Disco Tex Avery

Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married

@alshipley.bsky.social

"It follows a story revolving around a computer employee's fantasy where, as he visits Carey's home and fixes her computer, he enters a fantasy in which the pair perform several activities together, all while Carey shows off her figure in several revealing outfits." #WikipediaSentences

the parent of a trans kid in missouri begged the new york times not to use an audio clip in The Protocol podcast of a verbal confrontation with professional transphobe Jamie Reed out of fear of safety for her kid and NYT management refused her request.

Patrick Healy Joins the Newsroom Masthead | The New York Times Company

Patrick Healey, the guy behind the NYT's "but her emails" coverage and the Opinion section's inane, right-leaning citizen panels is now a "masthead editor" in charge of "standards and trust" for the NYT newsroom. This is not good. This does not build trust. www.nytco.com/press/patric...

i knew there was a reason i was loving this movie so much

it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.

Demand an affidavit ballot and submit it. Your vote will count.

"The Hagley Digital Archives is currently offline due to a sustained bot attack" begins a message from the archive, explaining that AI is using bots to train machine learning learning models.

Just went looking for something at the excellent Hagley Digital Archives, and was greeted by the message below.

They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models."

The web is being murdered. So aggravating.

digital.hagley.org

Parchment manuscripts, written with Latin characters in ancient Aramaic, spoken by Jews in the time of Christ, found in Pompeii, have been translated. They contain slighting references to early Christians. It is hard for prosperous Christians of 1927 to realize that ancient prosperity looked upon early Christians as we look upon the Russian bolsheviki.

going through the newspaper archives again today

still blows my mind how quickly this got normalized, because it not only reveals that these people don't want to do the work to write their own policies, even on the staff level... but that they don't bother to read the pablum they spew up, either

and by "star of" i mean "guy who pushes dave pirner around in a convertible"

directed by zack snyder

YouTube video by SoulAsylumVEVO Soul Asylum - Black Gold (Official HD Video)

DID YOU KNOW george wendt was the star of the music video for soul asylum's "black gold" www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpiF...

The Secrets of Physique Magazines The mid-century publications didn’t need to announce themselves as gay, even if they had been able to. Their readers understood the necessity of balancing discretion and seduction.

Vince Aletti on physique magazines! I've been waiting for this piece for YEARS. www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

Going through the 81/82 issues of Your Computer is a real reminder that selling stuff that just did not actually exist was standard operating practise in tech from the beginning

what a chart! from a time when disco was "dying"

We aired “My Neighbor Totoro” that night.

Charles Barkley shoved a giant industrial-sized can of chili onto my chest as I was hiding from the camera, working Long Haul.

If even half of what’s been reported about the 9-hour documentary is true, there’s no way the estate was ever gonna let it surface.

Get ready for the driest 90-minute puff piece you’ve ever seen.

Every single arrest in the US is a notification to ICE, thanks to a program implemented by President Obama. “Secure communities” transfers all arrestee fingerprints to the FBI, which automatically shares them with ICE.

For 20 years these people have been promising more relevant advertising based on our data, and all you need do to predict how well this latest promise will work is look at the ads you’re actually getting, assuming you didn’t block the fucking things years ago

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i wish i didn't keep having cause to think of the Torment Nexus

Today in 1984 — The right to use a VCR at home was upheld by the Supreme Court.

The “Betamax ruling” ushered in the home video era — and billions of dollars in additional revenue for movie studios.

#Filmsky #PhysicalMedia #VHS

Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge).

You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*

Reading the House GOP's ghoulish reconciliation ideas. They include cutting food stamp funding by 10%, limiting SNAP benefits for large families, taxing nonprofit hospitals and ending the deduction for student loan interest. They won't all pass but it's still ugly!
punchbowl.news/reconciliati...

#LetsDoIt25 10. "Gymnopédie No. 1" (1888, orch. 1897, rec. 1937)
This may get DQed as "not pop"—and the fact that pre-1954 i can only find recordings of the Debussy arrangement, not any solo piano, is sort of confounding in that regard—but what if it does count?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jza-...

did he ever play Stella Mayhew "I'm Looking for Something to Eat"?

#LetsDoIt25 9. Ukulele Bailey "Cheatin' on Me"
If i have to hear ukulele i want it to be this bitter. "Someday you're gonna be sorry"!
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YouTube video by Bob Andy - Topic He's a Cousin of Mine

Bob & Marcia's version, 65(!) years later:
youtu.be/oArd_d6-V-k