after seeing the most pristine sounding post-rock show in maybe 5 years last night: are taiwanese sound engineers just that good? or are americans just all deaf?

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1859: Abolitionist John Brown is the 1st American executed for treason. His crime? Freeing the enslaved And the 2nd? Aaron Dwight Stevens, 29yo. Served Brown during the attempted slave revolt at Harpers Ferry, VA A stark reminder that legality is not always a measure of justice, but power.

lol thehardtimes.net/music/new-sp...

every transit system ought to be as delightful as a 3 minute headway on a sunday

Hellllll yesss

give good people money for their excellent products and services.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times. james blake godspeed you! black emperor tim hecker kendrick lamar sleepytime gorilla museum

"our town" is a hell of an x-files episode to watch today

dear signal, precisely 0 people want polls in their e2e encrypted messaging platform

chillin so hard my ass almost froze off

blinded by headlights? how about: blinded by LED stage lighting? i straight up put on sunglasses the last time i went to a show. diffusion in household LED bulbs finally caught on; why can't they do something about stage lighting? don't get me started about shit being too loud even with earplugs on

remember answering machines? remember album interludes composed of answering machine messages?

"when does the human cost become too high for the building of a better machine?"

a “Space Force”, if you will

the man who sold the world? 🔲 bowie 🔲 cobain

rooting for you, nyc!

normalize posting accurate set times

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

hear me out: nonsmoking hiphop shows where they just hand out edibles beforehand

normalizing posting set times before the show.

White people watching the White House get demolished: How could he do this?! Black people watching the White House get demolished, while knowing it was built with slave labor: I mean... ok.

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For all you nyc photobugs out there, I'm playing a solo piano set in the atrium of Grand Central Station Saturday at 10pm for Brandon Stanton's "Humans of NY" - i might be inaudible amid the throngs but it should be a pretty cool kodak moment nonetheless! www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/bran...

feeling an earthquake and the usgs website returning 503 is the most 2025 thing i could have imagined

shit, damn, motherfucker 💔

I refuse to treat an AI generated avatar as a human while people who are very definitely human in every way are not being treated like humans.

you're not going to convince me otherwise. that pitchfork list has got to be AI slop.

lightning storms happen here so infrequently that it could only be a sign of the end times

a summary of today: 🦵🦵 💪💪 💉💉 🍦🍦

Most editorial comments I want to make about this will get me in trouble so let me just say, trans people are precious and segregationists can go fuuuuuuuuck themselves A Black and Asian woman shilling for segregation is SHAMEFUL www.them.us/story/kamala...

several friends and i are having a conversation how this is the first earthquake in a long time that triggered feelings of "is this going to be like 1989"

is the hayward fault on bsky

leaving the roots show and someone out here saying their first album was 1994.

if we were in the good place, dogs would outlive us.

<3 this review of The AI Con, not least for the phrase "Slopholm Syndrome" mg.co.za/thought-lead...

KNEEL BEFORE ZOD, as the general has finally ascended.

"While much of the media is obsessed with the art of the deal—the terms of surrender to Donald Trump being offered up by major universities around the country—this transactional lens obscures the fact that 'this isn’t negotiation. It’s authoritarian extortion.'” www.thenation.com/article/acti...

ICYMI: Amazon still doing Amazon things The company is not only reintroducing new versions of old features that allow police to access footage from Ring users Amazon is introducing a new Ring feature that will allow police to request *livestream* access to our home security devices. @eff.org

This site helps people find radio stations hit by the public media funding cuts--in addition to your home outlets, people might consider donating to rural stations as they will be hit much harder than urban public radio adoptastation.org

Please consider giving to the Astoria Food Pantry, which serves immigrants in Queens, many of whom have been prevented from going to work because of fear of ICE raids. The line of those waiting for food was down the block when I passed by today. www.astoriafoodpantry.com/donate-money...

Them anti-affirmative action Asians were just so sure the white supremacists were on their side because “meritocracy”

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

The scale and speed of ICE Air allows the agency to move detainees faster than courts can react — even, or perhaps especially, in the case of wrongful deportations. www.theverge.com/planes/70247...

Highly recommend these mutual aid orgs. GoFundMe has also set up a landing page for verified fundraisers for those affected by the flooding here:

race really is a construct! also, shout out to ethnic studies departments fighting the good fight to do exactly this

lunch is a german sandwich from an eritrean cafe because this is america, bitches.

wishing for a future with freedom from tyranny, fear, and suffering to everyone i love, and even those i don’t, and that is something worth celebrating.