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Hey Kristi Noem just so you know: you're a disgrace, and Chinga La Migra. I'm one of the people criticizing ICE on social media. You don't have to lean on social media to find your critics are. Do your own research. I mean in between bonking Corey Lewandowski on the private jet we bought for you.

This is a lot like Pynchon's Shadow Ticket. Pynchon wanders so much you wonder if he's following Grandpa Simpson's pointless story strategy. Reynolds is more linear, but his detective, a resurrected Yuri Gargarin, is more sympathetic.

I think this is a pretty cool album. It's on the Sound Art spectrum, but the sound he's curating can be pleasurable, if unsettling listening. & there's always a hint of tonality, even if it sometimes stays well out of focus.

New thing in my world: otherwise normcore moms in the grocery store with face tats. 1 is unusual, 2 is a conspiracy.

When the edibles hit

More underwater album covers please.

Today I learned the german name for a raccoon: Waschbär. Which means "Wash bear" I guess because raccoons wash their food off.

Weird talking with men about dads. Good dads exist, but so many of my friends have fraught relationships with theirs. The best assessment was the friend who said he was 80/20 about his. I guess all of us who are fathers should aim higher than that, at least try.

Keep in mind that the Shithead is lacking one power - to condemn people to death on his say so. He would love that power. He would use that power. He started with the Central Park Five.

Ronald Reagan famously said the most frightening words were "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you." Second most frightening:

The wealthy have time on their hands. They're not all stupid. Yet to none of them does it occur that "we need to have journalism to have democracy" & figure out a way to fund good journalism, with a ROUNDING error of their wealth. Instead we have shitdicks like Bezo, dismantling journalism.

Again I have to say the endless cable news coverage of Nancy Guthrie's kidnapping points out where the News Media's at. They report this and ignore a huge story. & I hope for the best for the Guthrie family. www.humanrightsresearch.org/post/the-dis...

I think her outrageous behavior indicates she's as dumb as a sack of hammers. She couldn't piss her way out of a paper bag if it was on fire.

A Facebook influencer promoting the Jordan Petersen diet.

ME: THERE IS NO PERFECT SKEET @patrickworld.bsky.social :

Let Reverend Al Green testify. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pru6...

I didn't have EXTREME CLOSE-UP OF GROUND BEEF on my list for today but, somedays you just gotta look at fatty beef.

@drstaceypatton.bsky.social has plenty to say, but just the headline is on point. I mean damn can you deny it? drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/pam-bondi-...

Meanwhile in Iowa City

Normally I rate Oprah high, but why did she inflict this dude on us, knowing he was a complete fake? His whole deal was just kayfabe. He was a Heel pretending to be a Face.

Hey there Mr Post Spicy Takes & Turn Off Replies & Reskeets! That's kind of like going into an empty chat room and blocking everyone from entering.

Vance, paging Mr JD Vance...

This guy takes on the sonic traits of Boards of Canada & adds his own inventive melodic strategies. Sometimes a style pioneered by one artist is by no means exhausted when they move on. kodomo.bandcamp.com/album/three-...

Canada has one thing the United States never had, a respect for their own artists backed up by law. The mandate for "Canadian Content" in media doesn't just promote Canadian art, it makes sure it continues to thrives.

It doesn't explain his relationship to the rest of the human race but a big part of RFK Jr.'s broader damage is clearly trying to find out if he can die. I guess if I had lived a life like his and was somehow still around drinking out of puddles at 72 I'd have some questions on that as well.

One thing is clear about the Twin Cities is that St. Paul & Minneapolis are fraternal twins. I love how Minneapolis acts like it's the capitol of Minnesota when St. Paul actually is.

There I fixed it

I bought toothpaste when I was in Rochester MN at the downtown Walgreens a few weeks ago. Just noticed that for some reason, it's labeled in Indonesian.

I'm a T Shirt nerd, always attracted to great graphic design. @raygunsite.com has a whole collection of rebel alliance t shirts based on native birds that are beautiful & speak to this moment.

I started counting my holes and came up with 7. Basho counted his eyes as holes.

What is going on here? You know what? I don't want to know.

When Musk uses X, it's what's known in the software business as "eating your own dogfood." Though I think initially Elon took it too literally and started eating dog food, thinking it was Silicon Valley health hack.

Chitchat Wright lit the place up.

I love when someone arrives someplace without intending to. In this case @lemortedabby.com fused synthwave, 4x4 beats & anime sountrack into something a big room prog house DJ would play, but coming from a different place; no pandering or white noise buildups. lemortedabby.bandcamp.com/album/yon

I love that there's KPop Demon Hunters ramen at Costco.

Lost in Translation | Cartoon by Daniel Boris

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

If only @theatlantic.com wouldn't publish so much ridiculous nonsense. When they do publish something decent, it's hard to read without residual resentment for all the bollocks they fling around.

There's a site called TVTropes about cliche plot points in film and TV. This is the fuckin @wsj.com dusting off the "Millennials and their avocado toast" trope. Maybe there's so many luxury grocers in the city because the city is lousy with affluent people. Ta to @soozuk.bsky.social

What do you reckon. Does Elon Musk shut himself in his office to commiserate with his AI friend that no one love him? Then does he have it talk dirty while it generates porn videos of Nancy Mace and Laura Loomer, praising his malformed penis? Enquiring minds want to know!

There are whole universes in any musical instrument & Yorgos Stavridis is intent on finding them. No score or form, just pure improvisatory fearlessness. Rhythm, Timbre & Space modulate and dance to his intuition. heatcrimes.bandcamp.com/album/solo-p...

MF'ers lock me out of replies, like they're ding-danged curators. People comment on my skeets rarely. You don't have to turn replies off if they don't exist.

It's Trump's ambition to be on every wall, but he's lost control of what that means in reality.

Fuck all y'all. This skeet shoulda done numbers.

I literally don't remember buying this. "ambient industrial drone occult techno"? - maybe they hexed me into buying it! I'd add Angelo Badalamenti to the tag list, a good thing! Definitely adjacent to the Twin Peaks universe. The owls are not what they seem. yegods.bandcamp.com/album/black-...

Another thing I didn't have on my bingo card for last year: Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cannibalism advertisement. Not just cereal on cereal cannibalism, but a direct reference to Jeffrey Dahmer's refrigerator full of body parts. youtu.be/kIqXtIIq-6s?...