Found guilty of buttery

One thing CCR/Fogerty really do well is refute the necessity of “authenticity” in music, because I’m from the south and his songs work for me (and I know several southerners who thought he WAS southern) because it’s rooted in a sort of pop culture common mythology that hits regardless of specifics.

12 Hangry Men.

Reading transgressive queer horror fiction to show my support for representation while also shaking my head to show that I disapprove of transgressive queer horror fiction

In Icelandic we have 'Ókind' for monster. But the translation is un-sheep. So everything not a sheep is dangerous.

People who object to terms like "birthing person" think they're being used as synonyms for woman, but they're not - that's the whole point. A childfree woman like me would never be called a birthing person. A 12-year-old giving birth wouldn't be called a woman.

adding a big box of old 45s into my Discogs collection and came across this rarity. the doo-wop singer Ritchie Marsh is forgotten today, but three years after this 1962 Shepherd Records single, Sky Saxon (born Richard Elvern Marsh) founded The Seeds ("Pushin' Too Hard")!

Guy Fawkes' signature before & after saying on Bluesky that he lets his cat go outside

Reminds me of the Liberal Party Assembly in, IIRC, 1961 when they had four MPs and passed a motion condemning apartheid and said "the eyes of the world are turned towards us today"

I strongly suspect that if “repeal the 19th” were on the ballot, a majority of GOP women would cast their final vote for it. They may deny it but at the end of the day it’s consistent to their worldview to which they’ve pledged their allegiance. I have no doubt it would enjoy 90%+ support from men.

"did you even read the article???? the headline is bad but the article is good!!!" buddy if I see a restaurant called Dan's Fecal Stew i am not gonna go in there to see if maybe they printed the sign wrong

Chat is it good that every bit of data that gets released now is accompanied by phrases like "in 50 years" or "in history" or "since record-keeping began" or "of all time"

I would seriously consider paying £36 for this course, but not after clicking on an 'enroll for free' button. 😐 #coursera

If I were going to do a load of crimes, and then try to cover up the crimes, I would simply not put "please cover up all those crimes I ordered you to do" in writing and store it on a server I don't own. But I am not a genius like Sam Altman.

GO GET THEM (And maybe one day lawsuits won't forget about the rest of us non-American indie authors with even less recourse.)

Stunned onlookers were overheard asking “Did we die? Is this Hell?"

Love the Isleys, and their longevity is indeed insane. This is their peak, imo: bootleg live performance post-3&3, so with extra material to the slightly earlier though still excellent official "live" album: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dv9...

The only person other than Joe Dante who should be allowed to make a Gremlins sequel is - (there is no possible ending to this sentence that works, it is an impossible sentence to end)

OpenAI here is claiming they're "too big to fail" like the banks did when the subprime mortgage crisis happened under VERY SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES. The only problem is that OpenAI is not a bank. The same dozen or so companies are passing around imaginary future money and the music is about to stop.

The best thing you can do to help your favorite author is to pre-order 150,000 copies of their next book.

Pricks#5 is done. It's about an hour old. If you're desperate to read it you can download it now www.frasergeesin.com/digital-comic

As I’ve said for years, Gremlins 2 is the perfect sequel because it deconstructs the need for it to even exist and slams the lid on the idea of a franchise to anyone who pays attention. While still being fun as hell!

The fuckers got away with it. The company. The people who made the decisions. All of them. They got away with killing hundreds for the sake of a few cents per share of increased earnings. 🤬

Not interested in a Gremlins 3 with Columbus but no Dante. I know Columbus wrote the first one and did a great job, but his other stuff is far too saccharine for me, and Gremlins 2, made by Dante without Columbus, is the superior film.

Announcing this two days after Zohran Mamdani wins is just icing on the cake.

It's absolutely WILD how routinely self-avowed superfans of hard science and modern technology IMMEDIATELY default to magical thinking, and don't consider that a red flag at all. "Excited to see what CHatGPT thinks about-" IT DOESN'T THINK!!! It's not a mind!

Hey everyone, I know that back in 2004 nobody knew how ugly Rowling was gonna get. Mamdani advised his mother not to do a big franchise entry, no matter how good the money, and to do something only she could make, instead. He gave her good advice AND she dodged an ethical bullet. Win-win.

George Albert Smith on pioneering the edited closeup:

Good to see the Isleys getting some attention. They've been performing (various combinations of the brothers, but always with Ronald on lead) for more than *seventy years* and are still great.

From doo-wop to hip-hop, they had hits across six decades. Tell us about your essential Isley recordings…

The portion where he describes the band working diligently and deliberately to find their sound by mimicking other popular songs of the time is fascinating, and reminds me of how the romantic notion of artistic inspiration contrasts with the rigor that really goes into creative work

Again: these people will not change their behavior or their culture until the consequences are meaningful. Start fining tech companies 1/3 their yearly revenue for each infraction, and then we'll start to get somewhere.

It has been my duty as a historian to record how smelly Che Guevara was. Honestly one of the stinkiest dudes in history. He was immensely proud of this & once showed off a pair of underpants he’d been wearing for two months. They were so filthy, he won a bet that they could stand up by themselves.

X is a Nazi hate machine, read my 100-part thread about it on X

So, the entire massive first batch of cards is shipped! *phew* There are still a few available, though, why not take a look?

Posing the question should get you politely but firmly ejected from society by a large man dressed like an usher at the opera. He just appears with a tight smile and quietly suggests that it would be best if you don’t cause a scene.

I’m only about halfway through – I listen to longer episodes in installments, when I go walking – but this is shaping up to be one of my favorite episodes. I love CCR, and they’re the perfect band to explore the theme of “authenticity” and how abstract and fundamentally performative the concept is

Employment lawyer here: the number of male employers who genuinely believe they should be able to sleep with their female employees and pay working mothers less than working fathers is most of them. They genuinely believe that it is an injustice against them that they might face repercussions.

If a Reconstruction 2.0 ever does become viable, I sincerely think that a core part of it should be a robust attempt to use the power of government to cut back the all-consuming atmosphere of omniscam that pervades every corner of American life right now

"Cool for Cats" (Lavis only) www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCQq...

ah man, RIP--a wonderful drummer, akin to Pete Thomas of the Attractions. dynamic (the patterns of "Pulling Mussels from a Shell"), hooky (the intro of "Up the Junction" alone), just suited the songs perfectly.

Also, my peeps, if you're skeeting a fucking wall of text, you should copy that wall, and PASTE IT INTO ALT TEXT! Go to SETTINGS>ACCESSABILITY > REQUIRE ALT TEXT and slide the slide to on.

Oh no, that's awful! Sadly, while I've seen Squeeze live maybe thirty times it was always post-Gilson, but on record he was up there with Ringo and Clem Burke in the all-time great *song* drummers.

As so often, I agree with pretty much everything James says here.

Devastated there was no mention of my favourite cover of Proud Mary - this history of the internecine warfare between Swedish Maoist parties set to its tune. youtu.be/4F34YIGTSuA?...

As someone who’s demonstrated a lot of those behaviours in the past, mainly because of trauma, self-loathing etc etc. and who caused a lot of hurt that I can now never undo or make up for, I know how bloody hard the work to change toxic patterns is. 2/

40 years old now. The first 'box set' that my family owned & my intro, at 13 or so, to Dylan. One thing about it was just how *well-sequenced* it was, esp the LP sides: my mind still hears these some of these songs in "Biograph order" (like that amazing live '75 Isis-Caribbean Wind-Up to Me stretch)