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I help create audible human music in the human music band Cloud District. also i am the band Big Pleasant. i work at the library. The Catskills, NY.
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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

trans women will be raped to death. they know this will happen. this is a crucial part of the steps to our genocide.

many people dont know this but snowboard kids on the nintendo 64 is the greatest video game ever made

must be nice

Every union should be echoing this statement.

trying to imagine how loud the calls for my firing would be if i didn’t know who FDR was

how do people in punk / more aggressive bands record vocals in their apartments if they have neighbors?? I’m writing fairly light indie rock and i feel like i need a cabin

Newsletter: Generative AI is a marketing con perpetuated by Sam Altman and Dario Amodei through a mixture of lies and half-truths carried by a tech media that fails to ask the right questions. Outside of ChatGPT, generative AI companies barely get any traffic at all. www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/

when i stepped in front of the urinal today the guy in the one next to me immediately turned his face inches from mine and asked “how are you doing?” its so important to combat the male loneliness epidemic anywhere and everywhere

Thousands lose their jobs doing aid work because a zooted out south african billionaire said they were woke terrorists: *silence* 😗 25 year old groyper loses job dismantling federal government because he is an open racist: more grace, less hate ❤️

NEW: ProPublica has identified three lawyers with elite establishment credentials who’ve joined the DOGE effort. Two of their names haven’t been previously reported as working for the Elon Musk-led initiative. Here’s what we know about them:

New: @propublica.org is tracking who's in Musk's DOGE crew. 20+ names so far including some that haven't yet been reported.

CNN with an absolutely gigantic story: "Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using the department’s own ultra-sensitive payment processing system." edition.cnn.com/2025/02/06/p...

It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data

Trump administration: ripping out all of the copper wiring and pulling up the seating from the Senate Chamber Elected democrats: um… you’re actually not technically allowed to do that… maybe you should read something called… the constitution 😎

everyone has their cross to bear and i’m getting worried mine is following a GERD-friendly diet

making an album that’s currently at about 14 songs and I have now cut a solid 9 or 10 songs from it 🫠. Becoming a real ship of theseus situation here at Big Pleasant HQ

insanely bleak week. alarming to think where we will be after four years of this. 🙃

The shrine to David Lynch at Bob's Big Boy is really something...

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

tore the crotch of my jeans bending down to put books in the transit bin. just one of the many startling workplace hazards faced every day by library workers.

me, feverish, coming on four days of a wicked head cold: “i’ll admit big pleasant is a good band”

I feel like in the last few weeks I have seen so many people say stuff like this. I think there is a consumer awakening to how bad things have got. We're at a breaking point. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

this is incredible. Mike Johnson might not have the votes for speaker, and if House Republicans can't find someone else they might not be able to certify Trump's Electoral College victory. lol prospect.org/politics/202...

@mt-anderson.bsky.social absolutely loved nicked when i read it this year and have recommended it many times at the library. merry christmas and goopy some holy bones to you!

why do brake lights all look like cylons now??

EXCLUSIVE: During his years at Guantanamo a Malaysian prisoner did forensic-style sketches showing his torture by the CIA. They are now part of his sealed court record. But we have obtained them exclusively for you to see. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/u...

Man, we are fuckin cooked

saw the strangest political sign this morning. It just said “End Utility Work.”

this story is CRAZY but also really appreciate the way propublica shows readers how it goes about reporting stories

BREAKING: Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have cast decisive votes against Biden's NLRB nominee. This means the Democrats will not secure control of the national labor regulator through 2026. These two Senators effectively handed Trump control of the board when his term begins.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...