By definition, every living person in the planet benefits from survivorship bias; we need to remind people of this.

IF IT DOESN‘T SPARK JOY, LIGHT IT UP

Are you telling me that the middle third of Mission Impossible 5: Rogue Nation isn’t real now wait a—

misidentified Netflix descriptor screen: text says "tidying up with Marie Kondo" and photo is a person with an assault rifle in the desert

seriously, get rid of your crap

Disney made the movie Frozen so when you googled "Walt Disney frozen", it would show results for the movie instead of the urban legend that Walt Disney cryogenically froze his head

Cartoon image of a chef cutting Shawarma with the words“unknown pleasures” underneath

Shepherds pie day here

I honestly loved it on first listen; again, kind of perplexed by the 24 hours of Microcomplaints

I believe it was F Scott Fitzgerald who said that genius is the ability of a Strait to be both open and closed at the same time

“Why own when you can just rent forever and ever” shut up

because CD players, walkmans, and VCRs usually fucking worked and did precisely what was asked of them without relogging in and syncing and re-entering passwords and getting confirmation codes and doing 2FA with out TV and phone and clicking a fake "remember me" box that's fucking why

This is really grating on me, too. It’s a question-begging headline that frames things a certain way, presupposing that so-called “convenience” is some sort of seamless, frictionless prime-motivator trump card for a consumer. Infuriating.

The song with Gibbard - Evan and Chan - is somehow absolutely of its time but also still an all-timer, I’d argue

I always thought it was a contraction of “Don’t Tell”, although never settled on a pronunciation

Now who’s the poet!

Well I think it was a linguist or poet, so that explains it a bit? still that linguist or poet was wrong

actually a little surprised at all the Microphones vitriol I’m seeing - while not the best album of the year *koff* Eitzel’s The Invisible Man *koff*, it was pretty well liked at the time. I guess it was my particular echo chamber.

Elbow… is I guess pleasant? I liked the rocket building song

I’m loving the several digs at Elbow’s name, as they picked it bc someone once claimed it was one of the most beautiful words in the English language

Vote Microphones, people!

(It’s truly unnerving how most of Grant Lee Buffalo’s first 2-3 albums renew their political salience every 11 years or so. We find ourselves in a Joe Moon/Copperopolis era… again)

Pray the holy war is ending /
Like in the films of Hollywood /
And the trumpet’s blast is blending / with the crack of burning wood

Nail biter!

The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles.

That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org.

(All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).

“Is there someone out there crying? Out there in the darkness? Hey, hey - hey now. Don’t be mean. We don’t have to be mean. Because remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”

- Buckaroo, 8:4

When Bobby Moynihan is packing up, and one of his boxes is labeled “Book, Videogames…”

Indeed.

(Maybe it’s a fiddle leaf)

Wearing camo and lugging a ficus and a camera

Sadly just heard from the dept chair we’re being shut down for the new Astrology major.

I nominate myself for the Flat Earther chair in Astronomy

Happy to come aboard as a comp lit professor who doesn’t speak or even read some sort of woke second language