To say I'm excited about this book is an understatement.

Cops led us into the street as the new “protest zone” and then beat us repeatedly. Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested. Stay safe out there.

Friday is new music day, so go check out the homies in Banquets' new album. banquets.bandcamp.com/album/petty-...

school 30 years ago: learn math cos you won't have a calculator all the time school now: fuck learning just use the robot, whom will always be there for you constantly every moment and after unto eternity, unto eternity

Happy Friday, here's the week in jams.

REMINDER

I hate this world.

"Cybertruck owners see things differently. 'To me, it's just a vehicle that I love,' says Andrew Castillo, a stock trader from Los Angeles. 'It has no political affiliations at all to me." I wonder what it's like to be able to divorce yourself from reality so thoroughly.

via https://queenoliviastredfern.tumblr.com/post/796538133227470848

NSO Group confirms that it has a US buyer and whole thing is even sketchier than you would imagine: techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/s...

A new side-channel attack called Pixnapping enables a malicious Android app with no permissions to extract sensitive data by stealing pixels displayed by applications or websites, and reconstructing them to derive the content.

D'Angelo is dead at age 51 after a private battle with pancreatic cancer

This album is Very Good and you should listen immediately! DO IT NOW.

After talking about it with a friend in run crew recently, and being reminded about it in @tombreihan.bsky.social's latest Number Ones, I picked up a copy of 'Tough Breaks' at @greedyreads.bsky.social last night. Looking forward to learning more about Baltimore club music!

We’ve received a very important phone call at Power Goth HQ - the much anticipated new album ‘Routine’ from @brokenrecord.bsky.social drops at 12am EST Power Goth is on the line - will you answer the call?

From West Baltimore, a farming legacy baltimorebeat.com/from-west-ba...

Ottobar season pass is a mere $270 and man, if I went to more shows that would be such a good deal. Still considering it.

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of." One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

Dragged the lad out in the cold to the new La Maison (Cafe Dear Leon's Remington location) for their soft opening, and boy howdy that did not disappoint.

The Friday grid. Tis AFI season 🖤

"why aren't any of my cronjobs running on this server?" ... "cron is *not installed*?!"

does seem like a tactical mistake to crack down hard on chicago when there's a chicago pope

I'm gonna have to revisit this one soon, but when I went back through 'Make Yourself' recently I found myself saying "man, this still rules." And then Hard Times got my ass good thehardtimes.net/music/redisc...

Hell yeah new @brokenrecord.bsky.social let's go!

The Speaker's default argument is to plead ignorance about things it's his job to know.

Is... is this for real? Jesus.

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

It's amazing how a bunch of supposedly smart people can be so, so very dumb.

this is a great explanation of atproto's technical implementation and how bluesky's mod decisions affect the federated network

Generative AI continues to be a pox, and people are gross and weird.

Much more fun to imagine the more likely scenario that these people used ChatGPT to learn how to fix their car, and the car horrifically overheated as a result of the misinformation they were provided

On this Poe's Deathday, we're thinking about this short piece of writing by the much-missed @emmanuelmehr.bsky.social : baltimorehistories.substack.com/p/edgar-alla...

I do so enjoy reading @lopatto.bsky.social

could just re-watch veep tbh

new joyce manor we are so blessed joycemanor.bandcamp.com/album/i-used...

Walter loves life.

This is rampant lawlessness The law says what it says, and Russ Vought doesn't get to unilaterally change that www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

C to the BS

It's also worth pointing out that Trump has shared *multiple* AI-manipulated videos/images already and surely he is going to end up sharing some of these Sora 2 videos too. I don't even know how we move on from this as a society. The toothpaste tube isn't just empty, it's been ripped to shreds.

You do not need to register for a list of anything to go to a protest. Organize locally, move things offline as much as you can, use encrypted messaging (with disappearing messages). Be extremely careful, things are about to get much harder.

I can't make this, but if you're around DC you should go check out these rad bands and high five @maxwellstern.bsky.social for me.

Here’s a cool ass picture of @signalsmidwest.bsky.social Tonight we reunite with our buds Downhaul for a delicious 3 band Monday night bill in DC at The Pie Shop

Wow, who could have predicted this.

CBS News was just taken over by a Substack

It's weird to me that even long-time residents here seem to get caught unawares by the Baltimore Running Fest every year. Like... it happens every year for 25 years now. Same time of year!

I truly don't understand what people thought was going to happen

Bari Weiss going from firebrand individual contributor to directly-accountable manager of a huge bureaucratic organization facing secular decline… gosh has anyone ever seen this movie before

you really can just describe anything as "rigorous, fact-based" reporting if you have enough money apparently

This is bad, our electeds are not going to use anything other than media appearances and strongly worded letters to stop it, and we need to protect each other. Please 1) go outside, 2) find someone watching a corner during school drop off, 3) ask them how you can help.