Independent Variable</title>
<link href="https://tiv.today/2025/04/thunderbird"/>
<id>https://tiv.today/2025/04/thunderbird</id>
<updated>2025-04-05T00:17:00.000Z</updated>
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<h4 id="thunderbird-email-is-going-pro-to-better-compete-with-gmail-the-verge"><span class="small-caps">📧</span> Thunderbird email is going pro to better compete with Gmail /// <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/642228/thunderbird-pro-thundermail-email-service" target="_blank">The Verge</a></h4>
<p>This is me downloading Thunderbird for the first time in over a decade, I think.</p> </content>
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<entry>
<title>Post on The Independent Variable - The Independent Variable</title>
<link href="https://tiv.today/2025/04/seven39"/>
<id>https://tiv.today/2025/04/seven39</id>
<updated>2025-04-04T22:26:00.000Z</updated>
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<h4 id="this-90s-esque-social-media-site-only-works-for-three-hours-a-day-the-verge"><span class="small-caps">📱</span> This<span class="push-single"></span> <span class="pull-single">’</span>90s-esque social media site only works for three hours a day /// <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/641825/seven39-social-media-hands-on" target="_blank">The Verge</a></h4>
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<p>The ultimate goal is to explore if there’s another way to be social online, one that resembles how we <em>used</em> to be online before smartphones were a thing.</p>
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<p>I actually love this idea. Really does bring me back to those <span class="small-caps">AIM</span> days after school. And social.lol // Mastodon is always a joy when everyone is active at the same time and having all sorts of conversations together.</p> </content>
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<entry>
<title>Post on The Independent Variable - The Independent Variable</title>
<link href="https://tiv.today/2025/04/nintendoswitch"/>
<id>https://tiv.today/2025/04/nintendoswitch</id>
<updated>2025-04-04T22:25:00.000Z</updated>
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<h4 id="nintendo-delays-switch-2-pre-orders-in-response-to-trump-tariffs-polygon"><span class="small-caps">🎮</span> Nintendo delays Switch 2 pre-orders in response to Trump tariffs /// <a href="https://www.polygon.com/nintendo-switch-2/553133/pre-orders-delayed-trump-tariff" target="_blank">Polygon</a></h4>
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<p>Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions.</p>
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<p>Real world effects already being seen here. Not only will the price likely go up for Americans, other companies have already started layoffs due to the tariffs. Seems like a <em>super productive</em> strategy. Raise prices, raise unemployment, lower moral. <strong><em>Winning</em></strong>.</p> </content>
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<entry>
<title>Post on The Independent Variable - The Independent Variable</title>
<link href="https://tiv.today/2025/04/defundamericanmanu"/>
<id>https://tiv.today/2025/04/defundamericanmanu</id>
<updated>2025-04-04T22:23:00.000Z</updated>
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<h4 id="trump-and-doge-defund-program-that-boosted-american-manufacturing-for-decades-wired"><span class="small-caps">🚧</span> Trump and <span class="small-caps">DOGE</span> Defund Program That Boosted American Manufacturing for Decades /// <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/nist-trump-manufacturing-extension-partnership/" target="_blank">Wired</a></h4>
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<p>The Democratic congressional aides and heads of <span class="small-caps">MEP</span> centers in multiple states believe that abandoning support for the program runs counter to Trump’s long-standing goals of boosting domestic manufacturing and winning the ongoing trade war with China.</p>
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<p>Alright! Almost done talking about the tariffs today… Sure does make a lot of sense to defund programs that help American manufacturing when your tariffs are supposedly going to help bring manufacturing back. It’s almost like these idiots can only hold one idea in their head at a time.</p> </content>
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<entry>
<title>Post on The Independent Variable - The Independent Variable</title>
<link href="https://tiv.today/2025/04/fuckthepoor"/>
<id>https://tiv.today/2025/04/fuckthepoor</id>
<updated>2025-04-04T22:20:00.000Z</updated>
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<h4 id="trump-assures-wall-street-hell-go-back-to-just-fucking-over-poor-people-soon-the-onion"><span class="small-caps">💰</span> Trump Assures Wall Street He’ll Go Back To Just Fucking Over Poor People Soon /// <a href="https://theonion.com/trump-assures-wall-street-hell-go-back-to-just-fucking-over-poor-people-soon/" target="_blank">The Onion</a></h4>
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<p>Urging calm by insisting that big banks, hedge funds, and other major players should take a longer-term view to understand that his tariffs were necessary to increase widespread suffering among the impoverished.</p>
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<p>Again, some spot-on satire. The people who have disposable cash are going to eat up stocks and make huge gains when all of this shit is over and done with and sanity eventually (<em>hopefully</em>) prevails.</p> </content>
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<entry>
<title>Post on The Independent Variable - The Independent Variable</title>
<link href="https://tiv.today/2025/04/aitariffs"/>
<id>https://tiv.today/2025/04/aitariffs</id>
<updated>2025-04-04T22:11:00.000Z</updated>
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<h4 id="trumps-new-tariff-math-looks-a-lot-like-chatgpts-the-verge"><span class="small-caps">🤖</span> Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT’s /// <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/642620/trump-tariffs-formula-ai-chatgpt-gemini-claude-grok" target="_blank">The Verge</a></h4>
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<p>Gemini, the most strident of them, will give you a page full of explanations as to why this oversimplified approach could backfire —<span class="push-double"></span> <span class="pull-double">“</span>while this calculation offers a seemingly straightforward way to target bilateral trade deficits, the real-world economic implications are far more complex and could lead to substantial negative consequences,” it warns, adding that<span class="push-double"></span> <span class="pull-double">“</span>many economists argue that tariffs are not an effective tool for balancing trade deficits.”</p>
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<p>That explains it, this whole government is being run by a hallucinating <span class="small-caps">AI</span>. Cool.</p> </content>
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<entry>
<title>Post on The Independent Variable - The Independent Variable</title>
<link href="https://tiv.today/2025/04/penguintariffs"/>
<id>https://tiv.today/2025/04/penguintariffs</id>
<updated>2025-04-04T22:09:00.000Z</updated>
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<h4 id="trump-tariffs-hit-antarctic-islands-inhabited-by-zero-humans-and-many-penguins-wired"><span class="small-caps">🎯</span> Trump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many Penguins /// <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/trump-tariffs-antarctic-islands-heard-mcdonald/" target="_blank">Wired</a></h4>
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<p>Donald Trump is a man with a history of bankruptcies doing what he always does: gambling with someone else’s money. Except this time, it’s yours. It’s every worker laid off. Every single parent now facing higher grocery bills. Every business owner watching their supply chain crack in half. Every retiree seeing their 401(k) nosedive.</p>
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<p>These<span class="push-double"></span> <span class="pull-double">“</span>reciprocal” tariffs are really hitting the targets, huh? Feels super well thought out, just like everything else this administration does.</p> </content>
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<entry>
<title>Post on The Independent Variable - The Independent Variable</title>
<link href="https://tiv.today/2025/04/loltariff"/>
<id>https://tiv.today/2025/04/loltariff</id>
<updated>2025-04-04T22:03:00.000Z</updated>
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<h4 id="lol.-the-index"><span class="small-caps">🏦</span> lol. /// <a href="https://www.theindex.media/lol/" target="_blank">The Index</a></h4>
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<p>Donald Trump is a man with a history of bankruptcies doing what he always does: gambling with someone else’s money. Except this time, it’s yours. It’s every worker laid off. Every single parent now facing higher grocery bills. Every business owner watching their supply chain crack in half. Every retiree seeing their 401(k) nosedive.</p>
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<p>Am I overdoing it on the links about tariffs? Maybe. But more are coming!</p> </content>
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<entry>
<title>Post on The Independent Variable - The Independent Variable</title>
<link href="https://tiv.today/2025/04/liberated"/>
<id>https://tiv.today/2025/04/liberated</id>
<updated>2025-04-04T21:58:00.000Z</updated>
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<h4 id="at-long-last-we-have-been-liberated-from-being-able-to-afford-anything-mcsweeneys"><span class="small-caps">📉</span> At Long Last, We Have Been Liberated from Being Able to Afford Anything /// <a href="https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/at-long-last-we-have-been-liberated-from-being-able-to-afford-anything" target="_blank">McSweeney’s</a></h4>
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<p>We are finally free from the shackles of capitalism. I mean, to be clear: it’s still capitalism. We’re just making sure that basically none of you benefit from it anymore. You. Are. Welcome.</p>
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<p>It’s satire, but it’s also the truest thing that I’ve read about the tariffs so far.</p> </content>
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<entry>
<title>Post on The Independent Variable - The Independent Variable</title>
<link href="https://tiv.today/2025/04/liberationday"/>
<id>https://tiv.today/2025/04/liberationday</id>
<updated>2025-04-04T21:57:00.000Z</updated>
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<h4 id="the-truth-about-donald-trumps-liberation-day-new-yorker"><span class="small-caps">🙈</span> The Truth About Donald Trump’s<span class="push-double"></span> <span class="pull-double">“</span>Liberation Day” /// <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/the-truth-about-donald-trumps-liberation-day" target="_blank">New Yorker</a></h4>
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<p>The immediate political challenge for Trump is that, regardless of the prospects of his policies boosting U.S. manufacturing over the long term, in the short term they are likely to inflict pain on two major constituents of the G.O.P. coalition: working-class maga voters and Republicans in business.</p>
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<p>I wish I could say this was all just some bad joke, but instead, it’s a living nightmare that will continue until a few republicans who know better grow a spine.</p> </content>
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<entry>
<title>Post on The Independent Variable - The Independent Variable</title>
<link href="https://tiv.today/2025/04/booker"/>
<id>https://tiv.today/2025/04/booker</id>
<updated>2025-04-04T21:55:00.000Z</updated>
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<h4 id="cory-booker-sets-record-for-longest-fingernails-on-senate-floor-the-onion"><span class="small-caps">🏛️</span> Cory Booker Sets Record For Longest Fingernails On Senate Floor /// <a href="https://theonion.com/cory-booker-sets-record-for-longest-fingernails-on-senate-floor/" target="_blank">The Onion</a></h4>
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<p>Of course. I knew I wouldn’t be able to eat, or go to the bathroom, and yet I succeeded anyway.</p>
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<p>While it didn’t actually get anything done, at least he’s doing <em>something</em>. Him, Bernie, and <span class="small-caps">AOC</span> are apparently the only ones with a pulse.</p> </content>
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<entry>
<title>Post on The Independent Variable - The Independent Variable</title>
<link href="https://tiv.today/2025/04/paralysis"/>
<id>https://tiv.today/2025/04/paralysis</id>
<updated>2025-04-04T21:54:00.000Z</updated>
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<h4 id="thought-currents-veronique"><span class="small-caps">💭</span> thought currents /// <a href="https://veronique.ink/thought-currents/" target="_blank">veronique</a></h4>
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<p>Sometimes though, I get overwhelmed by all the new projects I want to start, and I end up procrastinating and not doing any of them.</p>
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<p>This is exactly what I’ve been feeling lately, especially since being laid off. I’ve been trying to focus on <em>foofaraw</em>, plus it’s print zines and the forthcoming Anthology, links here on <em><span class="small-caps">TIV</span></em> along with doing <em>LLoN</em>, daily Grubs, plus all the reading and watching I want to do… and then I end up doing nothing.</p> </content>
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<entry>
<title>📰 04 April 2025 - foofaraw</title>
<link href="https://foofaraw.press/04-april-2025/"/>
<id>67edb3f762939a0001fee20d</id>
<updated>2025-04-04T20:16:56.000Z</updated>
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<content type="html"><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2024/12/Review_of_Links-1.png" class="kg-image" alt="&#x1F4F0; 04 April 2025" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="475" srcset="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w600/2024/12/Review_of_Links-1.png 600w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w1000/2024/12/Review_of_Links-1.png 1000w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w1600/2024/12/Review_of_Links-1.png 1600w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w2400/2024/12/Review_of_Links-1.png 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><img src="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2025/04/review_of_links-apr04.png" alt="&#x1F4F0; 04 April 2025"><p>Something a little different here to start. I&apos;ve been thinking of ways to add some value to the paid subscription so I whipped up this little zine as an idea. This beta version is free to all, but I&apos;m planning on continuing this for paid subscribers moving forward and maybe even mailing out a printed version. It looks back at the past month of media as well as gives a quick look at all the big stuff coming in April.</p><div class="kg-card kg-file-card"><a class="kg-file-card-container" href="https://foofaraw.press/content/files/2025/04/foofaraw-zine-april.pdf" title="Download" download><div class="kg-file-card-contents"><div class="kg-file-card-title">April Foofaraw Zine&#x2014;Beta Issue</div><div class="kg-file-card-caption">A look at everything coming in April</div><div class="kg-file-card-metadata"><div class="kg-file-card-filename">foofaraw-zine-april.pdf</div><div class="kg-file-card-filesize">570 KB</div></div></div><div class="kg-file-card-icon"><svg viewbox="0 0 24 24"><defs><style>.a{fill:none;stroke:currentColor;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-width:1.5px;}</style></defs><title>download-circle</title><polyline class="a" points="8.25 14.25 12 18 15.75 14.25"/><line class="a" x1="12" y1="6.75" x2="12" y2="18"/><circle class="a" cx="12" cy="12" r="11.25"/></svg></div></a></div><h3 id="%E2%98%9D%EF%B8%8F-up-first">&#x261D;&#xFE0F; 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and &apos;The Doors,&apos; Dead at 65</a></li><li><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/john-wick-spinoff-donnie-yen-1236177550/#recipient_hashed=286a8e65fcaf59b2062ee17caa0b879bd9c5ee8aaa3df3aec893497fd687f637&amp;recipient_salt=102bf91390bb78061897cffd60676a383d618d52f37013191353abb306cc6e0c&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=Breaking%20News&amp;utm_content=597337_04-01-2025&amp;utm_term=18937735?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=1743530799-Breaking+News&amp;utm_content=597337_4-1-2025&amp;utm_id=597337">John Wick Spinoff sets Donnie Yen as Director</a></li><li><a href="https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/john-wick-chapter-5-development-keanu-reeves-1235112469/#recipient_hashed=123f07e1578c6351476287d27c92e40d4fbcb2831de3fce8a8b4cce2827aab9d&amp;recipient_salt=6084dc5a0dde766be48182ed11dc5e4f701de8b39615fc59f071dc4987a58b92&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=BreakingNews&amp;utm_content=597333_04-01-2025&amp;utm_term=19128224?utm_medium=&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_campaign=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_id=">&apos;John Wick: Chapter 5&apos; in Development with Keanu Reeves Returning</a></li><li><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/john-wick-animated-prequel-keanu-reeves-1236177777/#recipient_hashed=286a8e65fcaf59b2062ee17caa0b879bd9c5ee8aaa3df3aec893497fd687f637&amp;recipient_salt=102bf91390bb78061897cffd60676a383d618d52f37013191353abb306cc6e0c&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=Breaking%20News&amp;utm_content=597332_04-01-2025&amp;utm_term=18937735?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=1743530667-Breaking+News&amp;utm_content=597332_4-1-2025&amp;utm_id=597332">&apos;John Wick&apos;: Animated Prequel Film From Keanu Reeves, Chad Stahelsk</a></li><li><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/dexter-original-sin-renewed-season-2-showtime-1236177496/#recipient_hashed=286a8e65fcaf59b2062ee17caa0b879bd9c5ee8aaa3df3aec893497fd687f637&amp;recipient_salt=102bf91390bb78061897cffd60676a383d618d52f37013191353abb306cc6e0c&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=Breaking%20News&amp;utm_content=597237_04-01-2025&amp;utm_term=18937735&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=1743516010-Breaking+News&amp;utm_content=597237_4-1-2025&amp;utm_id=597237">&apos;Dexter: Original Sin&apos; Renewed for Season 2 at Showtime</a></li><li><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-hunger-games-movie-sunrise-on-the-reaping-billy-ray-1236177545/#recipient_hashed=286a8e65fcaf59b2062ee17caa0b879bd9c5ee8aaa3df3aec893497fd687f637&amp;recipient_salt=102bf91390bb78061897cffd60676a383d618d52f37013191353abb306cc6e0c&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=Breaking%20News&amp;utm_content=597328_04-01-2025&amp;utm_term=18937735?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=1743530483-Breaking+News&amp;utm_content=597328_4-1-2025&amp;utm_id=597328">Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping Movie Taps Billy Ray to Write</a></li><li><a href="https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/spider-man-beyond-the-spider-verse-release-date-june-2027-1235112385/#recipient_hashed=123f07e1578c6351476287d27c92e40d4fbcb2831de3fce8a8b4cce2827aab9d&amp;recipient_salt=6084dc5a0dde766be48182ed11dc5e4f701de8b39615fc59f071dc4987a58b92&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=BreakingNews&amp;utm_content=597177_03-31-2025&amp;utm_term=19128224?utm_medium=&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_campaign=&amp;utm_content=597177_3-31-2025&amp;utm_id=597177">&apos;Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse&apos; Hitting Theaters in June 2027</a></li><li><a href="https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/spider-man-4-reveals-title-brand-new-day-1235112350/#recipient_hashed=123f07e1578c6351476287d27c92e40d4fbcb2831de3fce8a8b4cce2827aab9d&amp;recipient_salt=6084dc5a0dde766be48182ed11dc5e4f701de8b39615fc59f071dc4987a58b92&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=BreakingNews&amp;utm_content=597187_03-31-2025&amp;utm_term=19128224?utm_medium=&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_campaign=&amp;utm_content=597187_3-31-2025&amp;utm_id=597187">&apos;Spider-Man 4&apos; Reveals Title, &apos;Spider-Man: Brand New Day&apos;</a></li><li><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/legend-of-zelda-live-action-movie-release-1236174738/#recipient_hashed=286a8e65fcaf59b2062ee17caa0b879bd9c5ee8aaa3df3aec893497fd687f637&amp;recipient_salt=102bf91390bb78061897cffd60676a383d618d52f37013191353abb306cc6e0c&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=Breaking%20News&amp;utm_content=596536_03-28-2025&amp;utm_term=18937735?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=1743167977-Breaking+News&amp;utm_content=596536_3-28-2025&amp;utm_id=596536">&apos;Legend of Zelda&apos; Live-Action Movie to Release in 2027</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/638147/common-side-effects-season-2-renewal">Common Side Effects is coming back for a second season</a></li><li><a href="https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/3/28/marvels-blade-scrapped">Marvel&#x2019;s &#x2018;Blade&#x2019; Scrapped</a></li></ul><hr><h3 id="%F0%9F%9A%9A-trailers-of-the-week">&#x1F69A; Trailer(s) of the Week</h3><figure class="kg-card kg-embed-card"><iframe width="200" height="113" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ap-j8e9J5U0?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen title="One Battle After Another | Official Trailer"></iframe></figure><p>Over a week old at this point, but I was so enamored with it, I had to call it out here.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-embed-card"><iframe width="200" height="113" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kBskrYZfhw8?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen title="Bring Her Back | Official Trailer HD | A24"></iframe></figure><p>And the new one from the folks behind <em>Talk to Me</em>.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2025/01/below_the_fold.png" class="kg-image" alt="&#x1F4F0; 04 April 2025" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="242" srcset="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w600/2025/01/below_the_fold.png 600w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w1000/2025/01/below_the_fold.png 1000w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w1600/2025/01/below_the_fold.png 1600w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w2400/2025/01/below_the_fold.png 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure></content>
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<title>🦀 You Are Become Crab, a Roleplaying Adventure for Ages 12+ by Laura DeHaan - foofaraw</title>
<link href="https://foofaraw.press/you-are-become-crab-a-roleplaying-adventure-for-ages-12-by-laura-dehaan/"/>
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<updated>2025-04-03T16:00:11.000Z</updated>
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<content type="html"><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2024/07/storytime-1.png" class="kg-image" alt="&#x1F980; You Are Become Crab, a Roleplaying Adventure for Ages 12+ by Laura DeHaan" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="476" srcset="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w600/2024/07/storytime-1.png 600w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w1000/2024/07/storytime-1.png 1000w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w1600/2024/07/storytime-1.png 1600w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w2400/2024/07/storytime-1.png 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><h1 id="%F0%9F%A6%80-you-are-become-crab-a-roleplaying-adventure-for-ages-12">&#x1F980; <strong>You Are Become Crab, a Roleplaying Adventure for Ages 12+</strong></h1><h3 id="by-laura-dehaan"><em>by Laura DeHaan</em></h3><img src="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2025/03/storytime-crab.png" alt="&#x1F980; You Are Become Crab, a Roleplaying Adventure for Ages 12+ by Laura DeHaan"><p>Carcinization is sweeping the nation! The question is not &#x2018;do you have what it takes to become crab?&#x2019;, but rather, &#x2018;what kind of crab will you become?&#x2019; Create your own unique starting class or use our quick start guide to begin your crabventure!</p><h3 id="choose-your-crab"><strong>CHOOSE YOUR CRAB!</strong></h3><ul><li><strong>Brutal Crab:</strong> Can move forward and backward, as well as sideways. Gets one extra attack per round. Has a great fear&#xA0; of the the depths of the oblivion.</li><li><strong>The Star Crab:</strong> Able to cast spells. Can dual-wield wands. Does not regenerate lost limbs.</li><li><strong>Crabamama:</strong> No cooldown between spawn cycles.</li></ul><h3 id="choose-your-starting-companion"><strong>CHOOSE YOUR STARTING COMPANION!</strong></h3><ul><li><strong>Mantis Shrimp:</strong> Rage meter fills at 5x speed.</li><li><strong>Immortal Jellyfish:</strong> Has infinite, but brief, lives.</li><li><strong>Sea Cucumber:</strong> Can camp anywhere. Likely to&#xA0; get overcrowded.</li></ul><h3 id="choose-your-starting-weapon"><strong>CHOOSE YOUR STARTING WEAPON!</strong></h3><ul><li><strong>Winkler-Cracker:</strong> Does both piercing and bludgeoning damage.</li><li><strong>Wand of Gulls:</strong> Summons a colony of hungry seagulls. Does not work below the Epipelagic Zone. Can be upgraded to Wand of Water-Breathing Gulls.</li><li><strong>Stunning Pom-Poms: </strong>Deals a random status effect instead of direct damage.</li></ul><h3 id="choose-your-questline"><strong>CHOOSE YOUR QUESTLINE!</strong></h3><ul><li><strong>Evolutionary Domination:</strong> Make new friends! <strong>Lots</strong> of new friends&#x2014;friends you have a chemical connection with. (Intended for mature audiences.)</li><li><strong>Oceanic Domination:</strong> You begin in the Sunlight Zone, with the whole of epipelagicia around you. Will you be content exploring islands of floating trash and forging alliances between species in an effort to control this thinnest and shallowest layer of the ocean... or will you brave the looming dark and seek to conquer the very depths of the Hadal Zone? (The Sunlight Zone is recommended for beginners as a tutorial to the world of <em>You Are Become Crab</em>.)</li><li><strong>Mental Domination:</strong> Spurning the binary notion of dividing this plane of existence between Dry World and Wet World, your goal is to turn the very fabric of reality into Crab. Will you start a cult and place yourself as the crab messiah? Will you infiltrate government labs to create a strain of crab-based cordyceps? Or will you nurture a media empire whose sole purpose is to enforce <em>crab</em>? Crabs? <em>CRABS?</em> <strong>CRABS!</strong> <strong><em>CRABS!! CRABS!!! CRABS!!!!!</em></strong></li></ul><h3 id="are-you-feeling-the-pinch"><strong>ARE YOU FEELING THE PINCH?</strong></h3><p>Use this <em>clawsome</em> table to crab-start your imagination!</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfwmDc4q2EdJ0Sn78aGvwhbJbJvsW4EA5f9Qc5dJzvqJwCjfoTbtnqv3RhweR3Z4Tl4lp2h5hc5RL-H5rAspbuOExFN42uXHzzDkLKI-uyXYSAEpNPnOI1oIcXbGKcf42Xcf3D75A?key=L_7_Jh2jsVOPSEfce_xBa1Un" class="kg-image" alt="&#x1F980; You Are Become Crab, a Roleplaying Adventure for Ages 12+ by Laura DeHaan" loading="lazy" width="624" height="769"><figcaption><i><em class="italic" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Roll two d12 to determine each of your claw attributes</em></i></figcaption></figure><h3 id="the-story-so-far"><strong>THE STORY SO FAR</strong></h3><p>Your team of tiny crabs is now ready to enter the <strong>Sponge Parade</strong>, but oh no! A terrible tiger shark has swallowed everyone&#x2019;s favorite emcee, <em>Spongia Officinalis</em>! You&#x2019;ll have to talk or fight your way (or maybe just look very appetizing) straight into the belly of the tiger shark to rescue the emcee and save the parade!</p><p>Legend tells of a savory weapon whose ownership could decide the fate of all crustaceans, but wielding it could drive the user mad. Dare you seek the awesome power and risk the curse of Fury Butter?</p><p>Think your shell is hard enough? It&#x2019;s a battle royale in expert mode when the All-Nude Molting Season begins!</p><h3 id="will-you-answer-the-call"><strong>WILL YOU ANSWER THE CALL?</strong></h3><p> <em>You awaken in the shallows of an unknown beach. The eyeless corpse of a sea bass lies beside you, the rot suggesting it, if not you, has been here for some time. You can&#x2019;t remember your name. A timid voice calls out from a tide pool. &#x201C;Hello? Is anyone there?&#x201D;</em></p><h3 id="what-will-you-do-next"><strong>WHAT WILL YOU DO NEXT?</strong></h3><ol><li><em>Burrow! Burrow quickly! They can&#x2019;t get you if they can&#x2019;t find you!</em></li><li><em>Say nothing. You won&#x2019;t be fooled again.</em></li><li>&#x201C;Yes! Yes, I&#x2019;m here! I&#x2019;m very helpless and afraid!&#x201D; Reach for a shard of broken glass.</li><li>&#x201C;Wait there, I&#x2019;ll come find you.&#x201D; Scurry up the lip of the tide pool.</li><li><em>Throw the sea bass into the tide pool.</em><ol><li><em>Roll a d20 Strength Check, DC 15.&#xA0;</em><ol><li><em>1-14: The sea bass flops on top of you, attracting the attention of a passing gull. Roll for initiative!&#xA0;</em></li><li><em>15-20: The sea bass is hurled into the tide pool. &#x201C;Ow!&#x201D; cries the timid voice. A passing gull, attracted by the splash, swoops down to the pool. &#x201C;Oh no, help!&#x201D; Roll for initiative!</em></li></ol></li></ol></li><li><em>Investigate the sea bass.</em><ol><li><em>Roll a d20 Flavor Check, DC 10.&#xA0;</em><ol><li><em>1-9: It&#x2019;s been dead about a week. Must have washed up on shore.&#xA0;</em></li><li><em>10-20: It&#x2019;s been dead about a week, but there&#x2019;s another flavor under its own. It wasn&#x2019;t alone when it died.)</em></li></ol></li></ol></li></ol><h3 id="you-are-become-crab"><strong>YOU ARE BECOME CRAB!</strong></h3><p>Crab well. Crab <em>wisely</em>.</p><hr><div class="kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-accent"><div class="kg-callout-text">Laura DeHaan (any/all) is a masseuse and crematorium technician (irrelevant) and former theatre kid (very relevant) in Toronto, Canada. They haven&apos;t done theatre in a very long time, but last year they bought a used zither and they give non-canon backstories and goofy accents to whatever Warhammer 40K character they play. Visit <a href="https://iaminyoureyebrain.com/ " rel="noreferrer">their poorly-maintained, sporadically-updated website</a>&#xA0;for a full listing of where to find their other stories. Support your libraries, practice mutual aid, and keep punching Nazis &lt;3</div></div></content>
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<entry>
<title>📺 The Media Guide S5E13 - foofaraw</title>
<link href="https://foofaraw.press/the-media-guide-s5e13/"/>
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<updated>2025-04-01T21:59:59.000Z</updated>
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<content type="html"><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2024/04/themediaguide.png" class="kg-image" alt="&#x1F4FA; The Media Guide S5E13" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="285" srcset="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w600/2024/04/themediaguide.png 600w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w1000/2024/04/themediaguide.png 1000w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2024/04/themediaguide.png 1200w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><img src="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2025/03/foof_s5-e13.png" alt="&#x1F4FA; The Media Guide S5E13"><p>If you are into anime, dark<em>er</em> comics, <strong>chill</strong> alternative, or indie drama&apos;s then you are in store for an incredible week. If not... well, then maybe you can catch up on some shows behind on. Or go touch grass or something like that&#x2014;because there&apos;s not much here for you this week if that&apos;s the case.</p><hr><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2024/04/Commission-Rate-Banner.png" class="kg-image" alt="&#x1F4FA; The Media Guide S5E13" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="285" srcset="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w600/2024/04/Commission-Rate-Banner.png 600w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w1000/2024/04/Commission-Rate-Banner.png 1000w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2024/04/Commission-Rate-Banner.png 1200w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption><i><em class="italic" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">what&apos;s new on tv this week</em></i></figcaption></figure><h2 id="%F0%9F%93%BA-new-shows">&#x1F4FA; New Shows</h2><h3 id="%F0%9F%91%BF-devil-may-cry-netflix-%E2%80%94-3-apr">&#x1F47F; <a href="https://youtu.be/OlEqHXRrcpc?si=F9JR8llAu4fNQqn_" rel="noreferrer">Devil May Cry</a> (Netflix) &#x2014; 3 Apr</h3><p>A new Netflix Anime series based on the video game Devil May Cry. It&apos;s a series I know very little about, but one thing Netflix has done successfully is pump out some pretty great anime, including a few other series&apos; based on games so if DMC or anime is your thing, this is definitely one to check out.</p><h3 id="%F0%9F%94%AB-the-bondsman-amazon-%E2%80%94-3-apr">&#x1F52B; <a href="https://youtu.be/XmiGkuMWJ94?si=-yXIICiKiKG5Xcn7" rel="noreferrer">The Bondsman</a> (Amazon) &#x2014; 3 Apr</h3><p>Kevin Bacon stars in this new Amazon show as a backwoods bounty hunter with some apparent demonic twists happening. I don&apos;t pay for Prime so I won&apos;t be able to check this out anytime soon, but Damon Herriman, who I absolutely love, is also in it.</p><h3 id="%F0%9F%AB%A6-dying-for-sex-hulu-%E2%80%94-4-apr">&#x1FAE6; <a href="https://youtu.be/B4WAcOJ5bvo?si=uHfvS0qV06YUSvzJ" rel="noreferrer">Dying for Sex</a> (Hulu) &#x2014; 4 Apr</h3><p>This is probably the biggest new show of the week starring Michelle Williams playing the main character as she discovers she has stage IV cancer, leaves her husband, and explores her sexual desires. It also has some very funny people in the cast including Jenny Slate and Rob Delaney.</p><h3 id="%E2%9A%94%EF%B8%8F-lazarus-adult-swim-%E2%80%94-6-apr">&#x2694;&#xFE0F; <a href="https://youtu.be/LpG8vtFMkD0?si=EskUnoSmWt19x91q" rel="noreferrer">Lazarus</a> (Adult Swim) &#x2014; 6 Apr</h3><p>And the biggest anime release of the week has to be Lazarus. They&apos;ve already rolled out three different soundtracks from Kamasi Washington, Bonobo, and Floating Points. There&apos;s a bunch of hype around this one because it comes from the same person who created the Cowboy Bebop anime, Shinichiro Watanabe, and the action sequences are designed by the John Wick director, Chad Stahelski.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2025/04/foof_interior_streaming-513.png" class="kg-image" alt="&#x1F4FA; The Media Guide S5E13" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1000" srcset="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w600/2025/04/foof_interior_streaming-513.png 600w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w1000/2025/04/foof_interior_streaming-513.png 1000w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w1600/2025/04/foof_interior_streaming-513.png 1600w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2025/04/foof_interior_streaming-513.png 2000w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><h2 id="%F0%9F%93%9D-what-else">&#x1F4DD; What Else?</h2><ul><li>Dimension 20 S25 (Dropout)</li><li>PULSE S1 (Netflix)</li><li>Jurassic World: Chaos Theory S3 (Netflix)</li></ul><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2024/04/theschedule.png" class="kg-image" alt="&#x1F4FA; The Media Guide S5E13" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="145" srcset="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w600/2024/04/theschedule.png 600w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w1000/2024/04/theschedule.png 1000w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2024/04/theschedule.png 1200w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption><i><em class="italic" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">days based on streaming availability for the majority of people</em></i></figcaption></figure><h3 id="tuesday">Tuesday</h3><ul><li>Daredevil: Born Again (Disney) 1:7</li><li>The Studio (Apple) 1:3</li></ul><h3 id="thursday">Thursday</h3><ul><li>The Pitt (HBO) 1:14</li><li>Dope Thief (Apple) 1:5</li><li>Happy Face (Paramount) 1:4</li><li><strong><em>Devil May Cry (Netflix) S1</em></strong></li><li><strong><em>The Bondsman (Amazon) S1</em></strong></li></ul><h3 id="friday">Friday</h3><ul><li><strong><em>Dying for Sex (Hulu) S1</em></strong></li></ul><h3 id="sunday">Sunday</h3><ul><li>Yellowjackets (Paramount) 3:9</li><li><em>The White Lotus (HBO) 3:8</em></li><li>Last Week Tonight (HBO) 12:7</li><li>Righteous Gemstones (HBO) 4:5</li><li>MobLand (Paramount) 1:2</li><li><strong>Lazarus (Adult Swim) 1:1</strong></li></ul><hr><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2024/09/new_sonicvibrations.png" class="kg-image" alt="&#x1F4FA; The Media Guide S5E13" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="285" srcset="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w600/2024/09/new_sonicvibrations.png 600w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w1000/2024/09/new_sonicvibrations.png 1000w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2024/09/new_sonicvibrations.png 1200w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">last friday&apos;s best new albums</span></figcaption></figure><h2 id="%F0%9F%92%BD-release-of-this-week">&#x1F4BD; Release of <strong><em>this</em></strong> Week</h2><h3 id="%E2%9A%B0%EF%B8%8F-the-long-way-round-by-maya-delilah">&#x26B0;&#xFE0F; <a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-long-way-round/1792968883" rel="noreferrer">The Long Way Round</a> by Maya Delilah</h3><p>This debut record from singer-songwriter and guitarist Maya Delilah is absolutely killer if you are into soul, jazz, or blues. And she can absolutely shred on guitar in that jazz fusion / blues way. </p><p><strong>Current Favorite Track</strong>: Jeffrey</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2025/04/foof_interior_sonic-513.png" class="kg-image" alt="&#x1F4FA; The Media Guide S5E13" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1000" srcset="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w600/2025/04/foof_interior_sonic-513.png 600w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w1000/2025/04/foof_interior_sonic-513.png 1000w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w1600/2025/04/foof_interior_sonic-513.png 1600w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2025/04/foof_interior_sonic-513.png 2000w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><h2 id="%F0%9F%8F%83-runner-ups">&#x1F3C3; Runner-ups</h2><h3 id="%F0%9F%8C%94-patience-moonbeam-by-great-grandpa">&#x1F314; <a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/patience-moonbeam/1780626764" rel="noreferrer">Patience, Moonbeam</a> by Great Grandpa</h3><p>Midwest Emo Alt-Folk? That&apos;s how I&apos;d describe this one at least and it&apos;s super enjoyable if you are in the right mental space for it. </p><p><strong>CFT</strong>: Ladybug</p><h3 id="%F0%9F%95%B4%EF%B8%8F-jump-into-life-by-sacred-paws">&#x1F574;&#xFE0F; <a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/jump-into-life/1790302701" rel="noreferrer">Jump Into Life</a> by SACRED PAWS</h3><p>The most fast-paced, but still somehow chill indie alt record of all time. It won&apos;t get things moving or break any grounds, but it still manages to be an enjoyable listen as you go about your day to pick things up a bit without distracting or attracting too much attention.</p><p><strong>CFT</strong>: Turn Me Down</p><h2 id="%F0%9F%93%9D-what-else-1">&#x1F4DD; What Else?</h2><ul><li><a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/little-death-wishes/1782899239" rel="noreferrer">Little Death Wishes</a> by CocoRosie</li><li><a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/portrait-of-my-heart/1775705449" rel="noreferrer">Portrait of My Heart</a> by Spelling</li><li><a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/for-you/1786256192" rel="noreferrer">For You</a> by Yukimi</li><li><a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/forever-is-a-feeling/1787193107" rel="noreferrer">Forever is a Feeling</a> by Lucy Dacus</li><li><a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/letters-from-the-atlantic/1785729543" rel="noreferrer">Letters from the Atlantic</a> by Butcher Brown</li></ul><hr><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2024/04/sequentialvariants2.png" class="kg-image" alt="&#x1F4FA; The Media Guide S5E13" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="285" srcset="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w600/2024/04/sequentialvariants2.png 600w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w1000/2024/04/sequentialvariants2.png 1000w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2024/04/sequentialvariants2.png 1200w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption><i><em class="italic" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> this weeks best comic releases</em></i></figcaption></figure><h2 id="%F0%9F%A6%B8-no-1s">&#x1F9B8; No. 1&apos;s</h2><h3 id="%F0%9F%94%AA-i-was-a-fashion-school-serial-killer-image">&#x1F52A; <a href="https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/1723712/i-was-a-fashion-school-serial-killer-1" rel="noreferrer">I Was a Fashion School Serial Killer</a> (Image)</h3><p>Dexter meets Nailbiter in this book from Doug Wagner and Daniel Hillyard about a serial killer who just wants to be a fashion designer. It sounds and looks like a ton of fun even if I don&apos;t really know much work from these creators (who have been at it for awhile despite my ignorance).</p><h3 id="%F0%9F%AA%A6-resurrection-man-quantum-karma-dc">&#x1FAA6; <a href="https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/1705367/resurrection-man-quantum-karma-1" rel="noreferrer">Resurrection Man: Quantum Karma</a> (DC)</h3><p>This was an honorable mention in my most anticipated books of 2025 purely based on Ram V&apos;s involvement. I read a Resurrection Man story over a decade ago and remember enjoying it, but not much else. V is joined by Anand Radhakrishnan who previously did Blue in Green together to rave reviews.</p><h3 id="%F0%9F%AA%90-absolute-green-lantern-dc">&#x1FA90; <a href="https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/3150786/absolute-green-lantern-1" rel="noreferrer">Absolute Green Lantern</a> (DC)</h3><p>Al Ewing, one of the best writers at weaving together comics history, is taking on the new Green Lantern as part of the Absolute Universe alongside artist Jahnoy Lindsay, as they launch Sojourner Mullein, a black female Green Lantern without a ring. Super excited for this one as GL in the hands of a good writer is always enjoyable and Ewing is at the top of his game right now.</p><h3 id="%F0%9F%A7%8A-daredevil-cold-day-in-hell-marvel">&#x1F9CA; <a href="https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/3632937/daredevil-cold-day-in-hell-1" rel="noreferrer">Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell </a>(Marvel)</h3><p>Charles Soule and Steve McNiven take on an older, powerless Matt Murdock in this miniseries as the world is in shambles.</p><h3 id="%F0%9F%8F%9A%EF%B8%8F-plague-house-oni">&#x1F3DA;&#xFE0F; <a href="https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/3365929/plague-house-1" rel="noreferrer">Plague House</a> (Oni)</h3><p>Michael Conrad, who co-wrote the fun Batgirls, is joined by artist Dave Chisholm in this stylish looking ghost story from Oni.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2025/04/foof_interior_sequential-513.png" class="kg-image" alt="&#x1F4FA; The Media Guide S5E13" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1000" srcset="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w600/2025/04/foof_interior_sequential-513.png 600w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w1000/2025/04/foof_interior_sequential-513.png 1000w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w1600/2025/04/foof_interior_sequential-513.png 1600w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2025/04/foof_interior_sequential-513.png 2000w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><h2 id="%F0%9F%93%9D-what-else-2">&#x1F4DD; What Else?</h2><ul><li>The Lucky Devils #3 (Image)</li><li>Monkey Meat: The Summer Batch #2 (Image)</li><li>The Goon: Them That Don&apos;t Stay Dead #4 (Dark Horse)</li><li>Cruel Kingdom #4 (Oni)</li><li>Let This One Be a Devil #2 (Dark Horse)</li><li>Absolute Superman #6 (DC)</li><li>ThunderCats #14 (Dynamite)</li><li>Ultimate X-Men #14 (Marvel)</li><li>X-Men #14 (Marvel)</li></ul><hr><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2024/04/new_silverscreenvoyage.png" class="kg-image" alt="&#x1F4FA; The Media Guide S5E13" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="286" srcset="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w600/2024/04/new_silverscreenvoyage.png 600w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w1000/2024/04/new_silverscreenvoyage.png 1000w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2024/04/new_silverscreenvoyage.png 1200w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption><i><em class="italic" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">movies hitting the big screen this week</em></i></figcaption></figure><h2 id="%F0%9F%8E%A5-new-movies">&#x1F3A5; New Movies</h2><h3 id="%F0%9F%91%A6-a-nice-indian-boy-limited">&#x1F466; <a href="https://youtu.be/wkbyxebDrjA?si=_hD1O1P0JDD15Bcu" rel="noreferrer">A Nice Indian Boy</a> (Limited)</h3><p>Most people will probably recognize Karan Soni from the Deadpool movies, as he provided some <em>additional</em> comic relief in short bursts. With this movie, Soni is center stage as he brings a very white Jonathan Groff home to his traditional Indian parents. The hilarious Sunita Mani is also in the cast. I&apos;m hoping this will deliver on the comedic talent present.</p><h3 id="%F0%9F%A7%9F-freaky-tales-limited">&#x1F9DF; <a href="https://youtu.be/-2e8SYmofZM?si=h57mPFVw4OtiuIBD" rel="noreferrer">Freaky Tales</a> (Limited)</h3><p>I&apos;m not so sure this one will deliver, but I&apos;m still intrigued by Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn, and Jay Ellis coming together in this one from Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck that appears to be a lot of smaller stories that end up intertwined with each other.</p><h3 id="%F0%9F%99%8D-eric-larue-limited">&#x1F64D; <a href="https://youtu.be/G5lezhfsK2U?si=O3hIvVSgmDTEfjXI" rel="noreferrer">Eric Larue</a> (Limited)</h3><p>Michael Shannon makes his directorial debut with this pretty depressing sounding drama about a couple, faith, and violence. It stars Judy Greer, Paul Sparks, Alexander Skarsgard, and Alison Pill.</p><h3 id="%F0%9F%95%B4%EF%B8%8Fthe-luckiest-man-in-america">&#x1F574;&#xFE0F;<a href="https://youtu.be/5Dw_pujgp5Y?si=cBHIEvobWx_TYL_A" rel="noreferrer">The Luckiest Man in America</a></h3><p>Lastly, Paul Walter Hauser stars as Michael Larson in this movie based on the true story about the Press Your Luck scandal where Larson discovers the pattern behind the game in 1984 and manages to win a record-breaking 100 grand. And if you haven&apos;t gotten your fix of Walton Goggins in <em>The White Lotus </em>and <em>Righteous Gemstones</em>, then you&apos;re in luck!</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2025/04/foof_interior_silver-315.png" class="kg-image" alt="&#x1F4FA; The Media Guide S5E13" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1000" srcset="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w600/2025/04/foof_interior_silver-315.png 600w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w1000/2025/04/foof_interior_silver-315.png 1000w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w1600/2025/04/foof_interior_silver-315.png 1600w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2025/04/foof_interior_silver-315.png 2000w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><h2 id="%F0%9F%93%9D-what-else-3">&#x1F4DD; What Else?</h2><ul><li><a href="https://youtu.be/8B1EtVPBSMw?si=5w0yK5elYBmzn27_" rel="noreferrer">A Minecraft Movie</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/dEGhDL1WdnQ?si=GRnOtCeHxG_E0wyj" rel="noreferrer">When Fall is Coming</a> (Limited)</li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/LTmzw6zG4ww?si=NttOYf6q477hbIU_" rel="noreferrer">Hell of a Summer</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/nk4mFBJ3Lyg?si=WgPx32yP5NudpQKg" rel="noreferrer">Wake Up</a></li></ul><h2 id="%F0%9F%9B%8D%EF%B8%8F-to-rentbuy">&#x1F6CD;&#xFE0F; To Rent/Buy</h2><ul><li><a href="https://youtu.be/NTvudSGfHRI?si=zTnKknFFk342GTlS" rel="noreferrer">Paddington in Peru</a></li></ul><hr><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2025/01/foof_s5-the-end.png" class="kg-image" alt="&#x1F4FA; The Media Guide S5E13" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="285" srcset="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w600/2025/01/foof_s5-the-end.png 600w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w1000/2025/01/foof_s5-the-end.png 1000w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2025/01/foof_s5-the-end.png 1200w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><figure class="kg-card kg-embed-card"><iframe width="200" height="150" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gl83mI69nX4?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen title="Lupe Fiasco - Kick, Push (Official Video)"></iframe></figure></content>
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<entry>
<title>⚒️ Every Day Is A School Day - foofaraw</title>
<link href="https://foofaraw.press/every-day-is-a-school-day/"/>
<id>67b6bd4bd204c00001fb264e</id>
<updated>2025-04-01T16:00:54.000Z</updated>
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<content type="html"><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2024/06/cavendish-copy.png" class="kg-image" alt="&#x2692;&#xFE0F; Every Day Is A School Day" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="285" srcset="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w600/2024/06/cavendish-copy.png 600w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/size/w1000/2024/06/cavendish-copy.png 1000w, https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2024/06/cavendish-copy.png 1200w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><h1 id="%E2%9A%92%EF%B8%8F-every-day-is-a-school-day">&#x2692;&#xFE0F; Every Day Is A School Day</h1><h3 id="by-joel-glover"><em>by </em><a href="https://twitter.com/booksafterbed" rel="noreferrer"><em>Joel Glover</em></a></h3><img src="https://foofaraw.press/content/images/2025/02/cavendish-18.png" alt="&#x2692;&#xFE0F; Every Day Is A School Day"><p>In-person meetings between Zambesi Miombo and CE Growth Matrix were always tense affairs.&#xA0;</p><p>There was <em>history</em>.</p><p>Stefania had spent more than an hour overseeing the arrangement of the pens and pads of paper on the tables. The choice of flatware had been the cause of one hundred and seventeen emails&#x2014;a new record&#x2014;as well as the usual five meetings. Glassware was a potential sticking point, with both parties having very particular and contradictory cultural cues.</p><p>She looked over the heavy conference table, its wood exported at great expense from the cultivated forests of New New Caledonia, carved from that single timber by artisans in the zero-G manufacturers of Mahilad&#x16B; Station, then shipped at even further expense to the regional headquarters of Cavendish Fuel (Rocketry) where it went mostly unused.&#xA0;</p><p>There was a speck of dust. A touch of organic beeswax from the HQ&#x2019;s own apiarists restored the offending blemish. The canister, adorned with a C stylised in a jagged font, went back into the drawer of the <em>somewhat</em> less expensive beverage station.</p><p>Both parties arrived on time.&#xA0;</p><p>This was not an accident.</p><p>Outside, the geosynchronously orbiting satellite pilots followed AI generated flight paths, dancing towards their docking bays like bees towards their hive. Both landed and locked into place at the exact same moment, so neither could claim they were preferred. Both walked almost identical distances, the differences adjusted for by slight delays in door opening cycles and the speeds of the walkways rotating gently underfoot.&#xA0;</p><p>&#x201C;Colleagues, welcome.&#x201D;</p><p>She made the still universal gesture of greeting, arms spread wide to show that she was unarmed and unthreatening.&#xA0;</p><p>The whole affair was primitive and exhilarating.</p><p>None of the attendees shook hands.&#xA0;</p><p>Their weapons were words unspoken and contracts unwritten. Their hands were never on the blade that caused the damage, their fingers never pulled a trigger.</p><p>Everyone smiled a genteel, polite smile.&#xA0;</p><p>In simian societies the baring of teeth is a threat, Stefania had read. In this room everything was a threat.</p><p>The groups examined the table, the room, searching for an insult. The heads up display rolling across one lens of her otherwise purely cosmetic eye wear told her the temperatures on both sides of the room were precisely set to the requirements of the respective negotiators.</p><p>Stafania sat down. As an arbitrator she needed to be equidistant between both groups to show no favour, but it did leave her at the head of the table&#x2014;alone&#x2014;like her mother at family dinners.</p><p>&#x201C;Thank you all for joining us today. I hope this will be a productive discussion. As agreed, I will now give the floor to Zambesi Miombo to make their preparatory statement.&#x201D;</p><p>The spokesperson for Zambesi Miombo was hooded, their face masked behind a sensor-occluding array of wearables. Their entire body was sheathed from the outside world, so no evidence of their identity could be gathered. Their voice, when it came, was scrubbed by filters and then re-processed. The whole statement could have been pre-recorded or written down, but this was the formula.</p><p>Stefania was experienced enough to not roll her eyes as the speech lasted the precise time allotted without adding anything of substance not already contained and previewed by the meeting&#x2019;s title and agenda.</p><p>Where Zambesi Miombo were hooded and swaddled, CE Growth Matrix wore their own uniform: worksuits. The all-in-one baggy garments kept the wearer warm when moving between dormitory cubicles and EVA suits. Stefania had never met a CE Growth Matrix employee who was wearing anything else, at work. &#x2018;I am ready to go and get my hands dirty,&#x2019; said the suits, &#x2018;my hands are for calculators and keyboards,&#x2019; said the skin of those same hands.&#xA0;</p><p>&#x201C;We are willing to provide services to Zambesi Miombo at the commercially quoted rate, which is widely available.&#x201D;</p><p>The commercially quoted rate is, Stefania happens to know, set at five times the rate at which CE Growth Matrix typically operates, give or take. This would look like egregious price gouging from a monopoly position were it not for&#x2014;</p><p>&#x201C;You cause this problem and then seek to profit from it!&#x201D; The largest of the Zambesi Miombo negotiators strikes the table so hard their gauntleted hands leave gouges no amount of beeswax will buff out. The tone of their speech is rendered out into a totally neutral affect by the synthesisers, but Stefania knows this is a person she would try not to anger in the octopush pool.</p><p>The main suit from CE Growth Matrix spreads their hands appeasingly. &#x201C;We are sorry for any temporary difficulties you may be experiencing.&#x201D;&#xA0;</p><p>The gauntlets strike the desk again. The words: &#x2018;A bombing campaign conducted by your surrogates to deny us access to mineral rights across several solar systems, followed by refusal to help us rebuild, is <em>not</em> a temporary difficulty&#x2019; throb unsaid from by the Zambesi Miombo group.</p><p>The suit begins again. &#x201C;I am sure that reasonable people can come to an agreement.&#x201D;</p><p>He means &#x2018;give us twenty percent of everything produced by those new facilities&#x2019; thought Stefania. This new tariff had been set elsewhere, and represented an increase on whatever they had gouged from Zambesi Miombo in the last round of intra-corporate negotiations.</p><p>The Zambesi Miombo group stood as one. They must have internal communication devices within their hoods, devices they must have been completely confident would withstand the scrutiny of CE Growth Matrix snoopware.</p><p>Eyes tightened opposite them as the implications of this sank in.</p><p>&#x201C;We shall seek out such reasonable people then.&#x201D;</p><p>Stefania did not know that it was possible to be sarcastic through a vocoder.&#xA0;</p><p>Every day was a school day. </p><hr><div class="kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-accent"><div class="kg-callout-text">Joel&#x2019;s grimdark novels &quot;The Path of Pain and Ruin&quot; and &#x201C;Paths to Empires&#x2019; Ends&#x201D; are available on Amazon, as is his fantasy novel &#x201C;The Thirteenth Prince&#x201D; and a collaborative project &#x201C;Literary Footnotes&#x201D;. Follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/booksafterbed" rel="noreferrer">@booksafterbed</a> on the website formerly known as Twitter for links to his other short work.</div></div></content>
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<entry>
<title>Post on The Independent Variable - The Independent Variable</title>
<link href="https://tiv.today/2025/03/icedetentions"/>
<id>https://tiv.today/2025/03/icedetentions</id>
<updated>2025-03-31T22:42:00.000Z</updated>
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<h4 id="the-ice-detention-of-a-turkish-student-is-a-serious-free-speech-test-the-present-age"><span class="small-caps">🧊</span> The <span class="small-caps">ICE</span> Detention of a Turkish Student Is a Serious Free Speech Test /// <a href="https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-ice-detention-of-a-turkish-student" target="_blank">The Present Age</a></h4>
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<p>If you’re genuinely concerned about free speech, this should be setting off alarm bells regardless of your position on Israel-Palestine. The government is literally snatching people off the streets for expressing political opinions and shipping them 1,400 miles away from their homes, lawyers, and support systems.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Between the lack of due process and the targeting of political speech without crimes being committed, or even charged, ever American should be angry right now.</p> </content>
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<entry>
<title>Post on The Independent Variable - The Independent Variable</title>
<link href="https://tiv.today/2025/03/sonicdna"/>
<id>https://tiv.today/2025/03/sonicdna</id>
<updated>2025-03-31T22:42:00.000Z</updated>
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<h4 id="how-sonic-dna-connects-generations-of-music-pudding"><span class="small-caps">📻</span> How Sonic <span class="small-caps">DNA</span> Connects Generations of Music /// <a href="https://pudding.cool/2025/04/music-dna/" target="_blank">Pudding</a></h4>
<p>Such a fun web experience of listening through the history of samples.</p> </content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Post on The Independent Variable - The Independent Variable</title>
<link href="https://tiv.today/2025/03/torpedobat"/>
<id>https://tiv.today/2025/03/torpedobat</id>
<updated>2025-03-31T22:41:00.000Z</updated>
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<h4 id="what-is-a-torpedo-bat-how-much-does-it-help-hitters-inside-mlbs-next-big-thing-espn">⚾ What is a torpedo bat? How much does it help hitters? Inside <span class="small-caps">MLB</span><span class="push-single"></span><span class="pull-single">’</span>s next big thing /// <a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/44477141/mlb-2025-torpedo-bowling-pin-bats-new-york-yankees-taking-baseball" target="_blank"><span class="small-caps">ESPN</span></a></h4>
<blockquote>
<p>The creation of the bowling pin bat (also known as the torpedo bat) optimizes the most important tool in baseball by redistributing weight from the end of the bat toward the area 6 to 7 inches below its tip, where major league players typically strike the ball. Doing so takes an apparatus that for generations has looked the same and gives it a fun-house-mirror makeover, with the fat part of the bat more toward the handle and the end tapering toward a smaller diameter, like a bowling pin.</p>
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<p>It might end up being too late for baseball, but I continue to be amazed at the innovation and chances they are willing to take to make the game more enjoyable. It’s a lesson other sports need to learn from sooner than later.</p>
<p>And more from <a href="https://defector.com/what-is-the-deal-with-the-yankees-weird-bats" target="_blank">Defector</a></p> </content>
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<entry>
<title>Post on The Independent Variable - The Independent Variable</title>
<link href="https://tiv.today/2025/03/maya"/>
<id>https://tiv.today/2025/03/maya</id>
<updated>2025-03-31T22:40:00.000Z</updated>
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<h4 id="maya-people-blogs"><span class="small-caps">🖤</span> Maya /// <a href="https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-maya" target="_blank">People &amp; Blogs</a></h4>
<p>Maya is the best so it was no surprise that her P&amp;B interview is one of my favorites to run so far.</p> </content>
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