This is such a wonderful project, curating and collecting personal stories of R.E.M.’s impact over the last several decades. Check out the first two here: remstories.net

Happy birthday @manmademoon.bsky.social ! I enjoy sharing a birthday with you.

This is like a dumb postmodernist joke.

“Comments from national park 'snitch signs' have been released. They're wild.” Via @sfgate.com: www.sfgate.com/national-par...

I love the way that Richard Thompson says “oops” on his cover of “Oops I Did It Again.” (And I love his guitar playing on it. It’s such a brilliant cover.)

Fund all the science!!!!

To celebrate the release of my new EP, "Down And Out In Party City", I am running a competition to win a record player, plus a signed limited edition 10 inch vinyl. Here's the link if you want to enter: tnspk.co/cfdleq Peace, love, grooves, Emma x

Every Kennesaw City Council meeting, Andrew Bramlett (History Kid) shows up with a cool bit of history. Meet Maxie Maxwell, Kennesaw’s first documented police chief. He organized a boxing match between the mayor and the city clerk to drum up interest. Who won? Nobody knows. History is wild.

It’s Thursday night, and I think that my conference paper for Monday morning is done!

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I’ve heard the author speak about this book—I’m really looking forward to reading it. www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

wow

Confidential to the folks who think "Golden Age" SF/F writers would be sad about current SF/F writers' lack of excitement over "AI": Why would you think the generation of writers who founded SFWA to defend the rights of working SF/F writers would somehow be cool with the plagiarism machine?

These made me chuckle.

Great thread—especially the last post about what AI is doing now.

Seeing a frequent comparison between stream of consciousness and auto complete that suggests the thinkers involved have never in their lives studied Modernism. The clue to the difference is very subtle, but it involves the word "consciousness"

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

In _What Art Does_, Brian Eno & Bette A. state that, “Civilisation is shared imagination.” And to me, a lot of our current troubles seem to have some roots in a waning of interest in any imagination, shared or otherwise.

Quote with a fictional band that isn’t Spinal Tap: The Carrie Nations!

Nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, vocative

Happy 80th birthday to Robert Fripp, who gave the sister-folk Roches’ debut LP a stark minimalist edge, one of the best production jobs I know open.spotify.com/track/3cPtZw...

I was just talking about Morris yesterday—my Morris print file folders are conversation starters.

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In the Eagles’ song Take It Easy, when he sings, “Looking for a lover who won’t blow my cover,” what does he mean? Is he a spy? (Other than it’s an effective rhyme.)

Best film adoption of the Odyssey. Wrong answers only.

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

If it’s “Bowser” with an S Then he’s Mario’s nemesis If it’s “Bowzer” with a Z Then from Sha Na Na he be

My top 15 tv shows ever, off the top of my head: Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood Downton Abbey MASH Twin Peaks Northern Exposure 120 Minutes All My Children Call the Midwife Rick Steves’ Europe Jeopardy America’s Test Kitchen Doc Martin Inspector Lewis Absolutely Fabulous The Young Ones

“What I thought was karma was actually lust”—I had this thought when I got my perfumes confused this morning. But then I thought what a great line this could be out of context, too.

Indeed.

I would like to hear the Cure cover R.E.M.’s Feeling Gravity’s Pull.

Contrary to common narratives suggesting book challenges come from concerned parents, our data shows otherwise. ~92% of challenges to titles in 2025 came from pressure groups and gov't decision makers. 2.7% of challenges came from individual parents. We dig into the data: https://bit.ly/4cmgFWQ

I can't believe it's been ten years. I am grateful for this beautiful tribute.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life. Jean-Luc Picard

Dearly beloved We are gathered here today to get through this thing called life Electric word, life It means forever and that's a mighty long time

I <3 this thread.

Hoping to switch up the vibes my TL with a different kind of question. A specific moment in a song that brings you joy? I will go first - the little maraca flourish near the crescendo of Elton John's "Funeral for a Friend." cc @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social

This would have made Labyrinth a very different movie.

I’m eating a salad with lettuce from my garden in it. It’s such a feeling of accomplishment.

@kenjennings.bsky.social I appreciated your quote at the end of tonight’s Jeopardy episode.

Last night, I dreamed that I was supposed to do a presentation as part of my application to go up for full professor (in reality), I’m several years away from this). I couldn’t get the computer to recognize my flash drive; the IT person couldn’t get it to work, either.

Insightful thread.

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This didn't happen. The perception that it did is largely based on fictional shows that were about rich people. Much more common was a household where one person (theoretically Dad in a het household) was the higher earner and paid the housing costs and the other paid utilities & food

Sometimes, I awaken in the middle of the night and send myself ideas that I want to write about. This morning, I have an email from the middle of the night that reads, "Michael Hutchence in the Bardo." I sure wonder what I wanted to do with that :)

Getting my small, apartment balcony garden ready for spring the weekend, I realized that I have been collecting good sticks the way that Mamaw collected good cardboard.

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Happy birthday, @robynhitchcock.bsky.social ! I am grateful for you, your music, and the wonderful community that your work has fostered.