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bad lieutenant becoming a franchise only helmed by weirdo auteurs is so funny

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

I wrote about David Z's career for @thecurrent.org. www.thecurrent.org/feature/2026...

Minneapolis hitmaker and Prince collaborator David Z has diedDavid Rivkin also worked with Etta James, Lipps Inc., Fine Young Cannibals, and the Jets.www.thecurrent.org

Kicking the tires of the horse rortovator, goddamn this thing needs new tie rods

"Garage revivalists have 'projected a certain idealism onto the original bands', but ? and the Mysterians came as close as anyone to that ideal: young and unpolished, the DIY product of a hyper-local music community, yet full of wide-eyed pop ambition."

'A hypnotic effect that fills you with joy': The incredible story of 96 Tears, the US's unlikeliest one-hit wonderIn 1966, a Mexican-American teen band made one of the great smash-hit singles and helped invent garage rock, a genre that has inspired artists for decades.www.bbc.com

BIG PLOT TWIST in TX: Tarrant County's GOP officials, faced with intense public outrage about huge cuts to the battleground county's polling locations in November, have decided to delay their final vote on the plan so more polling places can be added

Even if they do eventually close, the Ellisons are looking at paying at least a billion dollars in ticking fees.

That is much closer to what the AGs wanted as opposed to Paramount’s request for a November trial date. It also places the Ellisons perilous close to the June must-close date. If this has to go through appeals following a bad ruling for Paramount, you could see Warner just demand its $7b kill fee.

The cat, who does not live here, just came in, sniffed the overnight oats I’m eating and recoiled in exaggerated horror. I didn’t ASK you. Get a JOB

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a genuinely sui generis musician whose influence will probably only be understood when he’s gone. but, for my money, there’s no cocteau twins, no shoegaze, no uk post rock without him

This is totally awesome but I saw the Cramps a buncha times and no one ever had these looks on their faces at a Cramps show

at some point, you'd think the combination of 'the super-expensive version of an album is also the worst' will lead to a vinyl sales crash. but like many things in this economy, it may just keep going on for years

Oh my god I think I found the video.

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Generative AI psychosis and delusion is a real thing, as is the degradation of analytical skills. This increasingly makes conversations difficult with those who have "converted" to using it. Along with the clickbait-ification of everything and the adoption of predatory logarithms. Stay vigilant.

Remember when Brundlefly merges with the telepod at the end, I just realized this is exactly what is happening to the Trumpists... they're rotting and turning into monsters and also trying to merge with/via machines and it's not working out, at all

Currently experiencing levels of “who among us” I didn’t know were medically possible

I’ve had like 13 COVID shots and I’m not perimenopausal, skill issue

⚡️BREAKING: A Kansas state court just permanently struck down a long list of abortion restrictions, ruling that they violated the fundamental right to abortion, and health care providers’ right to free speech under the state constitution.

easy to forget that bsky was founded by Jack to be a 'libertarian crypto paradise' bastion of "free speech" unlike Woke Twitter, but was immediately colonized by Trans shitposters who were fun and entertaining and ran off the boring tech dipshits to Nostr, a crime the devs will not forgive