David M. Perry

this is a goddamn great essay about an incredible musician

"It makes me think of the time when Thile played Dylan’s “Masters of War,” one of the great screams of rage that even so arch a song-and-dance man as Bob once allowed himself, and how Thile omitted the final verse, the “I hope that you die and your death will come soon” one."

didn't know this.

this is a great essay @zunguzungu.bsky.social

let's just say there's nothing vague about the dropkick murphys show last night.

A member of ACT UP said that during the peak years of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s: “We went to funerals and buried our friends in the morning, protested in the afternoon and then fucked danced and partied all night.”

Because the world is on fire, it’s on us to live out loud. We need to do it all.

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guy selling little boxes with “Cold fusion” written in Sharpie: we’ve finally done it!

bystander: how does it work?

sales guy *eyes narrowing*: okay poindexter, why don’t YOU tell me how cold fusion works?

This is not surprising. I’m glad he heard thousand of people chanting fuck ICE. But …

… when we win I want to make sure we make that kind of thing illegal.

Yesterday at the AbolishICE festival a friend pointed out the guy in a "press" bulletproof vest (but no press credentials), wearing sunglasses on a rainy day, methodically scanning the crowd with his phone. Someone told me there was another on the other side of a crowd. /1

that's amazing

Google is eating its seed corn

and it was never as good as bluesky is

The nuclear block is good, actually. It’s why Bluesky is my favorite modern social site, much more so than even Twitter at its best.

Precisely. More than one person brought this up :)

One thing about writing this piece was recognizing how many people don’t pay attention to the words

I think a lot of people will read 3000 words, but I don’t think everyone who writes 3000 words needed 3000 words to write the thing they were writing. Those are the pieces that people won’t read to the end.

the idea that punk shouldn't be political is so completely at odds with what punk is that...yeah just fuck you? like stop cosplaying.

This is their gig at the palace, which is why they’re in town.

A bucket that says tip if you love Dropkick Murphys or dropkicking ice agents

Remember

It’s a good example of how they use the folk trad to break and then move seamlessly into a screaming punk song.

“Somerville garage-punk-pub-rock band”

Sounds right 3)

Man, I almost always cry when I sing along to that one.

“The suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame,
The killin’ and dyin’ it was all done in vain:
Oh Willy McBride, it all happened again,
and again and again and again and again”

This is the funniest thing to me. Like. Back in 2013 they beat the shit out of a guy who did the Seig Heil on stage at their show.

Dropkick Murphys lead singer Ken Casey at the Alex Pretti Memorial tonight just prior to their set at a benefit show across the street.

Minneapolis March 6, 2026

I am now in the balcony hall. Great acoustics through my earplugs. No one near me.

This song makes me cry every time

Still amused by all the lying fuckers in the bands fb comments saying they’re too political now.

I am too old for general admission in the pit though, I tell you what, even nowhere near the mosh

Dropkick Murphys currently playing the green fields of France. It’s been a minute since I heard this song.

Okay wait Ichiro is Prester John send tweet