All those "show us what you looked like ten years ago" or "show your green art/animal art/art of women" memes are being used to train AI

That guard on those stairs is completely incoherent. Amazing that multiple people would have signed off on it.

Two red squirrels sitting next to each other in a bird feeder, studiously avoiding eye contact as they munch on sunflower seeds. Barely visible on the right is the nose of a third squirrel about to cause chaos.

One squirrel holds down another while a third squirrel squirms on its back as the three of them high-speed wrestle in a wooden bird feeder.

A chaotic ball of three red squirrels in a wooden tray feeder. Seeds fly through the air as they recreate the cartoon depiction of a fight as a cloud of dust with arms and legs sticking out.

One squirrel lies on its back eyes closed against the chaos, almost in the arms of another who looks appalled at the third squirrel face-planting in the feeder at the feet of the other two.

Chaos in the bird feeder this morning. My two squirrel buddies decided to tolerate each other again so I grabbed my camera. A third tried to get in on the action and these crazy photos ensued.

I promise no squirrel was injured. All of this happened in the space of seconds. #Mammals 🌿

Good morning music lovers! It’s #CountrRockSunday where we post country rock even when it’s marketed as something else by a record label!

A faux cover for The Doom Patrol feature Negative Man, Elasti-Girl charging into a cavern of danger.

The Doom Patrol (Robot Man, Negative Man, Elastigirl, and The Chief) debuted in My Greatest Adventure #80 on this date in 1963!

#doompatrol #robotman #cliffsteele #elastigirl #ritafarr #negativeman #larrytrainor #thechief #drnilescaulder #dccomics #mygreatestadventure

Of the situations I regularly encounter on my bike commute, this one is easily the scariest -- even though "nothing happened."

Reader, a lot is happening.

@bikesky.social #BikeSky #VisionMillion

And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion

The Wetland Project has been my favorite alternate-reality radio experience since it began. Since it only happens once a year, you can’t become accustomed to it. Close your eyes and be washed over by the sonic reality of an isolated bog on Saturna Island!

Pulp is on the list of tourney favourites I've never connected with, and this album isn't any different. Les Savy Fav's tunes have some energy, and that's about enough to carry the day!

Wishing a happy Brian’s Hat Day to all who celebrate.

100% Toronto, no doubt.

At 4:56, if you're looking for it.

Primary source, awesome!

Also at 10:41 Eastern

Citing "My Favorite Mutiny", I'd go with a voiced closing P, though that isn't a Boots verse.

Counterpoint, French pronunciation used in "The Guillotine". Maybe inconclusive.

Yeah, it's a house party, it's the Black Panther Party, its the Communist Party

I co-sign every detail of Nannette's Opinion here, although I must admit to only a year and a half in Chicago and more familiarity with Wilmette than Winnetka.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

I, age 15, equally not cool, also had Fisherman's Blues. It holds up pretty good though!

Hey folks! I was going to announce this this morning, but Bluesky not having its shit together made me reluctant. (Why announce something if no one can see it?) Shit seems to be together now, so I’ll say it:

The next Best Album tournament is officially 1988. It will likely start in Q4 2026.

I mean, right now I'm on hold w the cable/internet/cell phone conglomerate, so, no, lol, no joy here, voting for Converge

I have uncovered the identities of all 4 members of the World Software Naming Consortium

Jesus is dead til tomorrow so let's do some crimes [Picture of.a hand holding a rosary And a black cat yelling

Happy Saturday, heretics

Just in case you needed to see Christina Hendricks holding PSYCHOCANDY during a DJ set this week, for your many agonies.

HOLY SHIT

FRINKIAC BUT FOR "30 ROCK"

MILLENNIAL GAME-CHANGER

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Y'all, Lana's writing here about Kristin Hersh's Sunny Border Blue is great, please read.

Also please vote Sunny Border Blue, it's in a tough contest with a worthy opponent

It's 2005. I've been on the phone with Kristin Hersh for over two hours and, as far as I'm concerned, if the phone call went on for another two hours that wouldn't be enough. I'm gripping the receiver of the cordless phone tight, sure that if I listen long enough, l'lI learn the secrets of the universe. I live in a trailer with holes in the floor, water that comes down the inner walls, with the child I had at nineteen and, part-time, my partner. I am twenty-six years old, in community college, and discussing my partner adopting my child. We are probably not happy together. We feel compatible, and are likely both wondering if that's enough. I am talking with Kristin because my cousin-who is younger and thinner than me and has far more energy and a brighter future than I do-has a zine. She lives at the Jersey shore, and early on in her zine's inception she got some interviews with bands that later became famous. Those credentials have led to me being able to get photo passes for Ani DiFranco, Badly Drawn Boy, the Pixies. If I aim my sights on the smaller venues, I get interviews. I have no idea how to interview, but Kristin doesn't care. This is a conversation to her, and to me too; I feel completely at ease asking her questions about her life even more than her music, because she is in love with her life, with her family, and is enthusiastically sharing her thoughts on relationships and parenting, things I currently am struggling with. "I find marriage to be wild!" she tells me, and my head explodes at the idea of marriage being the opposite of "settling down," a thing Kristin, with her constant music output, four sons, and van life, is not interested in doing. "It's not comfortable. I mean, maybe we're at peace, we've got inner peace going on, but you've got somebody with your heart in their hands--any minute, they could just mess up your whole life. The terror that goes along with love is crazy."

I have always thought of Kristin Hersh and her stepsister, Tanya Donelly, as an either/or situation; Betty or Veronica, The Beatles or the Stones. Never mind that they had a band together. Tanya's tracks in Throwing Muses, Belly, her solo albums-those were my jams. Kristin's voice has always been too raw for me, it's always felt like too much. But l've always been too much, myself. When the call is (sadly) over, the show is next. It's at The Tin Angel-a Philadelphia venue that has only a few tables that, from what I can tell, you reserve by also buying a meal from the restaurant downstairs. The rest of us stand, watching people who are older and richer than us eat dinner. Kristin is blonde now, her piercing blue eyes no longer the focus now that she doesn't have dark hair and heavy, blunted fringe to make them pop. She has an easy, mom haircut. Dressed down, she's not looking to impress or perform Being a Musician. She looks like someone you could easily pass on the street. Between each song, she talks, and she is as entrancing in front of an audience as she was on the phone. But the songs-! They're intimate, they ARE raw, they couldn't have been written by anyone else. They're the stories she's told me, and the ones she's telling the audience, and more.

I spend the next several weeks listening to her back catalog, and it's Sunny Border Blue that becomes the album I go back to most often. While the haunting "Your Ghost" off Hips and Makers is still my favorite song she's done, there's something about the entirety of Sunny Border Blue that feels like Kristin at her most everything. "Your Dirty Answer" veers away at its most catchy, "Spain" decides half-way through to stop being a ballad. Even though I know "Trouble is a cover, it feels like hers when she sings it, and might be the most accessible song on the album. At times, if I listen too closely, Kristin Hersh is still too much for me, but then a line jumps out and grabs my heart, and I keep going. "It's my experience that if you're really paying attention, then [life]'s not boring, that's for sure," she told me on the phone. "Everything matters." Sunny Border Blue is an album where everything matters, where those small moments of life are on the same level as the hardest moments. wish I could care that much, about anything, but it's been years since that phone call and I am still the person who struggles to keep a broken-down home, to stay in a long-term relationship, to give myself over fully to the hobbies I most enjoy. But I still think of that call, that show, and all Kristin's wisdom and joy often. Life, as always, is not boring, that's for sure.

We have one Designated Cheerleader, it’s for SUNNY BORDER BLUE, and it’s from @lanna.bsky.social! Take it away, Lanna!

Vote Kristin Hersh, this is really close!

Last call (by which I mean I'm going back to sleep and when I wake up, it will be over), please vote Kristin Hersh. It's been neck and neck this whole time, and in the event of a tie, it goes to the other album (higher seed takes it)

Sunny the Border Collie says: No ties, only Kristin