NYT: [endless stream of articles dehumanizing and demeaning trans people, attacking our health care, raising "concerns" about our civil rights (believing we have too many of them), etc.] Also NYT: This computer is a LADY! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/m...

this is a masterpiece

Our @weareravenous.com newsletter drop on Sunday was a collab with my friend @jillmapes.bsky.social from @hearingthingsco.bsky.social about what it’s like to start a worker owned co-op. Um, it’s a lot of work.

For our Sunday newsletter today got a really amazing convo between @thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social and @jillmapes.bsky.social about worker owned media. If you’re a @weareravenous.com subscriber it’s in your inbox! www.weareravenous.com/email/3e2260...

exactly what my dad said when i took him to see Dylan *checks notes* 18 years ago

PLEASE read @jillmapes.bsky.social on Michael Jackson in @hearingthingsco.bsky.social

I went long on MJ

Rick Devens… elite human being

This week in song recommendations: a different side of "Dilla," a UK rap banger reccomended by at least one doctor, and more www.hearingthings.co/lucy-dacus-m...

who thinks like this? women say stuff all the time

For $10 I will go to your ex’s music page and comment “what’s going on with the mix on this one?”

this is one of the best profiles I’ve read in a while, bravo @cushac.bsky.social

I wrote about my love and fomo for nine inch noize, the goated status of daft punk live LPs, gym bros loving fat girls (and nin), the usual

I’m gonna need every woman writer who wrote about music once to calm down about Mile End Kicks and stop quoting the Euphoria “is this play about us” line. The nostalgic fangirling is lame especially for a movie where she fucks her sources

Something that lives rent-free in my head since reading the Hole bassist's memoir: Courtney Love once called Melissa Auf der Maur "Billy Corgan's purse."

If you are very lucky, one day you will find a job you love as much as the NYT loves covering gender-affirming care for cis people

congrats to my foodcrit comrades, this rules

cum get yr honey (and by honey I mean my review of Robyn’s delightful horny-mom album)

wrote about grace ives, who swings for the pop fences and almost gets there

Now on our podcast Waste or Taste: J Balvin, Amber Mark, and Steve Vai's methed-out World Cup song, horny country music, Earl Sweatshirt, and more

You don’t just show up to breakfast with a stranger and stick your finger directly in the mother wound over pancakes and eggs. That kind of talk is for the cigarette afterwards.

one of the craziest music stories I’ve heard in a min

of interest to few certain strains of music heads: huge stash of NME back issues now dropping on @archive.org, 300+ issues, 1969-1983 (so far). archive.org/search?query...

On Friday, I proudly joined the workers of the Nitehawk Union – the servers, runners, cooks, and bartenders who make it a real community movie theater – in their fight for a good union contract, with the wages they deserve & need to survive in this expensive city. (2/2)

fuck this so much we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere

www.billboard.com/pro/suno-ai-... the continued normalization and laundering of anti-intellectualism, as seen here, is and will continue to have lasting damaging effects on young and aspiring artists of all mediums for generations to come.

new podcast ep! this is actually not my deranged take!

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

feb headlines ep of @criticallistening.bsky.social is live! we discuss spotify's recent update to shareholders (aka I read the spotify q4 earnings call transcript so you don't have to) & also chat with @jillmapes.bsky.social about her essay on the wasserman exodus-- www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

I guess my problem with the defense of "Wuthering Heights" on the grounds that Fennell intended to recreate the feeling of reading the book as a hormone-wrecked teen is that Kate Bush did precisely that, *as* a hormone-wrecked teen, in a four-and-a-half-minute song. And she did it better.

asking the important questions over here

this is what happens when you fire real arts critics

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

In the greater story of Minneapolis’ resistance to ICE, one chapter absolutely belongs to the punks organizing at every level. They’re observing, fundraising, running supplies, opening their spaces, coordinating, etc. A story for @rollingstone.com. Thanks to everyone who spoke on the record.

If you don’t cover culture, you’re not a newspaper.

glenna is the only other cool music human to escape teeny tiny hubbard, ohio. we luv to see it!!!!

I want to do the best writing I’ve ever done and I’d be honored to have you as my reader First proper electronic missive goes out Monday, February 9 Subscribe here: thefutureisourstomake.substack.com THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE

yes but the $40 to wired also goes toward paying CN execs’ multimillion-dollar salaries, a lease they can’t get out of in the WTC, and more corpo stuff that doesn’t make the journalism any better

Team resources is why worker-owned media collectives are so important. It's not gonna fix everything, especially the problem of readers only having so much cash, but everyone can't go it alone.

They think they can be like this because they know what fork to use and how to order wine. But they're betraying 'civilization' in every possible sense. Here's a remark from Bowles in a recent New Yorker article about Weiss, regarding the spiked CECOT piece at '60 Minutes'

Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.” This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker

nine years old

THANK YOU MINNEAPOLIS youtu.be/Ks0to2QuJtM

I think it would be really helpful if everyone posting their very cool takes on the state of music journalism this week would also encourage people to subscribe to worker-owned outlets & support independent writers trying to make new things happen

damn I say this all the time

fwiw Keith and his fellow @racketmn.com worker-owners are doing incredible work from the ground even as their lives are disrupted every day by this nonsense. if you want to support Minnesotans and strong local news sources, here's one very easy place to look: racketmn.com/mn-ice-watch...

interviewed Flo about her (insane) writing process + favorite lyricists

wow I’m always saying this

Latest newsletter is a very extensive interview with Dan Boeckner about Wolf Parade's Heated Rivalry boost, podcasting, being online, the Black Keys crypto concert, The Sopranos, living in Ohio, and much more. Grab the subscription deal in the post last-donut-of-the-night.ghost.io/dan-boeckner...

Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it. [gourmetmagazine.net]