My music taste pendulum might be (slowly) swinging back towards prog and power

New Gorillaz came out today. New Archspire and Nekrogoblikon soon. Those are my big albums 2026.

I always need to listen to more music. I’m so behind!

A lot of problems in this country could be solved simply by enforcing anti-monopoly laws

happy 14th anniversary to all who observe

I do like that everyone’s talking about the Texas election

Israel responsible for two-thirds of record 129 press killings in 2025, says CPJ

This is a campaign of retribution. Trump is weaponizing the entirety of the federal government to punish blue states like Minnesota. These cuts will be devastating for veterans, families with young kids, folks with disabilities, and working people across our state.

This kind of thought has always driven me crazy. Like. Maybe I learned wrong in school. But the whole point, the whole ethos of America, of "freedom" was that you don't have to stand and applaud or show respect to the king. That's like our whole thing! Yet conservatives foam at the mouth about it

this is murder

Just listened to the album Friend Of A Phantom by VOLA (2024) for the first time:

i’m not sure “affair” is the right word when she was 16 and gates’s buddy was keeping her passport in his personal safe but go off usa today

Larry Summers to resign from teaching appointments, relinquish university professorship over Jeffrey Epstein ties

Me irl

Texas WILL have its day

Someone should heckle the shit out off him during the SOTU

This is the singular legacy of the Biden administration, the failing that preceeded all subsequent failings. What good there was (and there was real tangible good!) will have to be excavated from a legacy of failing while in power to punish the plotters and beneficiares of an attempted coup.

The BAFTA thing feels like a scenario specifically designed to crash the simulation

Discord has announced that it's cutting ties with Persona, the AI software company backed by Peter Thiel used for age and identity verification.

So I bought “There is no anti-memetics Division” on a recommendation blind thinking “this sounds like an SCP” and I just started reading it and it is so familiar and so SCP like that I looked it up and sure enough it literally is an SCP

Here's the thing I will continue saying every time this came up: Kamala Harris did not mention trans people in her campaign. She went out of her way to avoid it. She dodged every question on trans rights. And then she still lost. So what Newsom wants is *open hostility* to trans rights

A significant number of Americans think that being racist should be free speech but calling someone racist should not be.

The president, who drones on about protecting women’s sports, publicly mocked the women’s gold-medal hockey team. A reminder this was never about protecting women’s sports and it was always about transphobia and misogyny.

genuinely so fucking funny kash patel was partying at the olympics almost simultaneously as trump was nearly assassinated by one of his own supporters again

This is Neal Katyal. He argued for Nestlé's right to profit from child slavery without consequence before the Supreme Court—and won! Thank you, Neal. ===============

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

Just watched How to Make a Killing (2026) and rated it 3.5 stars on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/rseddon/film/how-to-make-a-killing-2026/ #FilmSky Post made with @letterboxdposter.finiteui.com

Allowing the least cool people in America to think they matter to real culture is one of the biggest reasons you can't trust the media. Bill Maher is pitching to like 8 people but the execs who make shows agree with him so he gets a show. Epstein Class shit.

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

Went to go vote in the democratic primary today and got surrounded by conservatives outside the polling place telling us who to vote for. They were literally arguing with each other over who was the “true conservative”. One old man told us to vote for Metcalf only if we like homosexuality.

Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

Just listened to the album Love Is Not Enough by Converge (2026) for the first time:

I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.

I am sorry but this is still the core problem with trying to parse anything he says about tariffs.

go on. keep telling me that vibecoding is the here and now. keep insisting that it is great for anything except automating some simple personal bullshit you could've done in entry level Python

“Don't ask for guarantees. And dont look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore."

There’s so many bands that I know but only know a song or two, and so many more I don’t know at all. I don’t have the energy to listen to to all this music, much less the time to digest it all. But I’m trying.

Just watched Ex Machina (2015) and rated it 3 stars on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/rseddon/film/ex-machina-2015/ #FilmSky Post made with @letterboxdposter.finiteui.com

the main reason to go after the rich is that if you don’t the entire structure of your society is predicated on the whims of people who are entirely disconnected from ordinary life billionaires are simply too dangerous to exist, and any budgetary stuff that comes out of it is just a bonus

bullying always works

it’s really annoying that the ‘defund the police’ conversation in the mainstream is only ever “should we have more or less police officers?” and not the “police officers shouldn’t be armed with riot gear and tanks and also can kill people” conversation

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

IT’S A SECRET ELEPHANT

Countries that do not use Fritos as currency could be "left behind," says Frito-Lay CEO Ken Biddleman

Counterpoint - I cried at the end of Frankenstein when I read it for the first time just a month ago

If you don’t read old stuff you’ll never discover that people in the olden days had the same thoughts and feelings and dreams and anxieties you do, sometimes articulated differently, sometimes exactly the same way. You are never truly alone in anything and old writings are a neon sign telling you so