I’ve got a new essay out in the Jan/Feb Asimov’s on empathy and Fahrenheit 451. I wrote this one at the beginning of last year and it’s only become more relevant in the last 12 months:

Hank kitty

All of Angelo Badalamenti’s tracks on the Lost Highway sountrack are really hitting me hard today. What a musician. What a loss both of them has been 💔💔

times I have seen @nin.com 05/01/05 - Coachella (lost my shoes!) 07/07/06 - Irvine (lost my mind!) 07/21/14 - Chula Vista (lost my voice!) 03/09/26 - San Diego (???)

Resisting the urge to re-sequence the Albini recorded version of Fugazi's "In On The Kill Taker" LP to correspond with the original release tracklisting fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

Announcing the launch of The #PhilipJeck Foundation and Bandcamp Subscription: thephilipjeckfoundation.org/audio-subscr... All proceeds will go to The Philip Jeck Foundation, supporting aspiring artists who produce work rooted in the traditions of experimental and creative arts. #BandcampFriday

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Based? Debased? Tune in to CBS to watch Rand Paul and John Fetterman sort it out in the white house UFC ring this 4th of July

chose my own soundtrack for Trump's entry: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNv2...

Watching the 100th episode of @kenkramertv.com’s “About San Diego” live on @kpbssandiego.bsky.social (through my TV antenna!) and this show presents some of the most wholesome and informative content I have ever seen If you’re a San Diegian, you owe it to yourself to check it out!

please don't talk to me about "maxxing" anything www.404media.co/we-have-lear...

It's been a minute since I talked about my volunteering!! Next Saturday, Feb. 21, the Oak Park Library is having our Black History Month celebration starting at 11am and our lineup is, as usual, phenomenal. Here's an interview that came out today with one of our star guests:

AltNPS seems a lot more comfortable leaning into the LARP on Facebook than they do here on Bluesky. This post calling on their followers to "be careful who you trust" is exclusive to their Facebook page.

Starting in 10 minutes on @resonancefm.bsky.social‬ 104.4 FM and DAB in London, and online: the repeat of the latest edition of A Duck in a Tree, the :zoviet*france: radio show player.resonancefm.com

football is gay in spanish now. sorry i don't make the rules

I’d say “please tip your pizza delivery drivers” today but big tech/finance has hollowed out pizza delivery and made restaurants depend on independent contractors working for slave wages, so maybe don’t support that and go pick up your food yourself instead (and tip the people who made your food!)

@kenjennings.bsky.social just spoiled the ending of “six feet under” like it was nothing - I was still planning on watching it! 😑

I figure BMORG is gonna keep Kimbal Musk on the board despite all this because radical inclusion actually means radically aquessing to wealth and power #burningman

I’m trying to stop defining myself by the things I’m against but I really deeply hate @semaforben.bsky.social

The piss tank on the ISS is now 67% full.

moot is really one of the unsung villains of the 21st century. everything he touched has spawned so much evil

My neighborhood! 🥰✊

I looked into Cities Church, which was protested for having an ICE agent as a pastor. You already thought they were right-wing. But they're far worse than you thought. They're ground zero for the "empathy is a sin" idea, among others. www.salon.com/2026/01/26/p...

James Frey, it's your time to shine!

Hey folks! Years in the making, my new Soft Pink Truth album « Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever? » is out today from @thrilljockey.bsky.social ! Super grateful to everyone who helped me make this happen! ⏳⌛️🕯️🙏

I thought his first five movies were either truly great or at least flirted with greatness (pi, requiem, fountain, wrestler, black swan - really liked below as well) but everything since noah has been utter fucking garbage. Mother is one of the stupidest movies I have ever seen. Massive heel turn

Do you ever find yourself relaxing in the shower or laying down in bed and suddenly you’re having Serious Sam flashbacks

🚨critical thinking alert🚨 If an account you follow seems more concerned with “clout” & follower count than providing authentic information, unfollow or block. There are more reliable places to get information, & you should work to seek those out instead of helping some grifter boost views. #AltNPS

All the social social signifiers I’ve attached myself to over the 21st century (collecting vinyl, kink, polyamory, “friction-maxxing”) are now deeply in vogue and I am having an identity crisis

Took a lil trip to the desert over the weekend with friends, and upon returning was delighted to find the flagpole what looms over my backyard & neighborhood absent of the american flag it typically hosts

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The resurgence in popularity of physical media - books, LPs, polaroids - is something I’m really glad to see, but equally important is creating physical, primary source documentation or journals of what’s going on in our lives and in the world. Leave something behind. It will be important later.

ENERO ZAPATISTA 2026 Radio Axiom Presents Session.65 - NO MORE WALLS Saturday, January 17 | 4pm PT LIVE on Twitch.tv/radioaxiomsoundsystem El común Zapatista in the face of the storm—an encounter of resistances and rebellions against fascism.

I remember receiving my very first cellphone (a 90s Nokia) with a sense of dread - at the time, I perceived it as a parental/societal leash, though it had snake! As phone capabilities & network effects increased, the bargain never changed - the stakes just got higher than I ever could have imagined

Now Available to Pre-Order: "Nana Butu" by Sissi Rada. Ash International 15.7, LP + DL ashinternational.bandcamp.com/album/nana-b... 'hail to the body / born of thin air / really where are you / the shining blurs / i know you’re hearing / my little song / funny i struggle / to play along...'

Reskeeting “Blubbering Piss Baby” before NYT makes Jamelle take this post down, well done sir 👏 👏 👏

Not a NIMBY, but happy to see this - the planned housing was never going to be affordable, and I think San Diego is well served by Midway District’s strip clubs, warehouses, and sports arena (best swap meet in the county!) www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/01/05/m...

On this day, 33 years ago, George Bush senior & Boris Yeltsin signed the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (SMART)

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

01) Cardiacs - LSD 02) Cheer Accident - Admission 03) Rafael Toral - Traveling Light 04) FACS - Wish Defense 05) Powell - We Do Recover 06) Steve Roach - The Reverent Sky 07) billy woods - GOLLIWOG 08) Pneumatic Tubes - Runner's High 09) Mclusky - the world is still here 10) Surgeon - Shell~Wave

Breaking some news for @coyotemedia.org here. Incredibly sad about this — some of the best nights of my life have involved this club — but I’m also so honored and grateful to Ramona, Kathleen and Lynn for trusting me with this story. www.coyotemedia.org/san-francisc...

The piss tank on the ISS is now 67% full.

Merry Xmas to me (finally reading through all the 90s era Star Wars books put out by Bantam that I never got around to when I was a kid)

Eggnog or Die Trying

Season one of Plurb1us was fantastic, but the intro bit is…not good. Neither is the accapella theme. Feels way too much like an Apple commercial