bgc is a legend, and you should know more about him

If you vote in NYC, you've probably wondered: "Who are these people running to be judges? Why doesn't it feel like I have much choice about voting for them? How were they selected? Why do many judges seem to be... bad?" May I present to you @hellgatenyc.com's latest big project: Courts of Contempt.

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More here. And if you don't know much about BGC, you are in for a lovely day

And meanwhile, the brilliant @bijan.bsky.social went long on the beautiful music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland

So we’re a few days from the end of our subscription drive at @weareravenous.com, and I’m so amazed by the response we’ve gotten. But we’re still a bit far from hitting our goal, so I wanted to talk a bit about why that’s the goal and what we want to do with it 1/

“Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s music is about as eclectic as his career, managing to fuse together all of the traditions he loves: European romantic melodies, African drumming, jazz, folk, and of course a healthy dose of synthesizers.” —@bijan.bsky.social

this is nearly identical to my recipe for masturbating chicken

gamer chicken (roasted chicken thighs over vegetables with rice, so named because you game while it cooks)

had a good youtube channel idea at dinner today. it was a series called “can you kill it with a gun” and the idea is you’d shoot stuff like big kombucha mothers and propane tanks to see if you could kill stuff that isn’t human with a gun.

Here, why not improve your Friday at work?

oo so excited to read this

This appreciation of Beverly Glenn-Copeland by @bijan.bsky.social is exquisite. “Ghost House” is one of my all-time favorite songs.

hello. tonight im fun city. by which i mean im live, see u there,

Bijan Stephen (@bijan.bsky.social) on the improbable gift of Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s music

i had the pleasure of spending the last few months thinking and writing about beverly glenn-copeland, who's an absolutely tremendous musician. read all about it @nybooks.com! www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

just heard my friend say divorced dad rock is just military wife rock. blew my hair back if im honest

obama has a reaper drone that follows him around and says "innocents detected". tomodachi life goty

what if the real lootboxes were the emotions we felt along the way..............

it felt trivial at times to be writing about video games at rikers, which is so notoriously dangerous for incarcerated people. still, play and, specifically, video games are a meaningful piece of the lives of the ~12 young men i met and played with at rikers. read: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/a...

do yourself a huge favor (because you love yourself, don’t you?) and get this game immediately. goes double if you like words, because it’s got tremendous writing and excellent narrative design

I wrote about Marilyn Monroe for the new issue of Bookforum. www.bookforum.com/print/3204/b...

damn we won a Peabody!! peabodyawards.com/award-profil...

gonorrhea

A lot about the world is very heavy right now but if a college football podcast that got jettisoned by Vox during the pandemic for not having a marketable audience can raise this much money for refugees in Atlanta in two days then just think of all the stuff we can all do together

Drew these little guys for the Death Stranding fanzine 📦🌧️👶👣

new teen suicide album is great imo teensuicide.bandcamp.com/album/nude-d...

day 2 today!!! here til 7.

katseye is absolutely has a #1 hit on roku city’s radio station

very proud of the team!!

hey guys - i'm in a pretty dire housing situation right now. i have to move at the end of the month (lease expires) but prior plans w/ people completely fell apart & i'm back to square one. i'm looking for a room in Brooklyn, trans friendly, 1100 a month max, not a temporary sublet. plz let me know.

just finished @meredithgran.com’s game station to station and holy shit go play it if you haven’t. it is a pitch perfect evocation of being a teen in the ‘00s, and it’s so well written and SO full of Feelings (complimentary) store.steampowered.com/app/1172800/...

fell down a rabbit hole, apparently the most thorough guides for Baldur's Gate 1&2 are written by a woman who has been thoroughly blogging all her video game opinions since the 1980s. she gave Baldur's Gate 3 a 2.1/10 rating and scathingly calls it a reddit RPG lilura1.blogspot.com/2024/01/Redd...

listening to a bitcoin guy trying to explain why you should buy digital dollars instead of physical ones. Other guy says “stablecoins. One day the bottom will fall out.” Bitcoin man: “it’s long short term and short long term”

encore at the yoko kanno show was a literal singalong of the real folk blues (lyrics in transliterated Japanese) and you know what? everyone knows every word

seen at least one faye valentine in line at the yoko kanno show. expecting to see > 5 more when im inside

brain heating up like an old laptop trying to run cyberpunk 2077

I have no words. Other than I am honored and humbled to be nominated alongside such meaningful stories. So proud of the team and the work we did 😭.

An AI dares to dream that she is human. You’ve been hired to put her in her place. We’re sunset visitor 斜陽過客, the creators of 1000xRESIST, and this is our next game: Prove You’re Human. Published by our friends at @blacktabbygames.com. s.team/a/4533950

this is precisely the same thing that influencers are doing when they shoot their skits and man on the street interviews in public places. it's corrosive to the fabric of society, imo. alex from target was both a harbinger and a warning

ah yeah that's the good shit

it's us or them newsletter.bijanstephen.blog/us-and-them/

Truly cannot believe this, I'm so proud of our whole team. If you haven't yet, subscribe, donate, tell your friends who are interested in great food writing!!! weareravenous.com

it do be like this tho

i gotta apologize to every bad sci fi/video game writer out there. reality is stupider than anything you've ever written

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

@catacalypto.bsky.social did you see the yarnspinner april fool's day thing? you are cited very prominently in it lmao www.yarnspinner.dev/blog/tarot-y...

dungeon crawler carl review: white guy isekai (complimentary)