Good for what ails ya

You will be visited by three spirits.

Thanks to @aupresses.bsky.social & all the press directors & staff we worked with to support OA books & the work of presses. And of course, thanks to my incredible team at NEH who led these OA efforts, particularly @perrycollins.bsky.social, @halperta.bsky.social, & @bethanyfarrell.bsky.social.

Congratulations to 2025 AUPresses Stand UP Award recipient Brett Bobley, former director @neh-odh.bsky.social. This award recognizes his decades-long leadership that empowered university presses to use digital technologies to experiment, collaborate & reach new audiences. https://bit.ly/3XJ3ydj

Here’s a Spotify Wrapped for ya: If we had received 100,00 Spotify streams this year it would have netted us $300. Buy your favorite band’s records.

Friends don't let friends use Spotify bsky.app/profile/obso...

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

Record Store Day splurge: Albert Ayler with Don Cherry - Europe 1964, 4xLP

Away with the dotard, to the jail with him!

The American society loathes women and loathes their contributions to society. So they divert our resources to power, capital, and war. Instead of healthcare, childcare, and education. They believe helping people is socialism. When really, helping people is feminine. THAT'S why they hate it.

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

There’s a certain slant of light . . .

Bjorn Andresen, a Swedish actor who as a teenager played an ailing composer’s object of unrequited desire in the 1971 film “Death in Venice,” but who resented being objectified by the film’s director who called him “the most beautiful boy in the world,” has died at 70.

Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'" I've saved her some time.

He thinks that our taxpayer money is his. “I’m paying myself.”

The National Capital Planning Commission is the independent body that oversees construction projects in federal buildings. You can contact them at [email protected] or 202.482.7200.

Of all the stupid things that the convenience of the Internet have brought us, picture day at my daughter’s school was rescheduled today due to AWS outage. #aws

Bruce knows what's happening.

Freddie Hubbard - High Energy Extremely cheap heat

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Andy Statman - Flatbush Waltz - Almost left this at the thrift store. So glad I didn’t. Gorgeous, lyrical string band originals. Side 2 is avant/classical.

“Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see.” — Linus Van Pelt

Knock, knock. The Epstein files.

Even if you’re not a cartoon nerd like me, Krazy: George Harriman, a Life in Black and White by @tisserand.bsky.social is a fantastic read.

McCoy Tyner - Supertrios

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Silverlake Staircase II

MY GOD, I HAVE A NEW HERO. SHE HAD THEM SO HOOKED AND THEN BAM, SHE ATE THEM, BONES AND ALL.

Silverlake staircase

Not a crime, according to his hero.

Last week, a white racist man was killed in front of his white racist ilk by a white man raised in a white racist family. Now, Black, Latine, queer, trans, disabled, and migrant people are being doxxed, harassed, threatened, and fired. Never doubt that this is a white supremacist country again.

I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom for me and for you And I think to myself

“While some of the messages contain mundane birthday wishes, others offer a window into a misogynistic circle of wealthy men fixated on women and sex.” @nytimes.com I think you know that this should read “young girls and rape.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u...

Christian Nationalists. Always focused on the real problems.

Thomas, patiently waiting for the coyote to move on.

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

Produce the bodies, be they alive or dead.

Joanna Connor🎸🎶'Walking Blues' #bluesmusic

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

Los Feliz

Here, fixed it.

Downtown LA

Jackson, Mississippi, has the nation's highest homicide rate, more than 3 times the rate in DC

Holy shit.