Got a subscription to The Onion, so it could be read as God intended* * Peering around a cat sitting on top of it.

WTAF? Do they do this stuff just so NYT Pitchbot will notice them?

“Went viral” is an old stock phrase in journalism that really does not capture the dynamic of how X dot Com has been tuned to give people like the one specific legislator here the power to intentionally cause this kind of outcome

A great example of how the @nytimes.com centers white Americans and Trump supporters in its anecdotal political coverage. You never see stories like this about Black Democrats whose cities are cracked in Republican gerrymandering to give them Republican elected officials.

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

🎄🎄🎄🎄 weaponizerecords.bandcamp.com/track/a-merr...

Once again grimacing while public background music boorishly plays the inferior radio mix of “Keep On Movin’” by Soul II Soul. 😖

Wishing a joyous Coelacanth Day to all! The “living fossil” known only from paleontology and long assumed to be extinct was found to be still among us on this day in 1938.

Pretty sure he chose a side.

Don’t do Spotify or other metric-tracking music platforms, so an old-fashioned rundown of favorites—some new, some old—that got frequent listens this year… 🧵 (Most things herein can be found on Bandcamp)

I think the evidence is that it’s repulsive to so many people, but the institutions (and individuals who steer them), meanwhile, are like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Kid the Younger. Untitled (Cat). 2025. Pencil on paper. Collection of the artist.

Godzilla Fest 4: Operation Jet Jaguar (2023)

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

Wow, that must be so terrifying to think you're being abducted.

An entire cohort absolutely ruined by the realization they would never be better writers than TNC and resolved never to let it happen again

They were out on the job early today! My sidewalk was already done at 6:30.

Our good friend and former Low Life rezzie, Michael Cook, took his own life a week or so ago. My oppo Frank Broughton has written a tribute to him. You can read it here: djhistory.com/read/michael...

the people ripping out their hair over "Somali Fraud" do not bat an eye at MPD being $19 million over budget, because their so called values are as fraudulent as the schemes themselves

Midjourney could not produce a more uncanny valley.

I get second-hand embarrassment from the way grown ass people curry favor with this corrupt, senile, racist old man by offering infantilizing treats and participation trophies.

New Me & My Friends LP. I like this a lot. Doesn’t align enough with my personal musical obsessions enough to *love* it, but I think this is eminently recommendable to a broad spectrum of listeners… m-a-m-f.bandcamp.com/album/bring-...

“Critics say” Trump’s remarks on Somalis were bigoted? JFC what are you doing?

@lubes.bsky.social Hi Ben!

Como Conservatory, St Paul

✨✨ Thread indeed! ✨✨

Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League

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lalalalalalalala celebrity this personality that all I care about is #Caturday

TIL RFK Sr had 11 children and somehow we got stuck with that one

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Wondering if we’ve reached the point of Simply Having an All-AI-Slop Christmas Shopping Music experience yet…

RIP Rhano Burrell.

Going to vote will happen… a little bit later. 😐

I see that my cats have learned to recognize Churu not just by sight of the package, but by mention of the word too…

Brake Bread Bakery, St Paul

Test lighting the so-so Yayoi Kusama pumpkin. Drill bit wanted to wander when starting the holes, so more uneven than I hoped…

Remembering this costume majesty from last year, which still seems unsurpassed to me.

Jumborg Ace (1973) Episode 42

this has to be coupled with the things that *don’t* count as a scandal: an array of harassment allegations, covering up Covid deaths, staying in a race after losing the primary, etc.

If you see this post a vampire who isn’t Dracula

THE NOBLESSE!

[chef fingers]

Thinking a lot recently about the outrage over Lizzo playing James Madison's flute

“Halloween cookies are for Halloween.” (Sheru making sure cookies for guests do not get eaten early…)

Why is Apple, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Blackstone, Google, OpenAI, Amazon and others financing the destruction of the WH and desecration of the grounds, something that is infuriating to huge chunk of the American population? Do you hate your customers that much?