don't mourn, organize!

[I almost always listen to full albums, but I was playing along with those two songs so I'm ready for my brosaleigh cover band to form...]

ok.. i just listened to YKWIM and cinderblocks but i *guess* i can do one more...

seriously, I've been listening to the album pretty much every day since seeing you play (which is a thing that often happens to me) and love it more than ever. your melodies are so engrossing and beautiful 🤩

ugh, I was in NL a few weeks ago and it was so hot... and sounds like it's just getting worse 😢

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

Driver taken into custody after breaching barricades, striking pedestrian during OpenStreetsPGH event Allegheny County sheriff’s deputies took a driver into custody after she plowed her car through barricades at Sunday’s OpenStreetsPGH, an event that allows pedestrians and bicyclists free ...

ugh since bluesky ate the link:

triblive.com/local/driver...

#bancars

YouTube video by Fugazi - Topic Give Me The Cure

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

Agree with everything @chrisdeville.bsky.social wrote about Nelsonville (well, I was only there on Friday) and cool to watch MJ Lenderman with him and @mx-salty.bsky.social

the band King Hannah setting up on stage, including Craig and Hannah standing up front with guitars

40 minutes until I get to see King Hannah and I'm even more excited than I expected 💗

youtu.be/B29yOK9pJVA

screenshot of a quote tweet: original tweet: JD Vance @JDVance 13h About to see Les Miserables with POTUS at the Kennedy Center. Me to Usha: so what's this about? A barber who kills people? ... my quote tweet: I heard about an awesome play called "Our American Cousin" that you should definitely take your buddy to.

too proud of this one to just let it languish on that site where I'm shadowbanned

eat shit, @npr.org

Liberation Weekend, a trans rights music festival organized by Ekko Astral, brought an urgent DIY spirit to the fore in DC this past weekend.

Proceeds are going to Gender Lib to help fund future rallies and direct action.

Check out our recap and photos:

www.stereogum.com/2310300/libe...

A view of the street from the balcony of my apartment in Barcelona. Several 4-5 story buildings are visible, and a blue sky with some wispy clouds

First time in Barcelona ❤️

I'm going to Primavera which is my 3rd music festival in under a month (and there's one more on the docket). So, I guess I'm a festival kid now.

at the risk of sounding repetitive, love it 😆 my bookclub read this book, it's great.

reported.

All the Boys I Blocked - Film and Storytelling | Seed&Spark Have you been gaslit? Are you clown curious? Do you hate the patriarchy? Chanel & the Circus is going on a world tour with their solo clown musical "All the Boys I Blocked" and wants you to join the journey.

I saw "All the Boys I Blocked" 3 times in Pittsburgh and loved it - Chanel is a genius and an incredible performer.

If you don't want to get blocked, please go give them some support - and definitely catch the show if it's in your town.

seedandspark.com/fund/all-the...

love it ❤️

i dyed my hair blue in 2020 figuring no one would really see me and I could just shave it off if I didn't like it...

alas, I've met so many people in the past few years and none of them would recognize me if I ever stopped.. not that i'm complaining, I love it.

photo of a Burger King "have it your way" sign

bienvenido a madrid! taking in the local culture!

hm, outsourcing anti-union behavior to a surrogate lackey?

sounds oddly familiar for some reason...

www.nlrb.gov/case/31-CA-3...

Pictured is a filing from the National Labor Relations Board website showing a petition for certification of a labor organization as the representative of a collective bargaining unit. The employer is UPMC Magee- Womens Hospital located in Pittburgh, Pennsylvania. there are 1,000 employees in the proposed bargaining unit made up of All full and regular part time Registered Nurses including but not limited to CRNPs and Lactation Consultants employed by UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital who work at 300 Halket St., Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Excluded: All other employees, directors, managers and supervisors as defined by the Act.

BREAKING: 1,000 RNs in Pittsburgh are unionizing with @seiu.org @seiuhcpa.org

eh, i'm almost always asleep before 9am

YouTube video by The Jazz Butcher - Topic Grooving in the Bus Lane (Hard 12" B-Side)

there's also this classic www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQNT...

(I may be a bit of a nerd about public transit songs)

YouTube video by Polyvinyl Records Jay Som - The Bus Song [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]

melina knows what's up youtu.be/k2SluHV2i40

the problem is that's what they're already doing - roads are designed to be hostile and deadly for pedestrians.

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I somehow got signed up for this Fetterman mailing list... when I unsubscribed they asked me to "help spread the word" so here I am.

always love to see that power, corruption, & lies cover

if all those armed people and vehicles do go to trump's birthday party, they will have a golden opportunity to do something truly heroic.

my depression was completely untreated until i was 18, but the meds didn't agree with me and i didn't get treatment again until age 25.

i recall a lot of sitting in my bedroom, alone with my knife, thinking dark thoughts. so if writing these helped me survive, i guess it's ultimately a good thing.

holy shit i just unearthed this folder full of songs/poems i wrote when i was a teenager and mostly have no recollection of but i'm gradually convincing myself they're mine (and not an old roomate's).

lots of songs about cutting/hurting myself - i'm not sure if it was good for me to see those.

when I was in HS a friend (who i thought was the love of my life, but that's another story) gave me a dubbed tape of rarities, which was magical.

i wish i still had it or could recall the tracklist, but i do remember "caroline isenberg" - which afaict wasn't even released in the US at the time.