watching No Country For Old Men for the first time since the legendary "I heard you're canceled" tweet and couldn't keep a straight face during the Chigurh/Moss phone call scene

American inventions/discoveries, ranked 3) polymerase chain reaction 2) USPS media mail 1) jazz

I was born in the dead center of the era Osita mentions here, so his article a few years back on the relatively recent obsession with bipartisanship was very illuminating for me newrepublic.com/article/1635...

It's chilling to hear my Dad's voice in Eric Dane's, knowing that ALS has reached his respiratory muscles and how heartbreaking it must be for his loved ones to watch the disease progress. I admire how @iamals.bsky.social approaches ALS research, treatment access, and outreach, so please amplify:

reading about the American soybean crisis and pledging to do my patriotic duty (make fried tofu with peanut sauce every night the rest of the year)

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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got an email with the subject "RFK Jr COLLAPSES in front of Senate panel" and I don't think that's the sort of figurative language you want to be using to describe a member of our gerontocracy whiffing an interview

Domino's Pizza, a place you famously stand in line

Not to brag but we just won our union election with the most YES votes cast in a single union election this year 💅💪 7,000+ UC staff now have a union and are heading to the bargaining table with over 40k other UC research workers.

You've gotta hand it to The Man Who Wasn't There: it's the Coens movie with by far the most mentions of Sacramento.

grateful for a new era of Stan Chera-posting

hey hey rfk how many kids did you kill today

RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it. My full statement.

I was just about to post something about my bafflement re: the recent obsession with mitochondria (on top of the RFKJ quote, basketball podcasts I like are doing ad reads for scammy "mitochondrial health" supplements) and this is as good an explanation as any.

gonna see these guys tomorrow (not with Adrian Sherwood producing though) lloronarecords.bandcamp.com/track/currur...

Trying to buy fewer records but New Age of Earth is finally getting reissued, and only a week after my birthday...God giving me His toughest battles.

Just read Billy Budd, and Melville constantly refers to him as “Handsome Sailor” like Trump does with generals, and it made me feel insane to have his voice popping into my head while reading 19th century lit.

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generally have a pretty strong stomach and also have unfortunately become inured to photos of Upsettingly Old Politicians in the last few years, but man that Trump hand photo is another level of nauseating

If Trump take the Ikea Kallax, every bearded 30-50 something with strong feelings about Tago Mago and jazz fusion will bring their fury down upon him like the Hammer of Thor

my roommate was trying to find the menu for a nearby bagel shop and instead found some of the most iconic slop I've ever seen. thanks food! :)

rock record of the year so far imo

I'm in Wisconsin

Let's Scare Jessica to Death...now there's a movie

Vote @rpsp-uaw.bsky.social, we need to eat too

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Mike Ratledge, Hugh Hopper, Robert Wyatt and Elton Dean of Soft Machine

real bummer that the most prescient rock song of the 21st century turned out to be "Careers in Combat" by Parquet Courts

The first Group Inerane album on Sublime Frequencies was my introduction to Tuareg rock/desert blues as a young record dork, incredibly grateful that these live recordings are seeing the light of day. sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/album/group-...

In light of the Columbia and Brown deals, I’m bumping these slides again about the Nazi takeover of German science, which includes discussion about how they took over academia, in a manner very similar to the Brown and Columbia deals

foundations can't fill the gap. industry can't fill the gap. there is no alternative to the NIH. whether the administration really understands this is immaterial; the result is the destruction of modern science everywhere.

part of the immortal canon of Spooky Coastal Town horror

This is a huge loss for Spotify as King Gizzard makes 10 percent of the world’s music.

the greatest Sabbath lyric is "show the world that love is still alive you must be brave"

Unashamedly I repost my favourite Onion headline of all time. I think about the beauty of this almost on a daily basis.

A pivotal coming of age moment in a millennial woman’s life is when you found the forum from which all the male music snobs you knew were stealing their opinions

my homeland, Texas, yearns for Reconstruction 2

Those horses are praying to Mecca

just witnessed a grad student carry on a full conversation while staring into a microscope eyepiece and dechorionating an octopus embryo. so cool thinking about all these futures being launched into the sun to pay for more ICE agent neck gaiters.

gotta say I'm not a fan of this whole "apocalyptic flooding hitting every place I've lived in or near" trend

some real canonical records for me in that catalog. Wore out my copy of Birds of Maya Vol 1. RIP.

tonight I'm thinking of my late greyhound who would get freaked out anytime I visibly tensed up while watching a close basketball game but for some reason was completely unfazed by fireworks.

RIP Mark Snow, the permanent brain-warping power the X-Files had on nine year-old me is inseparable from its music.

Needed this reminder today.

instead of doomposting today I'm gonna say that I think some really low quality NBA Summer League games could fix me