Ryan Nathan

But apparently we've "been waiting four long years for this"(?)

Wait...now I thought Cracker Barrel was already cancelled for offering a meat substitute option 🤷🏻‍♂️

THE FEEDS (RALEIGH ROCK AND ROLL) 7-8 PM GAINSAY (DURHAM INDIE / PUNK) 6-7 PM SUNDAY, AUGUST 17TH 2025 BERKELEY CAFE 428 S DAWSON FREE ENTRY- CASH DONATIONS APPRECIATED!

The band-type thingy that I'm in...we're coming out of an extended hibernation with an early show in downtown Raleigh on Sunday, 8/17

Blood is on the hands of every f-cking coward lawmaker who voted for this.

Photo of Roger Daltrey of The Who

A little too on the nose?

WMD 2: Electric Boogaloo

Wide-angle photo of June 14 No Kings protest in downtown Durham, NC

No kings.

Brian Wilson. Damn. It wasn't exactly unexpected, but this just stings. His music was THE reason why I ever chose to pick up an instrument. Without it I would be in a very different place now--undoubtedly a lesser one. #loveandmercy

I wasn't ready to face today, then I realized that I could have pie for breakfast.

2. On that note: If you are an author/artist/musician/crafter/etc and want to let people know what you're up to, go right ahead in this thread. I'd love for people to find your stuff. Includes links to the stuff!

1. Tomorrow's my birthday and here's a gift you can get for me: Buy a small creator's work. Local band, indie writer, up-and-coming visual artist, that crafter down the street, or whomever. Your support matters to them, especially in this economic/social environment. And you deserve some joy, too.

Your Pope name is: Last thing you ate + number of letters in your first name.

I am Pope Peanuts IV

Photo of Jill Sobule performing on stage

Jill Sobule in San Juan, #JoCoCruise 2019

...or just extreme pat-a-cake

Today had a check-the-lunar-cycle-inducing level of nutso. And it was no better later today.

Today seems to be the day everyone who does not know how to drive or the basic rules of driving is out en masse and putting the rest of us in danger. And I just realized that I've got to venture out again 😖

An organization as insidious as He Gets Us using a cover of Personal Jesus in its commercials is such a spectacular self own.

Ahh, the old Reagan-era "welfare queen" trope lives on. 🙄

Wow...another significant piece of my youth is gone. So sad

Idiocracy was a documentary

I firmly believe that same concept behind the paradox of tolerance applies here.

YouTube video by Howtown I tried to prove I'm not AI

Good piece about how to (and if we can) verify photo and video authenticity in an age of "AI"-generated images and media.

youtu.be/qO0WvudbO04

I totally get it. This is like the Twitter of yore, and I can see the appeal in that. But I just couldn't get into that platform.

Public nudity on my part absolutely does not qualify as a treat for...well, anyone 😜

Apparently the latest COVID booster comes with a bus to hit you.

The pic is some moderate nightmare fuel, but Gulf of Cornholio does have a nice ring to it.

The people who will believe him when he just blames it all on "Sleepy Joe's weak policies"

Is it just me, or is the meta exodus momentum from last month cooling down considerably? Just an observation.

Unfortunately that platform is the only of its kind for makers/creators, plus I think that FB is so deeply ingrained in our heads that we post there almost reflexively.

Weird looking squirrel

8 February 2025 Cancel the Christie's AI Art Auction Nicole Sales Giles & Sebastian Sanchez Christie’s, New York Dear Nicole and Sebastian, We are writing to express serious concern over your upcoming auction of AI art at Christie’s. Many of the artworks you plan to auction were created using AI models that are known to be trained on copyrighted work without a license. These models, and the companies behind them, exploit human artists, using their work without permission or payment to build commercial AI products that compete with them. Your support of these models, and the people who use them, rewards and further incentivizes AI companies’ mass theft of human artists’ work. We ask that, if you have any respect for human artists, you cancel the auction. Yours sincerely, The undersigned artists

🔴CALLING ALL ARTISTS🔴

Christie's NYC is planning an AI art auction expected to bring in over $600,000 to creators who've used models trained on copyrighted material from non-consenting artists.

If you object to this, please sign and share this open letter.

openletter.earth/cancel-the-c...