The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
28.02.2026 12:42 โ ๐ 16203 ๐ 5017 ๐ฌ 126 ๐ 102@joelance.bsky.social
Composer ๐ผ and home producer๐(but didnโt quit my day jobโฆyet) Former Tennessee Insider & Chattarati โ๏ธ GenX๐ค Anti-fascist๐ Agnostic๐คจ Deadhead๐น๐ https://joelance.us/
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
28.02.2026 12:42 โ ๐ 16203 ๐ 5017 ๐ฌ 126 ๐ 102So just to be clear - Hegsethโs Pentagon is shooting down our own drones with lasers in Texas โ but they want Anthropic to put fully autonomous killer robots in their hands? What could go wrong?
28.02.2026 02:27 โ ๐ 2164 ๐ 699 ๐ฌ 66 ๐ 28I've been there. Best of luck to you.
27.02.2026 12:55 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
It's opening night! Chattanooga State presents _Evil Dead The Musical_, a crazy little show based on Sam Raimi's cult classic films. More here: www.chattanoogastate.edu/events/theat...
This will be the 68th musical theatre production I've been part of (usually as a pit player). It's a fun one! ๐ค๐ธ๐ญ
Colorado borders Kansas. Here is a Colorado non-profit that helps trans people relocate, Trans Continental Pipeline.
Please share.
tcpipeline.org
Eye-popping margins in the Pennsylvania special elections today:
โDemocrats won HD94 by 63 points.
(Harris won it by 30 in 2024.)
โDemocrats won HD42 by 35 points.
(Harris won it by 17 in 2024.)
[The 2024 numbers are via the essential @the-downballot.com].
Those penguins must be celebrating the SCOTUS decision on tariffs!
20.02.2026 15:54 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Iโm not a podcast guy. Iโd usually rather listen to music, or at least snippets of audio being recorded or mixed interspersed with voiceover, than to two or three people just talking.
But Iโm about halfway through Billy Corganโs The Magnificent Others ep with Nancy Wilson, and, yeah. I kinda like.
I donโt know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
17.02.2026 11:41 โ ๐ 21760 ๐ 7745 ๐ฌ 299 ๐ 638RIP Tom Hagen. I mean Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore. I mean Boo Radley. (And I should add, after reading the obit, Augustus McRae.)
16.02.2026 18:40 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I just hope both teams win, everyone has fun, and nobody gets hurt.
08.02.2026 22:49 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Happy #SuperbOwl ๐ฆ Sunday to all who celebrate.
08.02.2026 11:39 โ ๐ 2041 ๐ 378 ๐ฌ 37 ๐ 21Apropos of nothing, I should remind you that my likeness is on a #MagicTheGathering card. It's kind of a fun story how that came to be, some thirty-odd years ago.
08.02.2026 22:16 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Itโs not much, but I do have new music out today. I used to wear out my Peter Gabriel _So_ cassette, and this is one of the tracks that really stayed with me for about forty years.
tidal.com/track/491758...
I wrote to my U.S. Senators and Representative this morning, pleading with them to take action to curb the unconstitutional and deadly actions by ICE.
I reminded them of their oaths, their responsibilities, and that they know how things *will* eventually go.
I don't expect much, but I have to try.
Searched for my U.S. Representative on here to see if there was an account I could interact with. Instead, found this. ๐
21.01.2026 11:22 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Read this.
19.01.2026 06:50 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
I am going to this for general learning. I donโt consider myself an ideal candidate. Join if you can.
I'm attending Contest Every Race's event, โReady to Runโ - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/contest-ever...
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Ashes, ashes, all fall down.
11.01.2026 15:57 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0RIP Bobby.
11.01.2026 00:52 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Hang in there
09.01.2026 00:27 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
About to see Richard Thomas in _Mark Twain Tonight!_ by Hal Holbrook. My wife invited me to tag along with her school group.
I got to see Mr. Holbrook holding court as Samuel Clemens in college, nearly forty (gulp) years ago.
We need Mark Twain (& art & wit & satire) right now.
An annual tradition
youtube.com/shorts/pfkNY...
How and when do we get our country back?
08.01.2026 11:38 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It sucks being the citizen of a pariah state
08.01.2026 09:15 โ ๐ 364 ๐ 41 ๐ฌ 18 ๐ 5I will let it beep at me, but it will not touch my steering system
06.01.2026 23:01 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Sorry for a paywall link to a โchallengingโ source for some, but this is infuriating.
I WATCHED THE WHOLE THING ON C-SPAN!!!
Plus the J6 Committee hearings.
Iโm so upset rn
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/u...
Still havenโt figured out the appropriate greeting or attire to commemorate Treason Day, but here we are, five years on.
Hope all of my fellow supporters of democracy and the Constitution are holding up OK in these challenging times.