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YouTube video by Talking Heads - Topic Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)

Talking Heads: Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) - from their 1980 album, Remain In Light #DavidByrne

Produced by Brian Eno www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmp5...

The old story I heard was that their breasts were singed red from bringing water to sinners in Hell.

Those hip young chix in their…mom jeans.

Story 113

Probably the album which has _shaped_ me most, aesthetically, musically of course, maybe even politically.

I actually found you through the AVClub, of all places, when you’d only been doing the blog about six months. I didn’t even know you twote for some considerable time after that.

With Lain, three of my all-time favourites!

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

I owned this book!

The souvenir from Japan for your father:

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.
-Ernest Dowson

Story 140

🇫🇷 I don't want to hear the "governments in the CEE region are frequently volatile and sometimes last for just weeks" line ever again.

the best answer i got for this:

Thread on one of the worst and weirdest people ever to have become an MP. And, yes, there is a certain amount of competition for the title.

Take the macron away from that name and it could be a village in Yorkshire.

My Proustian madeleine moment would involve a Wimpy’s baconburger.

A little mari covered in bandages and a ghost holding a strand behind her

Little Mari has dressed up as a mummy with her ghost friend helping

Explaining to my wife that I cannot simply “read the books I’ve already bought and haven’t read” like some kind of peasant.

Content warning: may contain Armenian.

This looks awesome, I’ll try and find it.

@bruces.bsky.social

I don’t know Latin well enough; would an abbreviation clearly distinguish between a god and a goddess?

We love your work, but it must come from joy, not desperation. Be healthy and happy! We can wait for you!

So at the university football game I sat next to a cheerful student from Japan who was telling me how much she liked the "colorful traditional costumes" and the "old folk music" and asking about the "dances," and I realized she was talking about the marching band and that she was, well, spot-on.

Little Mari having fun with the leaves!

@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

A white and black mari with patterns of spider webs and florals holding a rebec a stringed instrument with a crown of twings with webs and leaves

Another autumnal mari, this time playing a Rebec summoning the leaves

(apparently a medieval instrument, felt she needed something other than a staff)

Tardigrade in neon rainbow colors inside a circle with the caption “Just because I can survive harsh conditions doesn’t mean I should have to”

Just because I can survive harsh conditions doesn’t mean I should have to.

Graphic: @standplaatskrk.pl

Never thought of those two together, but it kind of makes sense.