Tacocat, Psychedelic Quinceañera, live on KEXP 🎵
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
of all the times he’s claimed “it’s like nothing anybody’s seen before”, whaddya know, this time it’s true! Oil and gas crisis from Iran war worse than 1973, 1979 and 2022 together, says IEA
Speedy Ortiz, Raising the Skate, live on KEXP 🎵
I’m not bossy, I’m the boss
I finished the book How to Kill a Witch by Zoe Venditozzi & Claire Mitchell. a quick, interesting read for women’s history month 📚
Le Tigre, TKO 🎵
read about it at your Barnes & Noble
I’ve shared this before, but since it’s the best performance of the best rock song ever made, a repeat should be okay. Wussy, Teenage Wasteland 🎵
Screaming Females & Garbage, Because the Night 🎵
I don’t use Google anymore (still liking Kagi), but I understand it remains popular, so here’s a tip on how to make the Guardian your go-to news source in Google search