Say what you want, but the Pentagon knows its audience. This is the dude who reportedly fast forwards through the scenes in Bloodsport where Jean-Claude Van Damme *isn’t* kicking someone in the balls. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Remembering how a colleague (a Midwesterner, strangely enough) told me he didn’t like Colin Woodard’s book American Nations because he thought Woodard was too hard on the deep south

I discussed the importance of the telegraph, and in an exam essay one of my students continually referred to it as the invention of the “landline.” Both equally archaic for these kids.

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Drop a movie that traumatized you as a kid.

The Universal Monsters addressed the male loneliness epidemic way before it hit the mainstream media. #TheMummysHand #Svengoolie

I remember when a friend wore one of these T-shirts and I think I hurt myself cringing

Timothy Dalton is 80. Here he is looking as if early U2 were one person.

Show someone who absolutely rocks a hat (that isn’t Indiana Jones) Here’s a bench full (Garth & Levon missed the fashion memo)

Off the top of my head: Miasma by Bevis Frond Private Revolution by World Party Drop of the Creature by the Steppes Double Bummer by Bongwater Psonic Psunspot by the Dukes of Stratosphear #5DebutAlbums8589

His best work

#AI could land you a Contempt of Court rap News "The defendants, Your Home Partners, told the sheriff they were relying upon legislation called the Interest on Debts (Scotland) Act 1985. This legislation does not exist." Passing judgement Sheriff John MacRitchie told the court...

So many. Pretty much anything by AC/DC or the Beastie Boys, but I would break in less than an hour with:

I know Mel Gibson turned into an off-putting freak, but Gallipoli really is a great film. Heartbreaking. It really holds up. I think I’ll watch it again this weekend. Why now? No reason youtu.be/9LBpsMqNEV0?...

This is a master class

This one hurts. Pete Frame’s family trees taught me rock history. I love the ones with all the little discographies and interview quotes crammed into every corner. Pete’s beautiful script and witty asides gave them a bespoke quality. Sometimes I just leaf through them, comfort food for my eyes. RIP

Are we following the Afroman defamation trial, where the police who raided his house are trying to sue him for releasing songs (bangers) like this?

I want to send this to the academic who once told me Irish history has no place in colonial studies

Extrapolating from the money race that the US government does nothing but determine crypto and AI regulation and decides how to handle relations with Israel, and... well actually

I would jettison every ai data center, app, and "tool" into a distant star to save a single tree. I would delete everything ever created by claude to preserve a single drop of water. I would pull the plug on every single chatgpt girlfriend/therapist to save a single caterpillar.

Near ChatGPT London office, Led By Donkeys

My feed is full of stories about the auctioning off of the Jim Irsay Collection, and it makes me so grateful that I got to see it all when it was intact! I got to see Kenny Wayne Shepherd play Gilmour’s black Strat and got to meet Doug Irwin, who showed up to admire his classics. RIP Jim Irsay

Hate this epstein island shit because it has made it harder for us who own islands for NORMAL evil purposes. Having to constantly insist my private island that you can't find on any map only exists for me to create killbots and do mad science. NO, NOT RACE SCIENCE. The kind with giant tesla coils.

Telling the world you ran out of bombs after sucker-punching world superpowers <checks notes> Venezuela and Iran is not a flex. In fact, it makes us look like the blowhard paper tiger we are. You killed public education to fund the military for decades and ran out of bombs in two weeks

Americans are being sent to die in Iran by men who don’t even have the courage to say, “Uh, thank you, Mr. President, but I wear a size 9 shoe.”

The new Ayatollah’s use of the gender neutral term “Great Satanx” could cost him support among working class Iranians.

"Bowling for Tokens"

i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid

They contain what now? And how did they get it, NYT? Hmm? How did they get all that information? Was it given to them, as a gift? OR.... OR....is there something else we should mention here and not wash away while you suck AI dick?

Me seeing AIPAC is on Bluesky

“I think ‘Electric Music for the Mind & Body’ is the best psychedelic record ever made; millions of people have tripped to that album. It’s guaranteed!” - Country Joe McDonald RIP to one of the original psychonauts youtu.be/41q4p0UyZAA?...

"It's not politician's job to motivate people to get out and vote for them" is about the dumbest statement I've ever heard about electoral politics.

Apart from the fact that anyone who'd shoot a dog would shoot a person, it's that a dog will never betray you. He'll gladly die for you. People know this. You don't have to like dogs to know it. It's been bred into people like we breed things into dogs. The violation of it sickens people.

So a government of The People, by The People, for The People is communism? Someone should have told Lincoln

If you look at these men and think "that's what a genius looks like, I gotta give this guy all the money that has ever existed in the hopes that they build Roko's Basilisk and it rewards me for my unwavering faith in The Basilisk" then I'm sorry but you have the brain of a baby penguin

I feel safer now that Secretary Ricky Bobby is in charge www.mediaite.com/media/tv/rep...

And 165 non-artificial schoolchildren were blown up by all this advanced and precise targeting. Congrats to everyone involved on achieving this brave new world.

Greeks and Turks shooting down Iranian missiles together.

Hoping POS Cuellar gets dumped, but it doesn’t look good right now

I think if I died and found out that my descendants had used AI to write my eulogy I'd invent haunting from first principles

Mike Vernon’s Blue Horizon label issued a ton of good stuff (Mighty Baby, Savoy Brown, Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac) and from everything I’ve read he was a real gent. RIP

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to be affluent NYT op-ed columnists who are never in any danger of being fired.

Did they bomb a school because Claude told them it was a military target???