Brendan D.
@causticacrostic.bsky.social
writer | editor | educator | metalhead
Buffalo’s Rec Room venue feels like a low rent, more plasticky version of Chicago’s Subterranean. It’s OK.
September 17, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Buffalo’s Rec Room venue feels like a low rent, more plasticky version of Chicago’s Subterranean. It’s OK.
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if i can't get one i'm gonna be so fuckin mad
Pfizer says this season’s COVID shot boosts immune responses fourfold arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Pfizer says this season’s COVID shot boosts immune responses fourfold
Positive results come as Americans face confusing access rules that vary by state.
arstechnica.com
September 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
if i can't get one i'm gonna be so fuckin mad
More trains in dreams than real life it seems
August 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
More trains in dreams than real life it seems
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They finally made the milk from that hotel
July 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
They finally made the milk from that hotel
Spending warm summer days indoors … writing frightening verse … for a crypto bro who looks like Fred Durst …
June 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Spending warm summer days indoors … writing frightening verse … for a crypto bro who looks like Fred Durst …
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
As a parent, I find it weird how judgy and excluding of my kid(s) some other seemingly cool, progressive-minded parents are. It really has me rattled. #emodad
June 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
As a parent, I find it weird how judgy and excluding of my kid(s) some other seemingly cool, progressive-minded parents are. It really has me rattled. #emodad
The sing-a-long songs will be our scriptures.
May 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The sing-a-long songs will be our scriptures.
Had a dream I was interviewing Ian MacKaye and I saw a glass pipe packed with weed on a shelf. Did not ask him about it but in my head I was like, “give him grace.” #minorthreat #fugazi #hardcore
May 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Had a dream I was interviewing Ian MacKaye and I saw a glass pipe packed with weed on a shelf. Did not ask him about it but in my head I was like, “give him grace.” #minorthreat #fugazi #hardcore
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like if a US exchange student in a foreign country (say, Turkey?) was imprisoned for six weeks because they wrote an op-ed in the student newspaper it would be a huge domestic story and an international incident.
May 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like if a US exchange student in a foreign country (say, Turkey?) was imprisoned for six weeks because they wrote an op-ed in the student newspaper it would be a huge domestic story and an international incident.
Paper straws are asinine, and this is a hill I will die on. Plastic FTW!
May 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Paper straws are asinine, and this is a hill I will die on. Plastic FTW!
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you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos
April 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos
So what’s the Supreme Court’s move? I want the kid gloves off.
April 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
So what’s the Supreme Court’s move? I want the kid gloves off.
Not posting this on the conference app, but if any editorial folk want to see progressive (leftist) grindcore / metal band CARCASS with me tonight at the Complex in Salt Lake City, that’s what I’ll be doing! #ACES2025
April 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Not posting this on the conference app, but if any editorial folk want to see progressive (leftist) grindcore / metal band CARCASS with me tonight at the Complex in Salt Lake City, that’s what I’ll be doing! #ACES2025
Last night, LZ Granderson gave me hope for the future of journalism and 🇺🇸 at a very strange time for both. If you’re out there protesting today, take care of each other. ✊🏼 #ACES2025
April 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Last night, LZ Granderson gave me hope for the future of journalism and 🇺🇸 at a very strange time for both. If you’re out there protesting today, take care of each other. ✊🏼 #ACES2025
Remember the pre-nazi days when we had the capacity to worry about stuff like saving the whales?
March 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Remember the pre-nazi days when we had the capacity to worry about stuff like saving the whales?
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It’s not a burning Cybertruck. It’s a Roman candle.
March 17, 2025 at 1:25 AM
It’s not a burning Cybertruck. It’s a Roman candle.
How much green beer can one drink the day before a colonoscopy?
March 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
How much green beer can one drink the day before a colonoscopy?
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Always wondered how the Star Wars Emperor could start with a battle-hardened army and end up with an "entire legion of his best troops" being beaten to death by teddybears with sticks.
Then Hegseth ended up as US Defence Sec. And now yeah that makes sense.
Then Hegseth ended up as US Defence Sec. And now yeah that makes sense.
February 27, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Always wondered how the Star Wars Emperor could start with a battle-hardened army and end up with an "entire legion of his best troops" being beaten to death by teddybears with sticks.
Then Hegseth ended up as US Defence Sec. And now yeah that makes sense.
Then Hegseth ended up as US Defence Sec. And now yeah that makes sense.
Nothing like accidentally shaming your neighbors to shovel their sidewalks by breaking up and shoveling away ice all the way up and down the block. With your kid, who’s beating the ice with an aluminum baseball bat for kicks.
February 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Nothing like accidentally shaming your neighbors to shovel their sidewalks by breaking up and shoveling away ice all the way up and down the block. With your kid, who’s beating the ice with an aluminum baseball bat for kicks.
What feels longer, the pandemic or this fucking winter?
February 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
What feels longer, the pandemic or this fucking winter?
Crazy question: What happened to the U.S. Postal Service? I’ve not gotten mail in days. Has DOGE gotten to this yet? As a freelance person, most of my checks come “in the mail.” Worried.
February 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Crazy question: What happened to the U.S. Postal Service? I’ve not gotten mail in days. Has DOGE gotten to this yet? As a freelance person, most of my checks come “in the mail.” Worried.
Rochester wouldn't last a day in Chicago’s shoes, I maintain.
February 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Rochester wouldn't last a day in Chicago’s shoes, I maintain.
You know how sometimes you have to download your SS statement because an SS guy is scamming the system from the inside and cutting off access to the website and stealing from actual Americans? Fucking nazis.
February 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
You know how sometimes you have to download your SS statement because an SS guy is scamming the system from the inside and cutting off access to the website and stealing from actual Americans? Fucking nazis.