This is why I will never give a shit about those “organized shoplifting ring” panics. Retail chains are stealing way more from their own employees than they’re losing to shoplifting.

One of the great comics.

friends it was bad enough listening to people talk about the movie at the music box, please stop filming review tiktoks at the music box

I consider the oral history of @kickstarterunited.org a foundational resource for organizing in the tech industry and I hope our stories from unionizing at Mapbox can be too: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...

Ticket’s still available!

maybe broke my little toe so now i am very very lightly stoned and elevating my leg and listening to satori by the flower travelin’ band. don’t keep weights on the floor kids.

awww fuck they’re roasting me on goblin twitter

extremely weird and bad news day for hardcore

My latest Reader music feature is all about Dr. Charles Joseph Smith, a classically trained pianist and pillar of Chicago DIY who is about to release a multi-disc archival compilation on @sooperrecords.bsky.social

Please celebrate my birthday today by liking and sharing this sick popfest lineup

a main event in any aaw show from 2015

I am especially excited that we unearthed RUPERT REMEMBERS and have made it available for a wider audience. It's a documentary from the late 90s that charts the TS & queer spaces of Toronto in the 70s and 80s. It has been logged by exactly 2 people on Letterboxd.

And we are live. If you have a Criterion Channel subscription you should be able to find the series that we programmed on their main page. I hope that everyone enjoys the series and finds a new favorite.

it is probably best to not think of sage francis overmuch but there’s a line from his non-prophets project where he goes “at the fugazi show requesting minor threat songs” that i think about a lot as i age. at the snocaps show, requesting ps eliot songs, and so forth.

me, haven’t left the apartment in a bit, exhausted by my objects and of my inherent status as a failure: I think I’m gonna die in this house me, getting back to my apartment after time away, delighted by the comfort afforded by my objects: I think I’m gonna die in this house (complimentary)

On Friday, March 27, 2026, Pissed Jeans returned to Brooklyn for a live set that was over by 10PM. They were joined by two NYC acts: Pyrex and The Exorzist III. Photos of all three bands are now live on my website: bit.ly/pissedjeansa...

get off my lawn txt

i try to avoid posting about— mmm i can just stop at i try to avoid posting, less typing and more broadly correct. great work me.

Saw someone post a link of sunshine post as a meme and just a reminder of how fucking annoying that person is.

fixed it for you

🌻Planting Seeds: An Indigenous Zine Fest hosted by ZINEmercado and @newberrylibrary.bsky.social on May 16 at The Newberry!🌻 www.newberry.org/calendar/zin...

the illinois house judiciary committee yesterday voted 13-7, with all dems in favor, to advance a bill to require operating systems on electronic devices to confirm a user’s age—a serious threat to digital privacy that follows similar efforts across the u.s. it next heads to the house floor.

a lot of you today it seems like

yessssss the discourse must continue

good to know i’m technically in the top few percent of my discipline, if only that would translate into a steady employment offer

Barnes & Noble and HarperVia asked me to talk a bit about my work translating Uketsu for the B&N Reads blog to coincide with the release of Strange Buildings. It's up! #Uketsu #StrangeBuildings

this is a list of fundraisers for immigrants being held in the midwest´s largest camp. many of these are achievable goals and some of them are to raise $ for astronomical bond rates. please give as much as you can and please share. nodetentioncentersmi.org/north-lake-p...

this is why it’s actually perfect. graphics are the tool of the enemy (comics), we shall not require or use them. perfection in folding is for the birds. small text is, well, look, it’s a problem but everything has an issue.

what are we doing? what is going on?

Help keep this family housed if you can!

you can find a copy of the play easy enough (only in Japanese) but i haven’t seen a vhs on yahoo auctions in the many years i’ve been looking. i’m slightly holding out hope that maybe radiance will continue releasing eiichi kudo movies and we’ll get it in a box or something.

ah too late, i’ve already characterized you as the illiterate jamey jasta, and myself as the rakish lead singer of in/humanity and i will be using your response to open our next seven-inch

re-posting because wow, they really are

Support Sol and Josh please!!!!

A great opportunity for #MLIS students or any library worker who doesn't have institutional support to attend ALA Annual in Chicago. 📚 A 3-hour volunteer shift gets you free access to the conference!!

i lost my thread about this but fruit machine is an insane thing to call a slot machine and we should redo the revolutionary war

Nobody but NOBODY did it like Sam Kieth. RIP.

industrial society and its future (complimentary)

💌💌ANNOUNCING:💌💌 The brand-new Your McHenries web store! All the new stuff from last September is there, plus our in-stock back catalog. Shipping worldwide from Chicago! We love you! yourmchenries.bigcartel.com

no one in this family will see heaven or be mourned

this is about a dad not my dad but one time i was listening to to les rallizes denudes and @garbageskeleton.skin looked at me and said in his very southern “bless their hearts” kind of way said, “well, everyone sure sounds like they’re having fun.”

My son, Loomis, is so based that he would just order tap water in a bowl on the ground when we went to dinner in LA. This would always stun the waitstaff, as they had never seen such a cute little guy. He also unironically ordered sashimi at a very uptight sushi restaurant because he loves fish.

New from me on ACRLog, Supporting Library Workers Who Have Lost Their Jobs. If you don't know what to say or do when your coworker or colleague gets laid off or fired, here's a list of action items. 📚 acrlog.org/2026/03/21/s...

Whoa whoa whoa. WSJ reports that Trump *personally* pushed the Justice Department to settle its antitrust case with Live Nation. Several sources for my NYT column speculated this was the case. The Journal says it's a fact. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

the current vibes are deteriorating

this user does not have a beard and has been marked safe from having an opinion about the return of another band that should have stayed dead for glaringly obvious reasons

Oh nice, Kani got the Sil-Metropole catalogue! Cageman! Gangs! The Enigmatic Case!

i don’t want open borders or open barnes and nobles i want bookstores with unstated hours and prices based on a lunatic’s whims

The movement is the hero.