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I wonder, sometimes: will MAGA ever be like "I've never played sports with a trans person but I can't afford groceries and that seems more important" or will they simply starve to death with "what is a woman?" as their last words

I don’t think what he said is that tours are stylistically unified.

Yeah that’s not how they talked about it publicly in realtime, but you can kind of infer it from the story Trey told about how emotional the band was post-10/7, crying together in a small room for hours.

In 2021 they did come back with new lights and the emphasis on spacy synth sounds and such. For a while it felt like perhaps a style shift (imo)

I’d sign that.

That was me purely poking Charlie a little with a 90’s reference

Can’t we all just get along

In ‘21 it may have felt like an epochal shift to see shows again, but if you want to talk about 21-today specifically, “post-pandemic” is right there.

Ultimately it’s a gut thing. The Hiatus was a soft breakup; after the fact they described it as a breakup with the option to return. The Breakup was a breakup. Between those changes their management and whole operation changed. 4.0 was merely a pause in shows for < 12 months.

Of the four groups, I think 2.0 is really the only one that maps onto a specific aesthetic. Maybe 4.0 too, which isn’t great because it suggests stagnation.

You two are starting to talk about creative eras. 1.0/2.0/3.0/4.0 are historical demarcations.

Why are you a chaos agent 🤣

The previous breaks were much more of a break than the pandemic pause — Phish Inc even changed those other times!

But there’s no rulebook to consult to determine what makes a Phish era

So be practical. What do we gain from saying “3.0 + 4.0” vs. “3.0” in any discussion comparing eras?

I don’t support it at all, but if you wanna talk about Phish in historical terms, if you say 3.0 most people won’t assume you mean 3.0 + “4.0”. I said from the start that it would introduce confusion without any benefit. That’s where we are.

phish 3.0 is now 17 years old, the same age as 1.0

cc: @cdirksen.bsky.social

I finally came around to using 4.0 but it’s decidedly unhelpful taxonomy, as shown here: Dan’s (correct) point is that there have been as many years of post-Breakup shows as pre-Breakup shows, and yet he’s catching strays from you, wanting to argue about categories.

The Who?

The Was

But he didn’t even want to move to Philadelphia

“The same people who let their own children wear masks on Halloween now want to take masks away from brave ICE agents”

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

Twice! They (we) returned and killed the surviving children at this school who’d been sheltering.

A large raven in an enclosure. Instead of the usual black, it is white with blue eyes

Today I got to meet a white raven at a wildlife rescue center! This is Opal 💗

This from the Times is absolutely unhinged.

What gets me the most is how casually they call this remark by Crockett a “lie.” Hard to believe the Times is this craven, this dishonest, this absolutely obsessed with obscuring reality in the name of false “balance.”

I do get misty eyed when I think about the photo of Cancellation Team 6 raising the trans flag over Iwo Jima.

Read the new pages of Epstein files related to allegations that Trump sexually abused a minor that were previously withheld:

The new files do not shed any more light onto how credible federal investigators viewed her claims or how they were resolved.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

Thanks for this! I’ll take a closer look later.

It would be cool if political journalists would take note of Republicans currently insisting we’re not at war, and factor that into their credibility when they speak about other things.

I know that’s verboten of course; it’s savvy to live in a perpetual present tense w/no memory or context.

Still from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me of the Man From Another Place saying “garmonbozia”— which in this world is a physical manifestation of others’ pain and sorrow.

Watching Noem’s press conference like

I guess Corey Lewandowski is going to have to start paying for plane tickets.