Ergs giggin' with Rodeo Boys in late March. We haven't been down to VA/NC in a while (18 years???) so it should a fun time!

Excited to be doing my first reading in a while at the next Philly Writers Circle show!

I'm reading a book about workers' movements that had momentum but ultimately failed & it's funny in a really sad way that in each of the two sections I've read so far (Paris 68 & Chile 72-73), the biggest obstacles to progress have been the center-left trying to maintain a look of electoral decorum

The Robby Starbuck response is one of the silliest things I've ever read in my life. And I have to assume when he's talking about Conquistadors he's talking about the no-name dead loser described here: youtu.be/T1uvzOeSkgc?...

Regardless of any evidence or how good a case the prosecution presents, a cop trial is always going to have the same problems a mob trial does. You're going to have to weigh the responsibility of putting in a guilty vote against the certainty that the defendant's cop pals will harass you afterwards

Well, it’s the 9th anniversary of this today. No special reason for mentioning it now, obviously

I will be joining the war on Greenland on the side of Greenland.

When someone points out that an ICE victim is actually a citizen, they are not saying that being a non-citizen makes ICE's crimes ok; they are showing people who ARE ok with ICE's attacks on non-citizens that ICE is actually the violent, non-discerning terrorist thug gang we already knew them to be

in case you didn't understand why transphobic rhetoric worried us so much about this guy, well it's because it's a signal that shit like this is coming next.

Shoutout* to the dad today at the Surrealism exhibit who, within 5 minutes, yelled at his young daughter for dancing along to the images in a Man Ray film & then aggressively pulled her from a painting for pointing too close (but not touching) while saying what the images looked like *(derogatory)

Thoughts & Prayers to every ICE agent, and by that I mean every THOUGHT I have regarding them is the same as the chorus to Shellac's "PRAYER To God"

Hopefully this ICE guy goes home, tells his family about what he did at work today, and then they beat him to death while he's sleeping

The A.I. community seems to be made up entirely of dweebs

Allentown Giggin' in January!

Once the last person who was alive in the year 9 died it's been okay to consider decades this way Same with centuries and the last Year 99 person to die and millenia with the last from Year 999

I've been playing guitar for 33 years and I still don't know how to not scrape the index fingernail on my strumming hand

It would be cool to see Dark come back as a regular show. I love the episodic storytelling of the mainline shows but I also loved getting to see 45-60 minutes straight of just wrestling It's beside the point that most of them were enhancement matches; it was great to get to see everybody's stuff

Online music peaked with the Myspace band page format 04-06. Just a few songs to sample before you decided whether or not to see a band or buy their record

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary numbers...and 9 others, like me, who don't

Currently reading a 180 page book about the Phillies and apparently this guy appears JUST ONE FUCKING TIME??? SMDH

It's so funny to me how in the 14 years since this book was published, this word's meaning within a sports context hasn't just shifted, it's come to mean the exact opposite!

I love when an inadvertant double-feature book pairing happens. It's happened to me a few times before, like when I read Jeff Vandemeer's Annihilation and Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet back-to-back, both of which having large living structures as a part of their climax

This is the best time of the year for people who enjoy hearing the Beach Boys wish Satan a Merry Christmas

I found one of my all time favorite books and authors (Par Lagerkvist's The Dwarf) just browsing in a store and seeing a book with a good design. I had no idea who he was (I was vaguely familiar with Barabbas) & would never have given him a second look if I'd just seen the name on a computer

Seems like an open-and-shut debate: "computers aren't people" and then you're on to the next one

Anything less than 100% contempt for A.I. is disappointing

GOT his ass!

My second demand (I'd be drunk with power in this scenario) would be a live action Beavis & Butthead starring Owen & Luke Wilson. No prosthetics, no voice imitations, just those two guys dressed like B&B delivering that dialogue as themselves

I wouldn't demand a full movie. Instead, I'd have the Coen brothers film a half hour behind the scenes featurette for a fake movie as the Cone Brothers, both of them totally serious, totally deadpan, the whole time made up as Coneheads

For those going home to visit family this weekend: • Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus • LG calls it TruMotion • Sony calls it Motionflow • Roku calls it Action Smoothing • Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement • Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

You'd think the most annoying thing about the Philly library is the inconsistent Saturday hours but it's actually that they shelve the books in their new nonfiction sections alphabetically by author instead of by call number

I don't know anything about coding or programming so maybe this isn't possible but maybe @bsky.app could use the space freed up by this to add in a feature where the app remembers where you left off when you open or refresh the app?

I hope you realize that when you make fun of A.I., this li'l hard-workin' guy is who you're making fun of:

Sluggo is for the people

They keep putting new faces on it but it’s been like a solid 15-20 years of videos of robots falling over, scientifically I think we can conclude that’s their main function

Listen, If someone lends this book to you and you don't IMMEDIATELY point to them and say "Hey...whatta I owe ya?" You're a coward

My current pet conspiracy is that some entity (or entities) is making A.I. versions of songs that already exist so that radio stations and other places that play commercial music don't have to pay royalties.

It truly is amazing how many times in the last decade, whenever a right wing person has had even the slightest critique of Trump, how fast that "Welcome To The (hashtag)Resistance" flag has been unfurled, regardless of how much of a piece of shit they've proven themself to be otherwise

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything. Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

This is a level of hate that I have a lot of respect for

Ergs gig next month at Labor Of Love's "Mischief Night Mayhem 4" Will this be the show where @joeerg.bsky.social finally blades???

This is still better that that one year where everyone discovered "dotard" and were so excited to have a "'tard" word that they were allowed to use again

Missed opportunity for a poisonrana

The Young Bucks superkicking Alex Marvez outside their dressing room

I don't think Magnificent A.I.mbersons will come to pass, but everyone who cares about film should reject it on principle. It sets a dangerous precedent for film preservation & restoration, bc what's to stop them from letting classics fall into disrepair when they think they can just regenerate it

It'd be cool if AEW would quit legitimizing Twitter by putting tweets up during shows

I'm never ready for how deep Bud Cort's voice is

Listen, I don't want anyone to be out of a job, but maybe the marketing guy who said "let's tell everyone our product isn't real" shouldn't be working there anymore