Emily Pothast
@emilypothast.bsky.social
doctor of apocalypse, now with barbiton lyre emilypothast.com
Imagine if people got anywhere near as outraged when climate change threatens priceless artifacts as they do when climate activists throw soup at them
Reuters@reuters.com · 4d agoSpain removes remains of 11th century kings from monastery as wildfire rages reut.rs/4zAAN4r
A contemporary psych rock classic and how I became acquainted with @emilypothast.bsky.social
THE CURRENT, by Midday Veil
6 track album
middayveil.bandcamp.com
I'll be playing a few dates on the West Coast this summer in support of my new cassette "Seven Songs for Solo Piano", come see me live!
I guess it was a given that Odyssey translator Emily Wilson would have an interesting take, but you may not have expected her fluency in L.A.ish.
EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 4w agoThere is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.
Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
My new obsession: Anthropeum.com · Jul 14 2026 🟩🟩🟩🟨🟦🟩🟩🟦🟩🟦 80,683 · top 14% of players today!
Anthropeum
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
anthropeum.com
Just got an email from the institution I recently graduated from warning that they’re about to migrate to Microsoft 365. Glad I got out when I did!
Earlier this year, as I watched how Hacks handled the 50th anniversary of Deborah Vance’s fictional sitcom, I kept thinking about Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, which turned 50 this year, and the unparalleled, unsung genius of its star Louise Lasser. emilypothast.substack.com/p/rememberin...
Remembering Louise Lasser, star of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
As a kid I was endlessly fascinated by the kind of vintage TV shows that aired on Nick at Nite and TV Land: the way they held a warped mirror to an everyday world which was already no longer with us.
emilypothast.substack.com
I've been going deep on Mary, Hartman, Mary Hartman this year and have fantasies of getting to interview Louise Lasser. Unfortunately that will never happen but I am so, so thankful for her incredible work. (I also love you on the show, Claudia! Especially later on where Heather gets unruly.)
Claudia Lamb@claudialamb.bsky.social · last mo.I ram stunned and grieving: Louise Lasser is no longer with us. Raise a glass to the genius who created Mary Hartman and her waxy yellow build-up. "What kind of a madman would shoot two goats and eight chickens? [pause] And the people... the people, of course."
Watching PG&E fix the Oakland power outage in the order of most to least affluent neighborhood.
I had the great hono(u)r of interviewing the brilliant DeForrest Brown, Jr. for the new issue of The Wire.
The Wire Magazine@thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Wire 510 is out now! Featuring Fire-Toolz on the cover, plus DeForrest Brown Jr., Franck Vigroux, Tokyo Rockers, Carlos Giffoni, Labake Sabbath, Phil Coy, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe’s Jukebox, The Wire Tapper 71, and much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/
I'm trying to figure out which section my hometown Hubbard is in, and I think it might actually be at the HUB.
Machu Pikacchu@judet.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhy would anyone pick anything other than B? You've got Door County, Manitowoc, Milwaukee, Sheboygan, Madison, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland. You'd never run out of things to see and do!
David's piano songs have been the soundtrack to my life for the past few years. Now the rest of the world gets to hear them, too! ☁️🌀🤍
David Wesley Golightly@davigoli.bsky.social · 3mo agoPleased to announce my first solo album, Seven Songs for Solo Piano, is now available for pre-order! You can listen here: davidgolightly.bandcamp.com/album/seven-...
I had the pleasure of interviewing EarthBall for the cover feature in the new issue of The Wire!
The Wire Magazine@thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Wire 509 is out now! Featuring EarthBall on the cover, plus DoYeon Kim, Onilu, Jocy de Oliveira, Tomáš Šenkyřík, Eoobe, Aldana Duoraan & Tomáš Niesner, Richard Dawson’s Jukebox, and much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/
After taking a couple months off to finish my dissertation, I'm back on noise duty in this issue.
The Wire Magazine@thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Wire 508 is out now! Featuring Seefeel on the cover, plus Ibrahim Alfa Jnr, Asher Gamedze, Magic Tuber Stringband, Emilie Škrijelj & Tom Malmendier, Guttersnipe's Jukebox, KINACT, Egg Meat, Paul Pinto and much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/
Happy birthday Salome Jens, who happened to star in the two greatest TV shows of all time — Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Wrote entire books about how people who believe fairies live in gardens are idiots only to fall in love with a calculator that calls him smart
Matthew Sheffield@matthew.flux.community · 4mo agoIn totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9
Congress is about to vote on renewing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Originally meant to monitor foreigners overseas, it’s been abused to surveil Americans. This is a chance to finally protect Americans’ privacy. bit.ly/4tASUmW
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
For too long, this law has allowed the government to evade privacy protections and spy on Americans. Reform is overdue.
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Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" this Fall. Please circulate!
Resonance | University of California Press
online.ucpress.edu
Unlimited Editions: Drowned By Locals To accompany his article on Drowned By Locals in The Wire 506, @miloshroch.bsky.social compiles an annotated playlist of tracks from the Jordan based label www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...
Unlimited Editions: Drowned by Locals - The Wire
To accompany his article on Drowned By Locals in The Wire 506, Miloš Hroch compiles an annotated playlist of tracks from the Jordan based label
thewire.co.uk
Who else remembers Catherine O'Hara's greatest role?
(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · 7mo agoPalantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com "In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this." Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
This is the news story that all the other stories fit inside of. www.zig.art/p/my-final-m...
My final message before I'm on an FBI watchlist: Palantir, Epstein, & The New York Times
ICE brings the hybrid warfare and terror we brought to Gaza back home. It's time to learn where it comes from, how it works, who enables it, and how to fight back.
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I can't explain why, but I find it very therapeutic to make these and I will definitely be making more.
I LOVE CAPITALISM (is what I loudly proclaim online in hopes that the authoritarian capitalist regime won't execute me then deepfake me into tacky swimwear)
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 7mo agoHours after an ICE agent killed the mother of three, Elon Musk’s chatbot was undressing her.
I do not think that the president's secret immigration police should be allowed to kill people any more than I believe that the regular police should be allowed to kill people, which is not at all.
