John Lowe
@archaeocore.bsky.social
Archaeologist (as a living, not a personality). Philadelphian and proud of it (aren’t we all?) Mostly a reply guy (complimentary), also post about music and Philly sports. He/him/his.
I was really excited when I saw that Sugar is playing Union Transfer but I just saw tickets are 73 bucks and you can fuck alllllllll the way off with that bullshit.
January 31, 2026 at 2:38 AM
I was really excited when I saw that Sugar is playing Union Transfer but I just saw tickets are 73 bucks and you can fuck alllllllll the way off with that bullshit.
Now that I’ve paid tribute to the late great Katherine O’Hara, it’s time to resume John’s drunken rewatch of wuxia classics. More Jet Li, from Fong Sai-Yuk to Wong Fei-Hong and the Once Upon a Time in China series.
January 31, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Now that I’ve paid tribute to the late great Katherine O’Hara, it’s time to resume John’s drunken rewatch of wuxia classics. More Jet Li, from Fong Sai-Yuk to Wong Fei-Hong and the Once Upon a Time in China series.
This just came on during my watch of A Mighty Wind (on YouTube) and it made me sob. It’s a legitimately excellent song, and of course Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara fucking crush it.
one of my favorites… it takes on a different meaning now in a way. thanks, Catherine O’Hara.
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A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow from A Mighty Wind
YouTube video by JaMora
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January 31, 2026 at 12:49 AM
This just came on during my watch of A Mighty Wind (on YouTube) and it made me sob. It’s a legitimately excellent song, and of course Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara fucking crush it.
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ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers https://theonion.com/ice-opens-new-supermax-detention-center-for-most-harden-1827838332/
January 30, 2026 at 11:00 PM
ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers https://theonion.com/ice-opens-new-supermax-detention-center-for-most-harden-1827838332/
In memory and honor of the great Dan McQuade. What a great organization to choose.
January 30, 2026 at 11:01 PM
In memory and honor of the great Dan McQuade. What a great organization to choose.
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With all the arrests, re-upping my piece on how the church protesters are in the right — and this church is worse than you imagine.
I looked into Cities Church, which was protested for having an ICE agent as a pastor.
You already thought they were right-wing. But they're far worse than you thought.
They're ground zero for the "empathy is a sin" idea, among others.
www.salon.com/2026/01/26/p...
You already thought they were right-wing. But they're far worse than you thought.
They're ground zero for the "empathy is a sin" idea, among others.
www.salon.com/2026/01/26/p...
The pro-ICE church is worse than you think
Cities Church in St. Paul is the persecutor, not the persecuted
www.salon.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:38 PM
With all the arrests, re-upping my piece on how the church protesters are in the right — and this church is worse than you imagine.
Profane Existence was a prominent anarchist punk/hardcore collective in Minneapolis in the 80s and 90s. Record label, zine, helped publish the first Book Your Own Fucking Life book which had a huge list of DIY venues and punk collectives.
"I've got kids, I'm out here for them...The only way we can do this is through this kind of collective action. This is what punk rock trained us for!" -Protester tells Tina-Desiree Berg at the Minneapolis general strike march against ICE
January 30, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Profane Existence was a prominent anarchist punk/hardcore collective in Minneapolis in the 80s and 90s. Record label, zine, helped publish the first Book Your Own Fucking Life book which had a huge list of DIY venues and punk collectives.
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women in action: miners strike🪧
January 30, 2026 at 10:06 PM
women in action: miners strike🪧
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You know what you need to do BLUESKY: THE PHILADELPHIA APP. I want to see those screenshots!
January 30, 2026 at 8:47 PM
You know what you need to do BLUESKY: THE PHILADELPHIA APP. I want to see those screenshots!
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The Joel Osteen who wouldn’t open up his megachurch in Houston to people fleeing from flooding during Hurricane Harvey?
props to the clergy standing up to violence and fascism and evil but where are the mega-churches, where is joel osteen
January 30, 2026 at 4:31 PM
The Joel Osteen who wouldn’t open up his megachurch in Houston to people fleeing from flooding during Hurricane Harvey?
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You could imagine similar situations in which members of the media coordinated in solidarity around Lemon to direct sustained negative attention to Trump over this story. Instead the political press spent the earlier part of the week making up a fake story ("new tone") to help Trump.
This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.
This just in: "Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards," Lemon's attorney Abbe Lowell says.
January 30, 2026 at 2:55 PM
You could imagine similar situations in which members of the media coordinated in solidarity around Lemon to direct sustained negative attention to Trump over this story. Instead the political press spent the earlier part of the week making up a fake story ("new tone") to help Trump.
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When they say the US is a Christian nation, they don't mean they follow Christ in any meaningful way (or that it's necessary). They mean God has blessed them materially and that anything detracting from that (immigration, taxes) is an affront to God's will.
props to the clergy standing up to violence and fascism and evil but where are the mega-churches, where is joel osteen
January 30, 2026 at 3:03 PM
When they say the US is a Christian nation, they don't mean they follow Christ in any meaningful way (or that it's necessary). They mean God has blessed them materially and that anything detracting from that (immigration, taxes) is an affront to God's will.
Every time I see commercials for like laundry scent booster and shit like Febreze (which I am crazy allergic to), I think about how we’ve developed this concept of smelling “clean” and I have to assume there is an anthropological examination of how “clean” is/has been defined.
January 29, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Every time I see commercials for like laundry scent booster and shit like Febreze (which I am crazy allergic to), I think about how we’ve developed this concept of smelling “clean” and I have to assume there is an anthropological examination of how “clean” is/has been defined.
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This machine yub nubs fascists.
January 29, 2026 at 4:13 AM
This machine yub nubs fascists.
Bill Cosby. I grew up on Fat Albert and his comedy albums (had some mostly memorized). Huge fan of the Cosby Show. I sort of knew the whispers but it was convenient to not listen to them. But once it all came out, I threw everything I owned away and won’t watch or listen to any of his work.
Question for the Skyline: What was your HARDEST "cancel"?? Like the actor/singer/athlete that was the hardest to drop.
I feel like it's always people I don't fw getting canceled so it's never really a loss.
The hardest one was maybe TI because I actually liked multiple albums by him.
I feel like it's always people I don't fw getting canceled so it's never really a loss.
The hardest one was maybe TI because I actually liked multiple albums by him.
January 29, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Bill Cosby. I grew up on Fat Albert and his comedy albums (had some mostly memorized). Huge fan of the Cosby Show. I sort of knew the whispers but it was convenient to not listen to them. But once it all came out, I threw everything I owned away and won’t watch or listen to any of his work.
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Attention span of a goldfish is evidently really great for authoritarianism, coincidentally all our industries have spent two decades destroying attention span
"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Attention span of a goldfish is evidently really great for authoritarianism, coincidentally all our industries have spent two decades destroying attention span
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I was gonna hold off on releasing these shirts, BUT they are sick as hell & I wanted to show you.
Imagine a world... in which Goth Girls Gardened...
GASP! You're living in that world RIGHT NOW.
Bring the Goth into Gardening at SquidFacts.net
Designed by the amazing @seaofdoom.bsky.social
Imagine a world... in which Goth Girls Gardened...
GASP! You're living in that world RIGHT NOW.
Bring the Goth into Gardening at SquidFacts.net
Designed by the amazing @seaofdoom.bsky.social
January 28, 2026 at 11:16 PM
I was gonna hold off on releasing these shirts, BUT they are sick as hell & I wanted to show you.
Imagine a world... in which Goth Girls Gardened...
GASP! You're living in that world RIGHT NOW.
Bring the Goth into Gardening at SquidFacts.net
Designed by the amazing @seaofdoom.bsky.social
Imagine a world... in which Goth Girls Gardened...
GASP! You're living in that world RIGHT NOW.
Bring the Goth into Gardening at SquidFacts.net
Designed by the amazing @seaofdoom.bsky.social
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Dan McQuade was a real blogger and journalist in the best meanings of both terms, with an eye for the uncanny and a strident curiosity that all his peers and readers admired. He was also a true blue son of Philly, the peculiar city he loved very much and helped explain better than anyone else.
A real blogger and real journalist
RIP to Dan McQuade
www.welcometohellworld.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Dan McQuade was a real blogger and journalist in the best meanings of both terms, with an eye for the uncanny and a strident curiosity that all his peers and readers admired. He was also a true blue son of Philly, the peculiar city he loved very much and helped explain better than anyone else.
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I love Dan McQuade dearly and will miss him terribly. No one else like him. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...
Dan McQuade, 1983–2026 | Defector
Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end of 2024, Dan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news of his diag...
defector.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:53 AM
I love Dan McQuade dearly and will miss him terribly. No one else like him. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...
Been feeling off all evening, teared up from a damn Hershey’s Olympics commercial, and now I learn about Dan McQuade. What a huge loss.
January 29, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Been feeling off all evening, teared up from a damn Hershey’s Olympics commercial, and now I learn about Dan McQuade. What a huge loss.
There is live concert footage and music videos of almost every band you can think of, just drink some beers and see where the mood takes you!
every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar
January 28, 2026 at 9:05 PM
There is live concert footage and music videos of almost every band you can think of, just drink some beers and see where the mood takes you!
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Nancy 1/25/26, Nancy Visits Philadelphia Part 1
January 27, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Nancy 1/25/26, Nancy Visits Philadelphia Part 1
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a reporter asked “is mutual aid a form of resistance?”
and i felt my body pulled into of a room of movement elders who have made this seem like a question i don’t have to think about to respond
of course
of course
mutual aid is an expression of love
love is an act of resistance
and i felt my body pulled into of a room of movement elders who have made this seem like a question i don’t have to think about to respond
of course
of course
mutual aid is an expression of love
love is an act of resistance
January 27, 2026 at 6:30 PM
a reporter asked “is mutual aid a form of resistance?”
and i felt my body pulled into of a room of movement elders who have made this seem like a question i don’t have to think about to respond
of course
of course
mutual aid is an expression of love
love is an act of resistance
and i felt my body pulled into of a room of movement elders who have made this seem like a question i don’t have to think about to respond
of course
of course
mutual aid is an expression of love
love is an act of resistance
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For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL:
When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.
When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.
January 27, 2026 at 1:41 AM
For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL:
When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.
When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.