where did they get this baby picture of me

hello bluesky elders TIL that there is an evil collaborator analytics tracking company called "post hog"

today's first song of the day is "sleep, forever" by madder rose m.youtube.com/watch?v=gAJ_...

art imagines new things, upends social norms, says the unsayable, builds alternate worlds, designs counterlogics, revels in curiosity+ exercises fundamental human capacity for creative representation this is why art intrinsically sides with freedom, good discoursing on art this morning, everybody!

today's first song of the day is "kanga roo" by big star youtu.be/cifB5rpD2OE?...

Listen to the audio in the Under the Shadow podcast. The shit they say when they think no one is listening is HORRIFYING.

why use ChatGPT to write something quickly when you could stretch out the process infinitely by picking up your phone to look at Instagram every 5 friggin' minutes?

today's first song of the day is "get me away from here, i'm dying" by belle & sebastian www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_r2...

Your TikTok Trad Wife Content Creators could NEVER! The thread is so useful and kind and collaborative and it might also be a recession indicator but idc idc Check it out! 🧵

“Cassandra’s Daughter” by Michael Sylvan Robinson (2026) just showed at Future Fair NYC with The CAMP Gallery and is available on artsy

two way bingo!

i've heard of having money to burn but this is ridiculous www.bbc.com/news/article...

Early notice: WFMU's Summer 2026 schedule takes effect on Monday, June 8, and runs through Sunday, September 6. As usual, some DJs are taking a break from their shows, some are returning from breaks, and some new faces/voices are joining. See the full schedule here: www.wfmu.org/table?period...

today's first song of the day is "stairway to nowhere" by king tuff youtu.be/EbWMCDzEORk

thanks @dc9club.bsky.social for giving us the opportunity to debut "Feeling Right" on stage last weekend! recorded version below. see y'all at Porchfest this Saturday and at Pearl Street Warehouse this August

Thread. And a reminder that even the most seemingly random, pointless thing this regime does is typically driven by vicious racism.

Thank you, the Poet Known as Analysis

One year ago today, Trump and his regime singled out a teenage trans athlete in California and demanded the state segregate her. Mere hours later, Gavin Newsom and the state happily complied, and today separate-but-equal segregation remains the reality for trans kids in CA.

make a heated rivalry type show about walt whitman you cowards

John Barth was born OTD in 1930; Spencer Hupp considers the literary and cultural context of Barth's first published short story, which appeared in the pages of @hopkinsreview.bsky.social in 1950: hopkinsreview.com/features/bes...

Lmfao

Most of my moots would be interested in this

This thread is incredible — huge thanks to everyone who contributed (plz jump in if you haven’t already!) — and reminds me of old Twitter, RIP.

I did not have 'new Durutti Column album' on my 2026 bingo card. pitchfork.com/news/the-dur...

If you can’t take me at my worst (”great idea! An ice cream shop called The Creamatorium”) you can’t have me at my best (genuinely snappy dresser)

Of the policies discussed here, there's one that's been covered very little: In 2027, the Trump admin will eliminate coverage for transition care, or what they call "sex rejection treatments," for federal employees and postal service employees — with no exceptions. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Jazz giant Sonny Rollins, who passed away over the weekend, gave an interview to John A. McCluskey for the pages of Callaloo Journal in 2018 In celebration of his memory, we've unlocked the interview on Project MUSE; read free through 15 June: tiny.one/bddp4za6

A million views on X for this video where someone harasses an innocent and polite M&S employee about changing rooms. It’s a horrible, nasty society the gender criticals are trying to create.

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today's first song of the day is "always see your face" by love www.youtube.com/watch?v=a19Q...

I generally don't like the 'this affects everyone!!' stuff re trans rights, because it should be enough that it affects trans people, but ... it's now really apparent that the anti-trans tendency is *making everyone unsafe* and has to be dealt with *regardless of what you think of trans rights*

sebastian gorka 's a goofy dorka

I just introduced the Anti-Insurrectionist Act in NY. It's simple: If you're a New Yorker who takes from Trump's illegal January 6th slush fund, NY will tax 100% of it.

coming up in 37 mins! MYSTERY DATE streaming live at gutsyradio.org

Apply to develop an artistic research project in dialogue with @arquives.ca! Artist fee: 4,000€ (2,000€ artist fee + 2,000€ production budget) Travel & accommodation: covered up to 2,000€ (1 person) Deadline: 7 June More info: arquives.ca/file-not-fou... 🌈🗃️ 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🎨 #Toronto

“Safety Third” was the initial spark that became MY BAD - so of course, by the time the book was done, I had cut it entirely. But thanks to @bombmag.bsky.social I get to share this beautiful strange moment in my life with the world! bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

Show I'm stage managing

Further thoughts on print-on-demand. Trade presses are all about the frontlist; that's their revenue. University presses depend heavily on the backlist, which makes sense: we pub bks with a long shelf life, which means our bks need to be available for a long time. Print-on-demand enables that.

And here is my piece on the NYT and AI: victorialivingstone.substack.com/p/ai-in-the-...

I spent five summers working at the Mount, cataloguing & digitizing Wharton’s library &, all the while, learning from it. The stories it told were not just about Edith Wharton. They were also about what it means to try to know something—to arrive at knowing, to fumble for it with the help of books.

“Abiding”, the first single from Quattracenta’s new record, and album preorders are now available via Bandcamp: quattracenta.bandcamp.com/album/iii

Join me at 3pm Saturday, BCPL Catonsville, for a free talk about @rearrangedpodcast.bsky.social! I'll get into musical creativity and originality in the AI age, why Gil Evans rules, and why arrangers have been belittled, insulted, and sued for over 200 years, from Franz Liszt to Public Enemy.

Over those two days in 2015, we could not know what was to come next for Beach House. I left them with a hug, a handshake and a smile, my DEPRESSION CHERRY LP pre-ordered. This week @timkabara.bsky.social excerpts his forthcoming book on Baltimore music: www.bruisermag.com/kabara_weird...

New blog post: Ellen Russell and her husband worked summers in Maine to save up for their beautiful (mid-century!) dream house on Lake Ashburton, which they lived in until their deaths in 1985 and 1990. oldlineplate.com/strawberry-r...

Great time to pick up a copy of Come and Be Shocked which examines cultural representations of Baltimore in terms of policy and race. share.google/XE1NWLez6UKB...

It's pub day for MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90S AND BEYOND! @largeheartedboy.bsky.social invited me to make a playlist to accompany the book largeheartedboy.com/2026/05/25/h...

Today, the AAUP Yale Chapter releases our report on The State of Academic Freedom at Yale. Uncertain that university leaders will protect academic freedom when tested, Yale faculty are managing risk alone and making changes that narrow what Yale teaches, researches, and communicates to the world.

today's first song of day is "abiding" by quattracenta quattracenta.bandcamp.com/track/abiding out today: the new single from their forthcoming EP, preorder today!

New episode today! Baltimore composer Judah Adashi talks to @llanahan.bsky.social about writing for voice, listening to the community, and making music that is both "really intimate and really epic." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...