My more-recently-released rec is this one. Do you know Digitonal? They were on Toytronic way back when but their 2020 release is a masterpiece. digitonal.bandcamp.com/album/set-th...

I saw Orange. Dukes of Hazzard vibes.

My go-to for this is sort of day is Motives For Recycling by Asmus Tietchens and Vidna Obmana. Top shelf abstract ambient!

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I can’t believe she brought up The Dersh as a reputable voice that we need to hear more of. *headdesk*

Worth noting that Erasure very conveniently made a Christmas / Holiday album a decade ago. :-)

I’m on a non-fic book right now… When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows… by Steven Pinker.

The people who remember those illnesses being endemic are all elderly or dead.

Agree, this was outstanding.

The end of that first sentence had me doing a double-take. 😂

Usually it ends with “read more books” or “watch less TV”. Hah.

Yeah. Most of the people who get pro-Mamdani content through their algorithm will watch Trump being pretty normal and friendly in this meeting, and seeing Trump behave that way will change their view of him, likely in a softer direction.