Deifying gigging is its own particular kind of structural violence.

Happy March!!

Is Qobuz on the way to replacing Spotify? : far better sound quality and royalty rates for bands louderthanwar.com/qobuz-could-... via @louderthanwar

I swear to Christ I think I would vote for a candidate who just used capitalization correctly

A quick "don't-do-what-I-did" post: If you have your website with Bandzoogle and want to cancel it, be sure to archive ALL of your pages before you deactivate the website. If you don't, you'll lose access to everything *immediately*, even if you're paid up to a future date.

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

If I learned anything about social media over those last few days, its this. People often taken weirdness/quirkiness for weakness, much as they do with kindness. They think you're going to be an easy punching bag. And they get mightily upset when you turn the tables.

why do nerds suddenly appear every time I post here

These men are so grimy. So unoriginal.

Ugh. Only 1,217 days until retirement.

It’s gonna be great!! And the venue is quite cozy, has amazing cocktails, and no bad seats. And it’s ONLY TEN BUCKS! It’s a steal! (Plus I’ll finally get to meet Patrick, too!)

Likewise. And here’s a point I don’t see raised very often: what happens when everyone pivots to [whatever] all at the same time? You’re not special; you’re just one of a gazillion twerps trying to win eyeballs or attention all at the same time.

Doing my best to alternate between the fun memes and living the truth that knowledge is power. So important to find joy were we can.

👇👇👇👇👇

oh joy

Matthew Tkachuk is literally on Trump’s anti-trans sports board. Kash Patel was celebrating in the dressing room with Dylan Larkin. Jack Eichel was photographed attending a Trump rally. The team will inevitably go to Trump’s White House soon, too. Do NOT tell me to separate the team from the regime

Shame Canada couldn't win gold at hockey, but on the bright side, they've probably saved their nation from the imposition of 1000% punative tariffs on goods into the USA

Remember this next time this country asks us to send troops to Afghanistan or Iraq

People on Bluesky: “sPoRtS aReN’t PoLiTiCaL” The United States men’s national hockey team: *parties in their dressing room with Kash Patel*

Geniune LOL:

The better team didn't win. Simple as.

Bracing for Trump to spoil that good sportsmanship vibe with inane, yet somehow incendiary, prattle.

As much as I’m gonna miss the Winter Olympics, I will he SO glad to see the end of the ad campaigns. Especially YOU, dumb 80s Instacart ad.

Not sure how I feel about the Americans taking advantage of the fact that their white uniforms apparently make them invisible to the referees

Previous generations of rich people knew that it was important for them to shut the fuck up and build libraries and parks and hospitals since that was the only way we would tolerate them in society. This generation of rich people have forgotten why this was necessary. We should remind them.

This was a lot of fun, and my little sewing heart was warmed by seeing all of the sewing machines brought in for repair. And thank you to Danny who tried to fix my beloved hair dryer, but found that the best solution was to whack the side of it.

OK America, we built you a bridge, you don’t like the bridge. Does Canada have to build you a school book depository? Maybe a few school book depositories? Some of us are wondering exactly how many school book depositories you people need.

Super excited about this... I'm hiring a video editor to help bring economics to a mass audience (yes, really). If you're thoughtful, creative, and want to make complex ideas accessible, I'd love to see your work. Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Or share with your most amazing mates!

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

Worth noting:

why aren't you starting a traditional nuclear family? wrong reasons only. I’m on the run from Interpol.

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

how we got here

I think I’m just going to fill my timeline today with questionable Valentines.

Happy V Day

It can be hard to learn a language just in a classroom. Nothing has made me progress in French as much as (1) doing a month-long intensive French immersion program and later (2) living in Quebec and having the language all around me. We need more of this for French education in Canada.

still can't believe ontario keeps voting for a guy whose idea of making things better for its residents is "force way more debt on university students," "build spa literally no one wanted," and "dig underground car tunnel literally no one asked for" like how are we this masochistic

It's not #BandcampFriday but I'd still encourage you to support indie musicians. So: throughout the day, if you reply to this thread with a screenshot showing you bought something from Bandcamp today, I'll give you a d/l code for one of my last 4 releases (so max 4 per person I guess).

I wonder the same thing as an older woman, and as soneone who, whrn younger, didn’t fit traditional ideas of “pretty”. (Being smart and quick to anger didn’t help much, either.)

How many opportunities did I lose because men I encountered or worked with did (or didn't) think of me as someone they could get in bed? What was the point of a reporter willing to cover an active warzone if they were still laid off after bad decisions made by the paper's senior managers and owner?

there are so many talented people; women, people of colour, LGBTQIA+ people, people who literally aren't whoever the shitty white guys are in a room where decisions take place who lose out - and culture, science, everything loses to them. but talentlessly white guys don't care about that

I'm so enthralled with the whole Trump-Carney-Windsor-Detroit Gordie Howe bridge scandal. A billionaire who owns the only other bridge gets pissy and suddenly the fucking President is ranting on Truth Social about how Canada is evil. It's so funny. And so, so dumb. And corrupt. Can't forget corrupt.

i hold no love for Mark Carney but even I've gotta have sympathy for the dude when I imagine his aide being like "sir, the president thinks you own the whole bridge and you're being mean about it" and him having to put down his copy of The Economist to make the dumbest phone call of all time

Went to see Hamnet tonight with a friend and it took me a minute to place where I had seen Jesse Buckley before…. ….and then it was, like, oh, RIGHT:

I WAS going to turn the game on, but…I think I’ll do the dishes instead. Current state of my timeline:

Legitimately one of the best posts ever, every time I see it is a gift