iTunes Music Store (2003)

I don't seem to be capable of getting into the Grateful Dead at all, but I'm a fan of a bunch of deadheads and I can appreciate that it's their special thing they love, plus I relate to the "obsessive cataloging" model of fandom even if I don't want to listen to infodumps about this particular one.

Needing to believe in November 2026 update: I didn't think I'd get to see any Canadian artists this year / ever again, so *obviously* I'm getting a ticket for the Basia Bulat solo show that was just announced, but lol @ the timing. I guess things I need to believe in include my energy levels.

John of Patmos: In my book I invented the Antichrist as a cautionary tale. Modern evangelicals: At long last we can worship the Antichrist from the classic book Don't Worship The Antichrist.

GUTEN TAAAAAAG

I say this as a Christian, fwiw, and so I am biased. I am biased in that I, personally, don't think the Trump-as-Jesus image is as offensive to my faith as, say, seeing Liam Ramos being hustled away from his school by ICE.

sickos.woodcut

“Pope Leo is WEAK on crime” You bolt awake in the University of Wittenberg. You are not online. It is 1517. You are Professor Martin Luther and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. The Church must remain.

okay, after a very wholesome evening out and a long drive home, now I'm backscrolling the past few hours' worth of pope jokes and gradually piecing together the, uh, context?

The world hasn't ended yet! 💗

I considered trying to think of a less dweeby one, but: Anthony Warlow's "LET OTHERS RIIIIIISE"

:sobbing: the taxation of trade routes is in dispute ::

Théâtre Darius Milhaud, Paris 19e @erinkmaher.bsky.social (Yes, ought to be Madeleine…)

I'm going through a box of CDs from college the fact that it's unopened (along with such gems as "The Most Relaxing Flute Music in the Universe" and "Andrew Lloyd Webber Masterpiece") means it was probably a gift and I didn't choose to own it, right? right??

did a little double-take @ "the white flight control room"

I didn't watch the most stressful part and I feel good about that

re: how high school music teachers talk about Wendy Carlos and her deadname

you all have to stop putting "reel"/"real" puns in the titles of your film studies books it's "reel" overdone

he posted What

No, your voice is not loud enough. No, that's not the issue. Just use the microphone.

I said "less," not "zero," so I get my special treat!

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one of my little lunchtime word games accepted FOIDS and I said "no!!" out loud

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I will get a special treat (last-minute concert ticket because church choir rehearsal was canceled) if I do everything on my special treat qualification to-do list by tomorrow afternoon, but it includes "have less neck pain," so, uh, we'll see.

The next Murderbot is out on May 5 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/platform-d...

Absolutely exhausting, but also profoundly morally corrosive, to live like this.

freelancers should be able to bill the government for the money we lose in the time we spend stressing about World Events instead of doing client work

Eric D. Johnson (Fruit Bats/Bonny Light Horseman) dropped in on Eggy's Lodge Room show in Los Angeles. Watch collaborative versions of "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" and "The Bottom Of It" ...

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

i feel insane, to be seeing the photos of the earth from the moon, THE MOON IN THE SKY, and seeing how small we are, and seeing how beautiful things could be, and to have such a small, pathetic man and his small minority be such a threat to our beautiful home!! our, the whole of people, all of us!!!

How bleak is it that the *best case scenario* is that he is just engaging in his most ambitious bit of market manipulation yet and will call it off ("we have reached a great deal, a tremendous deal, to save Iran") at 4:30 pm after shorting everything and watching the market tank

oh boy I don't like the new one at all

I'm just going to keep going to concerts until I can't get gas anymore or we all die or whatever. ("So, like, next week?" Shut up, don't say that, next week is Vienna Teng.)

Obviously the font isn't the main problem here, but: the font. 😩

Billy Strayhorn's first drafts weren't always bangers.

I don't like having read that Trump post

this is so validating to me as someone who used to transcribe "get rich online by teaching people how to get rich online" webinars for minimum wage and now has a steady, non-flashy service-based business "ooh, but *time for money*" yeah, actually it's fine, I work and then I get paid

Btw my press funded a small study into best-practices for alt text for illustrations, especially of illustrations of art. The resulting guide is short and clear and available free to download.

Snood

ESR Made Me Cry, as advertised 💗💗😭😭

[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this

found this in my closet

I'm on my, uh, fourth listen this morning.

Adding to the 'favorite tweet/post' hilarity with two of my favorite-ever tumblr posts. 1:

Me in my course on Track Changes: If you're changing a word to an unrelated word that shares some letters, replace the whole word so it's easier to understand. The Compare tool:

Fully half of this album is LEFTIST INFIGHTING: THE MUSICAL

"A 'GUSHER' FOR THE WORLD???"

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: Office365 in spaceship nasa employee: what? astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* Office365 in spaceship

I think about “normal to want and possible to achieve” all the time