unsurprisingly excellent

Yeah, I'm using sports as a way to escape at the moment. Yeah, it would suck. But what sucks even worse is going out to public places in the Twin Cities right now and realizing it's super, super obvious who feels safe being out in public right now and who doesn't. We have to stop that.

I hate when a stranger smiles warmly at my dog bc she’s cute. She’s mine!

Pere Ubu

living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be

Arrest the murderer and arrest Bovino. Not complicated.

Tim and Eric dancing to Autechre Happy New Year!

Truly the best incentive for living through the 2020s is the public domaining of the 1920s

One of my fav techno full-lengths, legend Robert Hood’s somber, wee-hours soundtrack for a forgotten Detroit musicmanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/motor-...

bluesky is where elder millennials enjoying internet retirement meet younger millennials with untreated depression

stitched together the chillout + dance sets I played at Nightclub 101 last month. take a listen :) soundcloud.com/solexyoghurt...

stitched together the chillout + dance sets I played at Nightclub 101 last month. take a listen :) soundcloud.com/solexyoghurt...

I'll be DJing at Night Club 101 before and after this very cool reading tomorrow evening. come out to Alphabet City if you like good things

q: why did the outfielders raise their arms during this play? a: according to the ancient scrolls in which the rules of baseball were found, if a ball lands and doesn't bounce that ball is declared god. the players were worshipping god. i doubt there will be a game 7 or any further baseball seasons

Cube (opening for Autechre in Portsmouth last night)

So much to be proud of! And you can get all this for as little as $13/year, with our tiered pricing at avxwords.com. Try us out!! If you need another reason to support us, our independence means we can be politically open. In today’s fascistic media landscape, we value this, and hope you do too.

AVCX, the world’s finest puzzles and games service, and an independent media venture, has done some really cool stuff this year! A thread to brag (and to hype our mini subscription drive) …

Cube (opening for Autechre in Boston last night) playing a new track that he later told me is looping an Aaliyah sample. so groovy

Dave Ball was surely (for my generation at least) one of the most influential electronic musicians of all time: Soft Cell, PTV, Jack the Tab & here’s one of my favourite 12”s from his work with The Grid. REST IN BLEEPS. m.youtube.com/watch?v=LIF7...

Sophy Romvari + Janus Films y'all are gonna wanna see this incredible movie

It feels like an opportune moment to revive mid-century European avant garde art collectives that walk around waving squids at people or whatever. We live in oppressively categorized times — politically, thru capitalist surveillance, etc. It might be radical right now to engage in pure nonsense.

Clicked on a Pod Save America video and listened to a segment discussing ICE’s use of surveillance technology that—I am not making this up—seamlessly transitioned into one of the Jons reading ad copy for SimpliSafe home security cameras that framed them as a necessity to protect yourself from CRIME!

an interview I did with an incredible musician, Rebeka Rusjan Zajc, is up on Tone Glow's substack. read if you're interested, but, more importantly, throw on some of Rebeka's incredible piano work: toneglow.substack.com/p/tone-glow-...

I popped this on while complaining to Spectrum's AI support bot about my internet bills going up, and by the time the bot rudely ended our chat I no longer cared cuz this is still among the funniest recordings I've ever heard: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b63x...

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

Wheeeeeeeee!

opening for autechre & mark broom at project house in leeds 💣 4_11_25

Guys, if you can't pivot your entire worldview on a dime to accommodate the latest piece of incoherent cognitive dissonance, I have to question your commitment to even being a conspiracy theorist

Really interesting tidbits in this latest NYT focus group

best meme i ever made

I'm currently typesetting tonight's AVCX+ crossword, by hand, as I have for years. Other companies would call this an inefficiency and automate it. But we still do it this way because we like its human touch, and no corporation can force us otherwise. I like this job. I'd like to keep doing it.

RIP to JD Twitch 😭. Undoubtedly one of the most inspiring souls in music, mixes, dancefloors. Gone far too soon. That we'll never get to see him spin again is deeply tragic, but he left us with so many riches. ♥️

We’re seeing right now (and the gen X in me is about to come out) that corporations can never be trusted. If they’ll hold a pride event in a certain political climate, they’ll be just as apt to fire people for critiquing fascists in a different moment. There is no integrity there.

As we move toward our fall subscription drive, we hope you’ll consider supporting us in part bc we are an independent media company. No, crosswords are not as vital as journalism. But yes, all content that we consume matters, and it should be as free as possible from corporate control.

BREAKING: Trump says he is designating “Antifa” as a “major terrorist organization.” Such a step being taken this way would be concerning enough, given what it actually is, but, given that Trump sees “Antifa” hiding in every corner of opposition, this could be an extremely alarming escalation.

Beyond cancelling Kimmel's show are about 200 writers and crew members in LA who just lost their full time gig.

ICE shot a man dead outside Chicago and then lied that he drove his car at agents. chicagoreader.com/news/ice-sho...

in today's TIFF dispatch, i write about finally getting to see my friend @sophyromvari.bsky.social's Blue Heron, a film that blew me away, and one i feel confident in calling one of the best feature debuts in years

an All-England Summarize Proust Competition level of cohesion here

they should keep Columbus Day, but change it to be about Chris Columbus. think about it. the parade would be incredible. Home Alone floats. a marching band of Mrs. Doubtfires. an Adventures in Babysitting dance troupe. an emotional tribute to Bicentennial Man.

You gotta see this Tennis they’re playing in Queens, T

when the lumiere brothers split up and started doing individual films you could really tell that auguste was the train guy and louis was the funny one

Rather than just say “blue no matter who,” let’s take the time now to not only find someone whom we think could win but who also will not compromise on the rights of our citizens and who will not continue to fund and arm a genocide. There’s time!