'Northern Spring' (1969) Brent Wong

"wearing sunglasses like Robert Denino" sung in Autotune has been lodged in my head for three straight days.

To be clear, the examined life is not worth living either

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice. KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond. His reply was a doozy.

Like, I mean

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.

Read this thread. This is what @katmabu.bsky.social was protesting, and why she repeatedly says getting beaten up by ICE outside is nothing compared to the torture and crimes being committed inside Broadview. These thugs must be held to account.

AI slop targeting homeowner clicks is increasingly clogging up any & all HVAC-related online research. It's a constant headache I run into at work. Now, more than ever, random decade-old videos made by accounts named like "Don the Coil Guy" are our nation's most precious resource.

Italian guy watching The VVitch: Dio mio, da Vah-Veech!

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

Turnstile is peak Music For Shirtless People

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto

someone listened to my halloween album and told three friends about it, and they lucked into a stash of magic anklets. someone else didn't listen or share and they were waylaid by skeleton warriors, died, and lost half their gold. just repeating what i heard

OK folks, here's the deal. Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads and has ignored asks to stop. It's time to tell them we won't stream fascism - by cancelling our subscriptions. Here's how to get started: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

i like you bro. i’m gonna add you to my bestiary

What's instructive about #2 in this new report is the admission that Dems see their job as representing a snapshot of public opinion (thermometer) rather than fighting on principle to persuade the public (thermostat). www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

La Dispute's new record is a triumph. easily half of the tracks are becoming favorites in their entire catalogue, for myriad reasons. and not all of them good lol. "Top-Sellers Banquet" has re-awoken a dormant fear of rapture in me. ladispute.bandcamp.com/track/top-se...

"I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear." - Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Remembering the incredible work of the late great Bernie Wrightson on his birthday 🖤

was just skimming through old footage and found this ruthless moment in 1970s baseball broadcasting

my son has a gambling addiction

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

a bit of trivia you can stick in your back pocket: my Polish co-worker has informed me that the singular of "pierogi" is "pieróg"

Just an incredible image and thank you to whoever assembled it. #Facts #Hollyweird #NowThatsCrazy

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

Okay fine, proofreading your sign makes ME the facist

BASEBALL BREAKS YOUR HEART. IT IS DESIGNED TO BREAK YOUR HEART

That is considered a "grounded into double play" because of the nature of the forces, and LOL.

MAGIC BREW

ah yes, Elissa Tall Ship. I loved her part in that Toy Contraption video, "Welcome to Pandæmonium"

Hours before yesterday's shooting, the largest network in the country was actively calling for genocide and extermination live on air. Watching one of the loudest voices that led us here get deified by every major network and publication is heartbreaking beyond words. We're begging you. Wake up.

something I learned today: the term "Cultural Marxism" (the antisemitic conspiracy theory now common among right-wingers) is a direct descendant of a Nazi propaganda term, "Cultural Bolshevism".

TO THE DEPTHS WITH YE

This is a great piece by @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social with helpful tips for addressing COVID misinformation. As a science communicator, my experience is that the best way to win people over is with empathetic real world conversations and it's work we all need to do if we want to turn things around.

This is trans rights, too. There is no viable position for the Democrats other than “trans rights are human rights.” Trying to triangulate a position where you throw trans people under the bus “just a little” to woo swing voters only feeds the right’s argument that trans people are a threat 1/x

the new TWIABP is a work of art that I wish didn't have to be made, but I'm glad someone did. so many vivid images from distant past, & even future, to throw the present in sharp relief. "yell out loud as a weather god, a thunderstorm, an avalanche, an Anzu bird, a bull, a bomb inside a Cadillac" 🎶

*this* is how I found out they're making an I Am Legend 2

The movies don't really get into it, but it's worth remembering that Denethor went crazy because he spent too much time doomscrolling on the Palantír and it cooked his brain

Yes, COVID gave anti-vaxxers a convenient lane to build political power, but it's wrong to heap all the blame for this on the dedicated public health and medical professionals who sacrificed so much to save people's lives.

Sid the Sloth jumpscare? in my Alien?

Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art