I'd like to thank my elderly &, if I'm being honest, probably sundowning cat for making sure I got no >4½ hours sleep b/t my two 12 hour days right after (mostly) recovering from a chest cold by staggering around my prone body and lamenting over damned souls in my face til I shut him out of my room.

(...low-key about segregation & racism, practically remakes CHINATOWN, kickstarts The Disney Renaissance, based on real L.A. municipal fuckery, gives Christopher Lloyd his greatest villainous turn, traumatizes a generation with a cartoon shoe, births Rule 34 fully-formed, inspires me for LIFE...)

IIIIIII... don't think this is reassuring anyone about the reliability of A.I., Tavily.

attn: @gamegrumps.bsky.social

Oh FUCK YES @schmoyoho.bsky.social @gregorybrothers.bsky.social are back with the most deserving target of Songification of the moment, Autocrats' Gaslighter Pam Bondi. Unsurprisingly, it's a BOP. youtu.be/Q71Xb1Sd86M

"You can't steal a balloon on Free Balloon Day!"

It's said that b/c of The Epstein Files women of a certain age are learning their childhoods were explicitly shaped by PDFfilia, but it's been less noted how those of us of a Jewish background now know the extent to which the trauma of The Shoah was weaponized into nationalism to victimize others.

If old friends could stop dying before they reach 50, that'd be great. Fuck.

This boy is 18 years old. Time for him to get a job.

This cold has been in full swing since Wed. I've been mostly in bed 4 of the past 6 days. I'm expected at work in 5 hours. I'm still wheezing & exuding nastiness. I'm a bit feverish. Masks cause allergic reactions, my contacts will likely burn my eyes, & if I use more sick time I can't go to Boston.

Still palpably ill, coughing up ectoplasm, with an elderly cat who takes any consciousness as a sign he'll be fed imminently, I stretched against my pillows, only to hear a small SNAP and found my glasses broken across the bridge. Ah, I see: so I've been cursed. Gonna need to invoke #defendedbe.

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19. Usually I'd put up BOINGO or DISCO VOLANTE or UNDERTOW, so let's get a bit more variety in the mix.

More of this. They should not be able to be in public without being spoken to like this.

Urge your reps to ban Surveillance Pricing and boycott any business that uses it. If it’s allowed to take root, you will be robbed for the rest of your lives.

Like many others, I've been sick all week, tho I also wonder if allergies are involved, as my eyes have been itchy & watery. I wore a mask all day: I was hoarse & miserable for the latter half. When I got home I had a coughing jag so bad I got worried, but some cough medicine tamed it. Still, wtf?

If anyone ever doubts my professionalism and commitment to protecting our exhibits, I didn't hesitate to tell the amply-bosomed young woman in a low-cut shirt not to lean on top of a display case, depriving whoever might enjoy the view the opportunity. Not me, though: I'm a rock. A fossil, even.

The cruelty is the point.

I spontaneously recalled this PSA last night. If they hoped to reach kids with a similar message nowadays it'd have to be 5 seconds long and nothing but explosions. youtu.be/tY3C8kz0aeA

I'd been stuck on a team w/1 MAGA moron all day, so I probably shouldn't have asked another, - Ya still like Tr*mp? "I just got $2K from him!" - In Chuck E. Cheese tokens? How worthless their morals to prostitute them so cheaply. Tr*mp is a libel against America. Better a liberal than a libel.

A low-key Gothic Lolita was in my gallery: like, an obvious example, tho she hadn't gone all-out today. She also apparently hadn't showered in a minute, because there was a palpable FUNK wafting off her. Of course that's gross, but you've got to admit: "Loli B.O." goes fuckin' HARD as a band name.

Maybe after MAGA Congress critters get done investigating Bad Bunny for subversive lyrics they can get back to the true cypher they've ignored for decades: LOUIE LOUIE #iykyk vault.fbi.gov/louie-louie-...

Before bed I'd considered resetting my alarm 30 mins earlier to shave my head before showering: it's been weeks & I look my age. I passed out before I could, but I needn't have bothered: the cat knocked my phone & glasses off of a dresser almost exactly when I would've set it. Thx, elderly asshole!

Ken-coded characters

B/c one of the dryers at the laundromat glitched while I took home my groceries I had to wait almost 20 mins for it to finish. This gave the older Chinese gentleman who runs it time to tell me about how he almost died from fluid in his lungs this week. I'm glad I engender trust for such disclosure.

Henry Rollins, who at the time went by Henry Garfield. He technically didn't graduate from there, having transferred for his senior year. An administrator who was still there when I attended in the early '90s told me, "He was the only boy I can recall who kept snakes in his locker."

She is, of course, a reprehensible AG & human, but one must pity Pam Bondi: she's been exploited her entire life, yet unlike Epstein & Trump's other victims, she couldn't deal w/her shame by either moving on or exposing them, but internalized that "strength" meant victimizing others on their behalf.

I had considered going to an estate sale in the area this morning, but a cough that was on the margins for a couple days finally broke thru last night: my Wed has been sacrificed on the altar of recovery. I don't want to have to call out Fri: I have days coming up for which I plan to spend the PTO.

I never watched DAWSON'S CREEK: it was a bit after when I would've had any interest in teen soap operas, my dalliance with SMALLVILLE notwithstanding. But James Van Der Beek passing of cancer at just 48 w/i a week of my college comrade ALSO succumbing at 48 really is doing a number (#50) on my head.

He'll never resign. He'll have to be dragged out of the WH kicking and screaming. Which I would pay for front row seats to watch.

Mos ago I decided that as soon as I turn 50 I'll stop perusing anyone below the age of 35 on dating apps: if they weren't born before I became a legal adult I have no business pursuing them. I've yet to make the adjustment, but I already feel like those in their early 30s are practically children.

I'd not mind having a #dream that I solicited a, um, "pro" for a gangbang at an old workplace in a conference room it didn't have w/"regulars" I didn't recognize if it ever became, yk, a gangbang. Instead the whole scene morphed into something like a David Byrne concert as directed by Jim Jarmusch.

Funny how someone who is all about their fears, er, that is, their BOUNDARIES takes deep personal offense at being asked, in as diplomatic terms as possible, to respect someone else's boundaries. "Funny".

Post a banger that isn't in English youtu.be/SVbc_Fwbt50

I still use 2 Meta products (Fb & WhatsApp) and Google out the wazoogle, so I can't get TOO smug; regardless, I'm glad to be GenX enough to have never taken to Instagram, Discord, TikTok, Amazon or most of the svcs/platforms now openly invasive &/or bankrolling fascism &/or selling "A.I." snakeoil.

Is that @jjjacksfilms.bsky.social?

For reasons beyond my ken (heh), #ravedj is fighting me w/1 #mashup but not others. This is hardly the 1st I've done using #Adele, but the inaugural try for #ChappellRoan. rave.dj/587ufQkoH2YTbA Adele x Chappell Roan = "Pink Skyfall Club"

After 35 years, Disney gay days has been canceled due to lack of support and loss of funding. Incredibly bleak stuff. www.advocate.com/news/gay-day...

This was a gift I left for myself to discover in the back of a notebook I carry everywhere after FUCK if I know how long, of my #OC Strawberry Fields. Though she never rated any actual comics, she evolved from wank fodder to a more dimensional character, and could yet serve a story.

It could be really bad for Discord if Californians contact the office of the Attorney General to report the potential violations of CCPA and CALOPPA citing the recent breach from a few months back where 1.5tb of user data and millions of IDs were leaked, but who can say for sure?

I don't watch the Superbowl or football or sports (unless you count Let's Plays or robot combat), and I don't hatewatch anything for ads. I may watch Bad Bunny's performance, but I still haven't seen Kendrick in total. It's not personal or bigotry: I didn't watch Kid Rock's bullshit, either.

I'd really appreciate if YouTube stopped showing me this bald Scottish arsehole hawking his "A.I." snake oil catering to the only creatures more damned than himself, i.e., finance bros, always starting with some statement re: the inevitability of bullshit machines as if he hasn't mortgaged his kids.

When I stepped out of my apt this morning the 1st fl hall radiator was cranked so high that the 2nd fl hall window steamed up. While that's better than it being too low, the walls & floor were all slimy, and the window wouldn't open, possibly having frozen shut. This is why my house is infested.

I was gonna be arch and say Mads Mikkelsen, but I think @mariabamford.bsky.social would absolutely EAT as a guest. I imagine Sam The Eagle just fixing her with a look and saying, "You are an incredibly WEIRD person."

Late-stage capitalist rot.

The United States government is retaliating against 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his family for having the temerity to challenge their unlawful detention with a habeas petition. That’s retaliation. This is Kilmar Ábrego García all over again. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

@wolvendamien.bsky.social My editor-in-chief from our college newspaper @ethicking.com is now a pretty influential attorney, and she just posted this, which strikes me as a resource you may find useful. www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...

Fuck: I was hoping that by now enough snow would have accumulated to merit shuttering the museum for today, but instead it's still modest with what I can hear is an intense wind. That may be even more treacherous conditions in which to commute, though I doubt my employer will see it that way.

@megaran.com Who ya got? Waiting for Rock & Roll & Ran.

Again, when folks say “He can’t do ______” at this point, the question is “and who is going to stop him?” As long as he remains in office, while these things - each of which on its own is the worst scandal/crime in 🇺🇸 political history - are happening on a daily basis, we must assume he can & will.

The only way out is the fight for our, all of our, mutual coliberation. No one will be free until the last, the weakest and most dependent of us, is free. It doesn’t matter how we work together as long as we work together instead of laying down or joining their gang. We’re breaking the wheel, now.