These people are allowing themselves to be lied to. “It’s just impossible to take time off right now" is only true if you allow it to be. Live your life, don't throw it away chasing illusions.

This is Noah Webster's definition of 'cat' from his 1828 dictionary. Don't worry. We like cats more than he did.

Looks like we need every Democratic member of Congress to go stick their hands in the Reflecting Pool and get arrested, just to make a point about how ridiculous it all is.

Be ungovernable

the US president, with the explicit support of the US legislature and the US supreme court, is stealing billions of dollars in thousands of ways. meanwhile the NYT is on the case of whether, when mamdani paid a thousand dollars for a knicks ticket out of his own pocket, he got a ticket for VIPs

Boosting.

I wrote about the hugging female skeletons defector.com/and-they-wer...

Anyone know where to send emails for @wikimediafoundation.org leadership, telling them they're being asses and that this is not what we donate to them for? medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

This post from @leahreich.com is excellent, and largely mirrors my own experience making the shift from the walled garden of Substack to Ghost: not without its downsides and much lonelier, but I've no regrets at all. www.leahreich.com/why-did-i-le...

Open call for artists! 🤖 Our latest major project is the first ever crowdsourced soundtrack to the all-time classic film Metropolis. To mark the 100th anniversary, we are inviting artists to contribute to a special soundtrack with more than 1,000 combinations. citiesandmemory.com/metropolis/

"Y'all are in a death spiral. That's why you have to redistrict. That's why you have to cheat." Watch this man.

This is heartening! www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

IT IS HEROIC TO TRY TO STOP TIME

Exciting! My 90s zine Ongaku Otaku, about Japanese indie music, is being reprinted in one giant book! For folks in Europe, check out www.kormplastics.nl/ongaku-otaku/, and it's also being printed for sale in the U.S. via www.soleilmoon.com/shop/mason-j... to keep it affordable!

Mystic Commandos at Noise Pancakes today! Dronalicious.

Nobody should be using, subscribing to, or visiting Substack. This is just the latest in a long series of reasons.

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

A new generation of poets rises, inspired by the same springtime that roused Dickinson and Shakespeare. A torch, passed.

They're Using This Shit To Set Up A Surveillance Apparatus That Will Send Thugs To Your Door If You Criticize Trump Like it's that fucking simple, that is what this is for, the Dems are just too fucking dim to understand that this is what this is

If you're taking to the streets for No Kings protests today, know your rights. Find your nearest event at nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=aclu When using this link, Indivisible will know you came from us; their privacy policy applies.

These tech leaders who now require their developers use AI tools and count token usage as "productivity" are the same as yesterday's foolish leaders who thought counting lines of code was a legitimate way of grading developer performance.

Really sucks to read that the Silver Sprocket store on Valencia is closing on Monday. Hands down my favorite comic shop in town, and while we still have a good selection of stores, it's been a uniquely valuable one. Reminder to go buy comics at your favorite shop while you can!!

Just a quick moment of thanks to Castle Face & No Quarter for their respective Laddio Bolocko LP box sets. Essential listening.

I'm getting Paylocity emails for someone else, and while they may say "This email is only for the person(s) addressed," that doesn't help much when I can find absolutely no way to inform Paylocity about the issue. @paylocity.bsky.social any help?

w/ alt-txt

Thanks PG&E I didn’t really want electricity tonight anyway. No, I’m lying. Stop screwing up please.

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

Looked into print-on-demand using IngramSpark, to avoid Amazon. Sadly if you design your own book and upload PDFs for interior+cover, you CANNOT SEE ANY PREVIEW without submitting it & waiting days for an eProof between every change. Say what?? That's absurd. So, nope.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

The Tonearm: Requiem For Holy Mountain Records www.thetonearm.com/requiem-for-...

Kindness is punk as fuck.

Delete your Twitter account.

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

Whether it's John F. Kennedy saving thousands of children's lives by founding the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ending thousands of children's lives by limiting access to vaccines, both Kennedys impacted children's health.

Quick note for studio folks that while the Audix A150 headphones sound great and are very comfortable, the ear cups are not replaceable and start to fall apart very quickly. Can’t recommend them at this point especially at this price.

Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business

This whole thread is fantastic. In the first-ever issue of @typebarmagazine.bsky.social, we had @simonm223.bsky.social come to a similar conclusion and everyone went berserk lol www.typebarmagazine.com/2024/03/24/n...

Hey - if you're creating something yourself, be it a wood carving, a sewing project, a painting, a 3D model, a music piece, a clay sculpture, or anything else: I'm proud of you. Keep going. You've got this. Don't listen to the bad voice; listen to mine. You're important. Keep at it. Head high.

When you're looking through your digital music folders and realize you have 36 albums in your Rallizes Denudes collection...

JAL's site is the slowest I've used in probably 20 years. Serious offer to JAL: I will consult to make your site at least 5x faster in exchange for a few free round-trip tickets from SFO<>Tokyo.

I’m constantly amused by the idea that we will invent AGI and AI will solve all of our problems. We don’t need AGI to solve our problems, even ChatGPT can already tell us obvious solutions to our current problems.

What my kids school assignment (and Bayesian logic) teaches us about Trump's trade deals. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...