In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Pairing this with photos from Minnesota today and the only words I can come up with are "Gestapo-like." It feels beyond the pale that we are well past the point of "checks and balances" now. We have a poorly trained and highly armed domestic army terrorizing a city at the behest of the President.

Panic World's episode from Minneapolis is out this morning. You can watch it on YouTube and anywhere you get your podcasts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cjx...

ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis. www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...

This has been the thing that keeps coming up with every Head I've commiserated with. Weir was a musical hero but maybe even more than that, he was the last man standing in the spotlight from a group that have created a musical legacy and a community of cultural misfits.

The most fiery of performers I’ve had the joy to see in my life, and perhaps the one most in touch with his own mortality, his legacy, and what he’d leave behind. Fare thee well, Bobby.

For as long as I've been managing social teams, I've had to teach them how to disable autoplay to avoid seeing, without warning, police killings, genocidal violence, and now POV footage of ICE murdering someone. I really hope one day soon I won't feel the need to have that be part of training.

Settings > Content and Media > Autoplay videos and GIFs > Off/unchecked

Tips for following coverage of protests in Minneapolis:

Video footage of a murder is, by any definition, "graphic media" and deserves a speed bump before people who have autoplay on see it without warning. People can watch if if they _want_ to but nobody should be exposed to violent imagery without warning.

Important note with this: Autoplay settings are local to your device. Turning it off on mobile doesn't mean it's off on desktop.

Settings > Content and Media > Autoplay videos and GIFs > Off/unchecked

Since we're doing this discourse again: people on every platform got a lot more comfortable with bullying others over the last 5 years. Most of the "power users" of other platforms have since migrated here. It's a problem, but you can and should simple mute and block assholes at first offense.

Hate to be that guy asking questions to the void of the internet but: anyone know whats up with the AQI/smog in NYC today?

Yelling on Bluesky that the Mamdani administration should leave Twitter and exclusively post on Bluesky is the most NYC DSA and removed from the big picture coded thing I've seen today and yes I will be limiting replies to this post.

Here is a handy instructional guide

If you need some music to have on but also (reasonably) don't want to hear the same 12 Christmas songs over and over, may I recommend WKCR's annual BachFest? Today through the 31st, new and old interpretations of Bach. (Listen button on the top right) www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/b...

I have been working on something around this, what marketing folks have been calling "proof of craft", in reaction the the slop-ification of our feeds. Luxury brands were quick on the uptake after posts any CG/animated art got handfuls of "is this AI?" comments. Others are likely to follow soon.

Rolled credits on Skate Story last night. Very cool game with some great one-liners and visuals, but the ending seemed to drag on. Multiple times I thought "surely this is the end" and then no, there was another chapter. Fun controls and worth picking up if you need to kill a few hours this holiday.

Things I Liked: 2025 mgoldstein.nyc/things-i-lik...

Fette Sau is closing, they're trying to rent apartments at McKibbon Lofts for $5,500, Jimmy's Corner is getting evicted. Post-2008 New York hipsterdom is gasping its last breath this week.

It is 2025 (almost 2026) and the design and marketing industry is bringing back "storyteller" titles again. I am so tired. I really don't think I can do this again.

It happened to me: just had to ask someone to stop filming me with their meta glasses on the subway

Can’t believe it came down to the final race again but stoked to see driver’s championship go to McLaren. Gg Lando. No doubt Piastri has a championship in his future after this season, too.

You gotta just post for the love of posting instead of posting because you think your viral bluesky post will go viral and change the course of American democracy. Doomposting is far worse than doomscrolling.

This year I bought one CD player, 19 CDs (was gifted another ~40 or so from my father's storage unit), and 25 records.

My proposal to solve Ticketmaster being the literal worst: open NYC venues where tickets are only available IRL at a ticket booth window.

Cindy Lee at Brooklyn Paramount. Unreal show.

Mamdani's victory speech should be a roadmap for the entire Democratic party if they actually want to take regaining power seriously.

If there is one thing the national reach of the NYC mayoral race can teach Democrats everywhere else in the US, it is this point exactly. For a party that has been floundering on how to act, how to reach anyone under the age of 50, and how to actually behave like an opposition party, take notes.

I do not believe we should put politicians on a pedestal or treat them as celebrities. I do believe our city would be better led by someone who actually lives here and sees the city for what it is, instead of how it is portrayed on cable news, and can lead from a place of joy instead of one of fear.

No line, no wait, took me less than five minutes. Go run it up for Zohran and get your nice lil Halloween sticker today.

The Battlefield 6 battle royale mode confirmed rocks

It'd be nice if the "nazi bar" thing stopped being relevant, y'know?

Another "explain what AWS is to a lot of coworkers" day, eh?

I will stand by a statement I have made in my work life multiple times: Meta's biggest issue isn't TikTok, or people moving from posting to feed to talking in DMs. Meta's biggest issue people moving those DM conversations to iMessage or Discord.

the correct stance

Shit, damn, motherfucker. Truly a singular force in today's generation of music. 🥀

Bloomberg should probably buy TBPN before someone else does

Correlation, causation, etc. (via: news.gallup.com/poll/695762/...)

Around Skye

~11 years ago, I was the most junior person in a big marketing meeting, our client was concerned that we were spending so much more on Facebook videos instead of TV commercials. I have not forgotten the expressions of the room as I gently explained that the TV was, at best, the "second screen" now.

This game is basically goofy 3D N64-esque Vampire Survivors and it's like $8 right now store.steampowered.com/app/3405340/...

By ill fates or by design, the last ~15 years of media and technology have left us where there is no way to build an audience (for news, media, music, podcasts, for anything really) without reliance on existing network effects. If you have a story, how do you get it to people without Posting?

They can't keep letting him get away with this...

NEXT WEEK: Cafe Music, a traveling night of intentional music listening, is back at Le Dive with artist and designer Liv Ryan as our guest selector for the evening. Limited tickets still available. www.eventbrite.com/e/cafe-music...

The last few months have proven out that we have a media apparatus, press, and government woefully ill equipped to deal with a generation of irony poisoned and blackpilled young (mostly) men who, because the long tail of American politics, have unfettered access to guns and ammo.

Some thoughts on yesterday www.garbageday.email/p/the-logica...

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off