Constant Velocity

It’s cold comfort, but this is something I’ve thought often during this horrible period.

It's like America is waiting for the test results call from our oncologist.

That’s an aspect of music consumption that I don’t know if I can quite convey to my students. “I read about this mythical album for years and then one day it turned up at my local record store and it made my heart pound in anticipation.”

With his hat pulled down so you kinda can’t see his eyes? What on earth?

He was married to Marla Maples when he sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll. Wonder if he told his wife about that when he got home.

@seanthomason.bsky.social
Maybe you’re too proud to rerun your old hits from the other site. But this is one that cannot be allowed to diminish and go into the West.

Thomas Huxley (Darwin's Bulldog) on vax denialists: 140 yrs ago:

Those trying to prevent the use of Pasteur's newly invented rabies vaccine, “hate everything which contributes to prove the value of strictly scientific methods of inquiry in all those questions which affect the welfare of society."

Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: The Things by Peter Watts

If you’ve never read it before, this is a good short story from the POV of the thing itself.

clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/

So far from what I think of as “peanut butter,” and yet so right.

It’s Michael Douglas and beautiful Welsh lady Catherine Zeta-Jones.

The original Zeta male.

My-a dumpster? What am I? Some kind of ethnic stereotype? 👌🏻 🍕 🇮🇹

Mya dumpster doesn’t stop working in the rain. Also: Bulletproof.

It’s an easy fix!

Vide Elon Musk.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. strutting onstage at the Madison Square Garden Trump rally and reading all the text on the Dr. Bronner's bottle in a voice that sounds like an old lawnmower failing to start. In two hours, Tulsi Gabbard will reveal for the one thousandth time that she is no longer a Democrat.

Trump’s too weird and widely loathed. That’s my secret sauce algorithm that tells me he will lose pretty handily.

From a Rolling Stone intv with Stevie Nicks. This anecdote about Katy Perry is everything I needed today.

This is the perfect guitar for a specific kind of band.

✨Elfbarf ✨

This is the first I’m hearing of this, but I’d like to place my order for Leonard Bernstein’s Jewish spirit to inhabit my soul? Seems like a fun dude.

Trump's decline — in so many ways — is where critics of campaign coverage should focus their blitz from now to election day.

Is it the frontal cortex that governs social inhibitions? Yeah, might want to have that checked, my man.

Tubular Bells record skipping again.

Donald Trump is cancelling and not showing up for so many appearances he's being sued for plagiarism by Sly and the Family Stone.

YouTube video by Stevie Wonder - Topic We Can Work It Out

Is this the best Beatles cover ever? Probably.

youtu.be/MkF_u-_mm0Q?...

If you treat yourself to having your strings changed, you could ask to have the intonation checked. Most string changing guys do set-ups as well. Once a year, depending on how much you play? In the spring after the weather stabilizes. Tunable? Buzzing? Action okay? Those are my three criteria.

If conservative young men — or whatever demographic we're supposed to be hand-wringing over today — are so attached to their rancid old world they're welcome to perish in it.

It is actively a good thing that conservatives are more excluded and lonely. If that leads to their mental health collapsing so they're less able to organize and threaten others that is also good. It is entirely self-inflicted and they don't deserve an ounce of sympathy.