Will truly cares about this stuff part 1 of 2

Will truly cares about this stuff, part 2 of 2

The Venerable Bate, your SOV article was called out on Reddit. www.reddit.com/r/IndoEurope... @dannybate.bsky.social

There will be songs like JC Auto and Feeling Better where my AARP-eligible ears will not be wearing earplugs when Sugar comes around. “This time, I’m just trying to enjoy it all, in a way I wasn’t able to the first time around.” www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

If there isn't a scene from The Wire to support your argument, you didn't watch the show closely enough. "Gots to let him play, this America, man."

I don't even.... But I should.

Teaser for the new Cartoon Saloon film! www.instagram.com/p/DVd9JxLiXag/

@mbwilliams.bsky.social @punkrockscience.bsky.social I was not able to identify the brand or the distillery this morning from the mural on the side of the Left Bank building, but I did find out that...

Donald Trump in 2024 - “You are not going to have a war with Iran with me as president.” JD Vance in 2025 - “I certainly empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East...but the difference is back then we had dumb presidents.”

Oh wow, so many intriguing tracks here!

1/2 From jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com... "A few weeks ago, the Heritage Foundation—the powerhouse organization behind Project 2025 [1] —released a 250-year roadmap [2] to “save America.” [1] jessica.substack.com/p/project-20... [2] www.heritage.org/marriage-and... ...continued...

American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders. Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.

"If you come up to the bar and say “Can I get a Russian River” and then we ask “Which one?” And you say “The Pliny” and then we ask “Which one?”, forgive us if we roll our eyes at you and let out a deep sigh. It’s a been a long life." Life in @SaravezaPDX www.instagram.com/p/DUoIg7ngXxO/

Tim Eriksen: "I kind of made a new band with my longtime collaborator friend Peter Irvine and we somewhat unintentionally made an album. “Absence and her sister” will be out in early Spring on the audiophile label Soundkeeper Recordings." www.soundkeeperrecordings.com/index.htm

To celebrate #WomenInScience, this is Audrey Henshall (1927-2021), the first professional female #archaeologist in Scotland, renowned for her work on chambered cairns & burials. This picture is of Henshall, included in The Herald. ©Rosemary A Meldrum, CC #historyofscience #womenshistory #herstory

whaaaaaaaat. “Could raise concerns”? Could?!?

...with Prof Jean-Michel Picard (UCD) on Brigit in medieval Europe: open.spotify.com/episode/0Bl4... 3. and a bonus episode of the podcast with a recitation of Old Irish poetry about Brigit: open.spotify.com/episode/66I2... Happy Brigidine celebrations! /5

Thanks for the link @willshetterly.bsky.social

One of my absolute favorite Red Hand Files. www.theredhandfiles.com/how-do-you-b...

Anyway, the answer is both & neither & so much more besides. Women, whether real or characters from stories, can be just as complex & complicated & good & bad as men. There's so much more work to be done on all women in history before we can understand the significance of any one woman's legacy.

"What is tear gas for? It is for inciting riots. How did people go out and get gas masks? They ordered them online, because they do not want to riot." www.theverge.com/policy/86857... by @sarahjeong.bsky.social

@bageltheory.bsky.social What's in the cioppino bagel? It wasn't as different as the dukkah, but still a new type of tasty savory bagel. And it wasn't as quirky as I expected from the name, lol. #pdx #bagel

And because that carceral state is for profit, when there aren't enough immigrants to incarcerate & profit from, they'll start criminalizing citizens by making their ethnicities &/or religions illegal so they can be turned into profit producing items in Miller's whiteopia fantasies.

Imperialism never changes.

Truly fantastic bagels from bageltheory.net & www.instagram.com/bageltheory/

Rob Hirst (and the rest of the Oils) were a gateway to entire continents of music I had no clue about in high school. And for the last twenty years, whenever I looked, he had a new album or project out, making music with lots of different people.

Note to self, new Tana French novel at the end of March. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Great thread on carnyxs found in Britiain!

"Most Advice isn’t actually the advice. It’s the title of the essay." @kierongillen.bsky.social

Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.

"It was still possible, just, to appear on the modern landscape as an innocent, having recently wandered out of the woods. But it wasn’t possible to do so and actually be innocent..." 1/2

Upon my sickle I catch the sun And by my power I cast it on Across the sky The light to bring To rouse the gods To send the spring #WinterSolstice #Solstice #Midwinter #PlaymobilInfestation

40 years ago. Whoah. What's new @rrt7.bsky.social ?

In re. the changing nature of American cafe culture, sometimes we all become Grandpa Simpson yelling at the cloud. Zibetto is simply excellent, if you are ever in Midtown Manhattan.

Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've been to 1. Black Heart Procession 2. Cordelia's Dad 3. Daft Punk 4. Fuck Buttons 5. Gutter Twins

Received political (spam) message "State #51 would DESTROY our great nation from the inside out. Please, please, PLEASE, Help stop DC Statehood before it's too late: win-gop.io/06mzzg stop=end" What the fuck is wrong with these people?! No Taxation Without Representation

Happy Whalesplosion Day to all who celebrate. Today we remember all mad, bad, and just plain wtf ideas.

@wyden.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov @repdexteror.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @jeff-merkley.bsky.social What has the last forty days been for if you give them everything they wanted in the first place?

That big news Austin BBQ place is in their soft open phase. Brisket sando, mac & cheese, banana pudding to go.

I'm grateful that @sarahjeong.bsky.social lives here and speaks up! Thank you!

Oh wow! Peter at bageltheory.net has leveled up again. Today's jalepeno-cheddar is the best yet. He's at the #rockybuttefarmersmarket today.

Go raibh maith agat a Ghaeilge NW! Bhí an craoladh beosrath spraíúil.

Trying to explain the reality here to people elsewhere (particularly East Coast) can be difficult.

@gregrucka.com I just picked up Lazarus Fallen #4 from @rosecitycomics.bsky.social and I was blown away by your considered response to the letters received. And especially for the articulating the thesis of who will answer when simplicity is demanded. Thank you!

@terriwindling.bsky.social Since I first found out about NDW from the back of Life on the Border, I wanted to make sure you knew about this.

There's a new Not Drowning, Waving album! notdrowningwaving.bandcamp.com/album/malira I can't describe the music quickly, but no one else can move between evocative geography and emotional pop songs, dropping the occasional banger as well notdrowningwaving.bandcamp.com/track/wobble-2