A friend started a thread for replacing words in book titles with "cock." I think these were my best contributions: • The Cock Also Rises • Tell Me I'm Cockless • Surviving Aucockracy • The Lord of Cock Rings • Johnny Cocked His Gun

must be nice to not be in any of the categories of people where, if one of you commits a heinous crime, every one of you gets blamed for it

Your regular reminder that Idiocracy blames its dystopia on poor people having too many kids, whereas our real-life dystopia is the result of rich people having too few consequences

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Whatever you choose to do in the piece, make sure it's clear that you're doing it on purpose."

Maeve Fly (2023)

HBD Laura Dern, daughter of actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, BOTD in 1967, turning 59 today. Her best performance is and always will be in David Lynch's "Inland Empire" (2006)

TIL that MAGA's How Dare Someone Speak Spanish in Public Alternative Halftime Show included a country singer lamenting the fact that he'll be canceled if he teaches his daughter to be transphobic. How do these people manage to have a persecution complex while also running the entire government?

New York City: The time has arrived. Finally, a chance to tell the city EXACTLY what your landlord’s been getting away with. NYC’s first Rental Ripoff Hearings are happening in all five boroughs, and we want to hear from you. Real New Yorkers. Real stories. Real policy changes. 

Post a banger that's not in English koenjihyakkei.bandcamp.com/track/vissqa...

You ever stop and think about how almost everyone accepts that punishment should be a regular part of the experience of growing up? How fucked up is that?

There's no rule saying what you draw has to even *attempt* to resemble a horse. I just made an eyeball gallop! gradient.horse

Whenever I see fellow lefties calling for limits to constitutional rights for particularly awful people, I want to say: the question isn't "is this person evil enough to not get rights," but "do you trust the *government* decide who is evil enough to not get rights."

How to cancel #discord #nitro. LMGTFY

I am not trusting Discord with my ID and netiher should you.

Questions to ask your cat: "what do you call the head of a city government?"

The Record Covers of Keiichi Tanaami www.designer-daily.com/the-record-c...

I’m tickled by how everyone else’s are dark and moody and mine is like Pareidolia for Breakfast by Face and the Faceshapes

Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover

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I'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌

I've been writing "you guys" as "you guise" for years and I don't remember for sure but I think it might be because of the bit in Gentle Giant's "Experience" (a song I've been listening to for over 20 years) where they sing "virgin guise" and I hear it as "virgin guys" every time

I miss the summer of 2020, when the centrists were trying to appease the *left* with half-assed pseudo-solutions

By the way, the US had no restrictions on immigration for the first hundred years of its existence, and Border Patrol didn't exist until 1924. Many of the early immigration laws were overtly racist, favoring Northern and Western Europe and particularly targeting Asia for exclusion.

I am once again in the position of having to go to work while my cat is sitting here being extremely soft

I'm so tired of this dynamic where Republicans say "Democrats want oPeN bOrDeRs" and Democrats say "no way we are solemnly committed to border security." Open borders are good, actually. Closed borders are a violent means of preserving global wealth inequality.

Renee Gladman's "Morelia" is maybe the most a book has ever felt to me like being inside a dream

New piece on my website! Celesta, piano and organ :) www.alextemplemusic.com/broken-line

I saw the phrase "DNI Gabbard" and for a moment I interpreted it as "Do Not Interact Gabbard," which is good advice

Hi there, you on the table. I wonder if you’d mind taking a brief survey. Five questions.

It feels like it's been impossible to get people outside of higher ed to understand that eliminating staff/programs/majors is primarily an ideological project, whatever claims are made about finances. What's happened at the Post is what's been happening in higher ed for ages.

I’m so tired of the phrase “said the quiet part out loud.” It’s hasn’t been “the quiet part” for a decade now.

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

And go read Sara’s poetry!

The other day I was in a fast food joint (my first mistake) and an announcement came on about how you can only sit there for 20 min and buying more food to extend your stay is not allowed. Then they told us all about the ways they surveil us. In conclusion, large corporations should be banned.

jukebox of only field recordings

Right when Bezos bought the Washington Post I said that he was going to turn "democracy dies in darkness" from a warning into a description.

@ravineangel.bsky.social Hi I just read Persona and I think the ending might haunt me forever

Do ugly people ever get to win Grammys?

plz consider buying one of my friend's ~devices.~ he needs the cash right now so i know it would really help him out! theres only 4 posted for sale right now but i bet he'd custom build something for you. www.etsy.com/shop/Profess...

laryngitis is so arielcore

Forest has made an active study of the goofy ear scratchies and the BAP-BAP contest.

Flannau Duo's newly released EP includes a great studio recording of my piece "Sugarhocket" for two toy pianos! flannauduo.bandcamp.com/track/sugarh...

TIL that Bad Bunny has a philanthropic org called the Good Bunny Foundation!

Is there a way to draw a distinction between "genre fiction" and "literary fiction" that doesn't presume a hierarchy of quality?

I've heard people say "if we abolish ICE, all those same people will just be roaming around targeting immigrants everywhere." That's probably true. But when randos who aren't backed by the state do it, cops tend to arrest them rather than protecting them:

ok I finished Aoife Josie Clements' Persona and holy shit you guise. It was fucking great and went so many places I wasn't expecting. It's like if you crossed Imogen Binnie, Kōbō Abe and Clive Barker, or something.