Part of life is knowing your roles in other people's life. My is and always has been the backup friend. I'm the guy you hang out with when everyone else is busy. I'm rarely introduced to my friends friends.

I'm constantly reminded that I'm gonna die alone.

It cost me $150 a month to heat and power my 700sqft house that I keep at 69 degrees (nice). This is before they build a useless data center in town. I don't know how you other folks are pulling it off.

Yea I get the wishful thinking that some litigious mega corp will sue and put the brakes on AI video but this is how it’s gonna go. The suits will pay eachother off and everyone whose labor gets sold in the deal can fuck off.

Watching my bosses program a robot to replace me. Fun times.

Sick, depressed, tired. I hate winter.

I'm slightly sick. I hate being slightly sick because I know it'll last for weeks. I'd rather be near death for 24 and get it over with, one way or another.

How am I single? The bar seems so low. (This is sarcasm. I know why im single but it's not because of shit like this.)

Posting this one last time because I worked hard on it.

tapping the sign

I wrote about CNN partnering with a gambling app that lets you wager on famine in Gaza, what this shift portends in our media, the obvious moral hazards of this arrangement, and “news” as politically impotent, disempowering spectator sport

Posting this one last time because I worked hard on it.

This has been a great series. I would love for Noah to do more. Maybe Tom Waits Austin City Limits and Neil Young Live at Massey Hall.

We are tabling today at 7pm and tomorrow at 1:30pm at a screening from @means.tv at the State Theater in Ann Arbor for the film Earth's Greatest Enemy. Come on out! youtu.be/rphBWk15_h4?...

Excited for this. Follow @breadandrosesart.bsky.social for our future projects. It's early days but we are gaining steam on our first group project.

Making capitalists “pay their fair share into society” means all of it. They do not produce. They own. Their fair share is nothing. Labor is entitled to all it creates. It’s important we understand this.

I'm tempted to enter this with a remake of Be Kind Rewind. Get real meta with it.

That time of year again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1v7...

Inspired by @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social, I'm gonna write (or really finish) at least another script this year. Will it ever get made, probably not. But I had fun writing my other scripts so why not.

I have to go to that Chicago show.

There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.

Just finished formatting the zine yesterday. All that's left is printing and assembling it. It's pretty neat.

Here it is. My newest video on Death to the Algorithm, Space Liberals: An Andor Review (sorta). It took six months but it looks much better, is 56 mins long, and has puppets! Enjoy & subscribe! youtu.be/flu0lYWWPL8?...

Sucked down a milkshake this afternoon and as a result I get a surprise night off. Stupid old man stomach.

For the midnighters.

For all the mfers who say workers just serve coffee, just deliver packages, just stock shelves, just clean rooms, just prep food, or just check in guests, remember this, they keep our communities running every day. And when they’re on a picket line, you respect it.

What a world.

What I don't get about this is, I can write bad all on my own, in my own special bad way. This seems like so much effort for small change. If you're gonna be a criminal, do better, aim higher.

Here it is. My newest video on Death to the Algorithm, Space Liberals: An Andor Review (sorta). It took six months but it looks much better, is 56 mins long, and has puppets! Enjoy & subscribe! youtu.be/flu0lYWWPL8?...

500,000 TIMES!

IHTOV is off today due to some scheduling shenanigans but.. my favorite yacht rock documentary is a year old, so let's repost an in depth interview @thecurmudgeon.bsky.social had with @hollywoodsteve.bsky.social about all things yacht rock ihavethatonvinyl.com/conversation...

Finally finished my next Death to The Algorithm video. It only took 8 months. Up tomorrow.

The right is full of grown-ass adults who are afraid of vaccines, kid's books, and anyone Twitter or OAN tells them to fear, including the entirety of NYC, and NYC is full of people who cheerfully chase federal agents out of the state and then do stunts on Citibikes; you tell ME who's going to win.

it's the IHTOV black friday sale! join today and get 15% off your first month's membership or 15% off if you sign up for a full year. it's a great way to support IHTOV, and you get great exclusive discussions, polls, and posts. discount code is 3B72F through 12/5 www.patreon.com/c/IHaveThato...

I just figured out why I've felt like I've been forgetting something lately. I missed Sandwich Night. BOO ME!

at IHTOV today: you've heard of black friday, but at IHTOV we celebrate frank black friday. popmatters writers @rfwilhelm.bsky.social and @ingalls1969.bsky.social got together to give an oral history of teenager of the year, and how it connects them ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/welco...

My parents continue their holiday tradition of being hours late.

Shout-out to everyone on the Group W Bench today.

Turns out I have used up all my insurance money for the year, so I had to reschedule for January. So I can still eat (that's good). But I have to see my family (that's bad). But I can enjoy my weekend off (that's good). But I still need these teeth pulled (that's bad).

A class war Thanksgiving greeting from the early 20th-century socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason.

My Name Is Jonas Serve The Servants Blister In The Sun At The Bottom of Everything Good Times, Bad Times

The solution to this problem is not AI. It's creating a society where people's material needs are met so they can choose to pursue art without worrying about starving.

Getting three more teeth pulled today, the day before Thanksgiving. I'm not very good at calendars and now I must pay the price.

We need a movie. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/w...

Here's something to listen on the drive to your family's house. A new episode of the One Big Podcast. We discuss the book 'Solidarity Unionism: Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below' by Staughton Lynd from @pmpress.bsky.social. Enjoy! open.spotify.com/episode/7phV...

Training a 21 year old (it's their first job) in our building and more so then them just being bad at the job, I hate that they are making me say shit every adult said to me when I was 15. She's making me sound like an old asshole. I'M YOUNG AND COOL DAMMIT! JUST DO YOUR JOB.

Who needs Grok when you can just post yourself saying the dumbest shit and have the whole internet roast you like the idiotic personality void creature you are?

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Reggae, ska & rocksteady legend Jimmy Cliff has died at age 81 www.brooklynvegan.com/jimmy-cliff-...

Made a playlist on YouTube of all my live projections, in case you don't want to watch me fail onstage. youtube.com/playlist?lis...