I am going to have a mst3k jumpsuit outfit for the Halloween show. Aaaand we're gonna play "Satellite of Love". Heheh. I love it when an evil plan 30 years in the making comes together so seamlessly.

Just noticed one of my articles about medical conspiracy theories has been cited over a hundred times, mostly in the context of vaccine hesitancy. That's nice. I'm useful!

I would like to see a journalist ask that cunt Miller or any of those genocidal fucks in DHS whether they think it is worth shooting and possibly killing an American citizen to deport some dude with a family for doing day labor work. What is the correct American body to deported migrant ratio?

The B52s were great. Their rhythm section was superb, as always. I think one of the guitarists was new; at any rate I would have thought I'd have noticed someone as...happy? enthusiastic? bouncy? as the guy who was playing. He liked muted, rhythmic scratches and effects, so he's ok in my book […]

Devo. Those are some active senior citizens.

We are here:

Going to see the B52s, Devo, DJ Cummerbund tonight. Solid. A B52s concert is a chance to wear something...attention grabbing. It'll be fun..

"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943 #fascism #history […]

Happy Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, to all decent people.

Wired - Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok and other platforms to target people for deportation. https://www.wired.com/story/ice-social-media-surveillance-24-7-contract/

Ooh, we are seeing the B52s and Devo tomorrow. I just saw DJ Cummerbund is opening for them. He's really good... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McOtbbyU8Qs Or this surprising masterpiece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9nrBF5gl8A

Hello. I cancelled class to open a little room for paper evaluation today. For real. The schedule was a little too crowded and the reading just a little too uninteresting. I decided the students were far better served by getting feedback on their papers sooner than from me faffing about in class […]

UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding: "When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

Trump literally using federal funds to bribe universities to promote fascism. This is as much a menace to academic freedom as his campaign against certain fields of study is. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/02/trump-university-funding-compact

Last night we practiced You're Dead (theme for What We Do in the Shadows). It's metrically.... whimsical. The singer/guitarist is doing her own thing and the drums somehow doesn't get thrown off. We could absolutely fucking not get the bass, guitar, and singer all on the same page. It sucked […]

"Thinking you can bring back coal mining as a major source of jobs is like thinking doing pull-ups will make you a great military power." --Paul Krugman, who has no more patience for either #Trump or #petehegseth#Trump

Caught my first cheater of the season.

He was going for Patton but ended up sounding like Baldrick.

I have no faith that the top brass is reassured or more personally devoted to the pig shits in charge after that sorry display.

Today Pete Hegseth made exactly no friends for the 4000th consecutive day.

The White House will open 13.1m acres of public land to coal mining while providing $625m for coal-fired power plants, the Trump administration has announced https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/29/trump-spending-coal-industry?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Morning all. I'm on campus to grade this morning and in the early afternoon, the University's PR people are going to take band photos. We have an hour. I'm wearing my ducky shirt. I have a vintage '80s Guatemalan souvenir jacket like the one the Edge wears on […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

I used the old "homeopathy is like making love in a canoe" joke during my discussion of the treatment today. My students had a big laugh. "Hey, Monty Python used that joke. I'm exposing you to culture."

You'll notice that he's not putting 100% tariffs on adult diapers.

From my brother:

I once went out with a girl who got really disabling cramps. She called it supercalifragilisticendometriosis.

We played a song, Possum Kingdom, at practice today. They said it sounded good. I'm pretty sure my guitar sounded like unredeemable noise. It has a weird little bridge that keeps tripping me up, so it's just as well that my guitar was indistinct and muddy today.

Hey #portland #pdx Peaceful protest tomorrow to oppose military takeover of our communities. Sunday, Sept 28 3 - 6 pm Tom McCall Waterfront Park https://www.mobilize.us/oepindivisible/event/851569/

The scene in the new Spinal Tap movie where the promoter asks during practice, "Are they going to be sitting down for the whole show?" really hits hard right now. LOL

“The [South Korean] Ministry of National Defense is pursuing measures to reward service members who contributed to the protection of the citizens by refusing to follow illegal and unjust orders during the emergency martial law situation on December 3rd of last year.” […]

Also, if you DO post Portland at Peace, please indicate where we have permission to share them on Xitter.

US revokes Colombian President Gustavo Petro's visa after calling on US soldiers in New York to "disobey Trump's orders." #aurefreepress #News #press #headline #gop #Politics #uspolitics #USpol

I dunno. It's clear SCOTUS doesn't respect the law. Why should lower courts respect them?

Entertainment magazines like Vogue and Rolling Stone becoming the unexpected bastions of free press in the US, when many of the established journals preferred to bend the knee, is something I didn't expect but is still welcome

“It’s not reassuring that a series as anodyne as “The Savant” makes one of the world’s richest corporations nervous. How many phones do you have to sell to stand by your TV shows?” […]

I've heard it says that human beings are the only species that kills in anger. Not so. I once saw a solpugid kill a moth and not eat it, only because it was in captivity. I've heard it said we are the only ones who take more than is needed, or cause needless pain. Not so. Dolphins kill and […]

So Hegseth drunk dialed all his generals?

Productive band practice last night, though we were down a drummer. While working through the Halloween show set list, we were playing Ghostbusters, and halfway through I, who have a mic for very limited purposes, stepped up and said, "New York, London, Paris, Munich, everyone's talking about […]

Where is it, Tom? RELEASE THE HOMAN FILES!!!! #tomhoman #dhs #ice #gopgrifter #norepublicanseveragain #USpol

Kitty heaven is bunny hell.

The #Borowitzreport is having a blast this week... "Study Links Trump Being President to Increased Use of Tylenol" https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/study-links-trump-being-president #uspol #uspolitics #satire

This idiot.

No band practice today, but that gave me time to sit down and dial in some tones for new songs, which is hard to do on the fly with my little laptop. I'd rather have me whole damned PC workstation and big ol' screen and mouse to see what I'm doing. The goal is to have the setlist's settings in […]

Overheard by my cats: "Do you remember Nixon stepping down?" "Yeah." "I wasn't around for that yet. What was it, '74? '75?" "'74, I think. We had to watch the hearings. That was where I learned what 'expletive' meant."

'Release the tapes': Lawmakers demand answers over Trump official's alleged $50,000 bribe https://www.alternet.org/homan-bribe/ #tomhoman #gopcriminal #dhs #USpol

Megyn kelly saying the quiet part out loud again

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s new mandate prohibiting reporters from obtaining military or defense information without Pentagon approval — or risk losing their press credentials — was met with condemnation from media organizations and lawmakers in Washington […]

Stop watching your local affiliates if they are Sinclair or Nexstar. That's how you punch back at Carr and the FCC. Sinclair and Nextar are the real villains, and cutting them off locally will have a much bigger impact than just turning off ABC.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru... Trump administration has canceled the USDA’s annual food insecurity survey, ending a decades-long effort to track how many Americans struggle to access enough food, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

Am I evil because of my knee jerk response to this headline? Or are you evil too?