Nicole McLaughlin's talk this morning was a much needed, thoughtful, creative, and positive palate cleanser after the bummer that was Boz yesterday.
#config2025

Finally ran a full 10k.

Image of a bumper sticker on a blue truck. The sticker is red, white and blue and in block letters says "Bill Lee Is Bad for Tennessee".

Just a reminder...

Gonna be rough out there for a while, Nashville.

You can also give directly to Open Table here: opentablenashville.org/donate

🦞

An Instagram post that says: A quick resistance task: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico. 2. "Gulf of America" will be at the head of Google's answer. 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of "Gulf of America". 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" text. 6. Select "Inaccurate content" 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in whatever text you want such as "The correct name of this body of water is "Gulf of Mexico". The more reports to Google the merrier

Another action that won't make a difference, but feels good.

Big thanks to @noisenotmusic.bsky.social for turning me on to Breathing Heavy. This one's absolutely insane and I love it.
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The federal civilian worker payroll totaled $271 billion in 2022.

The annual cost of permanently extending Trump's tax cuts that primarily benefited rich individuals? $400 billion.

Keep this in mind as Trump and DOGE lay off thousands of federal workers.

A woman screaming into a microphone on stage, with a folding table full of synthesizers and various electronics in front of her.

Very nice, heavy, and intense set from @leperwitch.bsky.social tonight.

A little bit more every time.

What is US foreign assistance? George Ingram answers common questions about U.S. foreign assistance and how it supports American interests.

Foreign assistance makes up 1% of our budget, benefits others and benefits us.

First 5k in years.

Image of a HRV graph where most of the plot points are orange or red, and below the baseline.

Image of HRV chart where all of the plot points are green and within the baseline. The arch goes up, plateaus, goes slightly down and then back up again.

Crazy to see alcohol’s impact on HRV. First chart: December, lots of drinking. Second: dry January—HRV rises, plateaus, dips, then steadies within my baseline. Guess alcohol is bad, y’all. 😐.
#dryjanuary #HRV #garmin

And classic.

We're assuming this is being held at Montgomery Bell?

Witness said a bus driver told an ICE agent to "gargle [his] balls" when the latter requested to enter the bus.

God bless

Was wondering how long it would take before these started popping up. Need a new edit though... "I bought this before we knew Elon was a Nazi"

Super slow, but getting back out there.

Turns out, it won't be AI that forces creatives out of a job. It'll be the bigoted, misogynist, self serving garbage culture being championed by tech oligarchs trickling down, making it impossible for thoughtful, inclusive creatives to stomach a tech job. 🤢

This doesn't feel that long ago, but it totally looks like it's forever ago. It's like how I felt watching videos from the 70's when I was a kid in the early 90's. Man, time is weird.

The first transgender suicide hotline is now up and running in the U.S. You can reach Trans Lifeline at 877-565-8860.

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We got to see our niece Hartley pull off an incredible performance as Tigerlily in a really cool feminist/anti-colonialism adaptation of Peter Pan. This kid is so talented. Can't wait to see what she does next. Definitely a proud uncle & aunt moment.

David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.

David Lynch as Gordon Cole in Twin Peaks

RIP, David Lynch. Truly one of the great weirdoes in film and television history.

Bruce chimed in with a little duck solo. @hanearlpark.bsky.social

aJazzNoise Picks of 2024 So, 2024… an entire year gone by with no aJN reviews posted (Daily Tunes series still going strong, though). There was no shortage of great sounds – as you’ll see in the list below – but I’ve…

Because one can never have enough lists... aJazzNoise's favourite releases of the year.
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Thanks for sharing. This is excellent.

Lost Contact, by Randy Greif 2 track album

Really digging this Randy Grief reissue from Tribe Tapes. Wasn't familiar with Mr. Grief's work prior to listening, but this tape packs a ton into a C-60. Gives you hints of Maurizio Bianchi, Steve Reich, John Carpenter and Master/Slave Relationship, but unique and cohesive. Very nice.

MYORAR is a solid read. Does a great job of making the reader feel the fucked up, drug induced fever dream that is the protagonist's life.
I remember checking TDG out when I was 10 because the OG cover was so sick, and kind of scared me. Never finished it though. Probably time to revisit.

here's a rare baby photo of mark zuckerberg

or driving that bus or standing in the unemployment line is not just a cog in the gross national product machine, but a human being who deserves basic human considerations like health care, proper housing, food, leisure time, etc."
— Joseph Chonto