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chronic chaotic good alignment. gotta phd in english from somewhere. abolish the prisons, demolish the oil companies, wear big boots. he/him
none of my opinions are my own since you are also welcome to have them
none of my opinions are my own since you are also welcome to have them
Look, I don't know what to tell you. I don't particularly have a lot of time on my hands. I just kind of can't stop myself when an idea like this strikes me, and Sufjan Stevens' Christmas albums always get me through this dark and horrible time of year
clownschooldropout.bandcamp.com/album/youre-...
clownschooldropout.bandcamp.com/album/youre-...
You're the Christmas Unicorn, Too, by Hermeticist
2 track album
clownschooldropout.bandcamp.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Look, I don't know what to tell you. I don't particularly have a lot of time on my hands. I just kind of can't stop myself when an idea like this strikes me, and Sufjan Stevens' Christmas albums always get me through this dark and horrible time of year
clownschooldropout.bandcamp.com/album/youre-...
clownschooldropout.bandcamp.com/album/youre-...
"I always liked Aslan a little better than Jesus...While the image that Jesus conjured up in my head was a blurry amalgamation of Jim Morrison and Allen Ginsberg (without the glasses), Aslan was always crystal clear: the golden hair; the strong, soft paws; the sexy, sonorous tone of his voice."
November 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"I always liked Aslan a little better than Jesus...While the image that Jesus conjured up in my head was a blurry amalgamation of Jim Morrison and Allen Ginsberg (without the glasses), Aslan was always crystal clear: the golden hair; the strong, soft paws; the sexy, sonorous tone of his voice."
I think I've definitely shared this before, but if you are thinking about the 75th birthday of Narnia, as I am, you might enjoy this piece I wrote about re-reading The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe after leaving the church as an adult.
the-rambling.com/2023/04/06/i...
the-rambling.com/2023/04/06/i...
Edmund - The Rambling
Nathan Schmidt rereads The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the first book in C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, and comes to terms with the ways in which he grew up to become Edmund Pevensie, the ...
the-rambling.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I think I've definitely shared this before, but if you are thinking about the 75th birthday of Narnia, as I am, you might enjoy this piece I wrote about re-reading The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe after leaving the church as an adult.
the-rambling.com/2023/04/06/i...
the-rambling.com/2023/04/06/i...
I'm always down for dancing about architecture and this absolutely hits the spot: warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.com/album/interi... #musicsky
Interim Report, March 1979, by Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan
10 track album
warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I'm always down for dancing about architecture and this absolutely hits the spot: warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.com/album/interi... #musicsky
This is a straight-up #dungeonsynth song, like, I have heard these exact textures on dungeon synth albums. In 1986, Ray Lynch predicted the exact aesthetic that a certain type of indie game soundtrack would be going for, and he did it on an album called Deep Breakfast
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8mE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8mE...
Pastorale / Ray Lynch
YouTube video by Ray Lynch - Topic
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This is a straight-up #dungeonsynth song, like, I have heard these exact textures on dungeon synth albums. In 1986, Ray Lynch predicted the exact aesthetic that a certain type of indie game soundtrack would be going for, and he did it on an album called Deep Breakfast
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8mE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8mE...
This isn't my campus newspaper anymore but it's still great to know that nobody stops the IDS. Without their persistent coverage of our unionization efforts, we would not have been successful at demanding raises for grad workers. Network journalists could learn a lot from these brave students.
Last week, the Indiana University administration asked their student newspaper not to print any news stories in the Homecoming edition. When the faculty advisor refused, IU fired him and ended paper printing. So students at the Purdue paper printed the IU edition and drove it down to Bloomington!
Purdue student journalists deliver special 'solidarity' newspaper to IU Bloomington campus
The special edition blasted across town features columns from IDS and Exponent editors, alongside QR codes to support both student papers.
www.heraldtimesonline.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This isn't my campus newspaper anymore but it's still great to know that nobody stops the IDS. Without their persistent coverage of our unionization efforts, we would not have been successful at demanding raises for grad workers. Network journalists could learn a lot from these brave students.
Claims about the "inevitability" of generative AI prove how accustomed we've become to a magic hat economic model in which one in every thousand hats contains a rabbit, but if we want our money to mean anything, we have to collectively pretend that all of them do. 999 invisible rabbits.
October 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Claims about the "inevitability" of generative AI prove how accustomed we've become to a magic hat economic model in which one in every thousand hats contains a rabbit, but if we want our money to mean anything, we have to collectively pretend that all of them do. 999 invisible rabbits.
This is what I've been saying, put more clearly by an actually knowledgeable journalist. If you want to Have A Company, you have to Sell A Product. A lot of companies take a while to turn a profit, but all the ones who do have one thing in common: selling a thing
www.theregister.com/2025/10/15/o...
www.theregister.com/2025/10/15/o...
ChatGPT: so popular, hardly anyone will pay for it
: If you build it, they will come and expect the service to be free
www.theregister.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This is what I've been saying, put more clearly by an actually knowledgeable journalist. If you want to Have A Company, you have to Sell A Product. A lot of companies take a while to turn a profit, but all the ones who do have one thing in common: selling a thing
www.theregister.com/2025/10/15/o...
www.theregister.com/2025/10/15/o...
"Some AI is being used to make images and videos online" is perhaps the funniest possible way to respond to "What are the benefits of AI?" Yes, these things are primarily sausage grinders that feed the products of human arts and culture back to us as slop...
www.npr.org/2025/10/14/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/14/n...
Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks
How tech companies and government officials handle local impacts will shape the industry's future in the U.S.
www.npr.org
October 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"Some AI is being used to make images and videos online" is perhaps the funniest possible way to respond to "What are the benefits of AI?" Yes, these things are primarily sausage grinders that feed the products of human arts and culture back to us as slop...
www.npr.org/2025/10/14/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/14/n...
I had to break it off with Herbie....he was just so high maintenance
September 28, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I had to break it off with Herbie....he was just so high maintenance
There should be a name for the specific kind of seasonal affective disorder that comes from the fact that fall doesn't happen anymore and it's going to be eighty degrees in October. I guess the word for this is eco-grief but I want a word that captures specifically how much I miss fall.
September 24, 2025 at 4:28 AM
There should be a name for the specific kind of seasonal affective disorder that comes from the fact that fall doesn't happen anymore and it's going to be eighty degrees in October. I guess the word for this is eco-grief but I want a word that captures specifically how much I miss fall.
Perfect morning working music; also the CD came in a square wooden box like a cajón 🤩
secretstashcomps.bandcamp.com/album/pe-a
secretstashcomps.bandcamp.com/album/pe-a
Peña, by Compilations
15 track album
secretstashcomps.bandcamp.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Perfect morning working music; also the CD came in a square wooden box like a cajón 🤩
secretstashcomps.bandcamp.com/album/pe-a
secretstashcomps.bandcamp.com/album/pe-a
If the Incredible Hulk eats a giant, Hulk-sized sandwich with his big green mouth, does Bruce Banner have to try to pass a Hulk-sized green poo poo later? Does Bruce Banner worry about this? Cuz I guarantee the Hulk is not worried about this for a second
September 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
If the Incredible Hulk eats a giant, Hulk-sized sandwich with his big green mouth, does Bruce Banner have to try to pass a Hulk-sized green poo poo later? Does Bruce Banner worry about this? Cuz I guarantee the Hulk is not worried about this for a second
August 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The FL GOP literally wants a colorless and bland world, painting over simple joys in the name of petty cruelty. And like sure, fascism demands uniformity, but also I just don't understand how these lame and boring people are popular enough to get anyone to vote for them
apnews.com/article/flor...
apnews.com/article/flor...
Florida cities race to save rainbow crosswalks as the state's deadlines for removal loom
Fort Lauderdale city leaders have decided to fight the state of Florida’s order to remove rainbow-colored street art, potentially risking millions of dollars in funding.
apnews.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:10 AM
The FL GOP literally wants a colorless and bland world, painting over simple joys in the name of petty cruelty. And like sure, fascism demands uniformity, but also I just don't understand how these lame and boring people are popular enough to get anyone to vote for them
apnews.com/article/flor...
apnews.com/article/flor...
In the hard quiet corner of my heart where the fear of hell used to be, something admittedly cruel sits, wishing such an afterlife existed in which someone is doing to James Dobson what James Dobson told our parents to do to us
August 23, 2025 at 4:18 AM
In the hard quiet corner of my heart where the fear of hell used to be, something admittedly cruel sits, wishing such an afterlife existed in which someone is doing to James Dobson what James Dobson told our parents to do to us
Also one of the NY'er's better headlines
www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...
www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...
A Dangerous and Evil Piano Piece
www.newyorker.com
August 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Also one of the NY'er's better headlines
www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...
www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...
It's not just about the playing the fan, it's about playing the fan with an almost unbearable level of bonhomie and grace
youtu.be/QJavHc48iZU?...
youtu.be/QJavHc48iZU?...
Electric Fan Harp in the bathhouse │ 銭湯で扇風琴 ♨️
YouTube video by ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS!
youtu.be
August 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
It's not just about the playing the fan, it's about playing the fan with an almost unbearable level of bonhomie and grace
youtu.be/QJavHc48iZU?...
youtu.be/QJavHc48iZU?...
Reposted by NATE!
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
August 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
Also, to this point, the degree to which classroom academics have adopted the "they're always going to live with this, so we have to teach them how to use it" approach is staggering. There is no case in which it actually makes sense to use a nonsense generator, unless you need a ton of nonsense
Stop this. Just… Stop it. Stop using "generative AI" for anything that might actually matter, and especially things that, if it gets them wrong, *Might Fucking Kill You.*
Why does this need to be said? Why is this not obvious??? Why is this not the default way of fucking operating?! What the FUCK.
Why does this need to be said? Why is this not obvious??? Why is this not the default way of fucking operating?! What the FUCK.
August 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Also, to this point, the degree to which classroom academics have adopted the "they're always going to live with this, so we have to teach them how to use it" approach is staggering. There is no case in which it actually makes sense to use a nonsense generator, unless you need a ton of nonsense
Eddie Palmieri's part of the Derek Bailey "On the Edge" documentary was positively transcendent; when he wanted to, he could go as hard as Cecil Taylor. Watch the way he can't stop himself from singing along with his solo here. Legendary. #musicsky #jazz
youtu.be/B6fSMxXDZNY?...
youtu.be/B6fSMxXDZNY?...
DEREK BAILEY - ON THE EDGE
YouTube video by Rafael Villegas
youtu.be
August 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Eddie Palmieri's part of the Derek Bailey "On the Edge" documentary was positively transcendent; when he wanted to, he could go as hard as Cecil Taylor. Watch the way he can't stop himself from singing along with his solo here. Legendary. #musicsky #jazz
youtu.be/B6fSMxXDZNY?...
youtu.be/B6fSMxXDZNY?...
Like, it's money. That I have. Or in a credit card's case, money that I am already allowed to have. Of course there have always been things that are legal and illegal to spend money on, but those things have been determined by...the LAW. Not by a thing that one random guy woke up worried about today
People are pissed, but the ones you need to target on this are, specifically, Visa and Mastercard. We need to collectively tell them to stop telling you, a grown adult, what you can and can't buy, and that this is harming their brand more than ANY adult media ever could.
July 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Like, it's money. That I have. Or in a credit card's case, money that I am already allowed to have. Of course there have always been things that are legal and illegal to spend money on, but those things have been determined by...the LAW. Not by a thing that one random guy woke up worried about today
"I love you...God bless you...You're the fuckin' best." Notice how many times Ozzy stops to send love to the audience? Today was going to come sooner or later, but it's still a day of great loss for me and a bunch of other weird people
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUT7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUT7...
BLACK SABBATH - "Children of the Grave" from The End (Live Video)
YouTube video by Black Sabbath
www.youtube.com
July 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"I love you...God bless you...You're the fuckin' best." Notice how many times Ozzy stops to send love to the audience? Today was going to come sooner or later, but it's still a day of great loss for me and a bunch of other weird people
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUT7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUT7...
Did anybody else already know that Bill Frisell could be terrifying? I only knew him as the good at front porch music but still highly respected for his technical chops guy; this stuff is terrifying #musicsky
youtu.be/anS5KrxE0Ig
youtu.be/anS5KrxE0Ig
RICHTER 858, A Slideshow
YouTube video by Songlines Recordings
youtu.be
July 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Did anybody else already know that Bill Frisell could be terrifying? I only knew him as the good at front porch music but still highly respected for his technical chops guy; this stuff is terrifying #musicsky
youtu.be/anS5KrxE0Ig
youtu.be/anS5KrxE0Ig
there is a certain (mostly) 70s-era album art aesthetic that essentially guarantees that I will purchase the vinyl, and it looks like this
July 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
there is a certain (mostly) 70s-era album art aesthetic that essentially guarantees that I will purchase the vinyl, and it looks like this