This is phenomenal

Given that Remmick's description of his colonisers being Christian doesn't easily match Irish history, and his name reads more Anglo than obviously Irish, maybe the idea is that he just successfully did in Ireland what he was trying to do in Clarksdale (absorbing people and their songs/culture)

Well, I started a vlog. All 50 eps available now. linktr.ee/tedtravelstead

Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.

➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-th...

🔥 Cozy up to a digital fireplace with Sierra On-Line's "A Computer Christmas" (1986). 🎄💾 This vintage software's Yule Log vibe reminds us why preserving digital works matters.

🎁 See the whole card. ➡️ archive.org/details/sier...

Preservation #Christmas #vanishingculture

Codes of Silence | Jack Sheehan Patrick Radden Keefe’s bestselling 2019 book “Say Nothing” has been adapted into a miniseries. It repeats the sins of its source material.

Brilliant critique of Say Nothing (both book and show) by Jack Sheehan for @thebaffler.com. thebaffler.com/latest/codes...

A good cause!

me in my 20s: it’s saturday night! time to go get drunk and party!!!
me in my 40s: ah, saturday night. time to enjoy an evening with my family and perhaps enjoy a drink or two
me in my 8470s: huh. i think i might be god
me in my 98580s: yep i’m god for sure

this earthquake is really coming too soon after the last one

always a highlight of this time of year, to be devoured alongside wine and mince pies

Touching to have Spotify celebrate the 1-year anniversary of my layoff by demonstrating that they could not, in fact, still do Wrapped just as well without me.

not sure i will ever be able to get my head around these numbers. 34M streams in 2024. doesn't feel real.

The Irish election count is the best election count. Just loads of paper empties on a table and sorted into piles in front of everyone.

A hog from a 19th century portrait, expanded and edited so that it stars in the New York City Thanksgiving parade. It is being carried by a group of Ronald McDonalds (which doesn't make sense, but does make sense because the original image was of a Ronald McDonald float).

Happy Thanksgiving

A person driving a 1960s model car through a winding road with the mountainous beautiful background of Ireland's Ring of Kerry.

🚗Beep beep, get in! We're going on a journey through the incredible history, stories and culture of Ireland.

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📷Ring of Kerry, ca. 1960. Catalogue no.: TIL603

Bluesky is built to make social more like the Web again, so we will never suppress links. Link to your writing, your art, your personal site — this is the social internet, designed from the ground up to be open and interoperable.

10 different responses from AOC’s insta followers. Reasons include a belief both AOC & Trump care for working class, neither are establishment politicians and because of anti-war sentiment.

Further responses from AOC’s insta followers. Comments include a sense that both represent change.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) asked her Instagram followers who split their ballot between her & Trump or Trump & another Dem to explain why they did it.

The responses are v interesting (summary in ALT text).

(📸 Screenshot: AOC on Instagram)

Just one of the different brands of scammy nonsense you have to be aware of if you want to be a musician on the Internet

Can't even count how many times someone has pretended to own my songs

It's a cold morning in San Francisco and I'm listening to this album my friend made which is just the most glorious embrace of grief

open.spotify.com/album/14ssRg...

Scrolled back to find this screenshot to note that I just ordered your book and it's specifically because of this post

Really lovely stuff