I'm gonna go out on a limb here (courtesy of Igor) and suggest that if Pratchett's politics are impenetrable to you (once you've read enough of the books), your own are likely somewhat deficient.

well done william

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

This and the replies are great. I feel lucky that I can’t come up with a worst show, and I’ve seen Dylan twice, once in a minor league baseball stadium!

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live. Butthole Surfers Living Color 24-7 Spyz U2 Pink Floyd The Jesus Lizard Dead Milkmen Echo and the Bunnymen Lyle Lovett and his Large Band Animal Logic

One of us One of us @laurentcourtois.bsky.social #Crew96

I am begging anyone who says shit like this to look at places with legislative term limits to see how it's gone. Ohio has had them for 30+ years and it has led to rampant corruption, perpetual campaigning, the ascent of lobbyists, and the back-burnering of anything but the most gimmicky legislation.

40 years old now, yikes (how I heard it at the time: one of the last tapes I bought before leaving my childhood home). 14 might be the best age to first hear it; it's how I discovered Laurie Anderson, Kate Bush & Youssou N'Dour (& indirectly, Anne Sexton & Stanley Milgram).

ΛVΛNT HΛPPΞNING: Happy 78th birthday to the legendary Grace Jones (May 19, 1948) ❝I've changed. I'm not worried about what people think, because I think people think what they want to think anyway.❞

If you Millennials wanna know how your parents got together, this 1986 Pontiac Firebird commercial was basically it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUz5...

Internal AutoZone memo: “.. We’re facing the largest supply shortage of lubricating fluids in the modern history of America. Realistic, middle-of-the-road estimates are for our average available supply in this product category to drop by 40%.” (via Costa Oil) #$AZO

A mom in a Toyota Sienna pulls a Cybertruck out of a treacherous sandpit

A general reminder: you don't *have* to use Substack. While I get that it's easy and convenient, realize there are alternatives that (1) give you more control and (2) don't regularly fund and promote neo-Nazis. Continuing to use Substack for your newsletter is a choice. You can make a different one

Happy 27th birthday to the only soccer stadium that has ever mattered in the history of the world. #Crew96

Let this radicalize you

Fuck Campus Partners (OSU’s development arm that ruined all of this).

Prime Minister Péter Magyar inaugural speech: "The psyche of the whole country was poisoned by politics that was artificially inciting hatred. The Hungarian state is not allowed to do anything like this ever again... This era is, once and for all, finished."

For Billy Joel’s birthday, I’m re-upping @fluxblog.bsky.social’s 🎯 tweet.

The one saving grace of the Flying Pig race starting at 6:30AM on a 34F Sunday morning was getting this photo of everyone walking over the Roebling Suspension Bridge from Kentucky to the start.

The one good May the 4th bit.

I find it super ironic that the most intense physical contact sports (rugby, derby) are all "Yeah, let them play, they're gonna get fucked up like everyone else on the field" and no one flinches.

Happy Kneecap album release to all who celebrate. kneecap.bandcamp.com/album/fen…

Can't wait to get my new passport!

Columbus folk, a unique window in time has opened and I can put the following words together in a correct and accurate statement. The Clintonville, Miss Gay Ohio ninja murder house is for sale.

No, this is what a CD player looked like

there was one professional in the room at least

#weirdcarbs #becauseracecar Honda has started posting short videos of themselves rolling out and firing up a bunch of cool stuff from their collection, and it's exactly the content I crave. youtu.be/a3StKe3vLA8?...

It’s Star Wars Night! We’ve got our Stillsuits fitted slip-fashion and we’re ready to watch our Fedaykin unleash their Jihad across the Galaxy! #crew96 #StarWars

Bring him back.

(The only time the Columbus Crew organization mentions or allows the mentioning of #SaveTheCrew is when they’re trying to profit off of it.)

Imagine how cool tonight would have been, and what a unifying moment we could have had as a city, if the ownership class would just pay for their own fucking land and their own fucking buildings. Women’s sports deserves better. #NWSLtoCBUS

The newfound attention to bringing the NWSL to Columbus is resulting in some quality takes.

Some people are unfamiliar with the concept of Obetz. #Crew96

“I’ve never been so fucking pissed” Council President Shannon Hardin about the closed door deals with NWSL bid ownership that did not include the council.

Depressed ✓ Reclusive ✓ Owner of non-running Lotus ✓ Cormac McCarthy was #weirdcarbs !

look, I'm just A Girl, but to me it's a bit of a mustache-twirling villain move to take away the public park with specially-designed areas for disabled members of the community, and give it to a billionaire-backed project to bring an NWSL team.

It is?

“Ramble On” is maybe the platonic ideal of a Led Zeppelin song, because it starts with a very standard blues trope—”Sorry, girl, I can’t put down roots, I’ve gotta keep moving”—and then concludes with, “Oh, by the way, Gollum stole my last girlfriend.”

Raygun just switched TO substack? Are you kidding me? Well, I used to love their emails, but substack is instant unsubscribe.

Raygun just moved to Substack, and if you email them about it, they have an email prepared about how this way they give less money to Nazis than if they had moved to other platforms. I have yet to get a MailChimp email telling me how great Andrew Tate is 🤷🏼‍♀️

So @raygunsite.com is actually moving *to* Substack. Entirely out of character for what I thought was a good company. Maybe they got brain worms or something. Either way, they don’t get another dollar from me and their shirts become shop rags.

apropos of *everything

portland commute

Serving. Protecting…

Since people are talking about Margaret Thatcher… youtu.be/K-BZIWSI5…