Thishasbeenweird

In the song California girls are the beach boys saying whatever their other qualities we wish all the girls of the world were California girls because California girls are the best? Or are they saying they want all the girls to move to California so that every kind of girl is in California?

feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them

Watching the Raygun documentary on Netflix and gotta be honest, I seriously doubt those other two smug Australian b-girls can dance at all either

An on going bit of mine is to ask my wife if she’d rather be either [insert famous historical figure] or [insert member of bone thugs n harmony] as we are falling asleep.

I am once again listening to my partner’s TED talk about why Bone Thugs N Harmony are criminally under appreciated as an historically important bridge between funk and rap.

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

And gulags in the sky

I know it’s all culture war nonsense but right wingers criticizing the odyssey for having black people or whatever is so odd. It is an AMERICAN adaptation. The actors cannot speak Greek. Nobody has any relationship to any Ancient Greeks or whatever. It is not a Greek movie

Where have you gone Lindsey Graham? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you. Woo Wooo Woo. What’s that you say Kash Patel, Lady G just passed the gates of hell. Ah well. Ah well

It’s kind of funny that every time one of these fascist groups makes an effort to be visible and intimidating, all the other fascist groups immediately call them feds or antifa. It must be so maddening

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office.

Dropkick Murphys playing Body of an American in homage of the late, great Shane MacGowan.

we all make jokes about how woke 1 went too far but woke 1 was extremely, absolutely correct about how much these people were dogwhistling, absolutely correct about the direction they were going in, absolutely correct that how their beliefs were not compatible with a free society

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Portrait of a young black woman holding a nine string banjo, circa, 1865.

Today I’m remembering the very last people in America to be freed from chattel slavery, who were not the Texans who learned of the Emancipation Proclamation on this day in 1865, but thousands of people in Delaware, Kentucky and New Jersey, who were freed by the 13th six months later.

Sharing this poem again because I think the world needs these words now more than ever.

One year ago.

This ICE flight believed to be carrying Afghan, Syrian and Iranian asylum seekers to the Central African Republic is underway. Omni Air International, may you rot in infamy and shame.

It has literally shattered their brains that an intelligent, educated black man could serve as the leader of the free world for eight years. This is the representation you sold your souls and your best interests for.

exactly the right response

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

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If Americana/Folk are your jam (or maybe even if they aren’t) this new record from Willie Watson is one of the best complete LPs I’ve heard in awhile (produced by Gabe Witcher and Kenneth Pattengale). Just an excellent listen. music.apple.com/us/album/wil...

This new Drake bar “i’m like the Elvis of my time/teen girls so fine/want to get mine, but im feeling insecure/sexually immature/pre-ejactulator” is horrible

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

I don't remember right wingers getting upset about the farcical ahistoricity of 300 when that came out

Slightly diminish a book Finite Jest

This flight made yet another stop, to the Republic of Georgia, that I hope was just for fuel but was probably also a deportation. Meaning people would’ve been shackled for 50+ hours. Longest one I’ve recorded this year. (The longest I’ve ever recorded is 82 hours, in December.)

As an extremely woke man, I’m very concerned about what is happening to our woke celebrities

Last night I had a nightmare about not being a good enough basketball player to make it to the NBA, and then I woke up, and to a world where I’m not a good enough basketball player for the NBA, but for some reason I’m ok with it

Vincent van Gogh (1888)

Each day another author will be added to the Victorian period until morale improves. Virginia Woolf is now a Victorian author.

He’s just really buzzed

15 years sober today

The askconservative sub reddit is the biggest safe space on the internet

Try as they might, renewables are gaining momentum. "Last month, fossil fuels generated less electricity than in any March going back at least 25 years, while renewables generated more." e360.yale.edu/digest/us-re...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The blogosphere era was the right amount of internet. Just nerds writing about their own areas of expertise and disparate message boards you’d have to find to post at, and instead of being in your pocket, the internet was in a room you had to go to.