Lucas Meadows

This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰

They’re just similar in that it’s a singer reminiscing about someone who played an instrument well, then in the chorus there’s a cool instrumental.

Was just listening to “When Papa Played the Dobro” by Flatts & Scruggs, and was thinking about how it reminded me of “Tennessee Flat Top Box.” Then I saw on the record that the dobro song was written by one “J. Cash.”

"From performatively· kneeling in kente cloth whilst supporting anti-Black policies to bravely questioning whether Dems should consider reproduction rights a key issue just a few short years before Roe v Wade was overturned, Nancy Pelosi is the definition of a champion for equality."

Also intrigued by this DIY gourd banjo / banza kit: carverbanjos.com/product/gour...

I only play (beginner) 3-finger style Bluegrass banjo, but am super interested in picking up clawhammer at some point, and this West African / Diasporic African banjo looks fucking awesome.

Picture of a book titled "Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo" by Kristina R. Gaddy and Rhiannon Giddens.

Authors dedicated this book "to the next generation of Black banjoists, fiddlers, guitarists, bassists, vocalists, and musicians."

Even as a white descendant of Appalachian settlers, I'm interested in getting this because Black Old-Time is an integral part of Appalachian musical history.

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Product image of a four-string Kala Brand Music Co. ukulele. The instrument's body is novelty-painted to look like a sliced avocado, with a yellow-green face (the flesh) and a dark green back and sides (the peel). The dark brown sound hole is positioned like the avocado pit.

Wow. This avocado-themed ukelele is certainly a choice! 😂

the most telling sign that someone "loves art" for pseudo-intellectual reasons is when they ONLY like high-brow art

I'm a fuckin art nerd; if its good art, I'm happy. So when a person can't find as much value in a great drag show as they can in ballet, its like ohhh ok you're just an asshole

Zohran Kwame Mamdani‘s campaign shows that progressive economic policies can coexist with fun and what‘s dismissed as identity politics. Bernie Sanders could take some notes.

ok sure. you hate andrew cuomo because he’s an unlikable slimy creepazoid with an adversarial relationship to the people he would govern…..but what if i told you a bunch of other slimy creeps with identical worldviews said to vote for him. does that change your mind

It's almost as if letting the ultra-rich own the entire mainstream press and also all the big social platforms had a downside.

grim reaper claw machine meme

i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

A close-up shot of a vibrant bowl of Thai red curry noodle soup being held by black chopsticks. Thick white rice noodles are lifted above the creamy, reddish-orange broth, which is generously topped with sliced red onions, red chili peppers, roasted peanuts, cilantro, and chunks of cooked sweet potatoes.

Thai curry noodles, baby! 🇹🇭

This is so cool. Going to keep an eye on this and maybe support it in the future (in ways that they want white people to get involved).

www.blackbanjoreclamationproject.org

"If Mamdani's elected I'm leaving NYC"

1) lol bitch as if you would ever, but also

2) Your terms are acceptable.

Picture of a man’s hand holding a book titled "Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History" by Kristina R. Gaddy, with a foreword by Rhiannon Giddens.

Great find at my local library. The author is a white lady, but it mentions Africa a lot when I thumb through the pages, and forward by Rhiannon is an awesome sign.

Parody t-shirt based on the mascot of the popular convenience store chain Buc-ee's. • The character is a take on the Buc-ee's beaver mascot (Buc-ee the Beaver), but with a different style, appearing to be wearing a bandana and hand wraps, in a pose that suggests a fighting or martial arts theme. • The word on the shirt, "OOWEEE", is a parody of "Buc-ee's" but is visually styled to resemble the official logo's lettering.

I lol’s at this Buc-ee’s Muay Thai shirt 😂

I swear at AIs all the time, but I was surprised that Claude just aid to me "Sorry, I fucked up."

I wonder if they're experimenting with having AIs use "vulgarity" with users who do so first.

You should care about Jamaica and Sudan even if you don't know anyone there and the news isn't covering it. The anti-Blackness embedded in folks' lack of empathy is gross.

YouTube video by arianinos Coming To America Garbage

37 years later and I still love this scene

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVVh...

Cuomo is such a fucking dinosaur lmao. I can't believe anyone in power takes him seriously enough to trot him out in front of the public. Just an absolute clown.

A few years back I interviewed with a company whose leaders gave me a bad feeling. Turns out they were ex-CIA. They asked to check references, so I said no & they lectured me about how standard it is so I told them my feelings too.

NVIDIA acquired them and just emailed me that they "have my data."

At this point, anyone with common sense knows that cutting social services creates unrest and increases crime.

So. If hypothetically I wanted to create a reason to introduce martial law, an even more intrusive surveillance state and justify military presence, I would
Cut food stamps and Healthcare

Marc Lobliner post on X: "Why the hell are we giving food stamps to 40 million people? Does anyone work anymore?"

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.

Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:

* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled

* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

It annoys me when people say “they’re on SNAP but their hair and nails are done and they’ve got tattoos”. It’s extremely normal to do your own hair and buy press on nails, and tattoos literally last forever. What do tattoos someone got 10 years ago have to do with them needing to eat now

An image of a Reddit post from the r/whatisit subreddit. The title reads: "My friend refuses to tell me what this is" with a flair of "New, what is it?". It shows a long, curved, heavy metal object that looks like a double-ended, curved spatula or spoon. It is silver and rests on a dark, textured background. Below it is a banana, slightly overripe with brown spots, included for scale. The text below the image says: "No idea what it is. Tried Google lens. It's heavy metal."

The image shows two comments: 1. u/Electronic_Theme_999 says: "its a banana" 2. u/Bigfops says: "Yup, I can tell because they thankfully included a Graston soft tissue massager for scale." The metal object is likely a Graston soft tissue massager or a similar Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (IASTM) tool.

200 billion dollar valuation btw💀💀💀

The album cover for the Walt Disney Productions 'Story and Songs from Robin Hood' (1973). The cover is a bright yellow and features a colorful illustration of characters from the animated film. The main characters, the fox Robin Hood and the bear Little John, stand on the right, smiling. On the left, a treasury scene shows Prince John (a lion) crying on a cushion surrounded by bags of gold, with Sir Hiss (a snake) looking on. The title 'Robin Hood' is in large red lettering across the top, with a rooster playing a lute perched above. A call-out on the lower right corner says, 'A magnificent full-color illustrated book and long-playing record.' The narration is credited to Roger Miller.

Just picked this up this awesome used record

He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...