イカこわい。がんぼるぞい… translation: I'm afraid of squid.

We need to talk about Dylan Harper

12:42 pm going back for more Awofofora

It ain't cheap, but I'm struggling to remember the last time I was as satisfied with a record purchase. Was out of print forever, so I'd only heard a low-quality mp3 rip, this is deep and life-affirming and incredibly fun music. www.strandedrecords.com/products/mar...

this is what being in UAW feels like sometimes tbh

If you are in northern California, I urge you to come to the rally for California science funding on May 4th at the state capitol. We can't let Heritage Foundation freaks destroy the few good things left about this country. RSVP for the rally here: form.laborbase.org/260746265337...

It went on like an hour longer than it should've because of all the free throws (of course), but I am finally free of having to watch Deni Avdija for several months.

I enjoy having De'Aaron Fox on my team. 👍

It's not about left or right, or where you stand on the issues. Some things transcend even these sorts of divisions, because they are about something bigger. Every American is ready to not watch Deni Avdija play basketball for a while.

LRT Yonkers was one of the best. the '70s recordings are rightly loved but I think I enjoyed his collaborations with the Blind Shake even more www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_3h...

RIP Michael Yonkers

Actress Mariclare Costello passed away on April 17 at the age of 90, we've learned. Costello starred in the 1971 cult classic Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, along with 1983 horror anthology Nightmares, and the Blair Witch Project faux-documentary Shadow of the Blair Witch.

“They are among more than 1,500 biologists, chemists and other experts at the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development who have been laid off, reassigned or pressured to retire. Today, only 124 researchers remain,“ www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/c...

The society we inhabit, the real one we organize within, is a low-trust place with a corporate two-party system where "democracy" often looks like bullshit. This creates unique material challenges for any organizing campaign. People are used to everyone who calls being a scammer!

For me this was the hardest part of learning to organize--you have to be able to have open conversations with others that could go anywhere, and in contemporary US culture that is considered Weird

Trump firing the entire National Science Board while I'm at an organizing conference for unionized scientists...it's a bit too obvious!

The current leader for the 2025-26 NBA Playoffs award for Explosive Muscularity is Carter Bryant

In case you missed it, there is a huge union election happening at USC, where about 75% of the faculty work outside the tenure track and our employer is fighting bitterly to stop worker democracy. Listen for ole ryan's sake

every free jazz show got these six guys at it

The Sacramento Bee Editorial Board has endorsed Sacramento City Councilmember Mai Vang in the race for California’s 7th Congressional District, calling her “truly a people’s candidate” and urging voters to support “a new generation of Democrats in Washington with fire and conviction.”

YOFFS

One of the biggest labor battles in the US is happening right now in Los Angeles, at USC, where our faculty-union campaign with majority support is being met by nasty, corporate-grade administrative resistance, and national press won't cover it.

Read all about it. We've been fighting for 4+ years, and we are going to win. unitedfaculty-uaw.org

we should get a government stimulus check on days where there's no basketball on tv

Spurs played their real team minus their bigs and lost to a Nuggets team that was mostly G Leaguers except for their bigs. It’s never been more over for small ball.

... but the fact of the matter is this: US scientists losing their labs have nowhere to go because nothing like the US life sciences system that RFK Jr. shattered exists elsewhere. It will take years and years to rebuild where it doesn't exist now.

Soon California voters can do just that! savesciencesavelives.com

Going on RFK's podcast to talk about Merzbow

look there are so many more important things to worry about, but I think often about how badly I want to know the identity of that banker who said he was excited for Trump II so he could say the r slur again.

Watching ZODIAC on Pluto. Someone should take the “Melvin Belli talks to the Zodiac Killer over the phone on TV” scene and change the audio to a Scharpling and Wurster bit.

will throw down for my adopted home of Sacramento, California, the capital of the fifth largest economy in the world

If you're in Northern California and want to help save public research, you should come to this rally in support of SB 895 on May 4th! SB 895 is a bill would raise $23 billion dollars and set up a California NSF. You can RSVP here: form.laborbase.org/260746265337...

Wild Zero (1999) #TDOV

Hook ‘em imo

congrats to my (grad) alma mater for, solely by dint of facing off against Kim Mulkey, finally getting to be the good guys for once.

trying to maintain a healthy compensatory level of skepticism because the X-Files is the only thing from my childhood for which I am still a complete sucker (stopped caring about Star Wars, Harry Potter, etc. decades ago), but everything about the Ryan Coogler reboot seems extremely cool and good

none of this is inevitable, and none of it really flows automatically from the technology. but you do have to fight back, and you do have to be clear-eyed about the fact that people are behind this, not machines.

when i was organizing in higher ed a decade ago, i would tell skeptical workers that the the same patterns of exploitation that had hit K12 were coming for universities and we needed to be prepared. much of what is currently being attributed to technology is better understood as part of that plan.

“We know that if you want to show solidarity, there is only one way to do it: you got to do it with your feet. You’ve got to walk on the picket line with your colleagues.” —Zach Samalin, New York University AAUP AAUP stands with Contract Faculty United - UAW on strike at NYU!

Eat shit, lol, and long live The Onion.

New, from me.

Parking garage nachos

formal proposal of a replacement for the vince mcmahon meme format

sports and science streams getting crossed when I see someone post "PCA"

one thing i think we can all appreciate is the song starless by the band king crimson