Alex Cox 🤖

Hi, random stranger here! You just popped up in my feed for some reason, probably GO related, so I'm going to reply to people I don't know like it's 2012 and say congrats! I hope you're having fun with the new level system like I am.

I promise this is funny if you listen to Do By Friday. Just take the homework. Let it happen.

Last night, a comedian died. dobyfriday.com/episodes/428

“There isn’t even a single orientation.”

It’s like there were gay nerds writing the copy in marketing pushing for “verseOS.”

From the beginning, she was made to be modular! Look at her go!

“I don't have to change myself to fit the product. It fits me.”

I ditched a religion class my first year of college to watch the iPad announcement, and wet at the end of the year to go back to Chicago for college—I really wish they committed to the bit as much as I did!

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The iPad still has the promise of being the queerest mainstream computer.

Related: his is one of the funniest things you’ll ever see. youtu.be/tNaXRADhvsM?...

YouTube video by Green Day Green Day - King For A Day/Shout [Live]

Seeing Green Day perform “King for a Day” broke my friends’ brains. We’d never seen anything that queer live! And it’s not even THAT gay! One of them came out to me later and said Billie Joe Armstrong’s butt on a giant screen confirmed some feelings he’d been having.

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Like how it’s the 25th Anniversary of Warning, Green Day’s best album (you know it YOU COWARDS) and @nikostratis.com wrote a piece about “The Unsung Queerness of Green Day Lyrics” awhile back that I still think about:

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YouTube video by Rafael Nogueira Superbia - Sextet (Full demo) - Jonathan Larson

I really like the film’s version of “Sextet” headlined by Vanessa Hudgens and Joshua Henry, but the full demo released a couple years ago gives a glimpse of how Larson was already putting together ensemble numbers that would become the heart of Rent.

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YouTube video by The Mountain Goats - Topic Only Takes a Few (bonus track)

Because of the way the Netflix UI hates letting you take a breath after the end of a film, not enough people know that The Mountain Goats’ cover of Jonathan Larson’s song “It Only Takes a Few” plays during the credits of “tick, tick…BOOM!”

It’s really special.

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## Life - Focus on your fundamentals. Every print needs a great first layer. - Start by making small things and focus on process. - You only control what your machines are instructed to do. Everything else is your fault. Which is okay, but you should definitely know that. - Learn when and when not to experiment with applying more than one new change at a time. - Related: if you're having problems, it's probably because you're experimenting with applying more than one new change at a time. - Everything you make will teach you something about making future things. This will always only ever make sense later. Which is fine.

"A Great First Layer: Observations on things I've learned about life from 3D printing."

wisdom.limo/3d.md

A Break from Myself | Do By Friday This week's challenge: try a new drug.

Spoilers: I was not the one who got a break from myself. I watched Totoro and read Robert Lowell poems, though!

dobyfriday.com/episodes/427

Lake Effects

Every year I update a Chicago playlist but keep the 2013 cover of an image taken on an iPhone 5 with one of the original Instagram filters.

Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Uo...

Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

Snow and memory

Dr. Drang did it. He finally did it. He did CHICAGO SNOW MATH. leancrew.com/all-this/2025/11...

I'm still in love with the "blend" feature, but it's been serving up embarrassing songs that makes no sense. I have plenty of embarrassing songs that I ACTUALLY listen to on repeat! (I'm shocked that one, no not that one, THAT one cover of Teenage Dream hasn't shown up.) open.spotify.com/playlist/37

easy there tiger universal might be interpreted as inclusive to trans healthcare and politicians might start treating us like people instead of talking points so idk if i’m ready for the responsibility of having basic human dignity

we shall continue to threaten america with a good time

Thank you for your vote. 🗳️

I’ve been accused of compulsively asking questions on podcasts when I don’t really want to know the answer, which is patently untrue.

I don’t think Roderick has ever heard my voice or been influenced by my weirdness in any way, and yet lately, he too is Just Asking the Questions.

a boot and a handshake

When ICE footage goes viral on Bluesky, the one spark of joy in the aftermath is finding other Chicago accounts instead of the same five popular journalists posting about our city like it’s already fallen to fascism instead of when and how neighbors are protecting one another.

projected text behind the band reading “make america gay again”

david byrne shitting on ice agents was the clear best part of the show tonight but this was a close second

the video being projected behind all the performers on stage

lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight

Glizzy is short for Eglizabeth

I continue to be SO weird.

Keeping a high school friend around who is Very Online is handy so you have someone you can exploit for dumb podcast bits and officiate your wedding.

I think Merlin inadvertently created quite the challenge.

Thank you to everyone who’s supported us.

And a special thank you to Illinois elected officials — including many of my opponents — who have condemned this political prosecution by the Trump administration:

jinx you owe me a Topplecrumb