Happy Dave's Picks day. Im absolutely torturing the new new neighbors with this.

www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/u... If this happened to me, my daughter would die within a day. These people are monsters.

If your official stance is "we had to shoot these people because we were in fear for our lives," you should probably stop with the touchdown dances over their still warm bodies.

Mark Hyman going to CBS News.

It is easy to miss something in the minutae of the past couple weeks. Ive never seen law enforcement cheering after killing someone til 2026. Now I've seen it twice. I hope to never see it again.

History is generally pretty silent about the people on the Bull Connor side, but we will get to see them all around us this year.

John Yoo is probably not the right person to argue for new international law structures.

Bamboo Garden in Seattle. Vegan Chinese faux meat place. I found out I was gonna be a father there. I lost a great love of my life there twice. Bathrooms worthy of a punk venue. Always an elderly woman sweeping the parking lot. Best corn chowder in the world.

One of many reasons this is worse than Kent State: these people are thumping their chests like they are glad. Another: we are now investigating the victim, not the shooter. And we all remember Kent State 50+ years later.

More fun than a frog in a glass of milk. Safe travels, Ace. Fuckin hell, 2026 gonna be a blues year.

"Don't tread on me" - the favorite slogan of jack booted mall cops everywhere.

These boys let loose and had two chocolate milkshakes! Id love to see the after picture from around '68. You know there is one.

Every once in a while, I have an interaction with a big corporation that reminds me how little consumer protections we have in our current economy. And it will be a cold day in hell if I ever use T Mobile again.

Hyperfixating: a vinyl record from pre-73/74 oil crisis, and especially before onset of digital mastering in mid/late 80s, will always sound better than the later version. Even if there is a layer of bacon on the older. And prices reflect this cause collector heads know it.

Im curious if anyone else has had T-Mobile add extra lines for Tabket/devices onto their account without being ordered. If yes, were you successful in getting that money refunded? I shouldn't be shocked, we are living in the best times for scammers. But apparently this is a thing they do.

Cold night, fire in fireplace, tiny jazz critic by my side. Time for another round of Make It Or Break It, moving edition. The game where a jaded old nerd decides which albums go to new house and which go to the pile. @spectrumculture.bsky.social you asked for it.

Worth a read. Thanks, Ed. Something I will add to author's points: here is another place where we are seeing health disparity open along red/blue lines. My state (WA) has its own approval process, now out of step with CDC. Access will stay here, but not in others.

I gotta view of the mountains from the city dump. Free opening line for a Silver Jews tribute act.

I dont think I've seen anyone note that the Supreme Court decision that ended the Watergate era was about Nixon attempting to answer a subpoena with edited tape transcripts. Yet there is a 0% chance this Supreme Court will do the same with these Epstein docs. We've lost a lot.

If you talk to parents about vaccinating, @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social Focus Group podcast from this week is worth your time. She interviews a bunch of MAHA types, and their answers all come down to trust. Regardless how we got here, restoring trust is key to getting out.

I'm reading the most wild speculation about the reasoning behind the wacky changes to vax policy. If you've been listening to these people for two decades, you'd understand how simple the thinking is: to them vaccines are bad and dangerous. That's it.

Records on this label often have the same players found on boutique labels a few years prior, but they go for a lot less money. This one has Dave Burrell on piano.

It is remarkable that any major financial transaction we make (major purchase, loans, new credit apps, etc) are followed by a flood of scam calls and texts and we all ignore it. We live in treacherous times, and our leaders like it that way.

RIP Joe Ely. Did more to make country cool to a new generation than damn near anybody.

Holy hell, not used to seeing my neighborhood in the international news. Im at the top of a big ass hill, but that levee breach is about a mile or so from me. Stay dry down there, and get the hell out of the way.

Thats kinda unfair - 2020 was famously a lockdown year. There were 1261 in 2019, the first year in recent memory that we had major outbreaks.

Bluesky this week: "ooh I can barely describe how much I hate this book that I rushed out and bought the first week it was released." Try 50 Shades of Grey. The DaVinci Code. Maybe something from young adult section.

Only 50000 people bought the first Velvets record. All of them started candy companies or became president.

Is kind of a strange flex that we know every person on every boat, their affiliations and motivations, yet even our most passionate liars dont claim to know where these boats were headed.

I feel like writing "good times machine" on the side of the van is going to increase your risk of being pulled over by an unacceptable amount. Dont recommend. Hoowee this album smokes. Production is too 70s cop show, but the guitar player is a champ. Echoplex moves.

Can someone help me understand what the ACIP vote means for a VFC practice come Monday morning? I work in the Western Coast Health Alliance area, if that matters.

The view from the top of Skyway hill, south Seattle. Power back on before I had to trash my fridge, yay

This is a great point, and one you'll only understand fully if you do this for a living. The pieces fit in a specific way, this is not a choose your own adventure trip.

Today was the day people like me have been warning you about for years. Today we embraced denialism as policy, and there will be deaths in 2075 that will result. We should all be embarrassed.

True story: night before SATs, my friend and I tried to see how fast his mid-70s wood panel station wagon would go. Turns out, 130. Blew up the motor. Had to hitchhike 20 miles back to town. Got in 5 something AM, just stayed up. Also guy is a clown

RIP Steve Cropper. Nearly 1K credits on RYM. Here's one missing - a Dennis Coffey style instrumental LP from 1973.

If we allow antivaxxers to win this fight, it will reinforce the "too many too soon" lie. They won't stop here.

Another thing these people all have in common: none of them are part of the group of doctors well known from the anti-vax activist circuit. All radicalized by COVID. That means something, I just dont clearly see what.

This made me laugh so hard I damn near fell off the treadmill at the gym. OMG - concealing identity while doing street violence?

I bought this in winter of 89/90 when I was first getting into free jazz. PJ recommended this along with a few other heavies - a couple by Noah Howard, Frank Wright, Patty Waters. Somehow, I kept em all through at least 20 moves since. Most of haul were from John Sinclair collection.

Found a banger today. Sun Ra and Blues Project are the players. And unlike other weird sell out cameos, it sounds like them. Isn't there another Dan and Dale with the VU on it?

Always fun to see the people most afraid of potential unknown late stage bad effects of vaccines so whole heartedly embracing GLP-1, testosterone biohacking, botox, etc

When directors are trying to capture this era in future films, i think absurdly overdeveloped biceps on paunchy middle aged men will work. Just like how pastel and neon drop you in the mid-80s.

As someone who was kind of on the ground floor of the mass alt-med movement in the 90s, seeing this is like seeing the monster come to life and destroy the town. I bolted from the group about 2007 or so, because I was seeing how dangerous the misinformation was getting.

The cohort study that represents the most definitive take-down of the vaccine/autism hypothesis is one of the biggest ever done. Oh, and the guy most responsible for this myth has lost his medical license because his study was unethical and didn't disclose his conflict of interest.

insidehealthpolicy.com/daily-news/s... Providers in SC required to warn patients about the tooth fairy and Bigfoot before giving COVID vaccines. Those side effects from the hundreds of millions of vaccines we gave in 2020 should show up any minute. Note: no disrespect if you had real time issues.

Tearing down ACA round six, pro-tip: if they talk about free markets and price negotiations, ask if that applies to drug costs under Medicare. If the answer is no, their plan is simply to squeeze providers harder and push chronically I'll out of insurance market.

@jvl.bsky.social I'm hoping to get you interested in writing about the Seattle mayor race, which is kinda like the NYC one on a superficial level, but also really really not.

Old dude jazz shows -> big prostates -> split streams -> unclean bathrooms. Its a thing.