I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

This is GREAT

Ben@benbl.bsky.social · 4d ago

The Beat-Club has just casually dropped some live footage of Can - unseen since 1972 👇

brave words the only really great and necessary remix/master I’ve yet heard. turns a disappointing record into what it should have been https://thechillsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/brave-words-expanded-and-remastered

Brave Words (Expanded and Remastered), by The Chills

18 track album

thechillsmusic.bandcamp.com

maggie cheung and tony leung chiu wai in the mood for love

Dawn@502eire.bsky.social · 2w ago

there is a recurring prompt around what’s the best that anyone has ever looked on camera and I never have an answer but I’m watching right now and I think it’s gotta be George Clooney in Ocean’s 11

Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.

Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.

“She has perhaps the most instantly recognizable guitar sound this side of Jimi Hendrix... It’s not so much that she defies conventional form as that she doesn’t bother with it at all." —DownBeat on @maryhalvorson.bsky.social, its Artist, Group, and Guitarist of the Year downbeat.com/news/detail/...

Wow this Marianne Amacher book from Blank Forms is pretty incredible as an archival document / artist book. (“Intelligent Life”)

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

New post at On a Pacific Aisle, with thoughts on Alex Ross, Stéphane Denève, Pride, and more. pacificaisle.substack.com/p/the-loss-o...

The loss of Ross

The greatest music critic of our time hangs up his cleats

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Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS

Morton Feldman Brought the Avant-Garde to the Classical Tradition By George Grella daily.bandcamp.com/lists/morton...

Morton Feldman Brought the Avant-Garde to the Classical Tradition

The composer's quiet, slow, spacious musical aesthetic is remarkable in music history.

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My neighbor told me a cat keeps eating his british prime minister so I asked how many PMs he has and he said he just goes to the commons and gets a new PM afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding PMs to a cat and then his daughter started crying.

Thor Benson@thorbenson.bsky.social · last mo.

"I hear you're sending me a seventh prime minister"

A short series of sound pieces performed in Colchester: each artist takes a 360º spatial audio recording made at locations of 20 paintings by John Constable (recorded by Stuart Bowditch), and creates a live performance in reaction. These are intimate, immersive presentations in situ.

Constable Ambisonic@constableambisonic.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The first event in a series of six featuring newly commissioned performances by the excellent Angela Hui Wai Nok, Louise K Wilson, Kate Carr and Simon Scott. Matthew Shenton and myself kick off the proceedings at Cuckoo Farm, Colchester on 17th May X #afternoongigs #johnconstable

This essay is amazing

Ryan Moulton@moultano.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

Historic cuts to Medicaid and low-cost California health insurance could leave 4.6 million residents with no coverage. A new report from the UC Berkeley Labor Center says the working poor, older workers and undocumented workers could bear the brunt. news.berkeley.edu/2026/06/10/t...

The number of uninsured Californians could nearly double by 2030, says new report - Berkeley News

Historic cuts to Medicaid and low-cost California health insurance could leave 4.6 million residents with no coverage. A new report from the UC Berkeley Labor Center says the working poor, older worke...

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Edward Luce in the Financial Times about Musk:

Truly an unreal moment, as a crowd gathers at 10:30pm on a Friday night outside the Kennedy Center as a crew puts up scaffolding to take down Donald Trump’s name.

Thousands of people are watching this on multiple live feeds; CSPAN has an excellent angle

Trump Name Removal from Kennedy Center

YouTube video by C-SPAN

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Okay, folks: The big El Niño update is now out on Weather West! This sure looks like it's going to be a dramatic year from a global climate perspective, and there are major implications for extreme events (across California, the U.S. West, & well beyond).

Special update: Rising odds of a strong-to-historic El Niño event in 2026, with growing likelihood of significant regional-to-global scale impacts - Weather West

June 11, 2026 - Daniel Swain - A quick refresher: What is El Niño and how can it affect global weather patterns? El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a semi-regular recurring cycle that transfers vast amounts of heat and momentum from the tropical Pacific to the global atmosphere. It is triggered every 3–7 years when the #

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We have *never* before seen consumer sentiment this low.

Outstanding show!

jesse jarnow@bourgwick.bsky.social · 3mo ago

wild polyrhythmic overload & double-drummer extended technique pulse-out at @roulettenyc.bsky.social with goat, from japan. like horse lords or Zs but maybe even more ecstatic & tightly wound. opening was YPY, who i've played on my radio show, but don't think knew was goat guitarist koshiro hino.

Coming to @lincolncenter.bsky.social on June 12: an event that will "likely be the loudest show in the history of Lincoln Center" (their claim): Glenn Branca's Symphony No. 13 "Hallucination City" for 100 electric guitars, conducted by Reg Bloor. Details here: lincolncenter.org/series/summe...

I wrote about the incredibly fucking cool and utterly peerless Mary Margaret O'Hara, whose music seems to have taken up permanent residence in my brain this spring as a balm for unbearably bleak times.

agrestic subconscious soul singer: the off-beat beauty of mary margaret o'hara

The Canadian singer-songwriter made one captivating album, 1988's Miss America, then, as legend goes, vanished. But she's always been there for those who look.

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It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

new Hannah Lew record out today is great hannahlew.bandcamp.com/album/hannah...

Hannah Lew, by Hannah Lew

9 track album

hannahlew.bandcamp.com

okay i change my mind, THIS is one of the best and most beautiful images from artemis ii

Now that I’m breathing again, loving the beautiful, sophisticated solo set Caroline Davis is playing right now at @roulettenyc.bsky.social — streaming live for free. www.youtube.com/live/55XDvn7...

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com