I’ve stopped donating to individual campaigns, even for candidates we love. win or lose, those orgs are gone the day after the election. check out these alternatives:
I’ve stopped donating to individual campaigns, even for candidates we love. win or lose, those orgs are gone the day after the election. check out these alternatives:
Happy Birthday (not that one), live on KEXP by the unique band Black Country, New Road 🎵
Joan Osborne, covering Stevie Wonder’s Love’s in Need of Love Today, live on Conan 🎵
Good morn' or evening, friends Here’s your friendly announcer I have serious news to pass on to everybody
stoktoberfest - the period of time in August when you buy up all the märzen/fest/Oktoberfest beers that are already out, so you’ll have them in October (ok ok, September), when they’ll all be gone (replaced by winter ales) 🍺
Automatic, Is It Now?, live at KEXP 🎵
The Grateful Dead, New Speedway Boogie, live in 1970 🎵
one way or another this darkness got to give
Sinead O’Connor, Troy, live in 1988 🎵
the beauty & raw power from this 22-year-old woman with an acoustic guitar is honestly staggering
I’d kill a dragon for you
Tacocat, Psychedelic Quinceañera, live on KEXP 🎵
for any country, let alone a host country, let alone this vile kleptocracy, to interfere like this is fucking sickening. for the supposedly apolitical FIFA to give this even a moment’s consideration is worse. way to taint whatever accomplishment the USMNT reaches. way to defile the entire sport ⚽️
The World Cup is undressing the myth of Trump’s American homogeneity ⚽️
If [FIFA] wasn’t so busy kowtowing to authoritarian regimes and fleecing workaday fans, it could be the greatest force for global good since, well, the advent of international flight
what a day 🇳🇱 🇸🇪 ⚽️ 🏆 🥹
I’d given in and was going to subscribe to the Fox One service for the World Cup, but between ads during the two-per-game hydration breaks & having to see Fox News idiots’ big dumb faces every time we launched the app, decided to cancel. we’ll just watch on Telemundo, no problema ⚽️
when you just want to be friends
a nice intro for the curious: A (total) beginner’s guide to the World Cup (funny, too: “the expanded field means there is a chance for plucky underdogs with little chance of winning – such as Jordan, Curaçao & England – to compete with the big boys”)
agree with this rave review of Widow’s Bay. we never watch horror, so we weren’t sure about it, but being open to the comedy & silliness has been enough. can’t wait for the last 2 episodes
Metric, Black Sheep 🎵
Joan Osborne, St. Teresa 🎵
I didn’t know how much I needed this rainbow
Lorde, Homemade Dynamite 🎵
a long but fun Atlantic article on The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America (gift link)
Florence + the Machine, One of the Greats, live for World Cafe 🎵
arms outstretched back from the dead streetlights bursting overhead
authoritarian expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Elections as Tools of Autocracy and White Supremacy:
You have often heard me say: Never give up on elections. I stand behind this, now more than ever… This is the time to message that a strike against some of us is a strike against all of us.
resurrected a copy of the website for the now-defunct Austin Computer Book Club. no longer at the “cool” URL of austin.computerbook.club, but back for posterity (and LinkedIn 😊) at computerbookclub.chrisgrayson.net hire me, I ran a Meetup for a couple years! 📚
Ana Tijoux, 1977 🎵
that Atlantic article that Kash Patel is suing them over is really a must-read. these are pros, and they covered their bases:
the more than two dozen people I interviewed …described Patel’s tenure as a management failure and his personal behavior as a national-security vulnerability