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Iconically ill is going to chart soon, I think, I just started it.

And shoutout to The Long Covid podcast. Essential support and hope.

1. Midnight Burger
2. Blindboy
3. Wiser Than Me
4. How to Survive the End of the World
5. If Books Could Kill
6. Live Like the World Is Dying
7. Maintenance Phase
8. Organic Gardening
9. Food Friends
10. Good Food

It just got that much harder for all of us to stay sane so... what are your favorite podcasts for sanity?

(Context: Long Covid wrecked 80% of my life, now my job is to stay sane. I can't watch movies or TV so for 2 years I've been living on podcasts and audiobooks.)

My top 10 podcasts are:

When it comes to opposing cuts to the good things in the city budget and opposing homeless encampment sweeps, Z is our target.

But our *enemies* are the billionaires + centi-millionaires who control electeds like Hochul.

Let us take care to weave this distinction into our strategies and messaging.

I provide this assessment in order to suggest a course of action:

Yet, let us fight hard against austerity for the many, maintenance of the PIC complex, racially disparate impact in taxation, and homeless sweeps.

But as we do so, let us also be clear in distinguishing our targets from our enemies.

No, they've known about it at least since Mark Levine confirmed it weeks ago, and the first alert came when Brad Lander reported it in December.

You truly missed out on this one #Grammys. Part two of the album should win next year.

63 songs with:
Surgical understanding of how all the engineers of the hellscape work and profit together
Courage to speak so much truth to so much power
Genius lyrics (not using that word lightly)
Unforgettable hooks
Songs for all of us to sing that are comfort when alone and mighty when amassed

Jesse Welles' Under the Powerlines should have won.

Julia Gets Wise with Catherine O’Hara | Lemonada Media On this episode of Wiser Than Me, Julia sits down with 70-year-old comedy icon – and star of Beetlejuice and Schitt’s Creek – Catherine O’Hara. Catherine and Julia share their improv origin stories an...

So sad to hear Catherine O'Hara died. She could cheer me up out of any slough of despond and have me cackling and belly laughing. I highly recommend the interview she did with Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, here's the link:
lemonadamedia.com/podcast/juli...

Hot damn, that's good news!

I love the name of this action!

It's just galaxy after galaxy. Galaxies all the way down.

The original image is 18,200 pixels across. Bluesky allows a maximum image size of 2,000 pixels.

Here's what a randomly selected, 2,000-px portion of the entire image looks like.

There is ONE obvious Milky Way star in this portion.

The black of space. Some bright, six-pointed bluey features are Milky Way stars. Everything else is a separate galaxy.

Here's another deep field image from JWST.

There's something pretty amazing hidden within it, which I'll talk about next.

But open up this image and lose yourself in this almost impossibly vast view of our Universe.

The six-pointed features are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy.

Courting the Wild Twin, by Martin Shaw. Best folklore book about doing shadow work I've ever found. Blindboy Boatclub just interviewed him, which led me to the book. Go find it... i especially recommend the audiobook...

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion (Gift Article) The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.

If you read or share only one article today, make it this:

HOW TRUMP HAS POCKETED $1,408,500,000

(Historically, one thing that has helped bring down authoritarians is public awareness of their use of the power of the office for self-enrichment.)

Gift link:

NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Word is that @nyccomptroller.bsky.social is going to start buying Israeli bonds again, while Israel is violating the ceasefire. Bonds directly support the growth and plans of a genocidal government. Shame on you, Levine, for sending #NYC funds over to kill Palestinians and build on their land.

Happy New Mayor :)

Hey Jon Stewart, jokes about wearing masks aren't funny Critics of the Daily Show host say he's a hypocrite.

Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Omg the happiest tears

The real epidemic was the tech lords we made along the way.

Watch this from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

A dark tabby with a rabbit white breast and chartreuse eyes. A white hand in an acid green fleece sleeve scritching his neck. He is giving the stink eye to the human (but also purring but that's not recorded, no proof).

This is him a couple days ago. He does not like to be photographed.

I have just deeply disappointed him because I got up to pee and not to feed him.

Which is every night because my boy needs serious comforting starting 15 to 45 minutes before his feeder goes off.

while the woman croons, "It's okay, only ten minutes until the automatic feeder goes off, you're gonna make it, you're gonna be okay..."

And I'm still laughing every time I think about it.

Insomnia thoughts:
Somewhere there's a video of a woman in a kitchen with her two cats. One cat, a void or a dark tabby, is stalking around the kitchen floor, yelling. The other, a big orange, is being held like a baby, wistfully staring into the middle distance, like a Pieta,

. Listened to the Slough House series 3 times