[hi i'm back]

Today's track is one I haven't listened to since it came out, but heard last month at a funny, surprising, chaotic DJ set in Taipei. koreless.bandcamp.com/track/joy-sq...

"Separating a little white cylindrical object from its pack and selling it for $1 under the table is universally accepted, even cherished." For Hell Gate, I argue: why not tampons, too? This was massively fun to write. https://hellgatenyc.com/bodegas-should-sell-loosie-tampons

i would do anything to read mark fisher on early 2020s therapy discourse :'(

like a macarthur grant, getting tabbed is a professional honor of the highest order that can only be bestowed, never sought. congratulations to @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social

Love having a legitimate reason to ask my editor, who I have never met and know basically nothing about, whether or not she has ever taken drugs (my guess is no).

Black Americans invented both swing dancing and techno, 55 years apart, as worldbuilding artistic practices where they embodied the freedom they were denied under enslavement, segregation and perpetual violent racism. Millions of people around the world now practice both.

Two Shell are annoying twerps but their productions are quite nice.

Abolition, anti-vaxxers, attention: a conversation with Astra Taylor, Nadja Durback and D. Graham Burnett, moderated by me, who took this as an opportunity to dunk on blinky light-up rave accessories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rx_S-mvCzo

Let the people pop!!! https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvjjna/fda-poppers-pride

not me trying to get "gurning" into a stuffy legacy publication

Today at 1pm! Moderating this panel on ~notions of freedom~ both historical and current, organized by Lapham's Quarterly. https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/freedom-conversation-taylor-durbach-burnett

Today's track is very hard to mix, but I sorta got it to work last night with "Everything U Need" by Overmono https://maribor.bandcamp.com/track/watching-the-thinker

Today's track is a banger from Sister Zo's set (b2b CCL) at the Bunker on Monday https://metristlsae.bandcamp.com/track/higher-higher-dawn

Popular items at the Return to the Source harm reduction tent last weekend:

- fidget toys (great for molly jitters!)
- rose water facial spray
- earplugs
- safe sniff kits

Unpopular items:

- cheese dip + pretzel stick packets
- safe smoking kits