Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

Good day for this one @craigshay.bsky.social

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

My most Boomer opinion is that this is genuinely a tragic way to experience live music. You cannot surrender to music if you are videoing it.

day 1 is "penzeys revolution blend" and i cant stop laughing at "we have to GET RID of this lying, cheating, CORRUPT SCUMBAG PRESIDENT!! RESIST! REVOLT! REVOLUTION NOW!! good on roast poultry and carrots"

In lieu of elaborate means-tested standards or onerous top-down management, my proposal is simple: no one who is more famous than Druski is allowed to be in TV commercials. Druski's fine, I have no quarrel with him. Puddy from Seinfeld is probably below Druski now, he can stay. Chris Pratt must go.

My friend's kid has been in the hospital. I wanted to make him something. He likes soccer, and he likes food. So I wrote & drew him a silly little book called THE SOCCER SANDWICH. Here, let me read it to you!

Every Black Friday I take the time to read what is perhaps my favorite piece in the history of online media— @jonbois.bsky.social on RadioShack’s slow, painful death. www.sbnation.com/2014/11/26/7...

thinking of her today

bars

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

maybe i am going insane

Amidst two MLB players being criminally charged for colluding with gamblers, a reminder that in order to watch 9 MLB teams you need to watch a cable channel literally named after an online gambling app

Isn't it so weird to deeply know in your bones something obvious with no equivocation, for years and years, and then to one day see articles about people wondering if maybe the incredibly obvious thing you've known this whole time might be happening, as if the media is discovering it now??

evergreen

““If they’re not gonna run the programs, then what are we paying them for?” she said. “It’s like, you know, you’re paying us for a service and they’re not delivering. So let’s stop paying for it.” 👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …

I feel like everyone on my feed is acting like Trump is submitting to Mamdani and not that by aligning with him, Trump is staining Mamdani with his political poison pill. This buddy comedy thing makes ZM *less* appealing to the average person who hates Trump

Trump's greatest political gift is a total lack of shame and the knowledge that any time the camera is on, it's a show. His strongest moments aren't when he's claiming to understand particle phsyics, it's when he breaks the fourth wall of political theater and says "ain't i a stinker."

Sign Tucker and extend Skubal, easy

Muppet "Knives Out" would own. I cannot think of an actor who would understand the assignment, on a Michael Caine level, better than Daniel Craig would. bsky.app/profile/rian...

It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend

Who you calling first when it happens? What song you dancing to?

I don't know who Mark Sanford is and I don't think I care to find out

“OK” standing for “oll korrect” still hasn’t been topped

I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one

There it is

Look I love bluesky but I just saw the same skeet 4x in a row because different people I follow retweeted it. There has to be a better way

here's something cool: the son of the letter carrier on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood (McFeely) is a real letter carrier for the USPS and he's our letter carrier and he's awesome

SOCRATES: No god is a philosopher or seeker after wisdom, for he is wise already; nor does any man who is wise seek after wisdom. PLATO: Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom. DARRYL, SOCRATES AND PLATO’S FRIEND: well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers

This is so good

So many of these clubs/leagues/orgs could save a lot of money and hardship if there were just one person in the room who would say, "That's not a good idea right now."

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.

game 7 is the least important game of the world series because the season’s over at the end of the season either way. they only play it so that someone can feel like they won

The true spirit of the season is that today is the 25th anniversary of Stankonia youtu.be/lVehcuJXe6I?...

I miss when top level government jobs were something you'd aspire to as a kid. Maybe I was just naive, but you didn't have to be a fascist to work for the Pentagon!!

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

It just hit me this morning that we are still in year one of this administration. It has been less than one year. That hit me with just immense, profound sadness.

baseball posting is unambiguously good for Bluesky. not my thing but we desperately need some lighter topics round these parts

George W Bush also had 4x as much career WAR as his dad

I will forever associate Alejandro Kirk with this incredible doodle @hausofdecline.bsky.social made specifically for the episode art of her @battingaround.bsky.social appearance

"You can't defeat bad ideas by adopting them. You can't grow a coalition by selling out its members. And you can't persuade people who disagree with you that you can be trusted to fight for them when you won't even fight for those you say are with you." www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...