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Aquarium Drunkard :: 2025 Year In Review
open.spotify.com
My favorite end of year music list is out: aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...
While @aquariumdrunkard.com publishes their own playlist I’ve been putting together “long form” version that pull in the full albums from the list wherever possible. Here’s this year’s open.spotify.com/playlist/1yj...
While @aquariumdrunkard.com publishes their own playlist I’ve been putting together “long form” version that pull in the full albums from the list wherever possible. Here’s this year’s open.spotify.com/playlist/1yj...
I particularly enjoy doing this and then spending -months- listening to its contents to find the songs and albums that really resonate.
My favorite end of year music list is out: aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...
While @aquariumdrunkard.com publishes their own playlist I’ve been putting together “long form” version that pull in the full albums from the list wherever possible. Here’s this year’s open.spotify.com/playlist/1yj...
While @aquariumdrunkard.com publishes their own playlist I’ve been putting together “long form” version that pull in the full albums from the list wherever possible. Here’s this year’s open.spotify.com/playlist/1yj...
Aquarium Drunkard :: 2025 Year In Review
open.spotify.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I particularly enjoy doing this and then spending -months- listening to its contents to find the songs and albums that really resonate.
My favorite end of year music list is out: aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...
While @aquariumdrunkard.com publishes their own playlist I’ve been putting together “long form” version that pull in the full albums from the list wherever possible. Here’s this year’s open.spotify.com/playlist/1yj...
While @aquariumdrunkard.com publishes their own playlist I’ve been putting together “long form” version that pull in the full albums from the list wherever possible. Here’s this year’s open.spotify.com/playlist/1yj...
Aquarium Drunkard :: 2025 Year In Review
open.spotify.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
My favorite end of year music list is out: aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...
While @aquariumdrunkard.com publishes their own playlist I’ve been putting together “long form” version that pull in the full albums from the list wherever possible. Here’s this year’s open.spotify.com/playlist/1yj...
While @aquariumdrunkard.com publishes their own playlist I’ve been putting together “long form” version that pull in the full albums from the list wherever possible. Here’s this year’s open.spotify.com/playlist/1yj...
Beautiful murals in the Alameda Point Gym.
December 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Beautiful murals in the Alameda Point Gym.
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The thing about all the anti-trans sports panic: people argue this stuff while talking about elite level sports, but because there aren't actually a ton of superhuman trans women blowing away the competition, the people actually affected end up being those who play sports for fun/socialization
December 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
The thing about all the anti-trans sports panic: people argue this stuff while talking about elite level sports, but because there aren't actually a ton of superhuman trans women blowing away the competition, the people actually affected end up being those who play sports for fun/socialization
mad_men_s01e03_final_final_v2_DONT_USE.mkv
December 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
mad_men_s01e03_final_final_v2_DONT_USE.mkv
Walton Goggins is an inspired choice.
wait. there's a fallout show?
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Walton Goggins is an inspired choice.
Eating chips and salsa with a spoon like god intended.
November 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Eating chips and salsa with a spoon like god intended.
Housing must have a price that is artificially depressed by the threat of state violence to be truly affordable.
November 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Housing must have a price that is artificially depressed by the threat of state violence to be truly affordable.
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all of the calls for "moderating on trans issues" are just an excuse to launder the author's own bigotry into the political sphere
do the right thing and tell them to go to hell, support trans rights
do the right thing and tell them to go to hell, support trans rights
November 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
all of the calls for "moderating on trans issues" are just an excuse to launder the author's own bigotry into the political sphere
do the right thing and tell them to go to hell, support trans rights
do the right thing and tell them to go to hell, support trans rights
Who are you, Sam, the arbiter of your own Clues?
October 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Who are you, Sam, the arbiter of your own Clues?
BREAKING: Cuomo Endorses Mamdani
Andrew Cuomo says he will continue to not live in New York City if Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC mayor.
October 27, 2025 at 1:35 AM
BREAKING: Cuomo Endorses Mamdani
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this was honestly even more obvious with Nancy Pelosi, who was an incredible vote counter and tremendous at running the caucus and every time she opened her mouth on television everyone hated it
October 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
this was honestly even more obvious with Nancy Pelosi, who was an incredible vote counter and tremendous at running the caucus and every time she opened her mouth on television everyone hated it
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"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
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OK, having heard a report on some AI bracelet which is always recording audio with the idea that you could go back and audit your day's interactions or ask it questions about what you did that day...
look if you actually want this I think you're forgetting what it means to be human.
look if you actually want this I think you're forgetting what it means to be human.
October 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
OK, having heard a report on some AI bracelet which is always recording audio with the idea that you could go back and audit your day's interactions or ask it questions about what you did that day...
look if you actually want this I think you're forgetting what it means to be human.
look if you actually want this I think you're forgetting what it means to be human.
Reprising 'put a bird on it' but it's 'ask ChatGPT'.
October 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Reprising 'put a bird on it' but it's 'ask ChatGPT'.
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Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful
October 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful
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this new Flock of Dimes record is insane
October 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
this new Flock of Dimes record is insane
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I’m listening to a new album from Baltimore multi-instrumentalist Flock of Dimes. If you like bluesy Americana-tinged indie pop, give this a listen. It hits just right.
The Life You Save, by Flock of Dimes
12 track album
flockofdimes.bandcamp.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I’m listening to a new album from Baltimore multi-instrumentalist Flock of Dimes. If you like bluesy Americana-tinged indie pop, give this a listen. It hits just right.
@flockofdimes.bsky.social (Jenn Wasner) really has a knack for writing songs that make me feel like I'm chopping onions.
flockofdimes.bandcamp.com/track/long-a...
flockofdimes.bandcamp.com/track/long-a...
Long After Midnight, by Flock of Dimes
from the album The Life You Save
flockofdimes.bandcamp.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
@flockofdimes.bsky.social (Jenn Wasner) really has a knack for writing songs that make me feel like I'm chopping onions.
flockofdimes.bandcamp.com/track/long-a...
flockofdimes.bandcamp.com/track/long-a...
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I think about this a lot.
when all is said and done it looks reasonably likely that bin laden will have taken down not just the us but the entire west
October 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I think about this a lot.
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I really appreciated this thoughtful piece about Ta-Nehisi Coates & Ezra Klein. Andrea Pitzer says “lost” folks like Klein “don’t have a clear idea how this moment fits into history and what it is exactly that they’re doing”. [degenerateart.beehiiv.com]
You don’t have to swallow frogs
Klein and Coates show that if you don’t know what your core beliefs are, you’re going to get played.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I really appreciated this thoughtful piece about Ta-Nehisi Coates & Ezra Klein. Andrea Pitzer says “lost” folks like Klein “don’t have a clear idea how this moment fits into history and what it is exactly that they’re doing”. [degenerateart.beehiiv.com]
This is why they go after immigrants. This is why they go after pro-Palestinian writers. This is why thy go after trans people. Once they get us to accept abridging the rights of those people they can climb the ladder to the next group. We must reject it all.
Judge Young then proposes that maybe Americans just don't care because there aren't many immigrant Palestinians among us and Gaza is far away. He then concludes this section with a robust defense of WHY people should care about what this admin is doing, which I'm reproducing in full.
Read it all.
Read it all.
![Here's why: The United states is a great nation, not because any of us say so. It is great because we still practice our frontier tradition of selflessness for the good of us all. Strangers go out of their way to help strangers when they see a need. In times of fire, flood, and national disaster, everyone pitches in to help people we've never met and first responders selflessly risk their lives for others. Hundreds of firefighters rushed into the Twin Towers on 9/11 without hesitation desperate to find and save survivors. That's who we are. And on distant battlefields our military “fought and died for the men [they]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreianfbathhbvefrnll3y3kq5tvm7mdcto6topuv6ha7rrlxgichb3y@jpeg)
September 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is why they go after immigrants. This is why they go after pro-Palestinian writers. This is why thy go after trans people. Once they get us to accept abridging the rights of those people they can climb the ladder to the next group. We must reject it all.
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Murder is wrong.
Pogroms are wrong.
Using a murder to incite a pogrom against a small and vulnerable group in society is wrong.
(If I’m not mistaken, an assassination was the excuse for the wave of mob but state-sanctioned violence in Russia in 1881 that gave us the term “pogrom.”)
Pogroms are wrong.
Using a murder to incite a pogrom against a small and vulnerable group in society is wrong.
(If I’m not mistaken, an assassination was the excuse for the wave of mob but state-sanctioned violence in Russia in 1881 that gave us the term “pogrom.”)
September 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Murder is wrong.
Pogroms are wrong.
Using a murder to incite a pogrom against a small and vulnerable group in society is wrong.
(If I’m not mistaken, an assassination was the excuse for the wave of mob but state-sanctioned violence in Russia in 1881 that gave us the term “pogrom.”)
Pogroms are wrong.
Using a murder to incite a pogrom against a small and vulnerable group in society is wrong.
(If I’m not mistaken, an assassination was the excuse for the wave of mob but state-sanctioned violence in Russia in 1881 that gave us the term “pogrom.”)
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Indeed.
Both basic human rights and the rights of citizens are terribly weakened if they can be denied to one group or another, if they can be made contingent on some arbitrary standard.
If they can take the unalienable rights of trans folks, they can do the same to your unalienable rights too.
Both basic human rights and the rights of citizens are terribly weakened if they can be denied to one group or another, if they can be made contingent on some arbitrary standard.
If they can take the unalienable rights of trans folks, they can do the same to your unalienable rights too.
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
September 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Indeed.
Both basic human rights and the rights of citizens are terribly weakened if they can be denied to one group or another, if they can be made contingent on some arbitrary standard.
If they can take the unalienable rights of trans folks, they can do the same to your unalienable rights too.
Both basic human rights and the rights of citizens are terribly weakened if they can be denied to one group or another, if they can be made contingent on some arbitrary standard.
If they can take the unalienable rights of trans folks, they can do the same to your unalienable rights too.