Sometimes I don’t give enough attention to the straight fact that the Beastie Boys crush. And that’s a damn shame. If MCA hadn’t died, I can’t imagine them ever not being relevant. Rap is a young man’s sport, but I think they’d have stayed in the game.

Finally a victory against the pharmaceutical monopoly. https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/boom-the-break-up-of-big-medicine

Full #merlefest lineup is out and it's awesome. If you've never been Merlefest is the best bang for your buck in the music industry. Four days over 12 stages and everyone in the #bluegrass, #americana, #folk, and sometimes #country scene is there. https://merlefest.org/lineup/

New Infamous Stringdusters tune out today. “Up From the Bottom" is off their upcoming album ’20/20’ which drops 2/13. This is the first song Chris Pandolfi (banjo) has written for the Stingdusters. They're lucky to have many songwriters in the band, so it's a big deal for Chris to write one […]

Very cool comparison of the different space telescopes on the Helix Nebula. Source: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/intricacies-of-helix-nebula-revealed-with-nasas-webb/ #Astrodon #astronomy

Best analysis I’ve seen on the upcoming winter storm in #northcarolina. Worth watching if you live in #nc https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTwR3htkQV_/

Love this cover of Neil Young’s “Sail Away” by Tyler Ramsey & Carl Broemel. https://tylerramseycarlbroemel.bandcamp.com/album/celestun?t=8 (Via @Neddyo)

Interested in what new bands are tearing up the #bluegrass scene? Chris Pandolfi’s latest episode of “Inside the Musician’s Brain” interviews two of the most buzzworthy bands, Mountain Grass Unit, and Clay Street. He also names a ton of other groups you should check out. Worth a listen! […]

Well that's a new one…had a co-worker today respond to a fairly large work email and say: “Well butter my backside and call me a biscuit!" (For those of you not from the south, that means she is surprised and thinks it’s great.)

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/115928663048350804 The unaccountability is what makes them fascist.

Yes, the Americans are now running death camps. Medical care in ICE custody now denied as policy. We'll see these death camps here soon. Somewhere the locations are being chosen. Fascists do not put on the brakes or see reason. They can't now. They're all war criminals and the counts are […]

From @hcrichardson.bsky.social

How did I miss this!? In April of 2025 Rhiannon Giddens reunited with her former Carolina Chocolate Drops bandmate Justin Robinson to release “What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow.” It's an album of old-time and string band music filled with traditional […] [Original post on shakedown.social]

Daniel Bedrosian has a new book “Make My Funk the P-Funk” about being the drummer in P-Funk during their peak creative years. Great interview: https://buttondown.com/charliejane/archive/1975-the-year-it-all-changed-for-p-funk/

#facts https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTbPDGyETnc

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

It's a cult. And women have to look a very specific way or they aren't allowed in.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@FluentInFinance/115923086534762516 Because no one can afford a house anymore. Prices have risen to the point of being beyond most people’s incomes allow.

“You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Human Fracking” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/18/how-can-we-defend-ourselves-from-the-new-plague-of-human-fracking

Made this for a friend who just started an #astrology business. I think it came out nicely. #Art #geometry

It’s snowing right now in #Durham.

RE: https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/115910845808442724 This would have gotten any past president immediately impeached with bipartisan support. What other piece of evidence do you need we live under authoritarian rule. What the hell.

Governor Tim Walz’s response to the Trump-Bondi DoJ investigating him, on Bluesky. 💪💪💪

This book was really good. #bookstodon @bookstodon

New Mountain Goats track out today, “Going to Fennario” inspired by the #gratefuldead. https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/track/going-to-fennario

RE: https://mastodon.social/@indivisibleteam/115906057828963345 1,000% proof Democratic leadership hates you and are actually Republican plants bought and paid for by Wall Street.

Sunset was hella epic yesterday. No editing, no filter.

Watching the Brat Pack documentary (Brats) and they're all acting like the moniker and the article that coined it ruined their lives...some of the most famous actors of their generation. Really? Feels like Andrew McCarthy just needed a therapy session and decided to do it with a documentary […]

“President Trump has no roots on our island,” a Greenlandic spokesman said. “Epstein’s island, on the other hand, must stir many happy memories for him.” - Andy Borowitz

Charles Schulz knew in 1970… #uspol

RE: https://twitter.com/TheAthletic/status/2011908515405738218 Sports betting is a corruptive influence. Period.

RE: https://heads.social/@LiveMusicArchiveUpdates/115900692194399024 Coming up on the 20th anniversary of Jimmy Herring's first show with Widespread Panic which is not making me feel old at all. I said not. at. ALL.

“…Republican lawmakers are now openly acknowledging that President Trump would face impeachment and removal if he attempted to invade Greenland. This comes as European troops have landed on the island, with plans to soon raise a European Union flag in a clear show of unity and deterrence.” […]

RE: https://shakedown.social/@AAronL1968/115900168395427088 Notice how my senator (Sens. Thom Tillis (N.C.) only grows a spine when he's already announced he's retiring and not seeking re-election. If he was running again, NO WAY he'd be doing this. He was a Trump lackey for years and toed the […]

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Not always a Paul Krugman fan, but this is spot on: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-minneapolis-crucible

Why is #ai so bad at reading clocks? https://www.popsci.com/technology/ai-making-clocks/ Here's the site referenced in the article. It refreshes every minute and is indeed hilarious. Watch it for at least 2-3 minutes: https://clocks.brianmoore.com

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/115899531839452827 Trump is toxic.

Stolen from Phishonphilm IG stories.

I'm having a disagreement with some folks in a discord chat over state run lotteries. Someone just posted this and it illustrates the point very well: Saying, "you have 1 in 292.2 million chance to win the lottery" is meaningless to people, so instead here's a fun way to make it more concrete […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RealJournalism/115896654516946830 And this is exactly why we have an ICE problem. Because "moderates" are too scared to actually oppose actual fascism. When faced with fascism, there is not moderate / centrist viewpoint. You either support it or fight against it.

wow, a just-surfaced audience tape of a never-heard 1970 version of "box of rain," played in the album arrangement (lesh on guitar, garcia on piano, etc.), probably 9/18/70 at the fillmore east. now the 2nd of 2 known versions like this. tape details in comments […]

Bill Kreutzmann on Bob Weir: https://www.jambase.com/article/bill-kreutzmann-bob-weir-remembrance-grateful-dead #gratefuldead #bobweir

#denmark believes the long-term #security of #greenland is inside the current framework Ideas that do not respect the territorial integrity of Greenland are totally unacceptable We will continue to talk & have agreed to form a high-level working group which will meet within weeks [so … no […]

At least the #avettbrothers get me. I'm a hard hard worker everyday I'm a hard hard worker and I'm workin' everyday I'm a hard hard worker and I'm savin' all my pay If I ever get some money put away I'm going to take it all out and celebrate I'm a hard hard worker everyday […]

Trump sinks ever lower. In this video I stole from Reddit, he is seen visiting a Ford assembly plant in Michigan. One of the workers can be heard shouting, "[unintelligible] paedophile protector!" It seems Trump replies "Fuck you" twice and then flips the […] [Original post on mastodon.me.uk]

The bane of my existence are the "How did we do? Please take this survey to rate our service" emails.