Bill Tipper

That phone call to Louisa. I had to look away from the screen.

I was once running in Ft Greene and a squirrel made an ill-timed leap from a stoop to a tree and got tangled in my legs as I was running by. 1 eternal-seeming horrible second of SCRABBLING until it sort of flew out the far side.

If you’re near downtown Manhattan on Wednesday, this is a not-to-miss triple bill. LIAB are still providing weirdness & rock joy in equal measure. Jessie’s voice soars along with the emotions of her songwriting. Charlie’s latest material is shoegazey, hypnotic, transporting. Incredible value!!

Piloting a new ennui button feature for posts that merely exist

This an extremely powerful timeline cleanse. Good work all around

YouTube video by TheCrampsVEVO The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck (Official Audio)

Thanks to @jasondiamond.bsky.social ‘s newsletter I think I’ll spend today listening to the Cramps
youtu.be/RVhdHAqoE_c?...

Excited about the next phase of the CDU (Charles Dickens Universe)

SON OF DOMBEY & SON
DEATH NELL: KURIOSITY KILLS
DIMEBAS QUARTERLY
HARD TIMES 2: 2X HARDER
TEAM TINY: TIM VS JO
HEEP

Worried I don’t have enough matching wool ensembles for the coming season.

at my patient’s deathbed, his family around him in tears: “You’ve read your last free article”

Block-talking?

These systems are going to get people hurt.

"Baltimore county high schools last year began using a gun detection system using school cameras and AI to detect potential weapons. If it spots something it believes to be suspicious, it sends an alert to the school and law enforcement officials."

The thing is you basically can just write any kind of song you’d ordinarily write and throw in a lyric like “it’s like a dream/ she’s such a scream” and you’re on your way!

Idea: What if communities all over the country could enjoy the equivalent of the pro-stadium boondoggles that burden the taxpayers of large cities? But—here’s the innovative bit—offering environmental AND economic damage?

Letter of recommendation: Listening to a bunch of Shudder to Think songs.

Both “Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret” and the “Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing” EP were enormous for me as a young teen and offered a glimpse of a very different world than my southern American one, wonderfully theatrical, funny, and sad. As a straight kid I didn’t get much of the gay context, but I loved them.

That’s peak moment for me

Subway scrums becoming a real safety issue for teens.

Hi just so I'm clear.

I wrote "donate to food banks" and do "food runs for mutual aid" because they are different things!

Food banks want your money! they can do more with your money than with stuff.

Mutual aid groups often want stuff! Mine has a food fridge!

That includes any race-based scholarships and programs, including any promotion of external scholarships that consider race, and DEI trainings and workshops. Institutions were also told they should no longer prioritize “underrepresented groups” for admissions or hiring, and they must prohibit transgender students from playing on sports teams and using facilities designated for women and girls.

The University of Virginia has capitulated to Trump on transgender and race (affirmative action) issues.

The details are currently sparse, but reporting suggests they've agreed to define trans people out of existence and ban trans students from facilities.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

An audience view of rock guitarist performing onstage, just as a lot of very bright lights go off and make everything streaky

Watching Steve Hackett perform last night there was the special feeling that comes from being in a room filled with people who have two things in common: we all could sing along with “The Carpet Crawlers” and we all, one presumes, have regular appointments at the dermatologist.

Ay me! I see the ruin of my house

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Immigration is good and we need to say so. It is in our best interest when people want to come to this country to make a better life for themselves. My family story is the shtelt to the American dream in three generations. Other people should have this opportunity, too.

WHO warns of widespread resistance to common antibiotics worldwide One in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections causing common infections in people worldwide in 2023 were resistant to antibiotic treatments, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) r...

The new WHO global report on antimicrobial resistance is grim
1 in 6 bacterial infections worldwide is now resistant to antibiotics.
That’s 16% of common bacterial infections that no longer respond to standard treatments.
www.who.int/news/item/13...

Hearing the above to the tune of RuPaul’s “Supermodel”

Hoping the AI bubble collapses soon so we can get a bunch of new Spirit Halloweens in these data centers

An advertisement from ProFlowers showing a woman w flowers and text “send flowers on Boss’s day (Oct. 16) to show your gratitude.

It’s once again almost … (checks notes) …Boss’s Day? For all who, um, Smithersbrate?!

Tennessee man arrested, gets $2 million bond for posting Facebook meme Larry Bushart posted a meme on a local Facebook page about Charlie Kirk. He now faces years in prison.

Everything about this is bonkers. The arrest, the charge, the possible sentence, the **$2 million bail.**

reason.com/2025/10/10/t...

*wipes brow in relief with large, polka- dot handkerchief*

Ok but what if I fill the silence with “huh?…huh?” in a Fozzie Bear voice while looking around and waggling my ears