@nedraggett
Hi! I write about music at various spots (@thequietus.com, @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, Shfl and my Patreon, also in the past @allmusic.com, @pitchfork.com, @bandcamp.com etc. etc.). Plus podcasting about #Tolkien with friends at @bythebywater.bsky.social
The playful, prolific use of hyperlinks in online journalism (eg Slate, Pitchfork) didn’t anticipate link-rot. Now so many articles are pock-marked with cryptic allusions that some long-dead link once explained. Weird how quickly a new style comes to feel more archaic than the traditional format
OK now THIS is a humble bundle
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I follow the news around local data center resistance fairly closely. This one stands out.
This Kenny Dennis tribute act sucks
Neneh Cherry ranks among the catalog artists I've played most since 2024. Her first two albums still sound fresh, crisp, and fun. And she hasn't stopped. Happy birthday. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2024/10/18/g...
“American” names in a Japanese baseball video gsme
markwayne mullin
some of the most brutal analysis of parasitical organisms you'll read this week.
does anyone have recs of works by religious or philosophical figures on resisting oppression, hegemony, and empire? any cosmological framework is fine, but buddhist, quaker, sikh, and liberation theology christian texts would be particularly welcome
Come for the delightful Tim Curry, stay for the pedantic discourse.
Octavia E. Butler said, “These novels are not prophetic. These novels are cautionary tales… The problems that I write about are problems that we can do something about. That's why I write about them.”
And “I hope they're not prophecy because I don't want to live in that world.”
This is one of 2025's best movies. But you won't get to see it compete at the Oscars.
It's called Nobody, and it earned almost $250 million on a $10< million budget. A future is coming for small, risky films — with or without the Oscars. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-film-t...
HELL yea
make darth the ceo and no one tell him til he gets back
Gonna have to redo the podcast intro
MBV and G'n'R on the door, that would keep Concerned Parents out.
Gabba of Chaos UK passed away. The fact that 90% of the mentions are in Japanese speaks to the cross pollination between Chaos UK and Japanese noise punx. Anyway, RIP one of those great guitarists whose style is so punk it’s practically art. blackkonflik.bandcamp.com/album/chaos-...
It's just one story, one illustration of all the terrible things that have happened. It's been a week since the very great noise/drone artist Siavash Amini posted this, from where he lives Tehran. There has been no update since. It could be for any number of reasons. We just don't know.
The fascinating thing of the past 8 years has been watching a wide swath of acquaintances who self-described as center-right moderates morph into fervent “abolish ICE/defund the police/billionaires shouldn’t exist” boosters
I'm interested in all the races in Maine. I recently started a local show, From Away to ME, with my co-host, Moon Machar. Our first guest was Dr. Nirav Shah, who is running for governor.
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For folks interested in the Maine Senate race, there's actually a newcomer to the race, Andrea LaFlamme. I'm planning on sitting down and talking with her, just like I did with Graham Platner.
I haven't endorsed anyone for any race in the state.
An Edward Gorey drawing showing a morose looking black bird on a branch. He (and this feels very much like a he) is pointing downwards with one scraggly wing, and looking straight ahead with debt-filled eyes. His beak is long and sharp, like winter on the Great Plains. He is pointing with his right wing, but this means he is pointing to your left. Your wicked, sinister side. This is no accident. The Bird makes no such mistakes. But he is talking, and the text tells us that he is saying, "Beware of this and that." Honestly, you feel his message in your bones.
Some days I just feel like this Edward Gorey bird gets it.
We've tried management who wanted to be down with the users and we've tried management (the same management) who hate the users, so maybe the next CEO should be someone who doesn't know what a post is and won Bluesky in a raffle
Nobody has ever been so lyrically yet thoroughly excoriated as in this piece. And yet, few people have ever deserved such a complete dismantling as the Prince formerly known as Andrew
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When I learned Neneh Cherry’s “Buddy X” was a diss track aimed at Lenny for making this song after cheating on Lisa Bonet/Lilakoi Moon and trying to get her back? I was like… “WHAT?”
LMAO it was the RFRA?!?!?! The abortion ban was blocked because of RFRA? IT'S A DOUBLE-EDGE SWORD MOTHERFUCKERS
Grammarly declined my request to interview CEO Shishir Mehrotra today. But it told me that in response to criticisms, it will allow experts to opt out of the feature by emailing expertoptout@superhuman.com. The company gave me this statement over email: We’ve heard the feedback about this tool and appreciate the engagement from those who have taken the time to raise thoughtful questions about the functionality and the experts surfaced. We agree that the product experience can be improved for both users and experts. The agent was designed to help users discover influential perspectives and scholarship that add value to their work. We want the people behind those perspectives to have greater control over whether their name is used, while providing new ways for influential voices to reach new audiences. Our goal is to improve Expert Review to deliver this outcome.
NEWS: Grammarly tells me it will let "experts" like me opt out of having their names used against their will and for no compensation as part of its "expert review" feature www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...
in retrospect its super funny the Bsky brain trust dreamed of a crypto bro wonderland without realizing their invitation only beta (which only the most tuned in, extremely online people could access) guaranteed a seed population of freaky communist shitposters
And we at BtB are delighted to share out the news that once again @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social has done and got himself a new novel to be published next year. Why yes we are going to be reminding you about it regularly in upcoming episodes. It's what we do.
you know how you can distract a vampire by hucking a bunch of seeds in their general direction so they have to stop and count em? if you ever need to do something similar to me just put this video in my peripheral vision and get me to press "play" for what I can only assume is the 12th time in 5 yrs
I can see how he would have not necessarily wanted that. (I find it hard to think he would have wanted to be grouped with Updike, for a start.)
