EDITING DELAYED BY HURRICANES BUT THEY CANNOT STOP US Looks like we have to talk about the election, I guess. UGH. There was a debate, Kamala still has issues to work out, but it's best to vote for the opposition you're fighting against than the alternative. Also we talk Charli XCX, Chappell Roan, and Societal Memory Problems Around Fame as Abuse. …

WE'RE BACK AGAIN! Adobe craters user trust and also falls under investigation by the government for its awful cancellation policies, and said government finally forces Chiquita to pay for some of its crimes. Also featuring a section I like to call Star Wars: Disney's Evermore Park. BARKING POINT: Extremely bad theme restaurant ideas. Genuinely bad …

It's a Luno-Axel Tag Team Episode! HOLY SHIT BOEING IS A DISASTER OF A COMPANY and also a symbol of how enshittification runs across all industries equally. More Fake-AI News, this time about Fake Fake-AI which isn't a double-negative in their favor. Barking Point: Extremely specific competitions SPONSORS: Aode (lion), blimpeh, Chris, Dissonant Dra…

Back after some technical delay with good tidings such as Henry Kissinger finally dying like he should have in the crib! Also we might get some high speed rail in this country (also pipelines). Might Elon finally be facing some consequences for his managerial incompetence? Maybe! All this and more. BARKING POINT: What is the next extremely niche co…

This episode was recorded in October, and after some delay with the editing process, is finally in releasable form! Palestine and the ongoing occupation/genocide by the Israeli government, the Writers Strike ends with a victory, while other related industries are ongoing or need to act as well, and the FTC finally hits Amazon. BARKING POINT: Conser…

HUGE LABOR UPDATES Video games are probably the next to join the overall entertainment industry strike, as VFX workers unionize. Also MASK THE HELL UP. BARKING POINT: What other weird kinds of data are devices tracking from us? SPONSORS: Aode (Lion), Aylor, blimpeh, Chris, Deltanova, Dissonant Dragon, Drífa Jónsdóttir, Graith Ilesanmi, knightly, Ko…

Supreme Court sure is corrupt, but sometimes it accidentally lands on a ruling that isn't absolute garbage! Barking Point: If Jordan Peterson's fake-ass Ralston College was actually a campus, what kind of fun activities could students partake in? SPONSORS: Aode (lion), Aylor, blimpeh, Chris, Deltanova, Dissonant Dragon, Drifa Jónsdóttir, Graith Ile…

FLORIDA IS CURRENTLY HELL, also we might have a historic entertainment industry strike on our hands with the Writer's Guild currently picketing, with a vote from SAG-AFTRA on the way. The cause? All that fake AI bullshit that is being inflicted on us! BARKING POINT: With Street Fighter's Ken becoming a cryptocurrency doofus, let's look at other ext…

The Supreme Court is a fukken mess, and the Vatican finally ends Doctrine of Discovery, something that should never have existed in the first place. BARKING POINT: WHY DOES THE MOON FOLLOW THE CAR?! And other scientific mysteries that TikTok stumbles to understand. SPONSORS: Xurnami, WrenYena, Varulf, Torsten 'non compos mentis wolfies' Pihl, Tille…

The one good use of the internet is about to get strangled by publishing companies against the will of many of the authors they claim to represent, Chipotle has to pay for its union-busting, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, and a look into one of the many reasons silicon valley is deranged. Barking Point: Let's gameify reality! SPONSORS: Xurnami, Wre…

Scott Adams' idiot mouth finally gets his dumb scribbles cleaned out from the nation's newspapers, The NYT can't stop obsessing over trans people existing, and AI art just sucks okay it's just terrible. BARKING POINTS are temporarily on hold until we establish a reliable place for people to post them. However, BARKING BITS are still available for a…

Titmouse Animation gets unionized! Union Busters are afraid of the consequences of their actions: rising class consciousness. A Sprigatito acquires and publishes the TSA's no-fly list. Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro make a possibly fatal mistake in their mishandling of the D&D license. BARKING POINTS are temporarily on hold until we establish a reliab…

Labor Report continues with Nickelodeon workers getting support from IATSE in their unionization effort, & Paramount gives up the ghost in trying to buy up Penguin. We end up talking about the amazing youtube series coming out, such as Jenny Nicholson's report on Evermore. That park is an endless chasm of impossible possibilities and misplaced effo…

Kanye can't even get a meeting with Sketchers, The With From Mercury is worth watching, and the University of California educators are going on strike. SPONSORS: Xurnami, WrenYena, Varulf, Torsten 'non compos mentis wolfies' Pihl, Tillen Shark, Takel, TailStrike, sensual kazoo, scuttlefuzz, saul mondriaan, Rei Moonwuff, phillypu, newdarkcloud, Mido…

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! There's actual good news this time! I know it's really weird but sometimes this happens. Support your favorite voice over artists as they are currently locked in a battle against Sony! Alex Jones has to pay almost a billion dollars, y'all! BARKING POINT: Create the Next Lovably-Evil Horror Villain THIS WEEK'S BARKING POINTERS: h…

Publishing is weird right now, y'all. On the plus side, Condé-Nast has a union now! On the other hand, Random House is arguing in favor of its own managerial and strategic incompetence so they can be given more responsibility over publishing. This is a statement that makes sense. BARKING POINT: Extremely Unfortunately-Designed Memorabilia, The Kind…

Topless Dancers file for union representation, California advances legislation for restaurant workers to unionize, John Deere gets jailbroken, & Vic Mignogna loses again! Yay! BARKING POINT: Poorly-conceived mascots for psa campaigns! This Week's Barking Pointers: https://twitter.com/thorgolucky/status/1558306205277122560 https://twitter.com/blimpe…

WE'RE BACK! Car crashes, furcons, diseases, and moves across the country temporarily took our attention away from the news but the good times couldn't last forever, could they? LABOR REPORT is back in action as it is still this show's thesis that organizing unions and guilds are the only way towards a general strike. Also things are not going well …

WE GOT A SPECIAL GUEST! APOLLO! You might have seen them online as the adorable mascott of a Starbucks unionization effort, and they're here to talk about their experiences and generally just hang as we talk labor and Activizion-Blizzard's asinine diversity tokenization tool. BARKING POINT: Let's improve that diversity tool by finding better, funni…

Labor action is currently where we are seeing the most… action. Also Disney feels the dumb ire of Republicans because they turned the money-faucet off over how bad it now looks to be giving that party money. BARKING POINT: Now that Barbie is getting a movie, pitch your own, any genre, go fukken nuts! This Week's Barking Pointers: https://twitter.co…

IT'S A POPLUCK EPISODE! Also we talk about the successful formation of an Amazon union. BARKING POINT: So what is E3 going to even put on now that it is going to have neither an online or live show? LINKS https://www.thenation.com/article/society/uber-theranos-wework-tv/ https://youtu.be/78Y-1plYJuQ trickystoop.bandcamp.com This Week's Barking Poin…

Disney is up to some shit in Florida, and we're just asking FWA and other conventions to maybe consider paying their performers or at least comp their registration I mean come on seriously what is up with that. BARKING POINT: Let's filter important and possibly inappropriate human events through cutesy meme accounts! LINKS: https://twitter.com/oahu…

Animation workers unite for better conditions and pay, the Supreme Court is about to hear a case that affects the rights of native people, and middleschool kids get traumatized at a sleepover. BARKING POINT: Three. Concept. Platform. LINKS: Animation Worker's Petition https://lakotalaw.org/news/2021-09-17/icwa-sovereignty https://itch.io/b/1308/ttr…

GOD DAMMIT YOU'RE MAKING US TALK ABOUT NFTS AGAIN BARKING POINT: Create Your Own Doomed Sentai Series LINKS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g https://antsstyle.medium.com/why-nfts-are-bad-the-long-version-2c16dae145e2#1c9f https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/hitpiece-nft-song-controversy-1294027/ https://twitter.com/thehumanfly_…

We wildly meander and eventually get around to talking about stories such as furries funding libraries, and the further failures of tesla, then we even bring back the good ol' Popluck. BARKING POINT: Let's REALLY make Build-A-Bear go After Dark. THIS WEEK'S BARKING POINTERS! https://twitter.com/takelgryph/status/1485382206205960202?s=21 https://twi…

Why can't they let the green M&M be sexy when she demands children buy her bambi on ps2 and spray dangerous pesticides on the cacao trees on her plantations because she has their passports? BARKING POINT: What event would you like to interrupt with broadcast pornography? LINKS! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions LETTER FROM…

Good news! We survived the holiday gauntlet and are back! Also good news! Labor has done some organizing and succeeded! Also Chile! Unfortunately we also have to report on cryptobullshit and its effect on Final Fantasy XIV: a key driver of the indecipherable tweet economy. BARKING POINT: Design your own oddly-specific scented candle! SPONSORS: Ahun…

Steve has returned! Kellogg's is still on strike and they're trying to hire scabs! Supervillain steals ancient relics and has to return them but he's real and this actually happened, again! THE GAME AWARDS HAPPENED! BARKING POINT: What is the mysterious cube on the moon? Thanksgivingafuck: https://mobile.twitter.com/wordglass/status/105859958388495…

We check in with the labor report where Image Comics workers decide to form a union! Yay! CVS wants to make it legal to harm people with disabilities by institutionalizing benign neglect! Boo! But then there's a Popluck so it's not all newsy. BARKING POINT: Inspired by ABBA's return, what band, long inactive, would you like to see a new surprise al…

Axel and Sahoni talk about all the labor activism that is happening lately, almost like some kind of consciousness is struggling to be born. BARKING POINT: Write the environmental storytelling logs left behind on Carnival Cruise's Serenade of the Sea nine-month voyage of intestinal distress. SPONSORS: Graith Ilesanmi, Drífa Jónsdóttir, Dissonant Dr…

True Crime Pods vs. The American Justice System, WHO approves the first malaria vaccine, & Netflix doubles down on Dave Chapelle's tired bit. BARKING POINT: Extremely poorly-conceived sequels and prequels. LINKS https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/zodiac-killer-identified/ https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/true-crimes-deceits-the-genrefication-…

Marvel sues to keep its characters from being credited to their actual creators, iphones might finally charge like the rest of 'em, and Berlin votes on socializing housing. Also Autumn Popluck! BARKING POINT: Let's create some Very Special Episodes of sitcoms that are extremely ill-equipped to handle the topics. SPONSORS: Xurnami, WrenYena, Wolfina…

A WHIRLWIND OF STORIES! You can buy Oreos again, but not from Instacart, California changes its zoning laws, and Instagram for Kids: the child zoo for advertisers. BARKING POINT: Design the next right-wing tech scam! SPONSORS: Garglestone, Gabe Fox, Drifa Jónsdóttir, Dissonant Dragon, Deltanova, Chris, blimpeh, Aylor, Aode (Lion), & Ahundred THIS W…

Starbucks workers in Buffalo try to unionize, OSHA kind of covers workers getting vaccinated, somehow both Epic and Apple lose at the same time, and Copyright is now ruining music instead of just books, tv, and film. BARKING POINT: The next animal to join the Raccoon-Capybara Alliance to Take Back Civilization SPONSORS: scuttlefuzz, saul mondriaan,…

We're back again, and we hit the ground running with Afghanistan, Texas, Line 3, and also the release of Psychonauts 2! BARKING POINT: Create the new joyless future meal plans that will make soylent look decadent. SPONSORS: Xurnami, WrenYena, Wolfinator, wijn, Varulf, Torsten Pihl and a goat asks Wouldst thou like to live deliciously, Tillen Shark,…

Ding Dong Rumsfeld is Dead, Get Out Your Dancing Shoes! The Olympics are Still Terrible! And Racist! Britney Spears and Conservatorships BARKING POINT: Ikea takes pride to the whole store, what are the results? LINKS: https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/campaigns/loveseats-pub6f2e1660 https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-rumsfeld-killer-of-400000-people-die…

Right to Repair, Juneteenth, and E3! Quite a variety this week, folks! BARKING POINT: What other activities do Heroes simply not do? BARKING POINTERS: https://twitter.com/newdarkcloud/status/1404584021288488960?s=21 https://twitter.com/blimpeh/status/1405578448005861380?s=21 SPONSORS: MadMonk, Midori Switch Hound, newdarkcloud, Nik!, Nuzzley-Fuzzil…

It's a two-host episode as we cover the latest in NFL racism, the closing of the Keystone XL pipeline and the continuing fight with Line 3, and a horrifying number of childrens' bodies are unearthed at one of the many schools that native children were imprisoned in, something that the US shares. BARKING POINT: Doomed E3 presentations! This Week's B…

The ongoing attempts to silence the BDS movement finally hit a roadblock with the first amendment, the politics of Belarus and Eurovision! Barking Point: Disney attempts to give hagiographic origin stories of whatever they can find some scrap of reference for, what have they created? CHECK OUT STEVE'S NEW ALBUM! SPONSORS: MadMonk, Midori Switch Hou…

A MEGASODE! Israel continues its long-standing pattern of aggression against Palestinians with US support, College athletes can not get sponsor deals but with huge strings attached, and Epic Games vs Apple drags in Itch.io, then we have a large helping of some POPLUCK! Barking Point: Create an UNSPEAKABLE* GAME (*no bigotry, we're looking for satir…

Derek Chauvin verdict and the readiness of liberals to call it justice, DC Statehood gets tanked by Joe Manchin, Unmasking is a necessary labor, Olympics gonna Olympics, Pokémon Card Crisis Core, & How Does This Keep Happening to Conservatives - Matt Gaetz and Josh Duggar vs human decency and law. BARKING POINT: Imagine someone trapped on a reality…

This just in: all cops, still bad! At least New Mexico is ending their qualified immunity, though. Discord has a case of "OH MY GOD YOU CAN SEE HER ANKLES IN THAT SKIRT!" and decides to Tumblr its way to a buyout. BARKING POINT: What company will follow in Capcom's footsteps and cynically 'embrace' its audience's projections upon it? (Reference Mat…

Axel can't remember which state has what's happening where, but there's Amazon garbage, anti-trans bullshit, and voting rights violations going on and we're going to tell you about it! BARKING POINT: Tell us your TOTALLY AND TRULY VERY SUPER-REAL anti-drug stories. LINKS: https://web.archive.org/web/20140124201848/https://www.pfaw.org/sites/default…

We cover the racist killings in Atlanta and the history of anti-Asian and Pacific Islander activity in the USA long before this, a suspicious land development plan in Savannah, GA, and Diamond Comics Distributors is finally dead! BARKING POINT: Create Your Own Extremely Online, Extremely Sad Family Moments Inspiration: https://twitter.com/JennyENic…

JUST SAY 'No Fucking Thanks' TO NFTs, IT'S A POP-CULTURE POTLUCK! BARKING POINT: What is your favorite 'comfort food' media? LINKS REFERENCED: https://emergencemagazine.org/story/the-channel-coyotes/ http://twitpic.com/3aqqa0 https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1370189135747555331 https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-starbase-city-spacex-texas-la…

Deb Haaland's confirmation battle, lateral violence, Six Days in Fallujah's empty spectacle, and ResetEra snuffs out the next Harry Potter game. BARKING POINT: Create your own fun historical conspiracy theory. THIS WEEK'S BARKING POINTER: https://twitter.com/sixarmedsweater/status/1363935969460834306?s=21 https://twitter.com/sixarmedsweater/status/…

Texas learns an unpleasant lesson about deregulating and privatizing its energy market, everything about the Euphoria app is the worst thing about it, and can we just not with Cruella? BARKING POINT: Upcoming Scandals of President Biden's Dog This Week's Barking Pointers: https://twitter.com/blimpeh/status/1361426880834936834?s=21 https://twitter.c…

WE CAN'T HELP OURSELVES WITH THESE MEGASODES! Internet consolidation, GameStop Stocks and Blockchain currencies are not praxis, and uuuuugh Joss Whedon. BARKING POINT: Pitch some projects from the new Gina Carano-Daily Wire short-lived tantrum project. This Week's Barking Pointers https://twitter.com/blimpeh/status/1359242225050292225?s=21 https://…

WE'RE BACK WITH A MEGASODE! We talk Sophie, COVID vaccines and how they work, Jan 6th, the starting of the Biden administration, a furry update, and new developments at Neom. BARKING POINT: Imagine that The Dark Carnival has been sold to Cirque du Soliel, what are the acts? Article about THE LINE: https://malekafzali.substack.com/p/neom-the-line-to…

Antitrust charges are finally being levied against Facebook, and a long GAMES UPDATE. Barking Point: Pitch an episode of a CW-ified reboot of a franchise. This week's Barking Pointers:https://twitter.com/takelgryph/status/1332744983456133120?s=21 https://twitter.com/sixarmedsweater/status/1333521673220481024?s=21 SPONSORS: Adept Omega, Ahundred, Ao…