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Me: How do I import this ics file? Outlook: There's a new way to do it! Me: Okay. What was wrong with the old way? Outlook: This way is better! Me: No, it's just different. The old way worked fine. Outlook: Do you hate progress? Me: I hate learning new dumb ways to do the old dumb things.

Just catching up to the news that Boy George used AI to support Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people. Did he really want to hurt me? Make me cry?

I’d be in diapers. But 20 years later I’d a typesetter for the Knoxville News-Sentinel. On my father’s side, I’d be a lineman of the counteeeeeeeeeeeee

I'm psyched for the upcoming release of the Rubber Soul box sets. Not that I can afford to buy any of them. But I'll stream them on YouTube Music and watch all the Beatles nerds on YouTube rave/rant about them. It's the EMI-vs-Capitol release discourse I crave.

Leslie Stahl right now

Emilia Clarke's Funny Gagging FaceAlt: Emilia Clarke's Funny Gagging Facestatic.klipy.com

I re-read The Odyssey about 8 years ago. Not the Emily Wilson translation, although I looked for it based on the recommendation of a friend who had written a book on Homer's influence on modernist writers. My local store didn't have it and I was impatient, so I grabbed Robert Fagles. It was good!

Finished "A Very Irregular Head" last night. Likely the best Syd Barrett biography we will ever get. ("Dark Globe" is also very good, but lacks details about his later life.) My favorite bit: a little girl interrupts Syd's gardening to ask if a make-believe horse can fly. He confirms it can.

Things I'd like to see struck from online discourse: "End of argument. Move along people." "I'll wait."

Now I have to the movie just so I can read the article the translator wrote about it.

Despite all the discourse, I’m still looking forward to seeing the Cyclops movie.

The ratio of brilliant to annoying in any artist is mostly a matter of taste, of course, but some artists seem to create whole new mathematical relationships near impossible to untangle.

Trout Mask Replica: Man with Fish Head Mask Plays SaxophoneALT: Trout Mask Replica: Man with Fish Head Mask Plays Saxophonestatic.klipy.com

The word is that a 90s zinester who bragged about his abusive treatment of women has died. It’s sad to waste the only life you’re given that way. All comfort and solace to those who have survived him and his behavior.

Disaster capitalism becomes genocidal capitalism. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/o...

Opinion | The Grim Lessons of Israel’s War in Gaza (Gift Article)Israel has not been held accountable for its actions in Gaza. The nation and the individuals and countries enabling it to escape punishment may only benefit.www.nytimes.com