I’ve discovered Lawes’ music this past week and it’s just a pure delight. Nothing like chilling to some consort suites

They finally made gay sex based

I lose a whole customer base and call it a vibe every day.

Wulfenite would be a good name for a gay bear stripper

Look at it this way: knowing everything we know, all the stuff that is in the public domain, totally out there, does it not seem that the culture at the top is at best hopelessly dysfunctional, at worst a seething pit of corruption and criminality?

When headphone reviews talk about vocalists rather than singers, I feel like art is being degraded by our functionalist culture. I’m Mr. Too Damn Born in 1820 sometimes.

I put these on my dad’s head and 20 minutes of listening later, he asked me to send him a link to where he could buy them.

ContraPoints is what happens when cynicism occludes your politics rather than opening your heart to the hope inherent to the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism.

taylor sheridan was taking notes during this one

We used to be a real country

Bearded homo wearing an eye mask while listening to music on big planar magnetic headphones

My happy place

You could go back in time and cause the head of every conservative in the 90's to implode by showing them this

⭐️ - Absolutely not. Get it out of here.
⭐️⭐️ - Could have skipped.
⭐️⭐️⭐️ - A good watch in its way.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Recommended.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Will happily watch again.

Page one: text on black background, “WAKE UP!”. Eyes open, a baby sea turtle with an eggshell helmet says, “you need to wake up!”

Page 2: helmet turtle says to a green baby sea turtle, who is waking up out off his egg, “we need to get moving.” CRASH! A cormorant breaks through the ceiling of their nest hole. Helmet turtle says MOVE!

Page 3: “when you’re out there, beeline to the water. Don’t stop. Don’t be a hero. Godspeed.” The helmet turtle kicks baby green turtle out the hole off a cliff onto the beach below.

Page 4: baby green turtle lands on the sand. The distance between him and the water is quite large. Another baby sea turtle is being devoured by a seagull and is screaming for help.

I dreamt of the beach (1/4)

Putting Irony Partition Failure here for posterity

BREAKING: Israel's Knesset has passed a law to execute Palestinian detainees.
Death by hanging. Mandatory sentencing. No pardon. 90 days to carry out.

It applies through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. It does not apply to Israelis.

The technology that can’t make an artistic utterance, that 1 in 5 times tells you something completely false, is to be used to forge evidence of your guilt. The emotional distance it provides allows the soft fascists of state to inflict suffering without having to disown American values.

Wagner’s Götterdämmerung

If I've learned anything from my years online, it's that anyone like Alan unironically doing tankies discourse should not be taken seriously about anything ever again.

That brass vibrato…I can’t help but love it

Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture, Cluytens & PCO (1959) リムスキー＝コルサコフ ロシアの復活祭 クリュイタンス YouTube video by Deucalion Project

I found my favorite new Russian Easter Festival Overture recording, gotta love Cluytens and the Paris Conservatory Orchestra!

youtu.be/vWlquvArtuU?...

ICE has been hacked! And you can explore the data, which includes every DHS contract, in this convenient new tool

micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts

Extremely strict gender norms and repressive sexuality lead to horrible, horrible things.

One have one pedophile in the family may be regarded as a misfortune, Mr. Duggar; to have two looks like carelessness.

Anyone who has changed their mind about a strongly held idea when they try to spell it out on paper knows this is true

Just found out there’s a digital audio player themed to match a Japanese virtual pop star’s branding. Product integration between a device geared towards men over 30 combined with an eternally 16-year-old fictional singer? Nope, don’t like that.

OpenAI and…the United States Military…are teaming up to notify YOU that your son has been KILLED IN ACTION. Click here to speak with your son via AI one last time

The first thing one notices sampling the 63 CDs is how broad Mackerras repertoire was. The next is that he did all of it incredibly. His Handel, Dvořák, Mozart, Holst, Coates, folk music, Verdi, and Wagner are all incredibly idiomatic.