Unless you already know the story, you will never ever in a million years guess who this is in reference to.

Reaction against AI, returning to an era before it was an issue. Next?

Nine Inch Noize: Almost good enough to justify having had to slog through two whole albums of “The Walt Disney Company Presents: Nine Inch Nails” to get there. Looking forward to a real album. Moreso than I was before it, even, which is nice.

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Remind me, do wars usually go well when you fail to feed your troops?

OK fine since nobody asked for it 1 like = 1 Peter, Paul, and Mary hot take

For my part, I’m glad Dave Chapelle has decided he doesn’t want to be on the side of transphobes. People should be allowed to change their minds, even if his “never thought the leopards” defensiveness is tiresome. Hope he decides to be good at his job again too.

Forever cursed to have tons of spicy Peter, Paul, and Mary takes and no one to give a fuck about them.

Kleptocrat Santa

Are we? Sincere question. I agree we went through a phase of this—when “let people enjoy things” was in vogue as a meme and poptimism in unapologetic ascendancy in music, but are we still there?

Motherfucker trying to get himself excommunicated for his book launch?

I feel like people who think human brains are Turing Machines need to offer some sort of explanation for how they evolved to be absolutely dogshit at math but great at a ton of things we can’t get Turing Machines to do.

I find my opinion on pop songs about being a chaser really hinges on how I feel about being chased by the singer. Suzanne Vega or Lou Reed? Yeah, OK. Steven Tyler? Hard pass.

Hardcore transphobes are always faintly baffling to me. Like, damn girl, you care more about my gender than I do, and I went through all the trouble of transitioning.

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

I’m not sure how one would go about imagining my life ahead of time.

Realizing now that I don't promote my music as much as I maybe should. If you haven't checked out my tunes, you should change that!

Respect to the person updating setlist.fm after every song for tonight’s Gillian Welch/David Rawlings concert, especially given her previous setlists are another Welch/Rawlings, Adeem the Artist, Iron & Wine, Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter, and two Cannibal Corpse concerts. Proper legend.

Man, @davidgerard.co.uk must be so humiliated not to have thought of the most obvious use case for Bitcoin, paying sanctioned regimes for access to international waterways.

I feel like you could probably make impeachment and an electoral focus on corruption synergize if you wanted.

I hate that the roughest, rowdiest show I’ve ever seen is the Indigo Girls, because it makes my concert going sound pathetic when the reality is just that the middle aged lesbians of Ithaca are fucking feral. NIN and Metallica had nothing on them.

This is perhaps the ur-“stop anthropomorphizing Trump” headline. Trump is not “using a theory.”

Not that I think I need to defend myself on this point, but it’s kind of funny to imagine trying to write about Moore and Morrison’s magic from the perspective that it’s all bullshit. Really don’t know how you’d keep that one interesting.

It’s always strange when I get a Last War in Albion comment like “I don’t quite buy that David Bowie caused Donald Trump,” because like… the rest of it’s fine though?

This remains the most trenchant analysis I’ve seen in the Trump 2 era.

Depluralize a movie Alien

Which way, Western Man?

Don’t let money distract you from fucking genocide you prick.

My read as well fwiw. Trump is fundamentally a creature of television from the 60s through 80s. “Nuclear war is bad” is actually pretty deeply ingrained for him.

Not that anyone asked or it particularly matters, but I reckon we probably shouldn’t kill an entire civilization tonight. Just seems bad, y’know?

Shit yeah that sounds bad.

Suspect basically everyone who will find this funny follows me.

Don’t think people are reckoning how bad it will be for Newsom’s odds if the CA primary goes south and Dems become guaranteed to lose the governorship. That’ll be purely down to his failure to exercise power in his own state. Won’t directly hurt him with voters, but party machinery will be furious.

As I’ve said before, the problem with Mastadon is that everyone on it has at least considered switching to Linux. And while I have many dear friends who have done this, the idea of restricting my social circle to such people is pure existential horror.

I think it’s very funny how everyone raved about that stupid fucking HBO Watchmen show and then it had exactly zero actual cultural staying power and everyone went back to correctly treating the Moore/Gibbons comic as the only thing that is Watchmen and matters.

Legit don’t know if “anti-bedtime left” is meant to be a kind of petulant teenage thing or just leftists with ADHD that can’t get to bed before 2am no matter what they do.

I just wonder what the point of comparison is. Because, like, we’re not pretending Twitter discourse wasn’t rancid, are we?

Relieved to see a major trans media source call this out. I retain my absolute fury at and contempt for the people preying on their own community by making this their business model.

Honestly suspect the Dems best strategy once they get the House (and especially if they can get a majority in the Senate with it) is just a parade of impeachments for every single bit of flagrant corruption. Make Senate Republicans defend this shit full time.

He’s just firing everyone who isn’t a white guy. Not exactly surprising, but still striking in its desperation.

Not that I think it needs further dunking on, but of course I don’t fucking use AI. I need way more granular control over whether I’m making shit up.

“All authors are using AI now” Not true! A lot of us use THC

always a pleasure to read new Eruditorum

Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld sighting.

In case you missed it: steampunk, mystery plays, and Here Come the Double Deckers!, all in the latest installment of Last War in Albion. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/chapter...

Yeah sounds like Britain

Alan Moore on now.

Oh fuck off

If you’re going to erase trans women at least use better graphic design.

“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” sure sounds like what the master wants you to think.