we must recover the old wisdom

"Wake up, babe! New Cage chord just dropped!" Always happy for a chance to share this from @themountaingoats.bsky.social -- one of my favorite pieces of music writing ever.

There are Other Forces at Work, by John Darnielle

John Cage comes to Halberstadt

harpers.org

angela hudson jones@angelahudsonjones.bsky.social · 6h ago

www.classicfm.com/composers/ca...

New "white genocide in South Africa" just dropped

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 12h ago

Literally indistinguishable from The Onion.

They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 22h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

My library has an annual event where it gives away little painting kits and has an art show with the paintings made from the kits. Three years ago I painted a Tremors.

Buscema

ELRIC, THE ETERNAL CHAMPION - 2026

If you have ever wanted to play an RPG where you don't go on no adventures (bothersome things, make you late for dinner) but instead just tend your halfling hole's garden all summer, have I got the game the game for you: Under Hill, By Water riseupcomus.itch.io/under-hill-b...

Under Hill, By Water by riseupcomus

A TTRPG about halflings who don't want no adventures, thank you

riseupcomus.itch.io

eBay is a great place to find well priced chinese made Blu-rays of streaming exclusive shows and movies

Mitchell Beaupre@mitchellbeaupre.bsky.social · 20h ago

Went to go rewatch The Vast of Night, only to discover that they took it off Amazon Prime… the service that released it exclusively. So now it’s literally just not available anywhere. Good times.

Might need to run this back this weekend.

Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 11mo ago

Canned fish spread & some beers for the weekend

When Sansom was open to outside dining there was massive support from people & nearby restaurants to keep it that way. When the Inquirer reported on the city bringing cars back only one near business voiced support for cars. That business just left for the suburbs: www.inquirer.com/business/sma...

Philadelphia shoe retailer Sherman Brothers is moving to the Main Line after 73 years in Center City

The family business opened on Mole Street in 1953, becoming a destination for Philadelphia men in search of loafers, boots, and other high-end shoes.

inquirer.com

Do any of y'all run your own home servers? Looking for something to do with some extra raspberry pis I've got laying around

With Spider-Man: Brand New Day breaking box-office records, we weave a not-so-tangled web: the Letterboxd community’s ranking of every solo big-screen adventure for the friendly neighborhood wall-crawler, from best to worst. https://boxd.it/3i6

I don't have a funny quip, this is horrifying

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · yesterday

christ almighty www.politico.com/live-updates...

"This presents a problem for the right: If your winning issue is trans women in sports, and you're struggling to uncover trans women in any league that anybody has ever heard of, then how do you keep trans athletes at the top of people's minds? Answer: You invent them." defector.com/the-right-ha...

The Right Has Created Its Perfect Trans Athlete | Defector

A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women. In the aftermath of Indiana Fever role player Sophie Cunningham’s negative comments about trans people playing sports in an ESPN p...

defector.com

Despite the disturbing evidence found in the Olney home, the investigation is clouded by the unusual lives and predilections of Eugene Horsch and his late father, Raymond.

A fugitive pornographer, his troubled son, and missing women: 5 takeaways

inquirer.com

Is there anybody who can explain how the philly free pre k program works

Fascinating piece. Stop-motion animation blending fantasy with real actors.

Animation Obsessive@ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...

Happy 22nd Anniversary (a few days late) to JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED. I wrote seven episodes of JLU and it remains one of my favorite TV gigs.

BAD LIEUTENANT: TOKYO Teaser Trailer Reveals Takashi Miike’s Seething Take On Abel Ferrera’s Dirty Cop IP Premiering for TIFF next month in Toronto!

BAD LIEUTENANT: TOKYO Teaser Trailer Reveals Takashi Miike’s Seething Take On Abel Ferrera’s Dirty Cop IP

Premiering for TIFF next month in Toronto!

filmcombatsyndicate.com

D&D Boy Shocks Lesbian Mecha Polycule by Ordering in Perfect Lancer

BBC Radio 6 Music Steve Lamacq's Teatime Session Now Playing Wasuremono No More Dancing

We need to send everyone involved with this to jail for a long long time

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

The end result of decades of hollowing out mechanisms for popular control of warmaking is on display in Trump’s market manipulations over Iran.

The Markets Matter For War—You Don't

Not only has Iran controlled the escalatory ladder, it's exposed another symptom of American decline

forever-wars.com

remember to always say OH BIG STRETCH

Exelon thinks that almost half of the projected data center load growth in its territory* will never be built www.utilitydive.com/news/exelon-... * incl Chicago, Philly, Baltimore, DC

Exelon ‘high probability’ data center load falls 40%

The drop to 11 GW reflects Exelon’s ability to weed out speculative projects through “transmission service agreements,” said CFO Jeanne Jones.

utilitydive.com

A video taken Saturday shows former NYC Mayor Eric Adams in sales pitch mode in Wisconsin Rapids, as he's heckled by residents opposed to the data center he's trying to sell them on. "My name is Eric Adams," he begins, as the boos begin to rain down. "You belong in prison!" one attendee shouts.

Eric Adams Is Selling Data Centers in Wisconsin Now

The former mayor had a wild weekend, and other links to start your day.

hellgatenyc.com

they are attempting to end women’s sports by making being sexually assaulted a requirement for entry

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play