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Happy b’day “When Doves Cry” — released 41 yrs ago today. On his last night of mixing, Prince started removing instrument tracks, said engineer Peggy McCreary. “The last thing he did was he punched that bass out. He smiled at me and said, ‘Ain’t nobody gonna believe I’d do this.’ And he did.” 🕊️

submitted 3 days ago • 158 comments

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submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

Nirvana: You could never be one of those stereotypical soccer moms. (Your kids play lacrosse.)

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

🧵 If you didn't know, rahaeli was raised in a spiritual tradition in America & is deeply interested in the history, politics & culture of where American Christianity & Conservatism went off the rails. (That last my words.) Don't understand the weirdness? Let her explain the American Heresy.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

i think this shit is an affront to this country and its traditions

submitted 10 days ago • 362 comments

In the wake of the Seattle Worldcon LLM-use arguments I’ve seen people bemoaning how SFF fandom doesn’t give people grace any more and tears itself down and I agree, we should return to fandom’s roots of kindness like with the Futurians.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

A federal judge ordered the government to release Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University graduate student who was grabbed off the street in late March and detained for co-writing an opinion piece in a student newspaper criticizing the war in Gaza.

submitted 10 days ago • 20 comments

American Taue

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie. Life of Tau

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

My favorite Star Wars character

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"I sense much fear in six. Fear of seven. Why? Because nine, seven ate."

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Remove a letter, ruin a movie: Shat

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Spruiking, fake tradies and corflute stoushes: how to understand the Australian election

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

The thought experiment was right: we have invented a paperclip machine.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Island Stuck - Gator Days

submitted 19 days ago • 29 comments

The Princess and the Frog existentialcomics.com/comic/600

submitted 21 days ago • 15 comments

Felicitations to all who celebrate the perfection of today.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

The Hand is a stop-motion masterpiece -- and one of the very best animated films. Director Jiří Trnka made it as a protest, attacking the dictatorship that used him as its pawn. But the film has more layers than many realize, as we discover: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/revisiting...

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

A colleague emailed me today to flag the fact that the superb Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson ended a quotidian insurance opinion with an unusually introspective conclusion.

submitted 25 days ago • 138 comments

We are all made of stars, but your RBAC shouldn’t be

submitted 212 days ago • 18 comments

As a person who has studied history, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.

submitted 28 days ago • 1244 comments

Larry David gets to subtweet Bill Maher in the pages of the NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

submitted 28 days ago • 13 comments

The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis. The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall. 1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.

submitted 32 days ago • 170 comments

“I asked chatGPT to explain…” you mean you did a google that kills puppies

submitted 35 days ago • 7 comments

I am so happy to have found this version of A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

submitted 42 days ago • 264 comments

"Oh. Okay, I somehow just made my parents call all of you. I’m really sorry. They take a long time on phone calls, so the odds are high that you’ll be stuck on that for a bit. I guess on the bright side they’ll have something to do."

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Babe, stop doomscrolling. You and your stonks. ☺️ Costco pizza is still $2 and you just got a promotion at your B2B SaaS startup. We're gonna be fine. Wait, options trading? Didn't your dad say not to do that?

submitted 42 days ago • 11 comments

Venus in daylight, taken this morning on a gorgeous sunny English day! Seeing wasn't great so most of the videos I took were pretty poor. This was the best of the bunch. I exposed it to try and capture the sky colour as it looked through the scope #astrophotography 🔭

submitted 43 days ago • 4 comments

wow look at all of these better alternatives to Adobe that exist ask me about Pixelart programs if interested in that aspect specifically because you definitely don't need PS for that, lol

submitted 46 days ago • 301 comments

Gonna keep saying this: In the 1840s, Southerners insisted that they could kidnap any person they alleged was a slave without any state or federal process. This turned even minimal process into resistance and raised the salience of the issue, which radicalized a bunch of people against slavery.

submitted 47 days ago • 64 comments

Good on @booker.senate.gov.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

A while ago a lovely German man appeared at our church. He came a few times to look around during our Saturday opening hours, before asking if the piano abandoned in the corner worked. I told him it was horrendously out of tune, and the cathedral piano tuner had deemed it not worth sorting out.

submitted 49 days ago • 39 comments

"The first wave of screams is playful, like maybe it was all planned. I don’t know; I was six, and I hadn’t slept in three months. I was hallucinating that my blood was alive and trying to escape out of my feet."

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments