We said goodbye to the MetroCard but we must also say goodbye to the existential, slightly depressed "Add Value/Add Time" meme that will no longer make the rounds 🫡 nygroove.nyc/add-value-ad...

And as a New Year's treat, let's hear what this one sounds like...

new year, don’t care

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BUCK ROGERS: CURRENT STATUS

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

USPS is not supposed to profit USPS is not supposed to profit USPS is not supposed to profit USPS is not supposed to profit USPS is not supposed to profit USPS is not supposed to profit USPS is not supposed to profit USPS is not supposed to profit USPS is not supposed to profit USPS is not supposed

For no reason whatsoever here’s some awesome photos of women aviators from the 1920s

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Always worthy of a repost.

On December 31, 1995, Bill Watterson published the final 'Calvin & Hobbes' comic strip. #CalvinandHobbes

Tell 2025 it was me.

It’s New Year’s Eve and my family is 6,842 miles away (and it’s already New Year’s where they are). Just gonna be me and the cat.

MOOD

I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were: MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles) Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna) MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls) MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

how I'm ending 2025

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If you’re of a certain age and a certain inclination, you were Omni-pilled in that weird interregnum between the end of 70s & before the 80s really kicked off by the publisher of Penthouse.

This is how the Andromeda galaxy would appear at night if it were not obscured by interstellar dust. It’s hard not to wonder how this might have shaped human history: the realization that we live in one galaxy among many could have emerged millennia earlier, changing everything @manlius.bsky.social

Old enough to remember when tankers were reflagging under the Stars and Stripes for protection from attack at sea. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Ah yes, of course. Kernel of truth and build a vast conspiracy theory column from there. I found this thread which explains it start to finish. bsky.app/profile/dave...

Every time they start pulling shit like this suddenly and in unison I should really just look up what they're doing along with the phrase "Project 2025". www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Kind of telling that ABC News/Disney is using the "Trump-Kennedy Center" language to refer to the Kennedy Center despite the fact that it is legally still the Kennedy Center.

ruin two bands by combining them: R.E.Eminem

How I am walking out of 2025

Of all the dirty tricks: juking USPS rules so that the postmark of mail-in ballots won't reflect the date they were put in the hands of the Postal Service, creating a pretext to throw out the votes.

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what matters most is how well you walk through the fire — C. Bukowski

It happened here. It’s happening here.

They’re going to steal the midterms even if they have to burn the country down to do it

night’s coming on

Its kinda amazing how unreal the real can feel

"Prestige was not as unified, but it did set a tone with artful photographs, often printing in two colors. Typographically, its artists, most notably Reid Miles, made bold compositions, like the cover for 'Monk' below." All That Jazzy Record Cover Design:

This is gonna be so much guitar nerd nitpicking but (headstock hate aside) when it comes to expensive S-type guitars I prefer PRS Silver Sky to a Suhr Classic S? The way the fretboard ends. The squareness/abrupt right angles of the Suhr just irks me. The PRS is just that more aesthetically appealing

2026 New Year's Resolutions 1/x

Missed my friend's @davidepannozzo.bsky.social gig last night here in town at The Bitter End, so I'm posting his inspired cover of John Hiatt's "Feels Like Rain" from a few years back for penance

NYC has suspended its alternate side parking rules today because of the weekend snow fall & extended snow removal efforts. Guess who’s parked on a Monday side. It feels like a three day weekend.

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Speaking as someone who just wrote a book on the Manhattan Project, I can assure you that refugee immigrants were the *entire* reason the US mastered the atom first. The most chilling part of writing my book was reading about them fleeing fascism … abroad. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/fleeing-on...

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

Don’t just read the excerpt shown here. Read the whole article. Absorb it. Revel in it.

"The emergence of the post-literacy world is accompanied by the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain, a mental soup of superstition and magical thinking bolstered by tech-enabled information bubbles."

Me, prepared to go get some milk

LED ZEPPELIN - LIVE TOKYO 9.23.71

"rich asshole says something" just shouldn't be news.

Not pulling any punches lol

Sunday morning jam... Davy Knowles - Live at The Castle Theatre - Bloomington, IL 12/12/25

Used to get breakfast at Veselka’s after the kids got to school, ten years back. An old boomer, Jerry, would talk politics everyday. Recall him saying “Did you hear Obama’s wonderful speech on race? What a defining moment for America.” Then Trump came down the elevator. I think about that a lot.

*wandering up to the mountaintop, seeking enlightenment* The Buddha: “Hey fucko, just embrace the fucking serendipity of it. All of it.”