MJ Borrowerman

when I've been waiting all day for Sunday night

There's no way that's a fair matchup

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

Holy shit.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

“The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You're Going to Have to Leave Now, or, 'I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight Them Until They Are Off Our Lands!'"

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

“There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.” - Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

Reading this in Orson Welles' voice

I’m not saying virgins shouldn’t be allowed to take part in public discourse, but come on

I like when Harrison Ford gets paid a big stinky paycheck because you know exactly where that money is going: comical amounts of weed and a small plane or helicopter that he will crash in a golf course

NYT: How Gen Z Killed the Art of the Manifesto

hi thanks i'd rather listen to a pipe organ fed into a wood chipper

evidently it is cannibalism week over on the knowledge network

My first job at Philly Inquirer included managing scores of dried, carved and stuffed frogs in editor Gene Roberts’ office. After I passed probation and joined the Newspaper Guild, Gene’s assistant asked me to touch them up again, but I said, “no ma’am, I’m in the union now; I don’t do frogs”

New Friend (feat. Brian Fiddyment)

YEAH PUNTS

Mom: i dont like all those weed stores on the highway that are all lit up. It makes me uncomfortable Me: comfort is a prison that instills weakness Mom: remember the other day when you asked why youre single?

Spotify entering everyone’s “Kendrick Not Like Us” searches into evidence

if you set your database browser font to Comic Sans it's less serious when you accidentally drop a table. follow for more development tips

Baseball in Bhutan

the zeitgeist

I liked the full quote of this, too: slate.com/culture/2024...

[salt n pepa voice] lets talk about sand-wich-es lets talk about all the breads

Winamp Skin: sony wx 5500mdx

1. Narcissist billionaire buys twitter and immediately begins making changes to turn it into a right wing echo chamber 2. Users leave the site 3. An alternative emerges, where content isn’t filtered on ideological grounds in the same way 4. Every low media literacy centrist:

manifesting a Jens Lekman cover of It Isn’t Easy Being Green

gonna start saying this instead of yes in conversations

🎶 if you're lost you can look and you will find me

Don’t have a dog to record and post, but this is blessing my timeline so here you go