Specific policy matters way less than just being a white guy (or, sometimes, terrible white gal!) who is angry and resentful about having to tell fewer rape jokes or make fewer sexual comments about your coworkers. Platner was for people who want to "restore masculinity to the left," ie, sexists.

I'm struggling to keep up to what We can and can't be contrarian about - the Boygenius people got backlash because they're Biden-era relics, Olivia Rodrigo is sucking up to Gen X rock critics so she's good, but Carly Rae Jepsen is Important so nobody is saying how terrible "On Wires" is, but

how different is this post-Mumford song from "Right Back To It", really? www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFFD...

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

it’s almost like someone who won’t take no for an answer won’t take no for an answer

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

I really wish there was a way to distinguish between “the left” (completely correct about Platner, actually leftist) and “the “left”” (dirtbag podcast dipshits, the remains of Bernie Sanders, red/brown weirdos, etc.) because I’m sick of being blamed for that Nazi war criminal sexual predator fuck.

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

Looking for full-time work is so challenging! Any ledes in podcast/audio engineering work are so appreciated <3

A small example here but history really is going to judge this whole era as a revolt by very wealthy, important people against the idea that they too are subject to the law, and that there are limits on the level of criminality they can get away with without consequences.

I hope you settle down I hope you marry rich/I hope you go to shows without taking a shit

Every Gracie Abrams lyric is just "yeah, life's like this, yeah, that's the way it is"

This means something. This is important.

the Pheebs song is good but also sounds very dated already because it's peak Antonoff production

can someone please convince Antonoff there's merit in drum compression

I made some updates to this piece about Halsey from a year and a half ago (taking out the tone-deaf stuff about Pitchfork), and revisiting it post-Fantano, I actually think it's one of the better things I've written transientpeak.ghost.io/a-verbose-me...

(*migos are better than the Beatles voice*) I'm more impactful than Anthony Fantano

I feel like people keep trying to turn Disclosure Day into what they want it to be and not what it is (and there is LOTS to critique about what it is LOL)

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Fascism's a fever you break with shit like what happened in New York last night. Create more excuses to feel things like that together.

I asked my dad what a sex change operation was at 4 years old because I read about Dee Palmer from a Music Choice factoid RIP

"Expectations" rocks lmao

update: it suddenly got good

oh god I don't like this O-Rod album so far

unfortunately the National are still great and High Violet is still great every time I think I grew beyond them I find myself suddenly going AFRAID OF THE HOUSE STAY THE NIGHT WITH THE SINNERS or listening to the end of Fake Empire on loop

Disclosure Day was v v v good

one of my favorite movies for this reason !

holy shit

i think more than any policy thing he represents (who knows if he'll be another Fetterman or just an annoying guy in congress) he gives these media people an self justification to do some slurs. he's the slurs candidate. one reason why we desperately need feminism 5.0 or whatever number we're on.

1. In a move that is likely to be seen as capitulation to Trump, EITM can confirm that Mamdani's first ever trans direct care clinic will deny care to those under 19 years of age, the age from Trump's anti-trans EOs. It is a far cry from his pledge to "use every tool" to fight capitulation.

I have the Liberty in another window because I'm a good feminist but I'm paying more attention to the Knicks because I have internalized misogyny

PRIDE reminder that if you've got some coin, toss some into the plate of trans journalists telling trans stories from trans perspectives, because the transphobic corporate media sure as fuck isn't going to do it.

Sidney Gish is viral on TikTok and climbing the Spotify charts... kinda amazed she hasn't released a record since Trump 1.0 but the songs are just that good

is this what I'm supposed to hear when people are captivated by Cameron Winter's voice www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fX6...

Great article otherwise but I don’t understand prompting Claude itself to explain because it’s like interviewing AutoComplete www.wired.com/story/ai-has...

if 2006 Taylor was coming up in 2026 she’d make the Toy Story 5 song (complimentary I guess)

Sara Barellies working with Aaron Dessner has rendered my music redundant so weird hearing rubber bridge guitars under a voice I've known for decades

one of the most underrated rock songs of the 2020s? it's not on the level of Wrens stuff but it hits for me www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywHZ...

But if those kids are trans they won't get healthcare the next morning

Re: that Times article, frankly I just want people to own their sexuality I find “being straight/liking men is a curse” to be increasingly tone-deaf because it’s always going to be more socially acceptable

people still get mad at me for that Billie Eilish 6.8 and that's because THIS is the kind of thing I wish she did www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCOM...

thinking about Mother Mary again everyone thought they were making a blockbuster and accidentally lit $20 million on fire because the final movie is incomprehensible but they made something way more interesting than the Oscar-bait movie would have been

a bit ago I played "Seventeen Going Under" for my parents (they were wondering who the modern Springsteen is) and my dad went "can you remix the snare to sound less fake"

so glad Daria finally started testosterone

I'm so excited for a telepathic Spielberg movie it just needs a weird gender thing and it's going in my top 4 before it even comes out

haven't seen Obsession yet but if there's a comphet reading to a woman becoming obsessed with a guy against her will I'll go see it (and I will without that!)

I should get back into Imogen Heap www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yBB...

what is with this Madame Web voiceover trailer editing 0:15 It's been too long hereWOODY 0:32: "I'm gonNA let THIS deVICE know how THINGS are RUN around here" www.youtube.com/watch?v=QftA...

I think a lot about a guy I met in high school who straight up said "I have no passion" when I told him I love music he's the kind of guy who will always use ChatGPT

Cath by Death Cab For Cutie and Good Luck Babe by Chappell Roan are the same song