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I'm going to try to start posting more about the shows I go to. I had an absolute blast seeing The Aces last night at The Kessler Theater in Dallas. I feel so lucky to have seen what I consider to be one of the best working bands out there at such a cool, intimate venue.

Hey @annieknk.bsky.social , any chance you'll add an episode to your new podcast that covers Trad Desk Organizers?

Finally, Norbit is getting the attention it's due.

Here's a look at the overlapping journeys of jazz legends Terry Riley and La Monte Young, known for their work with John Cale, Steve Reich, and others.

As someone who studied music, then library science, was a librarian, then did knowledge management for a federal foreign aid office I feel this

RIP Donna

While it wasn't as valuable to me as someone brought up in the milieu, I think the primary value of Talia Lavin's recent book on the evangelical right is that it desperately and effectively makes the case that we should actually believe and take very seriously the beliefs the right affirms.

I know things get lost in the churn, but it really is truly funny that Trump goes around openly demonstrating that he thinks the many dementia tests he takes are aptitude tests, and then brags about passing them even though he found them very difficult. That's like, VERY funny.

I firmly believe that throughout the fall of 1974, Billy Kreutzmann was doing some of the absolute finest drumming ever.

The domestic implications are very evident, of course, but I wonder when we start seeing ICE being deployed abroad as a sort of unshackled military unit, basically a rank and file version of the way we deploy special ops teams and it's sort just exempt from any sort of regulations or restrictions.

Pelosi, talking about she sent the Supreme Court a stern letter after they preemptively approved Trump for a 4th term: "Because remember, 6 7 [she slowly and awkwardly does the accompanying hand gestures] ate 9" (Bluesky Discover tab libs to their computer to make epic reply gifs)

Something I think about not infrequently is that in the movie Step Brothers, they chose to make the "Brendan's got a man-gina" chant in 5/4 instead of a triple meter like 6/8 or 12/8. What an odd choice.

Exorcist Exorcist III Let Me In The VVitch

I have a young relative staying with me this weekend and so we've been doing a lot of "family" stuff. I've determined that there are essentially three kinds of dads one is allowed to be: -Dad who will kill you with a gun -Clown dad -Golf dad

Add this toy ever growing "they should make a block list from this criteria" idea list: Anyone who has ever attempted to lib humor riff in the comments of an Aaron Rupar post.

Libby and other library discovery platforms should have a "secular" filter. It's kinda ridiculous that you can either see a thousand self help books that are mixed religious and secular, or you can see that 600 that are religious, but you can't see the 400 that aren't religious.

The way most people use this site is baffling. I follow exactly 1 person in the top 100 on this list. Expand it out to the top 300 and I only follow 8.

This is why they broaden the definitions of what they THINK happens to include the stuff that DOES happen. For example if you come into college believing in creationism and your intro bio prof says that evolution is real, that is not woke indoctrination. But they'll call it woke indoctrination.

One thing I appreciate about American politics is that, while the socialists don't seem to understand capitalism, the capitalists don't either, so it keeps it even.

Manhattan. Excellent show with an absolutely stacked cast,but it suffered from being on a network that couldn't really support it, especially in competition with so many excellent shows airing at the time.

I guess it's good that @livagar.bsky.social explained Helldivers 2 so thoroughly on a QAA episode. @travisview.bsky.social @jakerockatansky.bsky.social

Just realized I've been mashing Sierra Hull and Sierra Farrell together into one Sierra since maybe forever. Oops 😬

Reposting this because I want to revel in how good of a joke this and how unfortunately niche it is.

Once 144,000 posts are saved, they will be protected from this site's impending destruction. #ImminentizeTheEschaton

I don't think it's a coincidence that the entire history of the mid 20th century is america being a one party country effectively and doing the largest increase in infrastructure investment in the history of the world at that point, and then China has replicated that in the 21st century lol.

If you polled a sufficiently representative group of people, would a majority know what the word "subsidies" means?

The author of this piece should look up what Butler actually means by "performative" if he's going to mention Butler because Butler's definition is quite different than how it is used these days and in the rest of this article (ie. performative as ersatz/posturing).

Will we ever have a world where people know the definition of and use the word "reactionary" correctly? Doubtful.

I'm at a baseball game and I was wondering. Do you think I could start a thing that bunting is woke?

This makes me so sad and disgusted. I love this building. I love it architecturally, but also because some of the best people I've worked with are there, and some of the work I'm most proud of is there. Frances Perkins was a hero. So many great memories of mine are associated with this building.

All this Newsome stuff is the classic Dem-brain fallacy that we saw with Bernie voters, in which a voting bloc (in this case, anti-Newsome trans rights supporters) as simultaneously consequential enough to need chiding but not consequential enough to court or otherwise listen to. It can't be both!

Do your thing @thelouvreof.bsky.social

This is super fascinating.

Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵

Something that I haven't seen anyone yet mention about this whole Sydney Sweeney thing is the disturbing number of people who think the word is "add" and not "ad".

This reminds of a discussion about young people watching The Office, and how a show that was intended to show the boring horrors of office life might be seen as appealing to young people with terrible job prospects.

See the replies to this post for a great example of "big account makes a post and at least half of the many replies are different people making the same dumb joke". I can't imagine having that kind of audience.

Something that I haven't seen anyone yet mention about this whole Sydney Sweeney thing is the disturbing number of people who think the word is "add" and not "ad".

I know some fine and normal accounts would catch some strays, but someone needs to make a "joined Bluesky in November 2024” block list.

Mulvey’s article that codified The Male Gaze was published over *50* years ago and refers to a very specific idea in a specific context. It does not simply mean “what all men like looking at”, just as any notion of a female gaze cannot mean “what all women like looking at”

For about three months in the late winter into early spring I was both buying and financing a new home and applying for dozens of jobs. My phone and email were absolutely ASSAULTED that entire time and are only just now getting back to normal.

Some people say it "e-mell"

This article also isn't true, in my experience as someone affected by these cuts, directly and indirectly. People on the right absolutely realize it and are fine with it. It's why they vote for these people. For all these regretful Trump voter tales, I've yet to see a single actual instance of it.

As someone who lives in Oklahoma, let me assure you all that any severe, extreme ideas people are imagining to usher in some sort of post-*all this* future are not extreme enough.