ok i scoured autumn leaves in ithaca and cleaned out what i wanted at midtown scholar and finished my book shopping for 2025 on a pay in 4 on thriftbooks. if you see me buying a book before jan 1st attack me physically

have to kill an hour before the good book store opens & see if this rain eases up, so I'm going to see how bad the local 2nd & Charles is. it may not be as bad as the one in newark, but ☝️ it might be

my phone, in a recent update, apparently forcibly switched the side button on my phone to open a non-existent assistant app, instead of opening the power menu, which is absolutely fucking insane

I swear to god there must be a CIA bookmobile that goes around planting fresh copies of gerald posner's case closed in every used bookstore in america. annually

Every squishy center-leftist who had “legitimate concerns” about some youth transition needs to face facts: there was no counterparty you could negotiate on the margins with. The other side wants trans people not to exist. It’s that simple.

conner o'malley voice

verstappen picking up number 3, the Maxiel girlies have inherited the mantle of heaven

we have a guest contribution on the next episode of tired via texts rory received from a friend of the pod RE: a film from 2025. if there's one thing i respect it's a pure white hot hatred for something ostentatious, expensive, and fun

Once again, fuck you, Olivia Nuzzi

"matty's making his 'texture' gesture again" - peter on tiredpod recording this morning

all the articles you read about this will say it "would charge doctors" but there is nothing in the bill limiting the felony crime to medical providers. you could write "would charge parents" and be just as correct. news outlets downplay it because news outlets are transphobic.

if the mta sold F/M swap merch they'd be funded for the next decade

can we not get a break even at the fucking holidays, man

Have you tried Linux? Download Mint on your computer. It can literally run Puppy. It's literally on Guix. It can probably run MeeGo. Dude it works on MEPIS. You can run it on Pop. You can download Pop and run it. Log onto Pop right now. Dive into Pop. You can run it on Pop. Pop has it for you.

exporting a pod test listen while i send the most polite curious email to an academic asking if i can read his two articles. please mister im a working class lgbt i want to read your melville scholarship about the class dynamics and hauntology of guys [clown horn honking] on the open seas

Are you working on an end-of-year retrospective on new music you liked in 2025? You don't have a physical copy of Half-Staff Blues to remind you, but I will! (And I'll keep asking Peter about a small run of something in 2026...) peterpeterhughes.bandcamp.com/album/half-s...

somewhat more on topic for my pod chat account: organizing books because i'm QAing audio balance. bonus bits ep got slowed down today bc i had to drive for 5 hours to put my life in order but oh baby i'm making notes about gain

(looking up from organizing my books about u.s. regime change) we're what now

"I'm hoping this doesn't happen" is not a great position to be in, if I'm being entirely honest. Hard to feel good about it.

just saw someone say "friend of _____" made them think of disney parks using "friend of mickey" to mean somebody who wears a mickey costume, and like. maybe i hate fun and corporations an abnormal amount or something but. YOU DON'T THINK OF 'FRIEND OF DOROTHY' YOU THINK OF THE FUCKING MOUSE???

is that melville guy who's also nuts about mcteague on here yet

got to introduce my kid sister to "if it sucks hit da bricks" dot jpg today and watched it become a foundational document to her concept of the world in real time

A podcast asked me to record a voice note about my prediction for 2026 and here it is.

enormous fan of @alloymag.bsky.social, which might be the best-looking website on the internet for me, a guy who spends more time in driving game menus than on the track alloymag.com

the very last of the last graf of this piece is deployed so perfectly (read: made me yell in frustration in my car)

whaaaa huuuhhh why are delaware senators throwing trans people under the bus how can that beeee i thought getting Sarah McB elected meant a seat at the table and it would fix thingsssss whaaaaat weird strange did that not work? daaang

knives out discourse has people stuck in the u.s. evangelical/catholic binary again but i can throw a live grenade into the room for fun: if you want catholic aesthetics but protestant flavor, there ARE reactionary rapture freak lutherans out there and i was raised by them

local man forced to wake up on morning that will involve both scraping ice off his car and going to the DMV

i have been set free from dogsit world and can caffeinate + return to pod editing!! bonus bits ep tomorrow!!!!

What's retired Mountain Goats bassist Peter Hughes up to lately? Glad you asked. He's writing about Ryusuke Hamaguchi film Drive My Car (2021) for @alloymag.bsky.social, the autojourno website for people who understand that the intrusive pop-up ad model is bad. alloymag.com/drive-my-car...

doing F1 research (googling if guys are friends)

away from the desktop (win10) while i dogsit and trying to use my laptop (win11) which has a better processor and just as much RAM. trying to join two clips in audacity makes it hang for a full minute. we went to the moon on 1mb of RAM microsoft i swear to god i'm downloading ubuntu again

my reputation as an internet curmudgeon on the one discord server i'm active in continues, because i encountered the phrase "this reminds me of the john green theory that [etc]" and was powerless watching my hands type back as if possessed "can it really be called a "theory" if john green said it"

It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.

When I worked at the Verge I remember saying “yeah China is going to squarely kick our ass with EVs in the next few years” in work chat and a few people being skeptical about that and I’d just like to say I was right. Like not even debatable now.

mystifying: downloaded a folder from google drive and it gave me a set of zips numbered 001, 002, 006, and 007. when i dug into my Downloads folder it had appended "-003", "-004", and "-005" to the largest files' filenames instead. guys what are you doing in there

day 3 stuck in the house dogsitting and we got like a foot of snow dumped on us. roasting brussels sprouts about it

on AO3 surveying the landscape again and shaking my old man cane like "back in my day [2011] if you wrote 2nd person dreck for the reader to place themself in frictionlessly as a passive romantic stand-in, we correctly identified it as trash that shouldnt even be grouped in with other fanfiction"

what a year it's been for Concepts

pt.1 got me to finally subscribe to the Secret Base patreon to get the rest of this series, and i'm staying

I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.

politely sending a card & housesitting while the fam goes to a wedding for my cousin (youtube preacher) and his new lady (posts facebook reels about how LGB should drop the T) like ok you kids have fun

picked up a DM thread with an old friend, loosely explained something i worked on for a while, she comes back w multiple photos of pages from a book w/ similar themes out of nowhere + a funny pic of a sentimental inside joke trinket she still has. literally the world is always overflowing w love

talking abt literature & political themes w the besties like

bundled up for a.m. driving and microwaving some artery-clogging broth to bring in the car. book time baby

completed a project i've been working on since august (don't ask, no, and no) and feel great, expect to have another unspeakably stupid idea next year. for now it means i have free time to read BOOKS again

the youtube AI recap shit is a mess but on this one it did have me, if i may, dead to rights

i love alloy