Dan Manchester

I genuinely believe our drifting away from this over the past half century or so is a direct cause (of many) for the situation we find ourselves in.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi 12 track album

Stop literally everything.

Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time.

fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Genuinely, what the FUCK is a politically correct war? What’s this ghoul even talking about? We’ve effectively been at war my entire adult life and not once have I thought, “At least no one’s calling the children we’re bombing the r-word.”

Can he be one of them please?

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

evergreen status

Civil rights are a kitchen-table issue.

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

Just saw an article arguing we’re in a new AI-led Software Industrial Revolution, due to how AI coding agents now “just work.” They’ll “change the world in profound and unexpected ways.” It unironically quotes Peter fucking Thiel as though it was prophesy.

I’m just so tired of this shit.

@hrishikesh.co Just listened to “Stray Dogs” and, wow, it is a *really* beautiful song. Congratulations! I'm definitely looking forward to the full album release.

a fucking pedophile sexually abused nearly every prospective and actual Olympian gymnast for over two decades, and the political discourse is hyper-fixated on the hypothetical unfairness of trans girls competing with cis girls

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop

And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)

RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

yep, they're still at it in LA and Portland too

the media is gonna be like "time for a new narrative" and it's so important to keep talking about how none of the cities they invaded have become more safe since the spotlight shifted away from them

This perfectly articulates a fear that’s been welling up inside me for a long time now.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

I want every demon involved in this nightmare thrown into a pile in what remains of the Rose Garden and burned like the trash that they are on live television. Every last one of them.

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show

If it walks like a system of concentration camps and talks like a system of concentration camps…

My 5th grader’s teacher would email monthly about what’s happened in the classroom. It was about four paragraphs long. Almost always good, useful info.

He’s scrapped the emails for a fucking podcast now. They’re averaging 20-30 minutes. I don’t know who this is for but it is sure as fuck not me.

Audre Lorde, in a 1989 commencement address, said, "Remember this, despair is a tool of your enemies. That rumor, 'You can’t fight City Hall,' is circulated by City Hall. Facing the realities of our lives gives us the motivation for action, it gives us the power to change. You are not powerless."

Never forget that the people who convinced you trans people are a threat to your children all belong to a network of child rapists.

For decades the Right has daydreamed about saving their country from monsters, they finally got the chance and it turns out they love the monsters. The monsters are even monstrous in the exact ways they fantasized about! You never have to listen to these guys about anything again

An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.

Hope you all stay safe!

I’ve spent the morning sitting with my wife at her first of 16 chemo infusions. Nurses continue to be the best of us. We drove through fog on the way here. I love fog. I love my wife. I have nothing smart to say about anything these days. The world is how it is and life continues on.

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.