Did I make a whale fall coffee cake for my Oceanography final? Yes, yes I did. The taffy bones did start melting, need a better material next time.

I salute the pedantry of the child’s new toy.

I believe.

the times demand it

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an incredible website where everyone is normal and people know the difference between NPR The News and NPR the Tiny Desk.

You do not hate tech bros enough

I realize that Survivor song isn’t called “I Love the Tiger” but that’s what I’m going with while singing around the house. It changes the meaning to be about a guy who loves a tiger.

While I’m a bit sad not to get any more Antarctic and South American updates (so glamorous to take calls from exotic lands), I’m excited to get back to prepping for our upcoming album release!

this just in from new york city: we’re hearing that mayor mamdani just signed an executive order making it illegal to NOT stand at your window and fold your arms and say “wow, it’s really coming down out there”

Arrest them all

Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate🧧 The last Year of the Fire Horse began in '66 & saw anti-war protests & civil rights struggle. It was the year Rev. Jackson left seminary to join Dr. King’s Freedom Movement. May 2026 bring New York the same bold change people deserve.

How dare they presume to know what would dazzle a penguin.

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

If GenAI is so great why is none of it properly attributed to AI. Why are we having to play "Is this AI?" If you believe it's so great and necessary

When the dog succeeds in catching the car and not only does he not know what to do next but he notices that he was also somehow the one driving the car: the Epstein files

This article cuts to the difficulties of sync / master clearances in music. 1) it takes a long time 2) there are often many entities to negotiate with 3) there are no set rates 4) it’s often trying to figure out how to make your request a priority 5) most people don’t understand music copyright

really we can't get more dipshitical or everything will fall apart completely

part of me still can't believe the East Wing was completely destroyed and there have been no negative consequences or reports on whether items inside were properly archived or not

I saw Tracy Letts’s Bug off-Broadway when Michael Shannon was in it. And it’s so rare to see a Broadway revival version one-up its original predecessor, but tonight’s production of Bug on Broadway with Carrie Coons did just that.

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

It’s always so weird that the Grammys mean nothing to me. I’m considered an honest-to-goodness music professional in many different areas, and still… I don’t care.

My new pin says “Defund ICE not NPR”, but the “not” is very small, so I’m realizing from afar, it looks like I’m anti-ICE and NPR. Doh.

This made me cry, no lie. Complicated reasons, one being its fuck you to the baked-in structures and strictures of the world that consider harm to be inevitable.

I was excited to see a familiar face on the Antarctic expedition blog. JM has been sending me pics/updates of his travels, but there are strict guidelines about what is allowed to be publicly shared. So I was excited to have something to show everyone!

Hard to think of anything I want or need less.

This administration is stark raving mad, and it is controlled by men - Vance, Miller, Bovino - are all-but-publicly taking orders from neo-Nazis bent on violent removal of nonwhite Americans. The admin barely hides many of these links. And it is driving a campaign of ethnic violence in our country.

I know the music licensing part of the quote isn’t the point. But as a music supervisor for public television, my struggles somehow feel seen.

This song was on the radio and that required me to once again revisit the insane brilliance of Michel Gondry's 1999 video for it, in which he recreates 70s/80s analog video FX with meticulously staged choreography. Just in case anyone hasn't seen this gem from the peak music video era:

The word armadillo is borrowed from Spanish and simply means “little armored one.” But an even better word for an armadillo, in my opinion, is the Nahuatl ayotochtli. It means “turtle rabbit.”

I bet it’s paid leave. That’ll show ‘em.

Your Libby rental was free for you, but did you know it cost the D.C. Public Library $59.99? The e-book boom (and a complicated pricing model from publishers) has left library systems strapped for cash. But D.C. lawmakers have a plan to fight back. 51st.news/ebooks-are-e...

What is obvious to me is that a lot of people deeply care about their neighbors and this country. They didn't think we would. We do.

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

You can measure the temperature (-2°) using a borb thermometer. 🪶

I like getting to know this sparrow’s feeder behavior, which is mostly to knock and sweep a lot of the seed out, pausing on occasion to defend against a hungry wren or chickadee.

Murder a person in cold blood once, shame on me Murder a person in cold blood twice, shame on you

We can’t believe it.

Fuck this garbage. Think of all the talented artists in Glasgow who you could have chosen from to get a payday from this gig instead of the money being handed over to a slop merchant.

I found out today that one of the forces pushing Trump the hardest for this Greenland shit is… the owner of Estée Lauder. Sharing this here because they own SO MANY makeup brands and I bet a lot of you might like to join me in not repurchasing anything from this makeup brand family!

I tried to convince a friend/reporter to get off X and come here and he says his reach is farther there. Yeah, but do you really want to reach more bots and fascists? Is that your intended audience?

I've been saying to get rid of your ring for years, but SERIOUSLY. Get rid of your ring!!!

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

One of the most popular and crowd-pleasing arias in classical opera, "Perché non c'è cibo nella mia ciotola, donna?" tells an emotional tale of a desperately malnourished waif and translates into English as "Why Is There No Food In My Bowl, Woman?"

Doo dah Doo dah

Outside Gracie Mansion. This is his job. But dare I day it he seems genuinely affected and happy to be there. There’s potentially immense power in that.

Thanks Trump. It's really helpful for you to continue to fuck up the global economy by having us spend money and attention on this rather than make things better for people. You and Putin really have a handle on this whole "make things shit for no reason," strategy.

The new Mitski single = 💯

I made a silly one-off test pressing of one song from my as yet unreleased album, in hopes this will push me to move forward with putting this out into the world. If I do physical media, I should probably bite the bullet and make full LPs, right? Or do you think a single 45 is a good idea?

Eeyores will say it doesn't matter, he's just going to do what he wants anyway, but Minnesota establishes the limit of what that is and reveals it as grossly ineffective. So we come right back to "How does Trump get more people to like him again?" and "He doesn't."