Phyllis

They literally ruin everything they touch

Kurt Vonnegut

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Ask A Music Critic: What Was The First Great Indie Album? Also: What’s another album that needs a ’making of’ biopic?

Hey, it's a new Ask A Music Critic column! A reader inquires, "What is the first great indie album?" A simple question that inspired a complicated answer.
uproxx.com/indie/ask-a-...

you shouldn’t talk to a journalist about how people in need of abortions access them when abortions are outlawed, and this is no different.

shutting the fuck up is free.

life in the tangent universe how our house fire changed my music consumption, and my relationship with 'Donnie Darko'

alright I finally wrote about our house fire. also Donnie Darko, Advance Base, Wednesday, the meaning of home etc

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

why did this make me wheeze out loud

Alexander Clapp · Pig Butchering: Scam Gangs If it were a national economy, cybercrime would be the third largest in the world, behind only the United States and...

‘One of the more bewildering aspects of the South-East Asian scamming compounds – or “internet investment parks”, as they call themselves – is the funhouse mirror they put up to recent American corporate culture.’

@alexclapp.bsky.social on online romance scamming.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“Wonderwall” was released 30 years ago today.

Our review: www.stereogum.com/2327906/the-...

Loved interviewing @ambersparks.bsky.social! And grateful, as always, for @sarahmarloff.bsky.social and @wcp.bsky.social for the opportunity to keep writing about art during the fall of democracy.

like who doesn’t want to see an entire film of Tessa Thompson smoking, drinking and being a total bitch???

Tessa Thompson in Hedda (2025)

🚨put Hedda on your movie to watchlist this week!
another visual stunner from director Nia DaCosta, it’s a super queer and super cunty update to Ibsen’s classic. and Miss Tessa Thompson just burns the entire thing down to the ground with one of the best performances of the year⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

THERE'S A NIA DACOSTA HEDDA GABLER?!

This is not your grandmother's 'Hedda' Tessa Thompson schemes, manipulates and awes in Nia DaCosta's dazzling adaptation of Hedda Gabler.

Tessa Thompson schemes, manipulates and awes in Nia DaCosta's dazzling adaptation of Hedda Gabler.

First dinner hosted in Governor's Residence since firebombing honors over a dozen of Pennsylvanians • Pennsylvania Capital-Star Security updates include a dedicated unit patrolling the grounds, as well as a 10-foot brick wall.

Last night, I was at the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg for a state dinner recognizing the contributions of over a dozen Pennsylvanians to their respective communities. Gov. Josh Shapiro also talked with me about the security updates made there. penncapital-star.com/government-p...

Donald Trump deleted this from the government website.

Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

(smug) actually, every sportsball is happening.

Nothing warms my heart as much as seeing someone doing this. The world is *full* of people doubling down on shit they don’t even believe out of a sense of pride, and seeing someone graciously acknowledge being wrong, in full public view, is quite inspiring.

White House’s East Wing demolished. Oct 21, 2025

Update: what it looks like today. Sharing because Administration doesn’t want the picture shared. Share widely friends!

It's never too late to learn something new.
It's never too late to discover the secret language of trees.
It's never too late to wrap yourself in moss & malice and become the forest horror that timid folk whisper about in the dark.

pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:

Durer’s hare has moved to the forest, for a snack. Yum! By Hans Hoffmann, 1585, at the end of his day.

this shit is so embarrassing. the government used to have guys who like, built bridges. now it’s just a gaggle of bleary-eyed cave children jacking themselves off to porno deepfakes of AOC while posting “based meme edits” of reaper drone strikes on venezuelan children. quit gooning and fix a pothole

📍Los Angeles, California 🔥🔥#Nokings

Penn State Board of Trustees approves new deal for WPSU | Penn State University The Penn State Board of Trustees today unanimously approved the material terms of a proposed transaction to transfer the operating assets of WPSU public radio and television stations to WHYY, a public...

So pleased to see two of my favorite stations #WPSU and @whyy.org join forces to keep public media alive in central PA
(and thanks to Penn State Trustees for reversing course in supporting this venture): www.psu.edu/news/adminis...

Lina Khan on stage at the podium

"We have an economy where a handful of modern-day robber barons wield extraordinary power. They hold enormous control over our paychecks, our bills, our time, and our futures.

...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan

East Liberty. Penn Ave. Caller said he took an edible and is now high af. They would like for someone to help them land back on earth.

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall