The Onion and Infowars really do feel like good and evil versions of the same media trajectory whereby something that used to be kind of an esoteric local phenomenon in the 90s spread through word of mouth, caught fire when regular people got online and influenced decades of imitators
Always intense! New article from Issue #13, in which John Joseph Ryan looks at how people on the margins of society contest power in the American West of Alex Cox's 1984 punk cult classic film, Repo Man.
Lisa simpson in front of a glass case of THE BOARD OF CANADA
¿Huecos en la categoría de Mejor Relato Extranjero de los Ignotus? ¿Te apetece leer un relato finalista del Hugo y Nebula de un autor nominado a un porrón de premios este año? Prueba con "La hermandad del videoclub de la calle Montague", de Thomas Ha cuentosparaalgernon.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/l...
In the event of something happening to me
There is something I would like you all to see
It's just a photograph of someone that I knew (it's a leopard)
Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...
Thank you for the thoughtful recommendation, NM - really enjoyed reading what you got from it!
Bluesky was fucked up when this was posted, so if you missed it and want to read a story about alien sex, this one’s for you.
seconding (or thirding at this point) Bal
's kinda funny because i started the newsletter as a way to, like, aggregate my tweets about stories id read and liked. then id post a link to twitter (and now bsky). then i stopped doing many posts about stories outside the newsletter. then i stopped posting links to the newsletter. 2026 amirite
I also failed to link to February's with stuff by @crystalkoo.bsky.social and Perry Ruhlands plus work from @lcvonhessen.bsky.social
@noraraywrites.bsky.social and others in the latest @seizethepress.bsky.social
Ah, and of course the Of Montreal Outback SteakHouse ad buttondown.com/shortstoryre...
Havent posted about the newsletter here bc I havent posted much of anything anywhere lately but heres the March 2026 "Oops! All Doctors" edition with @timothyfox.bsky.social , Hugh Beim-Steinberg, Camilla Grudova, Sherwood Anderson and the band Humble Pie: buttondown.com/shortstoryre...
i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years
Oh my god srsly Universal lLanguage is so amazing let's do it
srsly tho let me know what you think of the Rodoreda, have never gotten around to reading her and am curious
Quick question, Zach, the baking books are they, like, Weird?
oh oh oh
NO NO NO YOU DON’T
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
yeah no kiddin
You: I am tired of this Earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.
Me:
Dozens of U.S. strikes on Iran. Dunno what to say now other than my thoughts are with the Iranian civilians under fire. What a nightmare.
Oh damn I hadn't heard this before! like you were saying some real up-beat, good-time music...
The covers of the dälek albums abandoned language and absence
Saw them a bunch back in the day, all the way back to maybe the first tour, when they were still a three piece? Crashed at our house, multiple times. Gonna have to bust these out soon. Way ahead of its time
Dälek!!! Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time
Havent reas this one but all reports indicate that's one of his best. When he's great he's really great!
This is exactly what we're talking about: the Life That Human Beings Live is a frivolous and ultimately useless dead end that only a fool would value or prioritize. This demon has renounced his humanity and left society. He does not live here
Andrea Richards went long on Clyde Jones, who died in December - maybe at 86, or 87, or 88, we couldn’t discern for sure. A gorgeous, reverent piece on an artist who refused to sell his works, loved glitter, got around town via lawnmower, and was thoroughly committed to art for art’s sake.
Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...