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Hot ball in aloe gel :blobfoxlurk2owonotice:

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Billionaire-proof open social media is now mission-critical infrastructure for the future of democracy.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

flying with a toddler is greatly improved by them singing Shama Lama Ding Dong at random times (and not checking any bags or bringing a stroller/car seat)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I have been a huge Nora Brown fan for years. She had a free show scheduled for the Kennedy Center and decided not to cancel and instead did this and couldn't love her any more. 19-year-old young woman with lots to lose going into the belly of the beast […] [Original post on shakedown.social]

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

People REALLY need to stop thinking in terms of elections. The window to start reversing Trump is much shorter. Agnostic in how that affects shutdown. But this should not be abt 2026.

submitted 9 days ago • 44 comments

This gets it. Dems are thinking "how can we manage & diffuse the anger of our voters" rather than, oh, "how can we kick these fascists in the balls?"

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

tried calling Durbin and Duckworth to tell them to vote no on the budget proposal + cloture. can't get through to a human on either, tried 10+ times so far. DC and local numbers. left comments through their websites since I can't even leave a voicemail which feels like pissing into the ocean

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Well that was absolutely sick!! #goose

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

If you’re down by a touchdown in the bottom of the 9th with your goalie pulled and you need music to inspire you to run through a brick wall to defeat the Soviets on steroids—but you want that music balanced by lyrics about doing drugs—then Boys & Girls in America is the album for you.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Been on the lookout for tapes of last weeks' #SML show in Chicago and found one on YouTube! Set 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwkNoW0x9Hg Set 2 (w/ Sam Prekop): https://youtu.be/5GRAPF7f6DA?si=wBhO4iNda-AOxxYZ

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10 years ago today, @AllieG and I started our #AppalachianTrail thru hike on a rainy day at Springer Mountain. Over the next six months we'd walk from Georgia to Maine. Allie has a way with words that I don't, so I'd recommend reading her piece for the Post about it: https://wapo.st/3DrgoGB

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

10 years ago today, @AllieG and I started our #AppalachianTrail thru hike on a rainy day at Springer Mountain. Over the next six months we'd walk from Georgia to Maine. Allie has a way with words that I don't, so I'd recommend reading her piece for the Post about it: https://wapo.st/3DrgoGB

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

A well-funded Moscow-based global "news" network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda. From NewsGuard: "An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin […]

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

today in computer problems only software people have: turns out my work laptop wasn't out of disk space due to docker images, many java/ruby/node versions and packages or ollama models nope - it was the 96GB mediaanalysis folder, even though I don't have photos on this computer. thanks macOS!

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

happy paczki day!

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Hey #KansasCity peeps or just #BBQ nerds: I’ll be in #KC this week. Tomorrow, I have time to stop for BBQ after my flight lands. I’ve already done the following: Joe’s, Jack Stack, Slaps, Buck Tui, and Q39. What should I hit? Anything between the airport and Overland/Leawood works.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

who among us can resist compounding coworker’s unintentional 💀 🌹 references?

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

SML at the Empty Bottle!

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Consider this: Russian state media (TASS) was in the fracking Oval Office to report on the shameful performance by President Trump yesterday. Reuters and the Associated Press were banned. But Russia's main state-sponsored news mouthpiece was fully present. First off: What a giant security […]

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

throwin it out to the universe (and probably inviting scammers to say hello) ~ looking for 2 tickets to #BillyStrings at the #Ryman 🙏🏼 por favor y gracias mucho

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Scrolling through frustrated posts about ticketing this morning. As you blame Ticketmaster and promoters because the powerless bands can’t do anything about ticketing, just remember that Sturgill Simpson is a pimple on the ass of Phish when it comes to live music clout and he did this:

submitted 22 days ago • 6 comments

How much more proof do we need that this administration is completely compromised? There is zero reason for the US to relax any offensive digital actions against Russia. If anything, we should be applying more. Martin Matishak over at The Record writes that the former Fox news host turned […]

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

Trying to buy #Phish United Center 3 day ticket: Lottery? Unfulfilled Presale? Only in the 300s, passed On sale? Only even worse options in the 300s Grabbed one behind the stage for Friday and a 300 for Sunday. Saturday looks packed so skipped for now

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Privatizing essential services doesn’t make them better or more efficient. In virtually every example of this—from water to sanitation to medicine to education to energy—consumers end up getting hurt by privatization. from @Hope4All https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Hope4All/114080588455094451

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

[Severance discussion] I’m still shaking from tonight’s episode of #severance. I’ve worked in television for 20 years, so please believe me when I tell you that executing a show at this high of a level is exceedingly rare. Very few shows ever pull off an episode this good. Even fewer have […]

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Not surprised but still disgusted that the Trump/Musk administration is firing LGBTQ members of the intelligence apparatus under false pretenses https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/02/26/nsa-sex-chats-lgbtq-trans-christopher-rufo/

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

on wednesday, march 5, i'll be interviewing the great guitarist william tyler at public records in #brooklyn, part of a listening event for his ranging new #guitar/zones record, "time indefinite" & really excited to hear it through public records' sound system. […] [Original post on heads.social]

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"We're free speech absolutists, so here's a list of banned words." "I'm committed to personal freedom and free markets, so my newspaper will only publish views exactly aligned to mine." "We are tough-on-crime, except if it's by one of our guys." The mask is well and truly off.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

when the bsky exodus happens, please remember these things: - dont be the fucking mastodon hoa. everyone hates those people. nobody cares if you think someone should be using a platform "your way". it drives people away. fucking stop it. - dont shame them […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

submitted 24 days ago • 14 comments

Just giving everyone a heads up, @clifff is going to ask everyone to post 5 bullets of what you accomplished musically last week. If you don’t do it, then consider yourself semi-fired or maybe semi-fried.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment