Please listen to the gorgeous new pair of songs from @shearwaterband.bsky.social. That is all. Thank you.

Also, if you are lucky enough to have local record stores, please go check them out! They’re still magical!

Album of the year incoming!

Is now

Heck yeah.

once again, my vote this primary is NOT HALEY STEVENS.

I'm sorry, I had to do this; it wouldn't stop rattling around in my head

@theonion.com is so worth the subscription for this

To quote the Barenaked Ladies, this is where I used to live.

outhere-music.com/en/albums/pr... absolutely spellbinding new release today. RIYL telling the trifling irritants of this material plane to just take a hike because you’re gonna lock eyes with the cosmos for a while

Wrote a thing about the excellent TR-49 by @inkle.co. Tried to keep things relatively spoiler-free, as this is a game best experienced knowing as little as possible going into it -- but it's also difficult to talk about without revealing a *few* things about it! moegamer.net/2026/02/01/t...

Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history. “There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.” My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

You know who I like to think of? John C. Woods - an incompetent drunk who wanted WW2 army money but no WW2 army death, so volunteered as a hangman to avoid combat, botched a loooot of jobs until he made it to Nuremberg to botch some more jobs. Made top Nazis suffer waaay more than required. Anyway!

"today we remember that freedom is not free. we have to work at it, nurture it, protect it, and even sacrifice for it."

me, in a hotel on my day off, about 90 seconds after learning there’s a game called “labyrinth of the demon king”

I woke up with Rottweiler Blues stuck in my head. Truly we are back in a Zevon era.

This series of games (Cosmic Express, Sokobond Express, and now Spooky Express) will really tickle your noggin while being continually amusing and keeping the vibes immaculate. Basically anything by Draknek and Friends is guaranteed to be a really good time.

Never will forget this.

I will climb aboard by any means available however improbable and you will simply never see me again

Important Frog meeting at 6:58 this morning

I know you all have been asked for money countless times, but my friend the incomparable Emily Cross has been having a really rough medical time. If you are a fan of her bands @lomatheband.bsky.social or Cross Record and you can spare the money it would help her a lot.

Aw lookit this lil guy

@superchunk.bsky.social "Detroit Has A Skyline" Bowery Ballroom NYC "Played track 6, track 7, again and again I had a crush Nothing works out Well, I had faith You could not have known; don't even say it"

I hope you’re all enjoying this descent into madness. The important thing to remember is what while I can’t sing, neither can eels, so this little jingle is very scientifically accurate. So please. Get an eel facts advent calendar. You don’t have to wait until Christmas for eels. EelFacts.Net

Hogan denied main event status one last time

Want to find good kids books and comix? Follow reilly.

Trump gets a lot of attention for being a con man but that clip of him talking about how Putin said he won the 2020 election reminds me that he is somehow simultaneously one of the world’s biggest suckers. An incredible combination.

Don't be Roger Waters.

This is shockingly awful but despite mostly not finding AI hallucinations funny it is undeniably kind of funny.

I can see the @xkcd.com comic in my head

please before you post screenshots from x the everything app pause for one moment and think: is reading this the equivalent of getting kicked in the head by a horse

I can only describe myself as *gob-smacked* to see AMRC among the top 10 best sellers at Third Place Books Ravenna in Seattle this week. Yowza! See the evidence herewith. Many thanks to Rafe Posey for being such a tireless champion of the book. (JM)

This is something we talk about a lot in our household.

Did you ever notice that the backing vocals in "The Rhythm of the Saints" are the same melody and cadence as the keyboards in "Let's Go Crazy"?

TWP004 "Restless and Relaxed" A lovely episode with Jonathan Meiburg discussing his various creative outlets: his music (Shearwater) on the one hand, and writing his book about the striated caracara on the other. It is exciting to hear how the different outlets complement each other. #thewellpodcast

NEW: In a likely first, security researchers have shown how generative AI agents can be hijacked to cause physical consequences. They tricked Google's Gemini AI into turning off smart home lights, opening windows, and turning on a boiler. They hid instructions to the AI in a *calendar invitation*

My friends in my favorite band @shearwaterband.bsky.social are almost done with a new album. They have a crowdfunding campaign wrapping up in 19 hours. If you would like to support real independent music consider throwing a couple bucks their way!

This is just a wonderfully calming game. It's a shame more people don't know about it.

If you see this post a planet. This is a super cool painting of moon phases at Dearborn Public Library's Centennial Branch.

New Shearwater album is something good to look forward to, at least.

About seven years ago, we had the good fortune of stumbling on a Cape Verdean restaurant in Boston a day or two after taking a Lyft ride with a Cape Verdean driver. We learned a lot about Cape Verde and the history of the community in Boston that weekend.

A thing that makes that Times story especially odious is that Zohran Mamdani's father was LITERALLY expelled from Uganda during Idi Amin's fascist effort to scapegoat Asian Ugandans as not really African www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Wonderful show by Dana Falconberry and Matt the Electrician at The Ark in Ann Arbor, Michigan tonight. Honored to be the person who sparked a long, heartfelt stage encomium of @thorharris.bsky.social by shouting his name at the end of Matt's song that involves punching Nazis.

Pure Michigan.

Awww baby wolves