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I still need this

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

submitted 13 days ago • 425 comments

Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

submitted 12 days ago • 80 comments

My brother, who passed away earlier this month, used to have this image on a T-shirt, and as a kid I was amazed by it

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Just call her Susie Shade

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Looking back I can see how I was influenced by films like Cabaret, Bride of Frankenstein, Seven Samurai, The Town That Dreaded Sundown, and Harold and Maude. Add to that Monty Python and the writings of Hunter S Thompson and you have a recipe for me

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

The story of "Dr" Brinkley is fascinating to me. A side effect of his advertising blitzes was to spread the popularity of the Carter Family, who he regularly showcased. Brinkley's radio station took their music out of Appalachia and made it a national sound.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

I've assembled a team of the most horrible perverts and criminals you've ever seen and we're going to fix this country

submitted 33 days ago • 632 comments

Water damaged copy of “Alice's Adventures In Wonderland” which grew fungi.⁠ ⁠ (Photo by Igor Siwanowicz) this looks like it was made for @vorpalteeth.bsky.social

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. CARL SAGAN

submitted 36 days ago • 37 comments

I always like having this pop up on my playlist, because it reminds me of the time @grimmreality.bsky.social introduced it thus: "Here's a song about incest and murder. And if you didn't want songs about incest and murder, you came to see the wrong band."

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submitted 38 days ago • 737 comments

To whomever needs to hear this: your art matters. Please don't stop creating. This world needs more of it. 💙- your Bluesky mom

submitted 39 days ago • 14 comments

A timely cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social

submitted 41 days ago • 17 comments

I met Garth Hudson once. He was playing with Jon Wayne in the little Gypsy Tearoom. Had no idea it was him, even after chatting briefly. Once I found out who I'd been speaking with, I was relieved I hadn't known, otherwise I would've fanboyed out a bit. Farewell sir you shall be missed

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

"God loves you, but not enough to save you" - Ethel Cain

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.

submitted 43 days ago • 251 comments

This is fantastic

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

If you loved that book about The Gods Are Among Us And They're Mostly (Especially Odin) Kind of Assholes, but you're feeling some kind of way about it now that the author has been revealed to be an asshole, I have good news: that is a REALLY COMMON THEME. A 🧵

submitted 49 days ago • 24 comments

Saverland v. Newton (1837) is a British court case in which a man who attempted to kiss a woman without consent had half his nose bitten off. The judge ruled that "when a man kisses a woman against her will, she is fully entitled to bite his nose off, if she so pleases."

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

Attn people who run in dark clothes at night, I don't have THAT much car insurance.

submitted 54 days ago • 13 comments

Hell hath no fury like a wealthy white person that’s slightly inconvenienced

submitted 56 days ago • 4 comments

please stop suggesting I solve my problem by changing my behavior. I do not want to do that

submitted 58 days ago • 212 comments

Page from the 1984 DUNE coloring book, or Ethel Cain fan art? You decide

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Say it with us—a library loan is not a lost sale! 📚

submitted 67 days ago • 12 comments