EVOL, Sister, and Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth. Dirty, Experimental Jet Set Trash and No Star, and Washing Machine by Sonic Youth are right up there. So is Murray Street, Sonic Nurse, and Rather Ripped by... Sonic Youth. I really like Sonic Youth.

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)

If there's one thing I've learned from working in libraries, it's that the interest of girls/women aged from puberty to basically dead in stories of 19yo 100lb badass heroines having adventures and kinky sexytime with 1000yo fae/vampires/werewolves CANNOT be overstated.

Finally got bit by AI, specifically in regards to my fishing business. Was looking at a competitor's site, which obviously used content "written" by AI. Some of the specific bullet points about things like streamflow and flies to use did not precisely match my terminology, but did precisely match

I feel like if I had been exposed to music like this at a younger age, my overall musical tastes would be very different. This is sublime. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q8n...

Gasoline - A Journey Into Abstract Hip-Hop [Full album]

YouTube video by Quantum Dream

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This is going to end in grey goo world, isn't it? www.yahoo.com/news/science...

OpenAI AI models went rogue during testing, triggering 'unprecedented' breach at startup

WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) - OpenAI said on Tuesday that an autonomous agent powered by its advanced artificial intelligence models went rogue during a security test and triggered a hack that compr...

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Scene: My 6th birthday party. Midsummer in St. Louis. All the heat & humidity that entails. My best friend had a big appetite. Running around playing. The inevitable results of all of the above. My birthday outfit (and birthday in general) ruined. I haven't had a hot dog since.

The Imminence Of A Revelation Which Does Not Occur@nataliereed84.bsky.social · 4w ago

quote post with thy preferred hot dog toppings so that thou may be judged by thy peers

Welp. Platner is the asshole all the other accusations suggested he was, and the USA men's soccer team flopped. At least McConnell is probably a vegetable. There is no hell hot enough or deep enough for him.

I was today years old when I learned Neil Young briefly played in a band fronted by Rick James. I've seen the needle and the damage done, bitch.

I apparently like to preface my snarky anti-right wing posts with "to be clear" or "let's be clear."

Let's be clear. Eric and Don Jr ALSO look like shit.

To be clear, UFC has a very strong homoerotic subcontext that its practictioners are EXTREMELY unlikely to acknowledge, especially if they are MAGA. Mount me and give me some ground & pound, baby.

I would like just one (1) MAGA aficionado to explain why the White House lawn is an appropriate place for a cage fight. I have seen and expect to see zero justifications for this defilement of the nation's house.

I had no idea men played soccer, too! Good for them! Go boy soccer!! ⚽️

BAD NEWS: I HAVE THREE HERNIAS! I NEED SURGERY! GOOD NEWS: IT CAN WAIT UNTIL FALL! MY GUIDING SEASON (IN WHICH I MAKE 80% OF MY INCOME) ISN'T WRECKED!

I certainly hope Stephen Baxter got a check from Apple TV, because that ending of Season 5 of For All Mankind is taken whole cloth from his novel Titan.

Remember the Butlerian Jihad. "No machine shall be made in the likeness of the human mind."

I don't post my wife enough. Here's Jani!

A couple years ago I was working on a story that got an extraordinarily positive response in workshops and "first page idol" panels. One editor: "Is this a novel? If so, is it done? If so, I want to see it." It wasn't a novel. It was a novella, and for some reason I stopped working on it.

I have serious doubts that the story draft I finished last night at 9159 words can be cut to 7500, especially since in my notes I mention possibly needing to add a brief scene along with all the cuts, so I'm calling it: I drafted my first novelette!

From the Concellation 2026 Facebook Group:

Here's some Jandek for your listening... pleasure? Interest, anyway. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua7T...

Jandek--Down In A Mirror

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This is pretty dang close to my favorite song these days. Rock and roll (not "rock") is the best, and bangin' rock and roll played and sung by a fifteen-year-old girl who I didn't know existed until a year or two is even better. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGMh...

Bang Bang

YouTube video by Janis Martin - Topic

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My writer brain may have been broken yesterday. I wrote the following sentence: "Dirty is water on for a day or two after the warmest days."

I just had the epiphany that many (and I mean many) of my stories are inspired in part by the 2005 Disney film Sky High. My stories involve magicians with seemingly-useless powers. The film involves superhero teens with seemingly-useless powers. (It is a delightful teen/family movie.)

I wonder how a candidate for high office would do campaigning under a "fuck gerrymandering" platform. I understand why it was necessary in VA (namely because Trump's buds in TX et al did it first), but Congressional districts should be set in a non-partisan fashion nationwide.

Echoing! No AI people are allowed to read my work.

Cottage in the Woods@cottageinwood.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If you are pro-Ai, then PLEASE block me as well. Yes, I am a luddite. I just bought a book on ye olde craft skills, for gawds sakes. Go on, race off into the glittering future of tech scams and fake shit. Leave me behind. Let me rot in the past. I want to die here, covered in art.

What happens with the 80s-style teenage hero couple when they break up horribly, the chosen one boy hero implodes and then eventually gets his shit together in a small way, and the girl becomes a high-level wizard with a family... ...and they have to fight an old evil together as 30-somethings?

If this isn't a "pets.com" moment, I'll eat my hat. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/a...

Struggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes more than 700%

Allbirds announced a deal with American Exchange Group to sell its intellectual property and other assets for $39 million in March.

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Winnie! Her Gotcha Day is April 20, and she was about a year old when we got her in 2019.

Dan Chibnall@bookowl.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865) Doritos Locos Tacos (2012-present)

#Norwescon pro tip: leave NOTHING in your car. Not even your dirty laundry. Thanks to @tkingfisher.com for being gracious when I was a bit rude while pushing our luggage cart (with the non-dirty laundry, etc.) back to our room while we dealt with the inevitable consequences of not doing the above.