Behold*! The audio version of my science fiction novella THE APOLOGISTS read by Kate Baker. [*Or some archaism that means to listen. Heed? Hark? 🤷🏾‍♂️]

Another woke opinion of mine is that queer visibility is also good for us cishet people. Because no one's really that straight and once you're comfortable with that, and with all the different ways people find themselves, there actually is a bit less misery in the collective human condition.

FUCK YES

Also really liking the new Ruby Rushton album, LEGACY! If you have any other 2025 jazz album reccos let me know! rubyrushton.bandcamp.com/album/legacy

'the genocide is now called a ceasefire'

Likky is alive. Wow.

A lovely album of Zulu folk music, prominently featuring acoustic guitars: madalakunenesibusilexaba.bandcamp.com/album/kwantu

Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force. (Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!) Great obit—no paywall.

#NowPlaying (again) How about some dissonant DeathDoom in the morning? This is one of those albums that came out of nowhere for me but one that I like to return to once in a while. Absolutely one of my highlights this year, by @melpomene-band.bsky.social. ampwall.com/a/melpomene/...

Readers of a certain kind (like I was or am) have been trained to respond deeply to human interiority in what we read. But the inside of my mind is just a jumble of common impulses and injuries and half-formed thoughts. Stream of consciousness doesn't capture this. It arranges it into something else

This one going out to @patricknessbooks.bsky.social and the principal of his fictional school.

Some years ago a man down the road repeatedly poisoned dogs. A month ago a man in a nearby neighborhood shot a dog from his balcony, blinding and partly paralysing it. I don't think anything will get better and I just want to stop fighting a losing battle.

Heeeh youtu.be/jNv3oyfYFMg?...

So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.

This week in Art I Am Obsessed With: this self-portrait by Suzanne Valadon. It looks so incredibly contemporary (I would literally wear that exact outfit on hot summer day) but it’s from 1923. Anyway, love a queen with flowy pants and a dangling cigarette!

It is 1990. Megadeth just dropped the best album they've made yet. I'm 13 years old. Things can only keep getting better from here on in. Life is good. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Who can blame him?

PLURIBUS is such a flabby show. Ep03 spent nearly an hour to tell us: Carol was always this joyless and annoying (her girlfriend must have stuck it out because she was one of 7 authors on the planet who actually got rich writing) & the new human hivemind just can't say no to any request.

Inside the 19th-century Parisian club that became a safe haven for female artists - The Art Newspaper - International art news and events share.google/xnn944ERu6I0...

I live in the present without nostalgia but I know my time has been and gone. This is how many lifetimes are.

As far as low, slow and effed-up goes, this Primitive Man album is likely going to be the highlight of the year. primitivemandoom.bandcamp.com/album/observ...

I have two: Borders are violence Nothing human is alien. Even the worst evil we are capable of is not ultimately incomprehensible to any of us. Understanding this is essential for us to radically reframe how we approach justice.

They say we're going to mend it But they never will music.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi9J...

[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison] 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵Walking down the street 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵House with chicken feet 🎵Baba Yaga

Now we know what Melville would have thought of your quirky little tote bags.

A July 2025 amendment to #India’s petrol standards removed lower-blend grades & recognised only #E20 fuel. The change, made under administrative rules without parliamentary debate, expands executive control over fuel policy, writes Nilotpal Datta article-14.com/post/india-s...

‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet: “Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”

This album by Oromet is synchronising with the weather and my mood. listen.hypaethralrecords.com/album/the-si...

A dark sea of sound with floating imperfect objects. Slow ambient shifts. Long distorted guitar tones. @lalenriosluna.bsky.social Black Isle Begging. PC152. porouscollective1.bandcamp.com/album/black-...

This is what is good in life.

I find something grotesque about the idea of heritage or history walks in Bangalore. This is a city that has eagerly sacrificed its history and green cover and continues to do so. We should have walks past construction sites, hostels for IT workers, high rise apartment towers and the nearby slums

The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn’t. Pretty much solid elephant. So there’s no room to talk about it. -Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room” #everynightapoem

There's a subset of standup that's just people laugh-crying about their mental illness until someone in the audience shows a reaction, any reaction. This is the very highest tier of the comedic art and I will not be persuaded otherwise.

Boop the blep #DailyDoggo

Why settle for fake, manufactured rebellion? Transgressive is the real thing: anger, confrontation and solidarity wrapped up in chonky, virtuosic modern thrash metal. transgressivethrash.bandcamp.com/album/not-li...

Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...

Whenever I see an Indian-origin person in the USA supporting MAGA, I see a poor schmuck who will soon learn racism is one of the few truly bipartisan issues in that country.

I am considering the possibility that anhedonia has broken my ability to assess literature. I still feel able to react to and form a meaningful opinion on music, so there's at least that. I think, for all my reading (at least a 100 books a year for much of my adult life), music means more to me.

This is a copper etching print I made recently. Stupid and Insane Etching, 2025 6" x 6"

Billie Eilish calls out Elon Musk for not using his wealth to aid humanity and resolve global issues: “f***ing pathetic p***y b**** coward”

I made a kitty

Thoughts on EMPLOYEES by Olga Ravn (could contain spoilers so avoid if you hate those): The satire of corporate language was okay. Not too heavy-handed but not that impactful to me because the simple reality is that this is just language now.

Emmanuel Hocquard, tr. Norma Cole

So here is my confession: It's the only broken rule Sometimes I crawl inside of me Where I can be the fool music.youtube.com/watch?v=G36O...

After the Neil Gaiman stuff began coming out, I wrote this in August 2024. You can skip the first part (search for the phrase "eternally timely"). It's about burning down to the ground the pedestals we put people on for various reasons. www.moryan.com/a-burn-it-do...

I suppose my question is: where's any better?

Gates of Slumber's comeback EP last year was heavy on mid-paced, gloomy ruminations and nary a trace of their old epic metal forays, much like the last full length, The Wretch. But for the doom faithful, it was the welcome return of a particular strand of unrelentingly pessimistic traditional doom.

There is no moral difference between an 'ephebophile' and a pedophile. And whatever the age of consent is where you live, a grown adult has no business getting into a sexual relationship with a teenaged child.

I once was a man who loved life music.youtube.com/watch?v=LSeI...

CAN YOU FIND THE LITTLE FISHERMAN? I’m really happy with how this piece turned out — though honestly, I hated it while I was working on it! 😂 #whimsicalart