started getting dogpiled for saying i hate dogpiling. logging off today. i’ll be back when i have a story to publish or things to promote but for now, adieu 👋

This Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. ET I will be ZOOMING with @graceroso.bsky.social to discuss my book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion. This is part of the Popular Music Books In Process series. Grateful to @carlzoilus.bsky.social and team for the spotlight.

this place has some of X’s worst traits

five years since the capitol riot

how i’m using this website from now on. so done

I could reply to someone with a small account about the research behind why I said what I said or I could literally do anything else

chair of the congressional western caucus. interviewed him a few times when i was on the hill. sad day regardless of politics

meh. deleted the skeets about TNN because, and this bums me out to say but, too many are already drifting into conclusions that i’d rather combat than continue to discourse on a random indie media pub

i wish martin supreme had more dinosaurs. why didn’t they put any dinos in the movie. has anyone asked

this is the part where i note trans women are at a much higher risk of suicidality & self harm

I am anti-getting bullied off the internet. I don't care if you think you have a valid reason for it, quite frankly. I have been consistent on this for literal years.

I just want everyone to step back and realize how often it's a trans woman getting bullied off social media.

May I recommend that people get it together a little this evening instead of lashing out at strangers

what happened to parker malloy seems at least partially caused by troll activity & 4channers btw (clue: use of “transwoman” as one word)

personally i think screencapping someone’s posts and blurring their name so you can safely mock them without people knowing who you’re being a piece of shit to is some piece of shit behavior but that’s just me 😇

the parker malloy drama is imo, instructive here in how stupid the firing squad stuff is now

Abigail Shrier, author of NYT best selling anti-trans screed “Irreversible Damage”, is now the official advice columnist for The Free Press

i spent years writing about this and having everyone ignore me only for the man himself to just say it out loud

fun fact: my first ever concert was my chemical romance the black parade tour with muse supporting on their first u.s. tour ever

You know you’ve done a good post on misogyny when you have one guy in the replies calling you a Russian bot and another guy begging you to go to a mental hospital

you have yet to find the greatest song youve ever heard

Breaking News: Gov. Tim Walz will abandon his re-election bid in Minnesota and Sen. Amy Klobuchar may run instead, people familiar with the matter said.

*MINNESOTA GOVERNOR WALZ SAYS HE WILL NOT SEEK REELECTION

the best way to start the first week of the year

the attacks on venezuela guaranteed this story is unlikely to break through, and its deeply upsetting.

I BUILT A TAQUERIA ON THE MOON

it's the first of the year, so it may be even three times as powerful. be careful

good morning, it’s monday so discourse is twice as powerful. make of that what you will!

what did i say. what did i say

ugh so excited so excited SO EXCITED ABOUT THINGS I CANNOT SPEAK OF YET

plenty of you will yell at a random woman on the internet before you take any steps to improve your own lives and it shows

ok we got flooded with inquiries and i have to close up the merch job inquiry because there genuinely was too many talented people & i have too many choices now

the first question congratulated the administration

(Semafor) - The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops .. @semafor.com www.semafor.com/article/01/0...

Graphic design opportunity!

that’s @ericmgarcia.bsky.social asking the question, by the way

our world is so diseased

this is actually what you will hear if you turn on tv

everyone with taste, it’s our time

Unbelievable

there’s still plenty of light in this world

Press call with Chuck Schumer says he has been talking with his caucus "I've been talking to so many members of my caucus today. Everybody is very, very just totally, totally, totally troubled."

“Keep Your Ear to the Ground,” the amazing new history of D.C. punk zines by our comrade John Davis, is now available direct through Dischord dischord.com/band/john-da...

Holy Crap!!!

JFC

The White House is now posting videos of them doing imperialism in Venezuela set to Creedence Clearwater Revival. You may want to say “Who could’ve written this???” Well, I did. It is quite literally the second verse to “devorah” by @ekkoastral.bsky.social.

Best live band I’ve ever seen bar none

i trust zeta’s words on the situation in venezuela more than most of the voices on this website so i suggest you also read what they said