Remember: •1 million seconds is about 11 days •1 billion seconds is about 32 years •Musk now controls $500B and 500B seconds is about 16,000 years. Billionaires are the only minority destroying our country. Abolish billionaires. Invest in working people. Save our democracy.

Last night double bill had some unintentional reflections. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and They Live (1988) both get to discuss class struggle by externalising the aristocracy to invaders. The Normans and the aliens can be defeated because they're other. There's a status quo to return to.

Entering my villain era (texting the group chat funny memes to avoid two people who hate me)

What’s the proper etiquette for being in a room with two people who ruined your life

Thinking about this scene as I listen to the middle-aged man behind me bloviate about riot grrrl (I know WA is revolting but a stopped clock is right twice a day)

Apropos of nothing, here’s a Josh Gondelman clip that’s probably my sweetheart’s internal monologue

If you write critically, you have to do something besides get excited. You have to examine what's in front of you. What you see is a movie industry in decay, and they decay gets worse and worse. (2001)

advancement of African-Americans at the US Post Office, dating well back into the 1800's. The title comes (iirc) from a line in a movie spoken as a mother to her son who is seeking to embark on a career as an actor.

I worked for USPS for a couple of years. Being a history nerd that prompted me to do some looking into its past. My journey down that rabbit hole led me to a book entitled "There's Always Work At The Post Office." It recounts the very long history of the long history of hiring, employment, and

It’s been a while, so here she is.

Did you know that UC leadership has *refused to share* the demand letter it received from the Trump administration? We deserve to know what's in it. On Sept. 30, UCLA's Legislative Assembly, which represents senate faculty across campus, voted UNANIMOUSLY to call on admin to show us the letter.

“Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.” ― Buster Keaton #BOTD

Do any of my witchy friends do full moon rituals? I have a question but I don’t know who to ask

Great, now I want some fan art of Sweetums in a yellow trenchcoat and fedora saying "Dick not name, Dick job!"

making one small pancake for my baby

Hey, let’s stop saying “we might not have an election in 2028” and start saying, “If Trump thinks we’re not having an election in 2028, then he’s mistaken about how this works.”

Something to add to your Spooky Month watchlist:

Tempted to just bed rot and listen to The Days of Wine and Roses But I have work to do

This is really good

bananadog

LAUREN BACALL: you just put your lips together and blow HUMPHREY BOGART: *holding nintendo cartridge* i know how to get it to work lauren

Idly scrolling through photos of Dream Syndicate guitarist before 9am on a Saturday

I come to this website for this kind of content

I’m once again asking for a Photoshop of Joel and the bots in the Criterion Closet

Hey. Stuff sucks, the suits behind this app are terribad, and shit just isn't gay enough Now's a great time to support your indie trans authors

Do the ska elders know Fishbone was just on KEXP? @brooklynmarie.bsky.social @mmasnick.bsky.social "You're not a Proud Boy, you're just a fuckboy drinking the Kool-Aid of a mad orange king."

Continuing with the 40th anniversary of the "Doghouse Cassette", here's @throwingmuses.bsky.social gracing the cover of The Noise, October 1985 issue, just as the tape was being released. Interview by Polly Campbell with pictures by Conrad Sanderson. #TMDoghouse40

It just hit me that my evil twin is a Gaylor

I've been thinking about this, too

Re-upping for morning folk

AI actress Tilly Norwood has tragically passed away while filming her first movie with director A Hologram of John Landis

Development - $30 Servers - $50 Marketing - $200 Jesse Singal - $1 million Someone who's good at the economy help me budget this my website is dying

Connery looks like you just said something mean about Cher

Once again thinking about my sweetheart texting me after watching THE IRON CLAW on an Acela from NYC to Boston “It’s The Virgin Suicides for dudes”

I’m returning to The PIT for a one night only engagement of No. 1 in Heaven Starring Travels With Brindle on Sunday, November 9 at 8:30 PM! Tickets here: thepit.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/?_gl=...

This was the finished product, if you're curious:

Happy #BandcampFriday! I’m getting ready to present a workshop version of my solo show at the PIT in New York next month. To do that I need to hire a technician. If you like Sparks and the Magnetic Fields and the banjolele, please consider picking up my album!

me vs the Muse of Posting

hey do you think any major national media will report on how the president running an extortion ring out of the white house? seems like news, imo!

Charles M. Schulz’s “Peanuts”—the most successful comic strip ever, and arguably the most influential—first appeared 75 years ago. Here’s the first week of strips (1/4):

Can confirm

Screenplay by Jon Wurster

if i had to see another comic book movie why not make one based on spy vs spy ie ninety minutes with no dialogue and two awful little spies played by gorgeous women wearing cone shaped hats killing each other over and over with bowling ball bombs and exploding umbrellas

the problem with Bluesky is the same problem as the larger economy: everyone is after the same hypothetical demographic of cool people with money, but people with money aren’t cool in 2025. the only people with money are chuds - the kinds of chuds that actively repel cool people and kill platforms.

As a frequent user of the ponds, it disgusts me that terfs are taking a beautiful place and pouring their hate into it. Please fill in this survey if you want to protect this space for all women and make trans women feel. PS the ducks think terfs suck. And the friendly fox. And the crows.

Since it’s Richard Hell’s birthday and @realgdt.bsky.social just blessed our timeline with more photos from Frankenstein Can we please have an adaptation of I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp starring Oscar Isaac The Coens can direct

So many teachers said a nicer version of this to me in grade school