paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)

YouTube video by World Circuit Records Buena Vista Social Club - El Carretero (Official Audio)

watching Buena Vista Social Club for the first time (heard the album many times, never watched the film) and was reminded that *this* is the one, this is the sleeper banger

youtu.be/VACtwLtDHd0?...

what garment would you say Duke is wearing around his neck here

what bugs me is that, yes, obviously you cannot say any form of "I will raise your taxes", I'm not an idiot, but like, you're not gonna out-tax-cut the Republicans! gotta change the convo, not try to butt into it

not saying anyone has to take this at face value but I posed more or less this question on Twitter and this was the most straightforward pro-Platner response I'd gotten, for whatever its worth

NIPPON is a subsidiary of Nippon Life Insurance Company, commonly known and referred to as Nissay, a foreign insurance company which operates in, and is organized under the laws of, Japan. As one of Japan's oldest life insurance carriers, Nissay's name is strongly 2 Case: 1:26-cv-02448 Document #: 1 Filed: 03/04/26 Page 3 of 50 PageID #:3 associated with financial strength, regulatory discipline, honest business practices, and reliability. These are values that resonate strongly in the Japanese market and are core to the company's brand. As a Japanese company, social and commercial emphases are placed on maintaining a reputation for honesty and integrity. Accusations of impropriety, regardless of their legitimacy, are seen as dishonorable and can have a severe and lasting impact in the Japanese market.

emil @protofailure Murder is actually really frowned in Japan. It goes against the traditional concept of # * 3, which means "to live" 5:27 PM • 10/27/22

to be fair, "we value fiscal irresponsibility to nobody's real benefit including ourselves" would, in fact, be a decent description of the American financial sector at the moment

was doing the Naomi Wolf meme

no! no!!

ddlovato: GET A JOB ddlovato: STAY AWAY FROM HER

slopulism coming for my 2028 faves

votes on a housing supply increase bill that has most D's and R's YES with a few Dems and Chris Van Hollen and Chris Murphy voting NO

New - Potential 2028 Dem contender Sen. Van Hollen out with a new tax plan today: Anyone who makes living wage or less — $46K single/$92K married — should pay no federal income tax Paid for by new millionaire surtax Dem 2028 ideas primary is underway…

I like Chris Van Hollen - a lot, actually! - but man, two pretty big L's this week

thinking about the funniest city where Ludacris gloats about having hoes in that song, my vote is Omaha

legacy ^ Area codes mentioned These are the area codes listed in the song, in order: Position = Area code City or general area State (where Luda has hoes) 1 770 Atlanta Georgia Etc

an unsung hero of the Internet is the Wikipedia editor who decided to arrange the locations of hoe-having in Ludacris’s “Area Codes” into a table

free yourself from the prison of being soured on a work of art or media because you find the fanbase annoying

anyway I do happen to like Talarico’s chances better to boot, but geez, good riddance to that whole thing

honestly there some primaries I’m glad to be over first and foremost because they’re annoying, I’ll freely admit that

fwiw, I’m pretty sure this is the closest thing I have to an AI-positive tweet:

bsky.app/profile/danl...

very funny to be on both the “AI slop enjoyers” and “Techno-Pessimists” lists

lmao

it seems like they do good work, not knocking the org! just, you know,

Center for Urban Community Services I CUCS CUCS provides integrated programs that link housing, health and social services for New City's most vulnerable people.

maybe avoid abbreviating it if you can

the second episode of this series is what I imagine having a heart attack must be like

tanned rested and ready

Joyce Carol Oates • @JoyceCarolOates X.com Twitter is the place for nonentities classifying entities colossal as those redwoods you, squatting below, can't see the tops of. • Brad R. Torgersen • @BradRTorgersen • 14h Beatles are a first-rate second-rate band. There. I said it. And I am not sorry.

second JCO heater in less than 12 hours

she’s *87*

JCO is like the Trent Reznor of the literary world where novels are her NIN and tweets are her “inexplicable later success scoring Disney films”

@JoyceCarolOates X.com speaking as glibly as Beavis & Butthead. does T***p even grasp the profound significance of what he has set in motion in the Middle East? this person whose most essential self is riding in a golf cart fatly, cheating at the profoundly insignificant game of leisure golf when he assumes no one is looking.

if “for sale, baby shoes, never worn” are the saddest six words, then “riding in a golf cart fatly” is the opposite of that

Drew had followed up to Grim with something like "I'm not employed *anywhere* at the moment! I wish I was!"

I finally got a sense of why people across the political spectrum were not just in disagreement but like *apoplectic* at Will Stancil once a few of them let slip their hand that they literally thought he worked for the Democrats in some formal capacity