currently near a strip mall eatery serving "nashville hot chicken" and its name is "crimson coward" why would you name your restaurant "crimson coward"

This is sad and bad news

ever pump up a flat bicycle tire and then it explodes? 0/10

this is why i do my best to concentrate on the fuckers inside my sphere of influence, bc there sure are a bunch of them

today's first song of the day is "summer madness" by kool & the gang www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQSI...

<on vacation> i should go on vacation

why do the racial demographics of contemporary trans cinema look like clay county arkansas? if I saw that many white people in a walmart I would fear for my life.

RIP Marjane Satrapi

Rest In Power

Every time I take Amtrak up or down the East Coast I just get angrier that it's not an option everywhere.

google has injected its gemini AI bullshit into our google docs and i just highlighted an article i wrote and told it to "refine" to see what it would do and it deleted the entire thing

It's funny learning that the reason there's going to be a crippling helium supply shortage even though the United States once had a huge strategic reserve of it is literally because Republicans did the "jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao" thing to it

Wait,what? How? Why? My memory of Satrapi is when she came to The Boston Globe while promoting the movie version of Persepolis. Lit up a cigarette. Someone said “You can’t smoke here.” She said “Don’t be ridiculous” and proceeded to chain-smoke throughout the entire visit. RIP to a real one.

today's first song the day is "going underground" by the jam www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE1c...

i want to believe that comedy can change the world but why are there still eight buns and ten hot dogs per pack

more like ow jones, amirite

today's first song of the day is "starman" by seu jorge www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-iz...

Mera Kitchen’s new series serves up food as memory, migration, and inheritance baltimorebeat.com/mera-kitchen...

Happy pride! withfriends.co/event/283520...

College Queens (Gottlieb, 1969)

Punk (Gottlieb, 1982)

Seawitch (Stern, 1980)

need this pin in my life

today's first song of the day is "every picture tells a story" by rod stewart www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqi_...

BREAKING: Mayor Mamdani just signed an “executive order” to repeal bedtime so NYC kids can watch the Knicks play in the NBA Finals!

In honor of Pride Month, I'll be sharing a few--maybe several--reviews, starting with Jim Tushinski's That Man: Peter Berlin. Seven years later, Tushinski followed up with Always Said Yes: The Many Lives of Wakefield Poole, which I just added to my @kanopy.com watch list. Link: tinyurl.com/5n7na4v4

every ceo replacing workers with ai failed to understand the mickey mouse segment in fantasia as a child

SALE!! 30% off @sunypress.bsky.social LGBTQ+ titles for Pride Month--including preorders for new books, preorders for forthcoming paperbacks of books already out in hardcover, and not-so-oldie-but-goodies (eg our history of trans med in the US). Use code SPRIDE26: sunypress.edu/Collections/...

today's first song of the day is "happy days" by ted hawkins m.youtube.com/watch?v=J1Ht...

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...