it’s important to keep faith in culture alive and you can’t do that by pointing at things that are stupid and vacuous. at some point you have to model the kind of attention and discipline you think has been lost or destroyed
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it’s important to keep faith in culture alive and you can’t do that by pointing at things that are stupid and vacuous. at some point you have to model the kind of attention and discipline you think has been lost or destroyed
i feel so old fashioned for thinking there should be consequences
he doesn’t make me wanna jump into a vat of acid, unlike nearly every other politician with a national profile in 2025
yes
squirrel for dinner
No. If I say "I want to build a Mars base!" That's "Wanting to build stuff?" But if I say, "I want to end all fossil fuel cars by 2030!" That's holding back progress? 🙂🙃 "I want to build murder drones!" I'm a builder? "I want to build enough housing to end homelessness this decade!" Leftist? 🙂🙃
mood
‘well i can’t tell you *everything* now, can i’ he smirked, his paul smith cufflink gleaming in the pinpoint lights above the ssl
brilliant record producer, peerless engineer, c- / d+ hang
get em
snufkin appreciation post
New single out! Album out next week. linktr.ee/innend Stian A - vocals, bass Martin M. A. Tonne - Guitar Iver A. Tandsether - guitar Axel Skalstad - drums (we miss you, dear friend) Chris W. @calculizer.bsky.social produced, and stayed up late to do the drum machine in the first part of the song.
this is seattle
sorry lexi
jet lag
kevin clotsner in field of creams
The administration plans to attack public festivities in Chicago around Mexican Independence Day (which may include this weekend's parade in Pilsen or related activities) because they want to attack folks in settings where people will try to protect and hold onto community members.
Nobody who voted to confirm RFK is fit to hold public office
they tell us that we’ve lost our tails / evolving up from little snails / i say it’s all just wind in sails
Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
absolutely haunted transportation day
I’m so excited to play loud riffs with some incredible bands this weekend. 9.5 - Philly w/ @nojoy.bsky.social + Flowers For The Dead 9.6 - Brooklyn w/ @perennialtheband.bsky.social + @thebandreds.bsky.social
Niko is obvi right and one effect of this is that the media narrative surrounding transness calcifies us as objects of oppression, rather than subjects capable of living a life outside that narrow band of our experience. Which perpetuates the dehumanization.
If the U.S. military isn't going to release details on the justification for killing 11 civilians in a civilian boat who weren't posing a threat to anyone, then we have to conclude the "justification" is: the U.S. military is willing to kill civilians to give Trump social media content.
at burger king you can have it your way
Something I didn't get to say yesterday: We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.
exactly (north)
(las vegas is the midwest)
you are doing your best and getting through it. this is an appreciation post for you, please keep going
it’s illegal in 31 states to print the words ‘gulch’, ‘ranch’ or ‘barrel’ in a sans serif font
strictly serif
malcom selmer is my hero
thank you robyn, this means the world coming from you
everything east of las vegas is east coast
everything east of las vegas is east coast
west coast cities are sans serif. east coast cities are serif, with a carveout for florida, which is specifically papyrus
you are not wrong.
as a statement of my values and priorities, i stand by it
turns out there’s a downside to packing two dozen garlic bagels in one’s suitcase, with all of one’s clothes
you are doing your best and getting through it. this is an appreciation post for you, please keep going
Happy Yes Day!
I did my best to push back on my book being "trans memoir" as it's about many things, but most of all how my life was formed by labour. I got my first job @ 13. I was a journeyman Glazier @ 21. I wasn't a writer (or a trans) until my 30s. Celebrate Labour Day by reading about labour 🔗: is.gd/E42lih
ds-1 appreciation post
tonight it was a rebroadcast of today’s dodgers game
pietro’s > shakey’s, but it still went pretty hard
i love it too, but i am prone to existential crises in grocery stores
i did not partake, i’m sorry to report. the pizza was a particular kind of glorious, tho
recording, as ever
pretty good. day 11 of a very good record. ready for an off day but no complaints. you?
not sure, but i think it’s 700,000 for the fighter jet
at the shakey’s in glendale. ama
‘fake plastic trees’ is. pretty rough as supermarket music, not sure i have the capacity for it
absolutely not what anyone said
please read this exceptional piece of writing, about a band i love and a friend i miss. hands down the best short form explainer on the hip i’ve ever come across pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
please read this exceptional piece of writing, about a band i love and a friend i miss. hands down the best short form explainer on the hip i’ve ever come across pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
transit is climate action, transit is disability justice, transit is economic development, transit is family-wage jobs, transit unlocks access to education and health care and every other social service the state provides. what good's a clinic if the folks who need it the most can't reach it?
spacemoth appreciation post
gavin newsom is bad and it’s okay to say so
it's only human to spend 2 months avoiding an important task that will take 25 minutes
Craven "like and subscribe"-style business post: My book could really use some more reviews on Amazon, so if you've read it (or are planning to sit down with it this holiday weekend!) could you head over there and share some thoughts + give a star rating?
we were fond of calcium carbide bucket bombs
quantum presidency
similarly out of the loop
excellent writeup, you’re not alone in having a complicated relationship with that album. thank you
how hard can one jazz wolf. can i jazz wolf harder
Genuinely have no idea how much longer I can take literally every trans person around me being on the edge of falling apart - and every now and again losing someone I can't help keep together - while the cis people just kinda nod and assume we're all being hysterical.
"The spectacle that falsifies reality is nevertheless a real product of that reality, while lived reality is materially invaded by the contemplation of the spectacle and ends up absorbing it and aligning itself with it."
me also, i feel especially down in it today
the way she delivers this song so casually, like it’s just no big deal to sing it
We need to stop using a framework of 'ChatGPT killed someone', it feeds into the myth of the system's agency & OpenAI's framing. The right framework to use: OpenAI is continuing to perpetuate an indefinite industrial disaster. The oil pipe is not at fault when it breaks. The company that built it is
As a parent, the one thing that could give me a fucking sliver of peace in this country is if legislators actually did something about access to guns
this is obviously a huge deal and i’m furious but also is @joshtpm.bsky.social going to correct his posts about this applying to people over 19 yet
it’s just 2 otters holding hands
erica does excellent work and i respect her a lot. please miss me with this, it’s not okay
get em
an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening
When someone started tampering with Tylenol bottles in 1982 the company recalled $100 million worth of bottles immediately even though they clearly weren't at fault
Yup
det er helt essensielt at vi får grønne partier store nok til at det er umulig for Ap å ignorere dem
consider the time, commitment, and expertise required to do this from scratch in 2025, particularly if you're a listener who did not grow up with an ownership model of any kind
excellent thread re: chicago reader
ambient ai spam
every now and again it's worth pointing how absolutely dumbfuck bullshit stupid our government is
every day there are more reasons to leave spotify – ethical, political, sonic – and fewer reasons to stay. not gonna hound anyone about it, but if playlists are the thing you can't imagine life without, then it's worth considering a change
My debut book is OUT TODAY! 'Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion' is about how indie rock changed the mainstream and the mainstream changed indie rock in the 21st century. Buy it and let me know what you think:
all these professional conservative talkers are so mid
how did charlie kirk. just how
This is what happens when you order delivery in DC right now.
the bullies do not care u capitulated they want the controversy not a solution
every democrat who does not speak out about this enables it. what the administration is doing here is a large-scale tactic to isolate trans people and strengthen future attacks on us. the gains we have made are built on visibility and public knowledge of us and our needs.
Disable ChatGPT this fucking instant. Destroy it. JFC.
trying to keep the 'i worked on this' posts to a minimum here but: i worked really hard on this thing & it's an incredible document from an electric moment in the story of this band
absolutely
You're talking about Bodø/Glimt qualifying for the champions league, yes?
it's cute and i'm happy for them ❤️