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@bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social One 2001 album I really enjoyed so far and plan to nominate is Tipsy, UH-OH! Recommended if you like exotica/lounge music and I even used “Bunny Kick” in a recent Instagram post. 🍹

My son was on the train platform and noticed this and decided to wait for the train

Here it is: the poll to determine the release date of YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT. Please read the entire form, consider the arguments, laugh at the jokes. The poll runs until 12:01 AM Mon Dec 15. You can change your vote anytime before then. I have tried to turn off the results so that you vote blind.

Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff

You should be able to get rich being silly online instead of being evil online, that would solve a lot of problems

Turns out it didn't have legs

they don't say the name "shakespeare" until like 80% of the way through HAMNET and i keep imagining someone who went in somehow not knowing hearing it and losing their shit

New newsletter! Here’s the first 2001 check-in, featuring the 2001 albums I’ve heard in the last week. PLUS: my (current as of today) full list of 2001 rankings! Keep listening to 2001 albums, the seven weeks will fly by! buttondown.com/kentmbeeson/...

they hate music, they hate art, they hate artists, they hate pop, they hate the video games they play, they hate the movies they watch, like, they're just all the worst fucking people you've ever met, none of them believe in anything

It is still Bandcamp Friday.

Netflix Confirms Cancel Membership Button Will Be Leaving Streaming Service Next Month

Looking to ditch Spotify? @janus.bsky.social wrote this up for @fightforthefuture.org and it's an easy step-by-step guide for how to do it in the least painless way possible touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/how-to-ditch...

Not good!

Good morning 🥶

No! No!!!

The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored all previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge "Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."

feels like the wrong year to make white supreme

I understand why people stay on services that suck but not Spotify. There’s so many other platforms that are 1-to-1 the same but with less garbage if not objectively better.

Okay I think I’m going to try a trial run of Qobuz.

I just joined Tidal in November lol

Olive approves the new sheets

Year-end critics’ lists exist for people to fight over, so I’m happy when people complain about them. But the complaint I will never get is, “I’ve never heard of most of these movies/albums/shows.” Yes, and? Why be mad about learning about stuff you didn’t know before from the news?

This is worse than your average College English 101 term paper lmao.

It’s nice seeing people post year-end music lists that aren’t Spotify Wrapped (glad I ditched them tbh).

BEST FILM: One Battle After Another

SPECIAL AWARD: Screen Slate

BEST ACTRESS: Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sinners

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another

oh you love music name five songs

I’ve been listening to deep cut 2001 albums and I’m thoroughly enjoying them so far. Not sure how many will actually make the tournament though.

November ‘25 first watches: Girls at 12 The Gas Station Attendant Bugonia A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Shifting Baselines Life After TCB - The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing The Devil Is Busy Women Laughing

"What kind of music do you like?" I genuinely don't know anymore

it’s kind of insane it came out that the president might be one of the most notable pedophiles in modern history and he’s just still the president

Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.

Documentaries I would like to see over the next few months: Seeds WTO/99 Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk The Merchants of Joy The Tale of Silyan Cover-Up Apocalypse in the Tropics

just spitballing here: a good slogan for dems in 2026 or 2028 might be BAN SCAMS

The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans. Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.

Tech oligarchs have been scrambling for products to retain dominance since the plateau of the home computer and mobile phone. Today, they're forcing 'AI' garbage on us while pushing for mass surveillance and war products, even if they have to make the wars to service them. We can reject this future.

As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely. They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things. Only you have the power to kill it.

Long weekend mood

wow judge much

I regret every joke I’ve made about how our elected officials were so old they didn’t know how to use a computer. I would give anything for another administration that doesn’t know how to use a computer

is Microsoft Excel a feminist? Is Gemini a queer ally? Is this graphing calculator my friend