Steve

You might think you’re ready for this needle drop at the Cuomo watch party.

I promise you: you are not.

YouTube video by Ratboys Ratboys - "Anywhere" [Official Music Video]

I really can't get over the way Ratboys catches lightning in a bottle with hooks like nobody else making rock records today. This new one has some kind of '90s jangle pop sensibility like instantly as memorable as the best Lemonheads or Blake Babies choruses. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYUM...

@jennylsq.bsky.social the Halloween covers show has become a favorite holiday tradition for me. I hope I didn't miss this one earlier, but can you play Tune-Yards - Your Time Is Gonna Come? One of my all-time favorites from XMU sessions.

He is, instead, a 59-year-old Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio, who merely responded to an email from a journalist seeking his views on Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s policies. “I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida. “I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor,” DeBlasio told Semafor Wednesday evening. “So I just gave him my opinion.”

I’m crying

www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

I wouldn't say I deeply admired Van Morrison, but his song in the ChatGPT commercial really made me lose a ton of respect. I also wouldn't say I deeply admired the guy who wears the bucket hat from The New Radicals, but their song in the Google AI commercial also really made me lose a ton of respect

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Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Desperately wish this had happened like two days ago so I could have included this wild story in my column about seat switching today www.usatoday.com/story/travel...

Hey whiny

Keep your slop on x, stool.

It wasn't specifically, and the chick who was on the floor shaking what she got actually had her wedding today, but it is all-around a loosely accurate depiction

A karaoke DJ set up at the pub we entered a few blocks away from my ancestral homeland in Dublin, so I did The Boys Are Back in Town, and some Irish strangers say I did it faithfully, so this is also going on my Ireland citizenship application

I've never been to a wedding even among my own loved ones that was as fun as the random bachelorette party that showed up to the club in rural Ireland ending in arm-in-arm singalongs to Teenage Dirtbag and Fairytale of New York, this is the greatest country in the world

Well don't I feel stupid

A transgender sprinter is suing the NCAA and SUNY Geneseo college, claiming they discriminated against her by barring her from competing in a track event, despite knowing that the NCAA's 2025 transgender exclusion policy violates New York state law. www.law360.com/acces...

A bar sign with directions to Emirates Stadium and an Arsenal banner

We really out here #arsenal #coyg

Don't post like this without a disclaimer that you still have to link your drivel here because it's the only place that doesn't throttle it as a statistically proven waste of time

4 English lads named Modern Shakes playing rock and roll

This opening act Modern Shakes who will be playing fest next month were so good. We come all the way from Long Island and bassist is wearing a Taking Back Sunday t-shirt.

An assortment of graffiti and band stickers as well as one of a USPS sticker that says "FUCK THE POLICE in the arse"

American cultural victory on display in a punk/metal venue in Camden, London UK

Something I should've estimated about visiting the UK is that the age verification for alcohol purchases is a silly little fig leaf, while the age verification for accessing a discord channel about drinking or your bluesky direct messages is arduous and not worthwhile.

An indie rock band consisting of 4 guys on a stage

Jade Lilitri who is the only permanent member of Oso Oso playing guitar

Scott from Born Without Bones playing Bass in Oso Oso

I saw Oso Oso on the $10 Bill Tour last night in NJ. It celebrated 10 years of the band, and sticking to the theme, he/they're in my top 10 Long Island artists of all time, and top 10 bands I was blessed to see rising in their scene. Jade said maybe in 20 years they'll have a $30 tour. #laterskeets

Thin Lizzy counts as Irish literary excellence, and it was very cool how half of these 39.5-y/o Americans coming to see The Hold Steady know all the words to Waiting For An Alibi (compared to most pop/rock shows now which are lousy with ppl making small talk during openers)

Thick Lizzy is Gowanus's premier Thin Lizzy tribute band.

Spotted lanternflies must be in a mania over the cool evenings. The past 6 weeks, I'd see 1-2 per hour in my neighborhood. Tonight, I killed a few dozen, and they're evasive, a few dozen more times they escaped me though I'd like to believe that I crushed the same ones the next time around the block

Another day pretending bluesky is a functional social network, another grown man getting a swirlie at the top of the discover feed

I canceled my subscription a couple of weeks ago, when they replaced the practice hub icon on the toolbar with the upselling to video chat with AI icon. They did revert that a week later, but I'll decide how bad the anti-features all get whenever my year runs out.

“I make a mistake. I’m so sorry. It’s a culture thing. I don’t know. I don’t understand. I’m so sorry. I feel so bad right now. I’m so sorry honey.”

She later added, “Can we forget about this? I try to be a good person. Please. Please. Please don’t do in the news nothing about me.”

I almost believed that bluesky fixed this for a few days

Ronnie Rondell Jr: Veteran Hollywood stuntman set on fire for Pink Floyd album cover dies Veteran stuntman Ronnie Rondell Jr, who was set on fire for the front cover of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here album, has died, his family has said.

Ronnie Rondell Jr: Veteran Hollywood stuntman set on fire for Pink Floyd album cover dies