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I teach music technology at an expensive private university in a northeastern American city.
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Donald Trump literally takes a shit on camera, NYT headline reads “Trump administration finding its stride in unconventional communication approaches”

My daughter really likes those Silo series books, so I read them over the last couple weeks and I’ve gotta say the most implausible part is the idea that the US government could accomplish any infrastructure project on that scale.

Drew JD Vance in the style of Botero and it was just a photorealistic portrait

Classroom full of 19- to 23-year olds changing “woke as fuck!” over and over again, brings tears to my eyes. I think we’re (eventually) gonna be okay.

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.

Bring a little medieval peasantry into your life; make your next meal some ale and a heel of bread.

The unbearable clout-chasing of NYC new music artists is beyond cringe.

My stepsister mailed me a bottle of Malort with no comment. Am I being challenged to a duel.

Just got booted from a faculty zoom meeting for suggesting we automatically toss resumes from any applicants married to their former students. Pretty sure I’m still right but thank fuck I have tenure.

Idk but if you think that it’s funny for huge swaths of humanity to live in neverending existential dread you and are gonna have a problem “just not talking about politics”

BBC Sports headline; “Managers says players big ol pussies” Manager quoted in article; “societal changes are inevitable and we can’t speak the same way we did a generation ago.” Comment section; “I hate Europe because they sound more like South Americans sometimes”

Lol forgot JD Vance exists

My cat predates both of my children and my marriage and even though I’ve fed him twice daily for twenty two years the blind geriatric little fucker chooses to sit on my son’s lap.

Chris Cooper in October Sky, threatening to beat a man to death for hurting his kid and later listening to his wife, relenting and owning up to his mistakes, is the masculinity we need in 2025

I did 40 pushups today (tbh maybe about 30 good ones) so I think I’m ready to challenge Pete Hegseth to a fight to the death and I’m pretty up on my odds

Why do toddler toys not come with volume knobs

Welcome to Upstate NY where everyone has their brights on at night all the time no matter what

Our Nuremberg trials are gonna be so cringe

Grateful for this website to at least see that there’s a healthy contingent of folks angry about things getting demonstrably worse for everyone. NYT still be “hm this is very irregular”

I suppose that’s good to know

Remember, in addition to all the corruption Eric Adams is also profoundly stupid. It’s entirely possible he actually does not know what the word “resign” means.

My daughter just told me that “when (she is) king, all old men in blue suits will be flogged.” I think she’s onto something.

Assigning freshmen Refused songs as transcription projects

Something heartwarming about smaller AFM locals is you have community members, amateur musicians, etc. that will join and pay dues, contribute to the pension and so on just because they want to support the union. You don’t see as much of that in, say, 802 and I think that’s kind of a bummer.

Elon Musk is like if Sauron told the Dunedain “lol my whole thing is I wanna turn you against the Ainur to destroy you” and they were like “he’s so smart, suck it Eldar”

Just like how I don’t think not having kids will fix the energy crisis, I don’t think leaving a faltering country will fix that country. Especially when that country has the means (and increasingly, it seems, the will) to destroy all other countries.

Mitch McConnell is evidence that the only thing that can motivate politicians to act positively is immediate fear of mortality.

The difference between tech bros and the possessors of literally any other branch of esoterica is that tech bros don’t know that when they talk about their shit it sounds to everyone else like an interminable, stupid dream.

Well, glad I’ve had a half dozen chances to play at the Kennedy Center in the last decade or so. Doesn’t look like that’s happening again anytime soon.