The assumption that this tech is inconvenient while newer algorithmic tech is not is a fascinating frame. I’ll have to read this to see if that goes anywhere.

Don't bring a knife to a gunfight. Bring a knife to a vault containing many wheels of cheese in a brutalized postapocalyptic society where knives are only a legend. You are now Knifebringer, Divider of the Cheese. Raise your knife and rule the clans.

ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart

Not only did the sons probably call ICE on her, the day after her husband died they took their dad's cars, leaving her housebound. Then they rerouted mail, causing her to miss a visa appointment & the utilities to be turned off. Tony and Gary Ross are going to hell.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

Since we’ve stumbled backwards into a naval strategy and this is getting reskeeted, I want to clarify: 1) Best option was not to start the war in the first place; 2) this is the least bad option now: 3) it still might not work!

Astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch in their orange astronaut suits as they sit inside the side of a helicopter after it has landed

LOL, trying to stay offline and do my work, and friends are sending me

"LOOK AT THIS NEW PIC!" texts ....

This one is worth it.

First PoC and first woman to go around another world. Don't stop talking about this point. It's important.

#ArtemisII

wait why did i think these were vinyl only?!

Yeah, Lee something was label rep. Great guy. He regaled us with nightmarish stories of chaperoning Red Hot Chili Peppers around D.C. that year. Flea wanted to defecate on parked cars. So glad I joined UMD Record Co-Op *right* before Cocteaus/Cole/Talk Talk release day in 1988!

Heart Of Darkness: A Review Of The New Album From My New Band Believe (Black Midi)

Cameron Picton goes as far away as possible from Black Midi with the lush hooks of his new group.
www.apessimistisneverdisappointed.com/2026/04/hear...

A journalist asked me yesterday if academics were surprised by the impact of the Strait of Hormuz - do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and saviour, Alfred Thayer Mahan?

SEAPOWER

TRACK OF THE WEEK: "Hot Head" By Orcutt Shelley Miller (Plus David Yow)

Celebrate not getting blown up by playing this super Beefheart cover from Orcutt Shelley Miller plus David Yow (The Jesus Lizard).
www.apessimistisneverdisappointed.com/2026/04/trac...

A depressing day as a Military ethicist and anxious one as a mother.

a young boy in a striped shirt is pointing his finger ALT: a young boy in a striped shirt is pointing his finger

We shouldn't all be forced to live in this episode of The Twilight Zone constantly. This is no way to live.

I AM GOING TO BURN DOWN THE SHED UNLESS WE HAVE PIZZA ROLLS FOR DINNER TONIGHT

[mom sighs, rolls her eyes, writes "pizza rolls" on the grocery list for next week]

I HAVE DECIDED NOT TO BURN DOWN THE SHED

The Sound It Made: A Quick Review Of The New Album From Robber Robber

@firetalkrecs.bsky.social have a great new one from Robber Robber.
www.apessimistisneverdisappointed.com/2026/04/the-...

You can see my old apartment in the bottom picture, haha.

“Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the President and intervene in Trump’s madness. …he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit.” Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia)

@svengoolieofficial.bsky.social I met both David Naughton and Griffin Dunne but neither turned into An American Werewolf!! #svengoolie

Great news! A lot of folks have been asking, and yes Rocketship will be playing some east coast shows this fall! With special guests Lightheaded! *AND* they're also playing the Windy Pop Weekender! Tix are on sale now for the individual shows; Weekender tix go on sale 4/9.
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It’s a great movie, a shaggy, dislocated mystery that plays like a serious The Big Lebowski refracted through 70s paranoia… but I wish they’d let the original, better title (CUTTER AND BONE).

VIDEO OF THE WEEK: "Water Drops" By Above Me (Blue Ocean, Seablite)

New music from Rick Altieri (Blue Ocean on @slumberlandrecords.com) with Lauren from @rhymies.bsky.social is great news! This is on @dandyboyrecords.bsky.social!!!
www.apessimistisneverdisappointed.com/2026/04/vide...

Name your fav horror film director
Terence Fisher

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using with no explanation.

Remembering the legendary Marvin Gaye on his birthday (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984)💙🕊

Seeing John Glenn's capsule at Air in Space in D.C. was a revelation. Just amazingly small. Well, now I need to re-read The Right Stuff...

Mindrolling: A Quick Review Of The New Album From sunn O)))

I listened to the new sunn O))) record. Maybe you should too?

www.apessimistisneverdisappointed.com/2026/04/mind...

14 years ago today I rode a taxi from Kwun Tong to Causeway Bay and bluffed my way into a Cherie Chung press event. Maybe my happiest day in HK?

If You Tolerate This... is a brillian song but I'd rather they'd had a #1 with You Stole The Sun From My Heart or Tsunami...

I think some people misunderstood this exchange with Gorsuch. Under current law, Native Americans are NOT birthright citizens under the 14th A. They get it through a 1924 law.

Gorsuch asked if the gov's argument was true, wouldn't they get citizenship under the 14th A, and the SG said probably yes.

Donald Trump’s lazy, racist attempt to outlaw birthright citizenship is simply going to validate it and cement it for future generations. It’s going to be one of the biggest backfires of his second term. Really embarrassing shit for the Republican Party, in my humble opinion.

BUT... they do this extremely well, right?