Annual check-in on the BQE, still reluctant to refer to it as paved

Crypto Guy/Celebrity Dentist showing off the Sennheiser vocoder he just bought for $200,000 from the Florian Schneider estate sale "And this baby [sealed in plastic box] was used by The Kraftworks on "Robot Calculator'"

Set aside Sen. Mike Lee's storm of lies and incitement here. Lee literally made jokes on Twitter about the fmr Speaker of the Minnesota state house being murdered in her home by a right wing extremist. Hard to imagine any more twisted and malicious person in public life.

Dealing with JFK, Delta Airlines, and LAX on the same day is radicalizing

Why no Man In The High Castle-style alternate history sf film that asks what if Jane Jacobs had never stopped Robert Moses for the first time in the 50s

more shocking than the price of the ticket is the fact that my parents allowed me as a very young person to go to new jersey

This 17s video has amassed 220 comments and 219 of them are guitarists who are furious with me

I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it. Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...

I have never sent a fax from the beach thanks for nothing AT&T

psychotic criminals in pro-vigilantism 70s exploitation films loved a bandana, or in Goldblum's case, a jaunty cravat

"Nobody Does It Better" is the best Bond theme

Generative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up

Oh wow, Ras Baraka is the son of the late Amiri Baraka, the playwright and poet (and onetime Poet Laureate of New Jersey yes that was once a title that existed).

Lieutenant Kyle. Just minding his damn business and running the transporter in multiple universes. A go along to get along fellow. Unjustly agonized by mirror universe Spock. (Spock later saved the day but he was a tremendous asshole from a universe of assholes, Kyle did not deserve this.)

Pope Leo XIV was 30 in the mid-80s which means he was definitely aware of synth pop

Storming into my room and slamming the door because I didn't think of this joke

“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration

Sneak peak inside day one of the conclave

Excellent ranking

for those who celebrate

catching up on the story of star wars and laser weapons and tie ships

I swear it was was not intentionally in honor of 5/4 but found myself digging up my old copy of the SW Despecialized Edition to show someone and was surprised to have a real emotional reaction to it. Still shocks me how much the filmmaker botched things when he fucked with it later.

Ghorman's alien language is just [French chef's kiss]

I would watch 40 more seasons of Andor

All that bootlegger money spent trying to climb the social ladder out of Irishness only to end up with a guy whose head is made of corned beef

Hillbilly Assassin

just checking out DeepSeek

Too Dr. Manhattan?

This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

welp

Related thought I’ve been thinking a lot about at year’s end: two of the biggest cultural successes of the year, Chappell Roan and The Substance, were both literally rejected and dumped by their respective major label & Hollywood studio, only to then become massive mainstream hits. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

look what they did to my boy

the AI scam

breathtaking

The Right Stuff (1983) / Armageddon (1998)

what is state intervention for if not to protect a vast and under-resourced community

synthesizer people: solderbox is an amazing way to spend $12 (for both mac+ios versions)...come for the bizarrely simple generative sequencer, stay for the beautifully fucked up noisy delay and semi-modular interface 👍🏼, five stars, etc

playing live without a computer, working at home almost entirely on a laptop is my own incoherent political statement

Revisited my abandoned account to retrieve my only vaguely viral tweet about a 2016 moment that still pisses me the fuck off

holy shit Gary Hustwit's Eno documentary is incredible

this is incredibly stupid

Trump's got binders full of sex offenders

blüesky

Trump's ridiculous appointments and Senate moves right now are such obvious "what are you gonna do about it" dominance games and the chance that the Republican Senate is just like "okey doke" are pretty fuckin good

Ok I know this is terrible but when I read about the Gaetz AG nomination something busted inside me and I burst out laughing