So do they beam up and leave us in peace at like midnight EST? Or, like, Hawaii time? I'm patient, I can wait...

As ever, the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi, and anyone who takes offense at that fact is telling on themselves.

Fellow lovers of the music format that is less artifactual than the vinyl LP, but is better in every other regard: the CD: What are the good shops that still sell CDs in 2025? Any where they haven't been reduced to a sad little corner? (None that I know in Providence/Boston...)

I have zero fucking sense of humor about this rfk shit. besides the obviously gross misreprestation/othering/etc of autistic people it's catastrophic from any sound scientific POV. any doctor who consults governmental guidelines for anything at all under this admin is guilty of malpractice

Oh yeah, I was at LA Amoeba last year and it was basically the same as it ever was. Princeton Record Exchange is still pretty good. I don't think we'll ever get a fully-stocked bonanza like Tower Records back but some great used shops still have CDs.

Captured Tracks in Greenpoint Bklyn has expanded their CD section recently. I’ve seen CDs at Love Not Money, Academy on E12th, Paradise of Replica, Academy on W17, Record Grouch in Greenpoint ….

Buch Spieler records in Montpelier VT. They have a huge selection of both vinyl and CDs and get new stuff in all the time

www.sonicboommusic.com This is in Toronto. New and used. More vinyl overall, but still a grand selection of CDs

Gotta say I’m not a big fan of 2 Jim Crow 2 Furious

I did a softcover print run of my book of Lego robots, 'Planet Robotica'. They turned out really nicely! If you'd like a copy, they're $26 each plus shipping, just let me know. Here's a PDF version if you'd like to stay minimalist: www.flickr.com/photos/plane...

Fellow lovers of the music format that is less artifactual than the vinyl LP, but is better in every other regard: the CD: What are the good shops that still sell CDs in 2025? Any where they haven't been reduced to a sad little corner? (None that I know in Providence/Boston...)

Disney execs hastily assembling Andor S3 about a group of charismatic Coruscant businessmen who just keep their head down and work with the Empire until the Battle of Endor and then say they were actually against the Empire all along and everyone cheers

It's the little joys... like seeing that some carbrain got their window busted out while parking in a Bus Only lane.

Cities are beautiful.

The 100K fee for H-1B visas (yearly!) is reported as a hit on tech -- but it is a hit on universities. It will make it impossible for us to hire foreign visitors, or foreign scholars into tenure track positions--I think almost 40% of H-1Bs go to universities and university hospitals.

That’s me in the video. And a Fox News host just celebrated me being assaulted by ICE. If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.

“Why does transit seem to be in an endless emergency? Why is it so easy to assume that transit’s financial situation is hopeless? Because we have constructed our transportation funding streams to make transit’s costs visible, while the costs of car dependence are mostly concealed.”

I listened to the new Sam Prekop album this morning. Thinking some music journalist should write a piece on artists who took abrupt left turns — radical shifts in style — and never returned. It’s an interesting topic to me.

@darkentries.bsky.social mix to brighten your day soundcloud.com/darkentriesr...

I was never a huge Pavement fan like my friends were. Liked them, just liked the bands they liked better. But I'm enjoying that this documentary about them is a mockumentary about a real band, very fitting.

“What we’re seeing is an unprecedented attempt to silence disfavored speech by the government,” said Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist at Dartmouth College. “Donald Trump is trying to dictate what Americans can say.”

Trump's declaration of a non-existent "Antifa" organization as a terrorist group isn't just absurd, it's a strategic attack on democracy itself. By labeling the ideology of anti-fascism as "terrorism," he's building a framework to criminalize any and all opposition. upriseri.com/trump-appear...

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

Massive Attack Say They’ll Remove Music From Spotify pitchfork.com/news/massive...

He's "bold," like endangering the lives of the broad swath of Providence folks who gather at the waterfront parks and pedestrian bridge, by spending taxpayer $ to *add* an adjacent car lane for drivers who don't even live in Providence so they can flee the city a minute or two faster...

Today, Providence is the least affordable city in America for renters and costs are going up for everyone. Together, we can make Providence a city all our neighbors can afford and where everyone feels welcome. Join our movement: secure.actblue.com/donate/davidmo…

Trump just designated “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, on par with ISIS and Al Qaeda. As a reminder, “antifa” is short for “antifascist”. They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left. This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up. www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...

In honor of Jimmy Kimmel get suspended in part for saying "And by ‘statistical fact’, [Vance] means ‘complete bullshit’,” in response to Vance's false claim that most political violence is from the left, here's the DOJ report showing the opposite, that the DOJ conveniently just memory-holed:

The order came from above. Trump’s FCC stooge Brendan Carr: “this sort of status quo is not acceptable”

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

The book exists. First copy hand delivered by my editor at Yale, who was on his way to see Pulp in Boston! Thank you super blurb crew Jarvis Julia Heba Jeff Stephin @lizpelly.bsky.social & @simonreynolds.bsky.social PREORDER LINK: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Remembering Mimi on her birthday. Photo taken when Low played Bristol's Trinity Centre in 2018

He made a list of Black women professors to have harmed and killed.

We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.

incredible that people are writing long, brow-furrowing posts about "blueskyism" while the owner of x, the everything app whips up one hate-filled mob after the other

so much is bad right now but the AI stuff in particular is making me insane. a desperate attempt to smother all human creative labor at an absurd cost to the planet by some of the most short-sighted, rapacious, and pathetic people who have ever lived

You might enjoy this mix, in which I blended environmental sounds of the 'Blade Runner' Los Angeles with music from our 2019 that seemed to me like it could've come from the film's world: musicophilia.wordpress.com/2019/09/28/b...

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

The most 'Murican thing: give guns more rights than people, create a massive culture of "aggrieved" privileged white male fragility, combine for endless mass shootings.... And then use that to create a "multibillion-dollar" grift. Why save lives when you can make money off dead kids?

Note that Congress is on the verge of killing DC's right-on-red ban, despite clear evidence that it works.

In case you need a visual of how his rhetoric actually affected our rights (which we’ve barely had a decade)…

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

Unfortunately, this is important. Re-posting with alt text.

Here we go: open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...