More elderly robots I made of Lego. They're my stress-relief doodling... planetrobotica.com

Pretty sure after all these years, I have no qualms saying that For Carnation's "Moonbeams" is my favorite thing to come of the entire Slint lineage... theforcarnation.bandcamp.com/track/moonbe...

More elderly robots I made of Lego. They're my stress-relief doodling... planetrobotica.com

Hey, thats me!

I don't know why after all these years it kind of annoys me that I actually like a lot of (jazz-based) Zappa... youtu.be/2zXp4ZfRGsA?...

Some good news for once: 15-year-old Frasier aka The Buddy had to spend most of the day at the vet yesterday but he's home and seemingly feeling quite relaxed and content and good again like his usual sweet goofy self, so at least there's that in this world.

Digging this a lot--like post-punk mathrock godfathers Massacre (Frith/Laswell), meets oud master Hamza El Din or Les Filles de Illighadad, meets early Meters grooviness. Highly accessible microtonal duo, drums and bass/guitar. anginedepoitrine.bandcamp.com

Today's long commute back and forth along the length of the peninsula was enlivened by this eclectic playlist of aggressively anti-authoritarian music, collated by mixtape maestro @musicophilia.bsky.social, as timely now as it was when published 13 mos ago musicophilia.wordpress.com/2025/03/07/r...

Never in my life have I ever said the phrase "you should really read the comments section on this YouTube video"... But I am here. youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...

'A Demonstration' (1st new mix in a year) explores the spare pithiness and essential beauty of the "demo". Songs we love, revealed in embryonic form, but somehow already beautifully complete. musicophilia.wordpress.com/2026/03/24/a... Lou Reed, Broadcast, Nick Drake, Songs:Ohia, Judee Sill, et al

This album was unjustly panned when it was released but imo it's one of Stereolab's best Read my Hall of Fame piece on Cobra and Phases Group...

I'm firmly on the record that 'Bob's Burgers' is better than 'The Simpsons' ever was, and has been so for 16 years. And then they give us this, which is strangely beautiful and emotional while being quite silly--a perfect fit. Bob and Gene covering "Transmission": youtu.be/L2UzKWC9CfY?...

Digging this a lot--like post-punk mathrock godfathers Massacre (Frith/Laswell), meets oud master Hamza El Din or Les Filles de Illighadad, meets early Meters grooviness. Highly accessible microtonal duo, drums and bass/guitar. anginedepoitrine.bandcamp.com

I got magnets made of Alvin, my first (and still favorite) Elderbot, the elderly robots I make with Lego. I'm taking them to give away at Bricks Cascade, my first major Lego event at which I'll display! The Canadian company Jukebox did a great job--and gave me free sticker versions, too.

There are so many reasons to hate on AI and those who use it and peddle it but this should be way way further up people’s lists.

what if we got a 100% blockrate on it. what if they designed an AI and we unanimously said "nope"

If someone uses AI, I can't help but view them as lazy, a mark, a schnook, uncreative, and lacking actual intelligence. Just sucks when it's someone I previously respected.

can we make this the new #1 most blocked account pls

For my latest weekly music thoughts -- as mentioned yesterday, this is a much expanded version of my Wednesday thread about what's been lost on multiple fronts when it comes to recent music history, and the continuing further risks run. A lot more examples, a slew of links. Free to read.

God I am so sick of being seen as a lesser American because I don't have a yard to take care of

When the day comes that their fascist, racist, xenophobic, anti-trans, anti-woman, anti-democratic grift collapses, we can't let any of these freaks escape to Russia or Hungary. The "politicians," "tech moguls," "media figures," the brownshirts, they'll all try to flee justice. We must stop them.

If someone uses AI, I can't help but view them as lazy, a mark, a schnook, uncreative, and lacking actual intelligence. Just sucks when it's someone I previously respected.

I've always preferred a well curated mix (even one without much mixing) to a playlist... Some of the great series of mixes like The Essential Mix, Fact series, FabricLive, DJ Kicks etc... still feel collectable and so people archive them and listen back. Are there 'great playlists' people revist?

Who drives/who dies in San Franciscos streets

This. TBC, the reason my family won't support anything HP-related is NOT because I have some grand moral view that it's only acceptable to support work created by good people. It's because she is literally, publicly using the $ from her books/show/games/etc to do bad things that hurt people I love.

With the HP trailer dropping tomorrow, here's the whole deal: If you watch the show, hell even just the trailer, I will think less of you. I will dislike you. I will think you don't care about trans people. That's it. It's been years. There's no wiggle room. No qualifiers. You care or you don't.

People keep comparing this to a lot of 1. dead creators who can't harm anyone anymore 2. leaving out the fact that she is a billionaire who is currently harming trans people, directly, by funding orgs & initiatives. Separating art from artist is not more important than actual lives.

The most exhausting thing about the HP handwringing is the IT IS SO IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE I went to every movie opening night. I waited in line for the books. I was 10 when the first movie hit, I grew up with it. And I threw it all out because that woman hates me and those like me. It's that easy.

'A Demonstration' (1st new mix in a year) explores the spare pithiness and essential beauty of the "demo". Songs we love, revealed in embryonic form, but somehow already beautifully complete. musicophilia.wordpress.com/2026/03/24/a... Lou Reed, Broadcast, Nick Drake, Songs:Ohia, Judee Sill, et al

I'm ending up making a whole little sub-universe of Planet Robotica bots, who are simultaneously characters from the most popular kidbots' holoshow 'The Adventures of The Astro-Kids' and the actors who play them... So glad to have an anti-stress hobby like inventing Lego robots...

Older drivers are uniquely dangerous to others, killing at higher rates than new teen drivers. We have to make it so seniors can live independent, and socially-integrated lives without driving. Transit-oriented multi-use development is good for climate, good for safety

Stunned by all the “ICE isn’t gonna do anything more than what TSA already does” rhetoric. Untrained white supremacists who’ve been told by bosses they’re not subject to laws will have POC and women lined up in front of them to grope and abuse and they don’t even have to chase them.

For a country with a foundational Rugged Individualist Cowboy mythos, and all policy for 80 years driven entirely by car-first-last-only ideology/profit motives--an impressively urban-minded result. Note: the built reality is closer to 90% car-only vs 10% walkable (with highways shunted through)

If our built environment reflected these preferences our cities would be like 5x as dense.

Using this as a start: what are your favorite examples of unconscious/unforced dad-or-mom shade about your musical tastes? Just something said immediately or off the cuff. Spill all your secrets!

I love that the "Claude" AI slop's logo (presumably AI-generated) is Vonnegut's easy-to-draw picture of an asshole.

As someone who has struggled with depression and a desire to not exist (at times) for many years, I don't say this lightly: I wish these miserable fucks would go ahead and get it over with, and leave the rest of humanity alone.

youtu.be/fIbQTIL1oCo Someone's done a video on that exact subject I have to guess its because theyre AI guys they have no creativity and all copy each other but its wild that they all seem to agree their product is a hole Like come on a century of scifi robot iconography and theyre all hole

I love that the "Claude" AI slop's logo (presumably AI-generated) is Vonnegut's easy-to-draw picture of an asshole.

I got magnets made of Alvin, my first (and still favorite) Elderbot, the elderly robots I make with Lego. I'm taking them to give away at Bricks Cascade, my first major Lego event at which I'll display! The Canadian company Jukebox did a great job--and gave me free sticker versions, too.

I think this went up on youtube literally today. Amazing. Never seen it before

The only good Nazi remains a fucking dead Nazi.

People who don't work in housing-related fields might not know, but fire chiefs are given huge power, allowing them to push the cars-first-and-only suburban slop standards of the US built environment. In the name of "safety," they enforce deadly wide roads everywhere, which kill 40k+/yr.

In the end, the only part of the 'Star Wars' behemoth I think I'll ever watch again is 'Andor'. But 'THX 1138' is a genuinely fantastic film, very evocative--helped by maybe my favorite sound design of all time. Walter Murch's commentary/sound-only audio track are two all-time "bonus features"

For the first official installment of a new column called In Theory, Andy looks at the way a single chord can turn the entire meaning of a song on its head www.hearingthings.co/townes-van-z...

A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States, thereby justifying the need to “federalize” elections. We must anticipate it, with sadness and resolution, and not be surprised, if it happens. snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...

I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.