Tonight I present 5+ hours of the ‘Best of 1988’ in college & alternative rock on Twitch. Pixies, Siouxsie & the Banshees, REM, The Church, Jane's Addiction, Sonic Youth, Cocteau Twins, Peter Murphy, My Bloody Valentine, etc Live at 8pm central here: twitch.tv/djjakerudh

We should never have let fame become a middle-class job, or even middle-class job adjacent. It’s the toxic run-off of actual accomplishment, and instead we made it the top of the food pyramid.

Another false alarm

It really sucks when someone you've known most of your life, who you loved and trusted, and invested so much time in, turns out to be a complete shit.

I wonder how many times, over the last 16 years, people from other countries told Hungarians to DO SOMETHING about Orban.

Oh my gosh, just caught up with this week's Outlander "This dog is yours, my brother" 🥺

When I make a mistake, it usually means forgetting my keys — not accidentally funding a private prison.

My husband thinks it's pathological lying, but a lot of it seems like confabulation. My dad had a stroke & he could hold a totally normal conversation and then suddenly with no warning the things he was saying were completely untrue. Not intentionally. But only people who knew him realized it

We read books & poetry because they enlarge us. They expand our thinking, our empathy, our connectedness. Art reminds us of why we live: for beauty, for wonder, for understanding. Though our culture may say otherwise, these are vital & necessary. They sustain us.

My list of people to fling into space does not include anyone in that rocket

"The rich are killing us. Tax extreme wealth" Stencil seen in Leeds, UK

Lately I feel like we're hurtling toward $10 gas, brown-outs, shortages of all kinds and water rationing

Ok that Xfinity Jurassic Park commercial is creepy as hell

Ok some of the men's brooches are stylish and beautiful, but some of those things are just silly and ugly

If the Oscars want to save time, instead of rudely cutting off people at the pinnacle of their careers trying to say thank you, maybe cut some of the stupid "comedy"

"they wished they'd known beforehand how bad measles was" Umm, it's so bad that someone created a fucking vaccine for it, and the entire world took it so that no one would have to know how bad it is, that's how bad it is

Listening to Obama at Rev Jackson's memorial, talking about hope, is making me cry.

I refuse to call this thing "The Iran War" Iran didn't start it, asshole did. He wants to own everything, puts his name on everything. He can put his name on this too. The Trump War

Now more than ever, you don't have to be cutting and pasting batshit posts that you have seen over on That Other Site and also, for fuck's sake, get off That Other Site, again, now more than ever

Did we steal Venezuelan oil so that we could bomb Iran and not have to worry about the price of or access to Middle Eastern oil?

The more things change, the more they stay the same

The general assholery lately is off the charts

Oh my god

This is great! There are so many historic gems in the Lehigh Valley. Many of us drive right past them every day without ever checking them out

Hold on, curling relies on an honor code and self policing of errors??? How is that allowed in Olympic play when other sports have cameras, referees, judges and electronics to keep things fair?

There are no guarantees in sports, just like there are none in life. That's why people watch.

"Meta is exploring who should be recognizable through the technology...Possible options include recognizing people a user knows because they are connected on a Meta platform, and identifying people whom the user may not know but who have a public account on a Meta site like Instagram."

The way that every non-governmental entity (print journalism, tv journalism, pollsters, etc) has failed us in the country's most desperate hour, is going to make fantastic reading in the history books that other countries will still be allowed publish.

I love Olympic hockey. No fighting. I don't ever watch NHL, it's just brawling for dollars.

19-0 still doesn't feel like enough. This is NE, and these jerks always find some way to come back. Sometimes I think they take it easy on purpose so they can make a comeback in the 4th quarter

TurboTax literally makes 100% of its revenue from lobbying to keep taxes annoying and complicated.

I love Team Canada's parade uniform

Did they wake Mariah from a nap?

Most of all, I miss the nights where we smoked and drank too much, played meaningless games with all our hearts, and locked the world out with nothing more than a sliding glass door. It fills me with sorrow and rage that young people no longer have the luxury of irrelevance, that they must matter.

@radicalgraffiti.bsky.social has become one of my favorite stops on Bluesky

Anyone who expected things to get better because the face of the operation was changing was kidding themself

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is stay soft in a world that keeps asking you to harden up. Pay attention to what steadies you — a quiet moment, a voice, a song — and keep those things close. They ain’t escapes; they’re anchors.

I wish elected officials and the media would stop calling them "law enforcement officers"

“That feeling of terror is how you get people to stay home not going out to vote. That’s how you get people not to be witnesses but to become passive subjects of the regime.”—Anne Applebaurm, The Atlantic, expert on authoritarianism after the point-blank executions by ICE of Good Samaritans

Imagine being informed that a loved one was murdered in the street by a govt sponsored terrorist organization via phone call from some crass journalist trying to get a scoop, and then being bombarded with video of that murder over and over again in every form of media. I'm heartbroken for them

We are community or we are less. We are engines of kindness and connectivity or we are less. When decency is framed as a radical position we must remain who we are. Our resistance is also in refusing to be less openhearted and filled with compassion.

Every day we get closer to his I could shoot someone on fifth avenue scenario

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

It's been a pretty quick turn from "We hate your government but we know there are good people in your country" to "We hate Americans and think they all deserve to suffer under the boot of the fascist they must have had some hand in elevating"

He talks exactly like the pelican that wants to eat your baby

I shouldn't be, but I'm totally flabbergasted by Congress's lack of action. I don't need a play by play on what that ass is doing. I can see it. I don't need to hear more kitchen table issue bs. I'm living it. They need to tell me WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO ABOUT HIM. If not now, when??

Finally wrestled the Christmas tree back into the storage room. January always feels bleak. This year especially so.

IT IS ALL TOO MUCH

Anyone else use the passenger seat warmer to help keep take-out warm on the way home?