Mark Yarm
@markyarm.bsky.social
Exec ed, features & special projects, PCMag ❤️🔥 adjunct, Columbia Journalism School ❤️🔥 bylines: the New Yorker, NYT Mag, Flaming Hydra, etc. ❤️🔥 author, EVERYBODY LOVES OUR TOWN ❤️🔥 markyarm@gmail.com; Signal: markyarm.99 ❤️🔥 https://markyarm.journoportfolio.com
In your article, you mentioned a graphic "Only You Can Prevent Data Centers"- that you thought was made by AI. It wasn't, it was made by me, an artist that is very much against AI. In fact, I turned it into a shirt and raised money for a local arts education nonprofit in Chicago.
I'd much rather have my "I always hated ____" bonafides validated with like "Their new album/movie/book was widely panned," than "They started a VC enterprise that gutted multiple beloved magazines/blogs and took jobs from a ton of good people." This sucks.
Terrible news. Sounds like all these pubs were gutted.
BrooklynVegan, Alt Press Hit With Mass Layoffs
Music publications Revolver and Goldmine have also been gutted by owners Veeps and Live Nation
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for the first time in two and a half years, a new note was played in this organ performance today!
![Organ²/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible) is a musical piece by John Cage.[1]
An organ in St. Burchardi church in Halberstadt in 2001 began a performance that is due to end in 2640. This makes it the longest running non-computerized piece currently being performed.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreiabq354dz537iuzii7lwylq56yyr4bcrzkj32by4z7fq3clewmssy)
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All I could think is, I hope Gracie Abrams checked for ticks after this. (I just read that New Yorker piece.)
georgia@folkbettypoet.bsky.social · yesterdaygracie’s rolling stone photoshoot reminds me of folklore and i knew it i knew you
Susan comes out against Todd Blanche now that he's got the votes. So tiresome. (We called it: tinyurl.com/3bepafkz) #MEpolitics
I've never been tagged by this account before (maybe I haven't made any grammatical errors until now?). Anyway, it's super-annoying.
Over my 20 years of being a fairweather music journo and record store guy, I had pleasant run-ins with both these mugs. There's a part in this article where Ian is talking about how great it was to do a project with his best friend that made me tear up. Hard not to envy a friendship like that.
Mark Yarm@markyarm.bsky.social · yesterdayGood morning! For the @nytimes.com, I interviewed these two, plus Kid Congo Powers and more, for a story on the Cramps. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/a...
Word has it that William Dafoe will be in our office today.
"Neither Rollins nor MacKaye is getting paid for their work. 'It just seemed like, Wow, what a gift! What a gift to be able to A) spend that kind of intimate time with [the Cramps's] music, B) have a project to do with Henry, who’s my best friend,' MacKaye said."
Mark Yarm@markyarm.bsky.social · yesterdayGood morning! For the @nytimes.com, I interviewed these two, plus Kid Congo Powers and more, for a story on the Cramps. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/a...
Good morning! For the @nytimes.com, I interviewed these two, plus Kid Congo Powers and more, for a story on the Cramps. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/a...
I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"
GIRL SNAKE CATCHER. she makes a snug little income by securing reptiles for traveling shows SHE JUST GRABS THEM (The Washington Bee, Washington DC, November 8, 1902)
Imagine a job where you’re a writer but only allowed to cover whatever is on this chart. (@markyarm.bsky.social and I don’t have to.)
assbutt@nasboat.org · 2d agothe Billboard Modern Rock chart from 30 years ago today — August 3, 1996.
this is actually the wife-beatingest reply possible. this is the platonic ideal of how a guy who beat his wife would respond to a question about beating his wife.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."
Many fascinating tidbits, such as: "Paramount Records, the label responsible for much of Rainey’s recorded output, was a subsidiary of the Wisconsin Chair Company. It produced records largely to sell phonographs, with little regard for audio quality, pressing them onto cheap shellac. "
The Tonearm@thetonearm.com · 3d ago"Rainey’s voice was powerful enough that when she hit her loudest notes, the grooves distorted. 'The first time people played these songs on a Victrola with a heavy steel needle,' Benson said, 'it’d skip right past them.'" Ma Rainey Comes Alive on New Release (gift link):
Glad to see this @annierau.bsky.social story I edited getting some love all these years later!
Mark "Napoleon" Milley@newstraveler.bsky.social · 4d agoThey’re married now! Perhaps everyone on Bluesky already knows this; if the reader isn’t, then they get to be one of today’s lucky 10,000. www.inverse.com/input/cultur...
This day in history. 1980. At an Eagles concert in Long Beach Glenn Frey and Dan Felder argued furiously with Frey announcing after each song how many songs remained before he would kick Felder's ass. After the final song Felder smashed a guitar, climbed into a limo, and took a 14 year break.
Pope Leo received singer and songwriter Patti Smith in private audience this morning. The Pope and Smith are both Chicago natives. She was accompanied by @antoniospadaro.bsky.social, undersecretary for the Vatican's Dicastery for Culture and Education.
Vincent Pastore, actor most known for his role as Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero on HBO’s The Sopranos, has died at 80
Vincent Pastore Dies: 'The Sopranos' Star Was 80
Vincent Pastore, known for playing mobsters in film and TV, most notably Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on HBO's The Sopranos, has died. He was 80.
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