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Pixel mover, playlist maker, viola player, and doer of assorted other tasks of varying levels of absurdity.
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Can we talk for a minute about how weird the cello in Good Vibrations sounds? Like it's closer to some gnarled, distorted guitar (run through a messy, choppy delay) than a regular cello. I don't know if it's just where it's placed in the mix or what.

The Bucks, Cavs and Knicks, to the Thunder:

It's as easy as "COVID vaccines and boosters are how we protect our population from this virus with long-term detrimental effects that we are only just beginning to understand. Please keep allowing the boosters to the general population regardless of existing health status." #COVID19

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Sonic Youth "Rather Ripped" Bonnie 'Prince' Billy "I Made a Place" Circle "Hollywood" The Ex "Turn"

Shock late night news per the official Pere Ubu page on FB that David Thomas has passed on.

This is how we do it. #handsoff2025 #Vegas #Protest

laughed pretty hard at this boat

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

NEW: I emailed the band. “We broke up with him first. We quit Twitter in 2022 when he was only half a Nazi. Then someone else took our handle, pretending to be our official account, so we filed a legal complaint to put a stop to that—which is why @dropkickmurphys shows as suspended."

I'm still mad at @schumer.senate.gov for making me vote for Cal fucking Cunningham in 2020. But this is some next level idiocy. Just resign already.

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime. This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

Hey @foushee.house.gov, this is a pretty solid idea. As a constituent, I'd love to see you do it.

Help them swing their vote!

Let nobody in NC forget that Tillis put that mediocrity over the top.

The one for the New York Department of Sanitation is fucking bonkers

Put on my favorite crewneck

In honor of the irreplaceable David Lynch, here is one of the most wonderful, beautiful things I've ever seen on the internet, about two men melding their creative minds together and just creating

I know there are many many David Lynch stories but I've always loved this one

I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

Schoenberg's archives in Los Angeles are gone. 💔

Heads up, but that Minutemen documentary is on YouTube in full: youtu.be/S7crqdt0Kx0?...

for every 50 likes i’ll photoshop nicolas cage onto popular album covers.

Call your senators about this one, folks

I have a colleague (not on social media) who likes to say that works don't *fall* into the public domain, they *ascend* into the public domain. I really love that.

Happy public domain day! Let's get the skeleton dancer to recite The Sound and the Fury over Bolero or something. web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...

It's New Year's Eve and honestly, we have a lot of mixed emotions about tonight. On the one hand, we're happy to leave 2024 in the past. On the other hand, we know there are tough fights waiting for us in the new year. Here are five resolutions for keeping democracy alive in 2025. 🧵

The company @distrokidofficial.bsky.social is a union buster. Support Distro Kid Union - for more info go to their instagram acct, www.instagram.com/distrokid_un...

Something lovely for the weekend! Marvellous clay pots with octopus decoration made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete about 3,500 years ago! 🐙❤️ Heraklion Archaeological Museum. 📷 by me #Archaeology