Work culture, labor exploitation, hustling, and the grind — The majority of people have had to apply for a job, yet it's probably not the most enjoyable thing you've done. Most people routinely cite dissatisfaction, not just with their jobs, but in the job application process, especially for online applications where it is seen as very opaque. To quote…

Global warming, climate change denialism, activism, & protest — Earth Day came and went this year on April 22nd, and you would be forgiven for missing it. Our society does not put a lot of emphasis on protecting this planet — after all, the almost apocalyptic IPCC report would not have us projected to possibly hit 1.5C …

Capitalism, Wage Slavery, Dystopias, & the Future of the American Workforce — “We’re divinely discontented with customer experiences,” preaches a letter to shareholders. That line may sound like it came from the fictional dialogue of a corporate dystopia, but it’s from a real company. Let’s put a pin on the “who” for a moment. …

What the multiverse-hopping epic does brilliantly and also terribly — Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s dimension-hopping epic Everything Everywhere All at Once centers on an aimless woman named Evelyn Quan Wang (played by Michelle Yeoh) who runs a laundromat. Evelyn is unhappy with how her life has ended up — a life that seems to be crumbling at the seams…

A Big Fat I Told You So To Contrarians In Denial About the Abortion Movement — Dear Naysayers, By now, you’ve learned the news that Roe v Wade — the landmark decision that protects (or should I say, protected) a pregnant person's right to choose to have an abortion — will probably be overturned, courtesy of a leaked draft from Politico. “We hold that Roe and…

This trans person is terrified of the future — I have been on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) for a year, and it has made me so incredibly happy. I look at the curves of my new body in the mirror every morning, and it fills me with joy. I am the person I have wanted to be for a…

Matt Reeve’s gritty reboot set out to change the game & sadly crashed headfirst into the pavement — Director Matt Reeves’s gritty The Batman involves a newish Bruce Wayne AKA Batman (played by Robert Pattinson) battling against the criminal elements of Gotham City while simultaneously trying to stop a serial killer named the Riddler (Paul Dano). This Batman is a darker, arguably mentally unwell person, saying lines like…

The show about 1880s aristocrats is all sparkle and no substance. — The Gilded Age is about several upper-class families in Manhattan. We have the ingenue Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson), who has just moved in with her aunts from Pennsylvania after losing everything in the wake of her father’s death; Peggy Scott (Denée Benton), a young, ambitious Black woman trying to build…