Apparently they never had anyone in mind when they wrote this song, but it just feels so dang relevant right now, and has for months and months! youtu.be/kSQ8tZ35t4U?...

When Will You Die? - They Might Be Giants (Official Video)

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My fellow queers, especially in Berlin, do not read the comments below any media reports about yesterday’s CSD car attack. No good is done thereby, only harm. 💔

Walked past a church whose bells were tolling 6pm, and there was a priest standing in the open doorway, scanning the nearby intersection and looking for all the like the host of a struggling open mic. The next thing out of his mouth would be “I guess that’s it then. Let’s get started!”

- Berlin (here): “daft” performance projects welcome (even at foreigners’ office) - Copenhagen: I appreciate their commitment to bikes - Helsinki: beautiful, clean, and not understanding the language makes it an adventure. - Montreal: poutine and parks - Barcelona: the seafood and sidewalk tapas

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · last mo.

QUESTION: What are your FIVE favourite cities anywhere in the world? Bonus points for persuasive explanations why your choices are “right.” Mine (in no order) are: Paris Barcelona New York Montreal Vancouver

The casual family zoom call had slid off into discussion about corruption and cost of fuel and the US administration, when my liberal Mormon brother popped out with, “They need to do one thing: Nuremberg trials. They won’t, but they need to.” I swear it felt like the matrix was glitching.

Tonight’s dinner experiment: kimchi tuna melt, with garlic mayo to fry on, Swiss cheese, homemade dill pickles, with extra homemade kimchi. The vegan tuna mix got treated w mayo, kimchi, green onions, celery, sesame oil, and a glug of kimchi juice. Holy Mary, mother of God, this shit is the shit.

This recipe says “cool completely“ after both baking and glazing. That will add at least an hour. Cook time should mean until the dish is ready to be eaten. I just wanna eat the damn blondies!

There was a chant at the end of the dems abroad protest here in Berlin “show me what ____ looks like, this is what ____ looks like”, you know the one. And the leader shouted out “show me what a patriot looks like” and I just blew my whistle because I don’t think I can say those words. I ain’t that.

late to the party, but it is really sinking into me that climate change is yet another global public health crisis that our governments are going to completely whiff because capitalism.

i’m hoping that someone gets inspired and pulls some @ledbydonkeys.org tactics at the Kennedy Center tarps, this is a golden opportunity in the history of projecting biting political commentary onto vast expanses of privilege.

Late to the party, but holy HELL, I loved Project Hail Mary! It’s one of the best sci-fi movies I’ve seen in a long time, with just the right vibe for me: problem-solving, real character- and relationship building, layers of optimism. And visually it’s so beautiful! Amaze, amaze, amaze!

It’s a big public celebration this weekend in Finland, everyone gets to wear their graduation hats and drink hard. And I, a performer who has to be out in crowds for my job, am a little afraid of going out on the streets. I still occasionally surprise myself with my own boundaries!

BE NOT AFRAID OF THIS SHITTY BERLIN WEATHER. #berlin #biblicallyaccurate

Today at the airport I was feeling miserable—had to check my carry-on and I couldn’t remember where I put my admin notebook, so I was low-key panicking. I decided to combat the mood by complimenting people on their outfits, and oh man, I forgot how satisfying that is! People‘s faces just light up.

I think the last time I was at a really big protest was 35 years ago and we had to dodge half-full beer cans thrown from passing trucks. It was an anti-war protest in Eugene, Oregon. Crap, that was a long time ago. This stuff needs to stop.

Homemade vegetarian Chicago deep-dish pizza. From scratch: sauce, buttery crust, Italian seasoned mince, and all. One of my top three high-investment-higher-return meals (chik’n pot pie and tan tan ramen are the other two). I love cooking when I’m not on tour. #PizzaIsPizza #foodsky

The collective sentiment in Berlin right now.

1 1/2 days between tours, and thankfully one of those days is grocery day. At the store with UK Muse, I saw as usual a big box underneath the place where the kohlrabi, filling up with the green leaves that no one wants to take.

This place is admirably stepping up to the spot that Twitter used to fill in my social media use patterns. After major events, it is so full of reportage almost immediately that I don’t have to dig very far to find out what happened while I was doing a show. Furthermore, ICE must be destroyed.

Seeing a gentle uptick of masks out in the wild, in Berlin and traveling in Europe, and at the slams. Not as many as should be, but I love to see it when it’s there.

Biblically accurate holiday star lights.

Good, keep it up. There is no basic duty, nor any such thing as a public artist. I’ll choose my venues according to the values I strive toward, which sure as shit aren’t held by that vile regime.

Skye@simplyskye.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Artist boycott of The Kennedy Center continues to grow “Any artist cancelling their show at the Trump Kennedy Center over political differences isn’t courageous or principled-they are selfish, intolerant, & have failed to meet the basic duty of a public artist: to perform for all ppl” — Roma Daravi

Staying up all night at Riga Airport so I can catch an early bus back to Vilnius because the flight was diverted because smuggling balloons with cigarettes coming from Belorus triggered closure of the Vilnius airport airspace, Ask Me Anything except wtf decade am I in.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Louisa@louisathelast.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

‘Tis the season to wash dishes to warm my hands until the landlord fixes the dang central heating.

a man with ice on his face is standing in a snowy field

Alt: a man with ice on his face is standing in a snowy field. It’s Jack Nicholson from that horror movie I’ve never watched.

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Now that I am safely and on time at the airport, I can let myself feel the shakes of having missed my first wake-up alarm and getting up and out the door in 12 minutes. Onward to Vienna!

Today was my last deep-dive day of cooking for the next couple of months at least. Came out the other side with enough leftovers and cookies that I don’t have to buy terrible train station sandwiches for my trip to CPH tomorrow. Success! (PS smut slam there on Tues, tell your people!)

Can we please wait to “get behind” potential dem presidential candidates until after we see which of them can get to the end of this year without throwing anyone overboard?

I’m a registered dem, and have done phone banking for Democrats Abroad in the past 6 years, but I don’t think in good conscience I can do that anymore. Considering starting the DDA: Disillusioned Democrats Abroad. Maybe we body-double for an email-writing party. I don’t know. Open to suggestions!

Between soup for my family and a nice footlong, the means of resistance has never been so tasty.