the requirement is, of course, “be white” amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Not in order and subject to change any day but: Patti Smith - “Gloria” Mercury Rev - “Meth of a Rockette’s Kick” Amon Tobin - “Back From Space” X - “Your Phone’s Off The Hook But You’re Not” The Velvet Underground - “White Light/White Heat”

1/ I gotta be honest, this just reeks of bullshit. A group who are infamously obsessed with Nazi/fascist aesthetics using “Yom Kippur” as a title for a song about Gaza in which not a single Jewish artist appears to be involved? Let’s see how they talk about it then:

It'll take just a minute and help 404 Media figure out how to grow sustainably.

"You will fart all day long in public and no one will be able to criticize you for it. Comedy is now legal"

"In 5 years every party will feature a fart" - Elon Musk bsky.app/profile/blea...

Read all of this. This is everything and everybody we were trying to warn about.

Playing a parking lot show in Portland, ‘02

It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends. We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over. We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.

People have got to find a lower-stakes outlet for their parasocial fandom urges than politics.

Yes because the crooked businessman who exists to enrich himself and his cronies is surely a man of the people. It’s disturbing if not surprising seeing idiot MTWIDN takes in place of “the mayor-elect swallowed his nausea and kissed ass to try and keep NYC from a deluge of state terror”

I’m having that thing where you log on to social and everyone is reacting to the new thing but the reactions are vague, aghast, angry enough that you’re struggling to figure out exactly what the new thing is. German must have a word for this.

Look, I understand why M made the gamble to do it - if it keeps goon squads out of NYC then price of politics - but can we at least acknowledge that the T agenda is still raging fascism?

Btw this is also how things worked fairly often in Trump I. Pelosi would routinely roll him in private conversations lol

apparently mamdani literally did this just now

I also think “mayor of New York likes me” holds special sway since it’s part of the approval Trump’s been desperate for since the 80s

Weekly listening 5x5

Love this for Engdonk - demanding that his AI bot consider him the best at everything and then learning that includes pee drinking, among other things Via @404media.co www.404media.co/elon-musk-co...

Tom Hall’s excellent Trip Computer on psychedelic swirl. @tomhallsonics.bsky.social

*tom waits voice*

More breaks/haze/Jitter visuals from last night

no but really, thank you @sacredbones.bsky.social 💸

+1 on this - when you hate-share a certain writer who won’t shut up about an affair with a certain anti-healthcare charlatan, you’re just providing more promotion.

Piano, breaks, and Jitter last night

Essential thread - offering “bigotry lite” to try and attract bigots just leads them even further to the far-right who offer it as a main course.

This is the full SuperCollider synth running in a browser, high-performance and with an OSC API. Hard to overstate how powerful that is, and it's just the beginning.. Incredible work by @samaaron.bsky.social ... cdm.link/supersonic-s...

Momus covering neofolk seems such a great idea it's odd to think it never happened before. Gorgeous take on Current 93's "All The World Makes Great Blood" www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI3t...

weekly listening 5x5

Man who owes his career to lazy provocation hates the very idea of consequences for sexual assault.

For a moment I read this headline as being about a competition over who joins the band Crowded House.

We are at a point where the vice-President can claim that one of the most widely used and tested medications is "useless" because disregard for science is seen as a virtue.

1/ The old Ken Lay defense where “I deserve all this money* and power and influence because no one else can do what I do” meets “uWu don’t blame me I’m a smol brain boy we all make mistakes whomst among us..” *remember he’s technically the head of a nonprofit

@informor.bsky.social @stechlab-labels.bsky.social is there a way to vote on removing the labels - a kind of community verification? E.g. seeing the warnings about frequent posting from major press outlets. Assume this is in the works?

1/ As much as I still think it was a mistake to back down for a liar’s promise of a vote doomed to fail regardless, let’s not ignore that this admin moved repeatedly to hurt the most vulnerable people in the country to get their way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Twitchy breaks, grainy detritus, last night’s idea.

Anything T-I is buy on sight, but check this new 🔥

1/ Get really annoyed by this. There’s being critical of AIPAC and there’s “surely the US had nothing wrong with it before Israel and if we could just get rid of that one small group that controls everything then…” see where it goes?

Sometimes you really shouldn’t dare

you piss off the activist crowd - lib & left want you to fight for less engaged voters, it's not a coherent story to constantly ping-pong between "trump is a threat to democracy" & "we need to come together & compromise with republicans"

even if there's maybe some tactical thing, or even if uniform opposition doesn't change the end result, it's still much better from a communication standpoint at very best, it's unclear what message we're supposed to take from this selective cave

given this lawlessness, there shouldn't be a single dem vote for *anything* bizarre this has proven such a difficult ask

Easy calls you can make for you Senators and Representative right now, including scripts: 5calls.org/issue/federa... Leave a voicemail if no one picks up. Call volume gets noticed.

the idea that they'd cave for the "promise" of a future vote that will never happen, *right* after sweeping election wins that demonstrated clearly that people are (correctly) blaming Rs for this shutdown.

Finally saw @throwingmuses.bsky.social @kristinhersh.bsky.social - soft, angry, righteous, elegiac, distorted, all in the right moments.

Drone from late last night, simple sine chords through feedback networks, spectral stuff, degradation. Let it play itself for an hour or so.

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.