I really liked this. As one of the comments said "the situation is so dire, Dan made a short video."

I am reminded, speaking of legendary interpreters of this legendary song, what Nina Simone said of Bowie. (As excerpted from _What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography_ via time.com/4176079/davi... ). That's worth more than gold.

They're killing the helpers. They've always killed the help. The unnumbered, unindividualized help. They were killing the help before they could even touch down on shore. They would pack in the help like cargo, the dead shackled to the living. Helpers and help. We use language to sort people away

We are all real people. Every brown bone in a culvert and stinking burnt piece of hair in a bush belonged to a real person. This is real life. We are losing real people.

when I talk about how this is truly the only show to have a romance novel structure, this is what I mean: every other romance adaptation turns the fundamentally, crucially narrow focus of a romance novel into a broader tv world. this show feels different because it does not.

So the profits of the Canadian grocery monopoly remain intact, publicly funded even? This is much like the food donation bins just past check out, graciously put out by grocery concerns, allowing consumers to buy from them then donate.

I know I’m always Culturepoasting (just started reading SURFACE DETAIL, no spoilers) but I will never forget the bit in PLAYER OF GAMES where the Azad are like: there’s only one thing a dystopia can offer the citizen of a utopia: the libidinal pleasure of domination

given the amount of snow we got, i am shocked and grateful that there is as of about ten minutes ago someone out there working on the generator who has turned the noise off. maybe i can sleep properly tonight.

day 2 of the generator next door emitting a high-pitched constant whine that i can hear throughout my apartment. tried to get them to send someone to stop it yesterday, before the snow storm; figure i'm just fucked until streets are clear again

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

A lot of people have always disliked his music because that's just the way the hate culture broke in the '90s, but Dave Matthews has always Been Like This

we didn't finish denazification. we didn't finish desegregation. we didn't finish reconstruction. every opportunity for transformative change was deliberately sabotaged by american leaders who knew their wealth would not survive a world freed from eugenics, white supremacy, and war profiteering.

My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti Absolutely heartbreaking

WE HAVE MOUNTAINS OF ICE TO MELT

"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

the fascists demand they be the ingroup the law protects but does not bind, and the rest of us be the outgroup the law binds but does not protect

also: we don't shout the goodness of those who die at the end of a gunshot, or torture, or being sent to a death camp because it proves "they didn't deserve it": we do it because it's proof that the goons who did it to them regardless have never cared about the good in any of the rest of us, either.

I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.

whether by nature or nurture, there is a class of people who will always prefer death and destruction over a reduction in profits. they cannot be reasoned with. they cannot be taught empathy. they will watch young people shot, dismembered, and buried alive, and they will say that god is good.

Even Hobbes, the most notoriously pro authoritarian government philosopher in history, who thought you had to obey even the worst government because it was better than no government, said that if your government just starts killing you, you don't have a social contact. You don't have a government.

"In order to dismantle white supremacy, we have to be willing to lose the benefits of whiteness. Means they kill us, too."

It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you free to abandon it

if you can’t say “abolish ICE” with your entire chest, nobody should trust you at this point

back at pitchfork writing about a reissued favorite: a meditative set of fingerpicked instrumentals that's in conversation with itself and nothing and everything pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

five concerts i've seen with women lead singers (chronological, favourites) Elastica Picastro EMA Julianna Barwick Clinic Stars

this is how your email finds me

i really wish Bovino didn't look like Anthony Bourdain's Waluigi

oh, Raccoons Hourly, we're really going through it now

helllllll yes

I wish a very happy minnesota general strike day to all those who celebrate

This aspect of Canadian healthcare funding has always vexed me: tax dollars cover the salaries of medical personnel and treatments, but usually fail to adequately fund medical infrastructure and equipment costs (which of course are necessary for treatment). Patients really do end up paying twice.

It's weird I was REPEATEDLY told that payment processors "had" to ban all nsfw to mitigate the risk of processing CSAM. So if that's true then why wasn't X immediately dumped by every one of those payment processors when Grok turned into an automated CSAM generator?

i really wish Bovino didn't look like Anthony Bourdain's Waluigi

at dinner a friend ordered crab rangoon and I immediately said “things of that nature” in the same cadence as the “peace be with you / and also with you” of my Catholic youth

I know I will probably get flamed for what is an incredibly cringe and definitely borderline, at minimum, histrionic statement but what the fascist Republican Party is doing with acts like these are the preceding steps to culturicide.

Our survey of the reissuing of the late Susumu Yokota's work on his Skintone label continues with me finally hearing some of his more house-adjacent work (and liking it a lot)

Find someone who loves you like Dusted loves Susumu Yokota.

I shelved a 8k+ piece I was writing on the Lakatosian intellectual hard core of the conservative project. When I laid it all out, there was a black hole at the centre, a nexus all else rotated: ‘I got mine, and if you try to stop me, I will get my goon squad to kill you and everyone you love’

Oh you hate Americans? Should we throw a party? Should we invite Creedence Clearwater Revival?

thank you so much to the people who donated, I am going to put that money toward her x-rays and get that done as soon as I can

If you've enjoyed literally anything on Dusted since sometime in 2013, Jenny is literally a big part of why it was there for you to read it. She deserves our help regardless, but if you've ever even for a second wanted to give back to the publication, here is your chance.

This is a lie. I was on the Danforth Saturday night, 24 hours after blizzard, & bike lanes were full of snow & car lanes clear. Sidewalks meh. This man makes things up to rage his way into the mayoral office. Tell your not-online friends & fam.

i feel like i have an essay or a talk or something in me on the existential not-just-bleakness in Lorde's "David" (very good chance this just results in me spiralling deliriously about the song to a tolerant friend, though)

Benefit comp for @jenpkelly.bsky.social would be a good idea - in case anyone wants to give it a go...

I wrote many words about the greatest hits compilation Legend by Bob Marley pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

i feel like i have an essay or a talk or something in me on the existential not-just-bleakness in Lorde's "David" (very good chance this just results in me spiralling deliriously about the song to a tolerant friend, though)

Ah, well. Nonetheless...

Organizing will be the key to beating the fascists. This Minnesota protestor makes a lot of good points

I knew waiting to watch this for the first time until I could see it in a crowded theatre was a good idea