David Connerley Nahm
@dcnahm.bsky.social
There comes a time in every father’s life when his daughter asks, “Can we please stop listening to The Residents?”
February 14, 2026 at 6:16 PM
There comes a time in every father’s life when his daughter asks, “Can we please stop listening to The Residents?”
Julian Lage is an all time great.
I can’t call this an earworm, exactly, but it’s in my head and matching my mood as I both ponder love and scroll the news.
Julian Lage - In Heaven (Official Video)
YouTube video by Julian Lage
youtu.be
February 14, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Julian Lage is an all time great.
Jim O’Rourke
Just by going off career success, who *should* be the next Halftime Show —
1. Taylor Swift
2. Adele
3. Ariana Grande
Metallica, Mariah Carey, Drake, Dua Lipa, Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish, and Harry Styles are the next tier. Styles has a new album this year, so he might be the safe bet for 2027
1. Taylor Swift
2. Adele
3. Ariana Grande
Metallica, Mariah Carey, Drake, Dua Lipa, Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish, and Harry Styles are the next tier. Styles has a new album this year, so he might be the safe bet for 2027
February 13, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Jim O’Rourke
Jad Fair runs to the phone to call Yo La Tengo.
ICYMI: Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers
Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers
Genetic study finds domestic pigs’ year-round breeding sped gene flow into wild boar
Back in 2021, in the thick of pandemic mania, The Register gleefully reported that "radioactive hybrid terror pigs" were thriving in Japan's Fukushima exclusion zone.…
dlvr.it
February 13, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Jad Fair runs to the phone to call Yo La Tengo.
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what a nightmare
“The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently rolled out a new policy that permits university officials to record classes without notifying the instructor. It’s a practice administrators have used in the past to investigate professors but have now formalized in writing.”
UNC Admin Can Now, Officially, Secretly Record Faculty
The new policy prohibits students from recording class without permission but explicitly allows administrators to surveil professors for any “lawful purpose.”
www.insidehighered.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:10 PM
what a nightmare
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Honestly if you made PONTYPOOL into a video game I'd imagine it having sections like this
word invasion, screenshot, apple II (1983) www.mobygames.com/game/157965/...
February 11, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Honestly if you made PONTYPOOL into a video game I'd imagine it having sections like this
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e-lady and her podcaster boyfriend
February 11, 2026 at 12:56 AM
e-lady and her podcaster boyfriend
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A panel from one of the last Peanuts comics. I think of it often.
February 5, 2026 at 4:46 PM
A panel from one of the last Peanuts comics. I think of it often.
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The person who wrote a novel that got turned into a movie is commissioned to write a novelization of a sequel in the movie series his novel inspired. Ramboroboros.
February 8, 2026 at 1:46 PM
The person who wrote a novel that got turned into a movie is commissioned to write a novelization of a sequel in the movie series his novel inspired. Ramboroboros.
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Link to the 1984 The Cure show.
archive.org/details/ajc0...
archive.org/details/ajc0...
The Cure Live at The Bismarck Theatre 1984-11-09 : The Cure : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The CureNovember 9th, 1984The Bismarck TheatreChicago, ILMaster recording generously loaned from the Aadam Jacobs Audio ArchiveTransferred By: Brian...
archive.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Link to the 1984 The Cure show.
archive.org/details/ajc0...
archive.org/details/ajc0...
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‘All my books are written in French. But I live in another language, so my French is probably contaminated’
Mathias Énard in The Observer!
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Mathias Énard in The Observer!
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Mathias Énard: ‘I write with a bastard tongue’
The Prix Goncourt-winning novelist on the myths of the Middle East, the horrors and wonders of history, and life at a Madrid museum
observer.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 5:23 PM
‘All my books are written in French. But I live in another language, so my French is probably contaminated’
Mathias Énard in The Observer!
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Mathias Énard in The Observer!
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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I love The X-Files
Robert Fripp and Debbie Harry, 1978 - Photo by Chris Stein
February 1, 2026 at 7:21 PM
I love The X-Files
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And then you turn the page, and descend into 400 pages of war.
Absolute gut punch. I was already a Vollmann true believer, but that’s real GOAT stuff
Absolute gut punch. I was already a Vollmann true believer, but that’s real GOAT stuff
February 1, 2026 at 2:50 AM
And then you turn the page, and descend into 400 pages of war.
Absolute gut punch. I was already a Vollmann true believer, but that’s real GOAT stuff
Absolute gut punch. I was already a Vollmann true believer, but that’s real GOAT stuff
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At the halfway point of Fathers and Crows, there is a brief section about a Jesuit missionary who embraced the the native population with love and converted 4k people single-handedly. The chapter ends with “it could have been done this way in Canada. It could have been done.”
February 1, 2026 at 2:50 AM
At the halfway point of Fathers and Crows, there is a brief section about a Jesuit missionary who embraced the the native population with love and converted 4k people single-handedly. The chapter ends with “it could have been done this way in Canada. It could have been done.”
I was just informed by my daughter that the enemy of chocolate is macaroni and cheese.
January 31, 2026 at 10:20 PM
I was just informed by my daughter that the enemy of chocolate is macaroni and cheese.
Reading The Mill on the Floss and Eustace and Hilda at the same time has been a good idea. A very fun pairing.
January 31, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Reading The Mill on the Floss and Eustace and Hilda at the same time has been a good idea. A very fun pairing.
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I must’ve forgotten this Bible story
January 31, 2026 at 7:49 PM
I must’ve forgotten this Bible story
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a successful society does not engage in "dibs"
January 31, 2026 at 4:02 PM
a successful society does not engage in "dibs"
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catherine o’hara was absolutely god-tier at harmonization, first of all, and then the fact that she performed this number in character, with all those subtle expressions and moments, is just…fuck. a once-in-a-lifetime talent
January 30, 2026 at 6:39 PM
catherine o’hara was absolutely god-tier at harmonization, first of all, and then the fact that she performed this number in character, with all those subtle expressions and moments, is just…fuck. a once-in-a-lifetime talent
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#AgainsttheDay
#ThomasPynchon
“The State is evil, its divine right proceeds from Hell, Hell is where we all went. Some came out...broken, dying...intimidated into silence...all of us, even those who had voted and paid our taxes like good bourgeoisie, came out hating the State.
#ThomasPynchon
“The State is evil, its divine right proceeds from Hell, Hell is where we all went. Some came out...broken, dying...intimidated into silence...all of us, even those who had voted and paid our taxes like good bourgeoisie, came out hating the State.
January 28, 2026 at 12:09 PM
#AgainsttheDay
#ThomasPynchon
“The State is evil, its divine right proceeds from Hell, Hell is where we all went. Some came out...broken, dying...intimidated into silence...all of us, even those who had voted and paid our taxes like good bourgeoisie, came out hating the State.
#ThomasPynchon
“The State is evil, its divine right proceeds from Hell, Hell is where we all went. Some came out...broken, dying...intimidated into silence...all of us, even those who had voted and paid our taxes like good bourgeoisie, came out hating the State.
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”Along with many others, Coffee House, Graywolf, and Milkweed in particular are known for publishing fiction that would give an ICE agent a stroke”
January 28, 2026 at 9:26 PM
”Along with many others, Coffee House, Graywolf, and Milkweed in particular are known for publishing fiction that would give an ICE agent a stroke”
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Hard to describe something I could possibly hate more than “Machine that destroys books to consolidate corporate information dominance”
New: Unsealed court docs detail Big Tech’s yearslong, secret race to ingest the collective works of humanity, including Anthropic’s project to “destructively scan all the books in the world.”
Gift link: wapo.st/4rjXAMQ
Gift link: wapo.st/4rjXAMQ
How Silicon Valley built AI: Buying, scanning and destroying millions of books
Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.
wapo.st
January 27, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Hard to describe something I could possibly hate more than “Machine that destroys books to consolidate corporate information dominance”
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I got tired of lugging that single-volume brick around. So look what I got! So handy, only 7 x 4.25". And such pretty covers too. (The brick, shown for reference, measures 8.125 x 5.5".) Direct from #Gallimard. #Proust #Proustsky
January 27, 2026 at 9:07 PM
I got tired of lugging that single-volume brick around. So look what I got! So handy, only 7 x 4.25". And such pretty covers too. (The brick, shown for reference, measures 8.125 x 5.5".) Direct from #Gallimard. #Proust #Proustsky