fuckfuckfuck. BV has been incredible in this century. AP -- if not precisely my cup of tea -- has been slogging it out since at least the mid-80s.

Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · 8h ago

“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”

We are SO FAR past the "Slate Pitchy" event horizon now.

Barrista@onbluskysku.bsky.social · 23h ago

This is what happens when you make people keep having takes

I mean, I had D3 tennis scholarship nibbles and would STILL say this about any D1 gal and most if MAYBE not all D2s as well. Tennis is an ESPECIALLY efficient machine for processing small but noticeable differences in skill into shockingly lopsided outcomes--an engine that crushes statistical noise

Micah@rincewind.run · yesterday

I wrote a thread about this in tennis a while ago - that professional men's tennis players could destroy serena means nothing at lower levels, I was a mediocre varsity tennis player and absolutely could not hang with a decent women's college tennis prospect

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

Reckoning - Fables - Pageant Slanted - Crooked - Brighten Real Nighttime - Big Shot - Lolita Surfer Rosa - Doolittle - Bossanova Give Em Enough Rope - London Calling - Sandinista

Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d ago

What's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)

Driving past the fields of Correctionville, Iowa. This must be where they grow the reply guys

It's really not that deep.

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com · 5d ago

Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?

Game Theory -- Lolita Nation Honorable Mentions: Silver Jews -- American Water Pere Ubu -- Dub Housing Eno/Cale -- Wrong Way Up Let's Active -- Cypress The Shins -- Oh Inverted World Jethro Tull -- Thick as a Brick Grifters -- Ain't My Lookout Sinead O'Connor -- The Lion and the Cobra

Stop Calling Me Frank@stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 5d ago

You have a month to write a 33 1/3 book about the album of your choice. Which record are you going to write about? (No previously covered albums allowed; new shit must come to light: see below.) (For all books in the series: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_1/3) (H/t @monostich.bsky.social

Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart > In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (relevant comp cuz: unusual instruments, fin de siecle Eastern Euro vibes, Parts I and II elements)

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

The Andromeda Sprain

Charles Louis Richter@richterscale.bsky.social · 5d ago

Downplay a book or movie: The Count of Ham & Cheese

I have plenty of corrupt plans for FIFA. Let me run it. One idea is letting fans pay $1000 in an app to give the player of their choice a brief electric shock

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

digitaldigging.org

As a "middle class+" urban expat from Iowa family farming myself, I gotta say that this is simply the best beastiary of flavors of "farm folk" that I have ever seen. The oligarchic land concentration isn't QUITE as bad in Iowa as described here, but the trend is still on point like all the rest.

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 6d ago

A very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.

Myself and two friends I was visiting in Denver had just returned from a matinee of the movie SPEED, released one week earlier. We settled in, turned on the TV, and we were right back on the freeways of LA.

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 6d ago

I’ve wondered for over 30 years

This was Iowa State sophomore-->junior summer. I shared a remarkably derelict one-bedroom Quonset hut (leftover returning troop housing) with my friend John; the TOTAL monthly rent was $98, so $49/person. That was the summer of Game Theory (the band) and the Velvet Underground reissues. And then...

Mark Tough@marktough.bsky.social · last wk.

My needle drop on Lifes Rich Pageant 40 years ago this week was a jolt and a revelation. By the five second mark of Begin the Begin, it was clear that one of my favorite bands was grasping for another bigger piece of the sonic universe and reaching it entirely and with authority. A landmark end2end.

My needle drop on Lifes Rich Pageant 40 years ago this week was a jolt and a revelation. By the five second mark of Begin the Begin, it was clear that one of my favorite bands was grasping for another bigger piece of the sonic universe and reaching it entirely and with authority. A landmark end2end.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3y ago

In this house, we believe in: - coyotes - time as an abstract - explain the change - the difference between what you want and what you need, there's the key

Nobody ever explained to me what a passkey is or how they work. Websites just started asking me for passkeys like it's something we talked about.

Winding things down with bourbon, Emily, Cisco, and John — before the latter’s heal turn.

I think that I've finally found it — a true photograph of "the good old days" that everyone is always talking about.

I realized that there's a mildly funny parallel between my minor go-round with Stancil yesterday and my very first interaction with -- let's say -- "comment-based media" way back in (shakedown) 1979. To recap yesterday, I took issue with the strong assertion of something being basically . . .

Flip Failson. Is this anything?

The only thing worse than no engagement is engagement.

I rarely do the daily (verging on weekly in this case) discourse and I am on balance mildly pro-Stancil in general. But I wrote an effing published college statistics workbook. And I've done extensive academic and real-world work in formal cost/benefit analysis. Asserting this is just wrong. ...

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2w ago

I guess what I find alarming about the million-dollar-coin-flip question is not that people get it wrong (that’s expected). It’s that it has a correct answer, which is the same for almost anyone - e.g., an answer a fiduciary would be expected to give - and people who know better won’t admit that.

My much older uncle, a chiropractor elsewhere in rural Iowa, passed away when I was four. I somehow ended up with a full roller of paper left unused on his chair. I drew a New O'Hare Airport, complete with a (very long) large parking lot filled with 22,000 individually drawn diagonal parking spaces.

Bree Lundberg@breelundberg.com · 2w ago

I drew so much as a kid my parents couldn’t buy lots of sketchbooks so they’d just get me packs of printer paper. Sometimes they’d get dot matrix paper and I’d use it to make really long scenes and comics. Limitations can lead to more creativity so just use whatever is available to you!

readers’ Choice (and hell, using the plural possessive at all is optimistic): 1. Standing in the objectively easternmost possible point in the O-Hare terminal complex. 2. Sitting on Ian Anderson’s lap. 3. Coding exactly one Flash project ever, which took about 15 hours and culminated in…

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 2w ago

Okay, my QUESTION OF THE DAY is… What is your weirdest actual accomplishment? Not the biggest necessarily…but the weirdest?

I replaced a toilet seat yesterday. In the aggregate, it took three mail orders for very specific items, two trips to Lowes, a hacksaw, a drill and titanium bit, a socket set, a rubber mallet, other obvious implements, extensive compatibility research, and plenty of secular prayer. But it is done.

It was innocuous and fine. (this is why I am not a poaster)

Kitchen deck container plants totally looksmaxing, but healthily.

So somebody's doing VAR offsides for the Torah or something?

EssonnianDragon@essonniandragon.bsky.social · 3w ago

OH MY FUCK THEY ACTUALLY DID THAT

Tots are great because they are tots. This, of course, is totological.

Movies Silently@moviessilently.bsky.social · 3w ago

I will rate all potato, I am the tater rater Home fries overrated Potatoes O’Brien underrated Potato wedges overrated Curly fries underrated Sweet potato fries overrated Scalloped potatoes underrated