Reposted by Matthew Mercury
maybe a conservative opinion of mine and one almost certainly informed by personal preference, but i think the cultural devaluation of 'being good at instruments' is actually a bad thing and more broadly indicative of a sick society.
Chris Evans (the English one) said that the 🇬🇧 charts have recently passed the 10 year mark for "no number ones by bands", depending on whether the KPop Demon Hunters are a band or not. Is this "era of the solo artist" a global phenomen?
November 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
maybe a conservative opinion of mine and one almost certainly informed by personal preference, but i think the cultural devaluation of 'being good at instruments' is actually a bad thing and more broadly indicative of a sick society.
Reposted by Matthew Mercury
So, happy 50th anniversary to Melody Maker’s review of Bohemian Rhapsody: “Queen, with a suitably baroque vocal orchestration, contrive to approximate the demented fury of the Balham Amateur Operatic Society performing The Pirates of Penzance”
November 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM
So, happy 50th anniversary to Melody Maker’s review of Bohemian Rhapsody: “Queen, with a suitably baroque vocal orchestration, contrive to approximate the demented fury of the Balham Amateur Operatic Society performing The Pirates of Penzance”
Reposted by Matthew Mercury
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Reposted by Matthew Mercury
I wrote a bit about this many years ago on Twitter-that-was: the algorithm has gradually eroded "here's what you want to see" by replacing it with "here's what we'd like you to want to see."
It continues to trade on its former reputation solely due to inertia. Underneath, it's all ads.
It continues to trade on its former reputation solely due to inertia. Underneath, it's all ads.
love to live in a world where all my personal data is relentlessly harvested so that megacorps can feed it into their all-knowing algorithms and yet somehow the end result is that algorithm going “we think you’d like Clarkson’s Farm”
November 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I wrote a bit about this many years ago on Twitter-that-was: the algorithm has gradually eroded "here's what you want to see" by replacing it with "here's what we'd like you to want to see."
It continues to trade on its former reputation solely due to inertia. Underneath, it's all ads.
It continues to trade on its former reputation solely due to inertia. Underneath, it's all ads.
Reposted by Matthew Mercury
Lucy: put your hand in the box, Charlie Brown!
Chuck: No. It'll give me pain and when I pull away you'll kill me!
Lucy: not this time, Charlie. This is the Thanksgiving box, it's a tradition!
Chuck: Well ok...AAUGH
Lucy: I hold at your neck the gom jabbar, Charlie Brown
Chuck: No. It'll give me pain and when I pull away you'll kill me!
Lucy: not this time, Charlie. This is the Thanksgiving box, it's a tradition!
Chuck: Well ok...AAUGH
Lucy: I hold at your neck the gom jabbar, Charlie Brown
November 28, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Lucy: put your hand in the box, Charlie Brown!
Chuck: No. It'll give me pain and when I pull away you'll kill me!
Lucy: not this time, Charlie. This is the Thanksgiving box, it's a tradition!
Chuck: Well ok...AAUGH
Lucy: I hold at your neck the gom jabbar, Charlie Brown
Chuck: No. It'll give me pain and when I pull away you'll kill me!
Lucy: not this time, Charlie. This is the Thanksgiving box, it's a tradition!
Chuck: Well ok...AAUGH
Lucy: I hold at your neck the gom jabbar, Charlie Brown
Reposted by Matthew Mercury
Me: whats up man ever since you succumbed to the forest youve had this undeescribable vibe
My boy Trevor: *the sound of 1000 enraptured wasps vibrating a hive*
Me: yeah i guess
My boy Trevor: *the sound of 1000 enraptured wasps vibrating a hive*
Me: yeah i guess
November 28, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Me: whats up man ever since you succumbed to the forest youve had this undeescribable vibe
My boy Trevor: *the sound of 1000 enraptured wasps vibrating a hive*
Me: yeah i guess
My boy Trevor: *the sound of 1000 enraptured wasps vibrating a hive*
Me: yeah i guess
<furiously taking notes for Blades in the Dark>
Thieves have stolen €90,000 worth of fine French snails destined for some of the country’s most prestigious restaurants
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
French police are on the trail of ‘experienced’ criminals who stole a whole year’s worth of produce from Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne’s L’Escargot des Grands Crus
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:40 AM
<furiously taking notes for Blades in the Dark>
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Lynyrd Skynyrd/Bad Company
The Poor/AC⚡️DC
Fiona Apple/Counting Crows
Live/Counting Crows
Ted Sablay/The Killers
Lynyrd Skynyrd/Bad Company
The Poor/AC⚡️DC
Fiona Apple/Counting Crows
Live/Counting Crows
Ted Sablay/The Killers
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Green Day
Edwin McCain
Flogging Molly
Protest the Hero
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Green Day
Edwin McCain
Flogging Molly
Protest the Hero
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Less Than Jake
Kool Keith
Rosie Thomas
Janelle Monae
The Locust
Less Than Jake
Kool Keith
Rosie Thomas
Janelle Monae
The Locust
November 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Lynyrd Skynyrd/Bad Company
The Poor/AC⚡️DC
Fiona Apple/Counting Crows
Live/Counting Crows
Ted Sablay/The Killers
Lynyrd Skynyrd/Bad Company
The Poor/AC⚡️DC
Fiona Apple/Counting Crows
Live/Counting Crows
Ted Sablay/The Killers
Reposted by Matthew Mercury
Disagree. There is a distinct and explicit reference point for 42, whether or not one LIKES that reference. The entire point of 6 7 is that there’s not a point to it.
42 folks (or us 23 weirdos fnord) might be almost as irritating, but there’s a fundamental difference of reference here.
42 folks (or us 23 weirdos fnord) might be almost as irritating, but there’s a fundamental difference of reference here.
Seen on Reddit:
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
November 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Disagree. There is a distinct and explicit reference point for 42, whether or not one LIKES that reference. The entire point of 6 7 is that there’s not a point to it.
42 folks (or us 23 weirdos fnord) might be almost as irritating, but there’s a fundamental difference of reference here.
42 folks (or us 23 weirdos fnord) might be almost as irritating, but there’s a fundamental difference of reference here.
Sors d'ici, Dewey, tu ne veux pas de cette merde.
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Sors d'ici, Dewey, tu ne veux pas de cette merde.
Remember to tell your parents that Motion Smoothing will wear out the television twice as fast.
November 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Remember to tell your parents that Motion Smoothing will wear out the television twice as fast.
Reposted by Matthew Mercury
Mentally replacing every "ChatGPT says..." or "we asked AI..." headline with "bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer."
Why do we find our pets so cute? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer | Helen Pilcher
Why do we find our pets so cute? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer | Helen Pilcher
Known for bold raids on urban bins, raccoons are becoming more domesticated – so how they look will gradually change, says science writer Helen Pilcher
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Mentally replacing every "ChatGPT says..." or "we asked AI..." headline with "bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer."
You can do anything you want, including adding multiple colorful ribbon markers to your pocket notebook. You can just do that.
November 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
You can do anything you want, including adding multiple colorful ribbon markers to your pocket notebook. You can just do that.
Reposted by Matthew Mercury
“Although I’d been told I was just in remission, I really thought I was cured after they did that godawful adaptation of Death on the Nile where they gave Poirot’s moustache its own backstory. I didn’t even want to re-read the book to point out all the ways they’d ruined it.”
Autistic woman experiencing flare up of chronic special interest
An autistic woman is experiencing a severe episode of a debilitating long-term special interest, sources have revealed. Megan Aldrich, 47, has lived with a life-altering obsession with the detective…
thedailytism.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
“Although I’d been told I was just in remission, I really thought I was cured after they did that godawful adaptation of Death on the Nile where they gave Poirot’s moustache its own backstory. I didn’t even want to re-read the book to point out all the ways they’d ruined it.”
I know we’ve all recognized the role of the animated Robin Hood movie in awakening a generation of furries but we should not forget the moral of the film: always mislead, mock, and ultimately clown on the aristocracy because in truth they are dumb and weak and they have stolen what is ours.
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I know we’ve all recognized the role of the animated Robin Hood movie in awakening a generation of furries but we should not forget the moral of the film: always mislead, mock, and ultimately clown on the aristocracy because in truth they are dumb and weak and they have stolen what is ours.
When I see the Rich get owned by the Poor.
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
When I see the Rich get owned by the Poor.
Reposted by Matthew Mercury
one of these but with a hot dog
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
one of these but with a hot dog
Reposted by Matthew Mercury
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
Reposted by Matthew Mercury
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
Reposted by Matthew Mercury
Reposted by Matthew Mercury
h-o-t-t-o-g-o
how spell hot dog? I don't know!
how spell hot dog? I don't know!
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
h-o-t-t-o-g-o
how spell hot dog? I don't know!
how spell hot dog? I don't know!
I’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show I watched are trying to rescue me. Noice. Smort. Toit.
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show I watched are trying to rescue me. Noice. Smort. Toit.
Reposted by Matthew Mercury
it both rules and sucks that isaac chotiner continues to run circles around basically the entire media class using a unique genetic superpower known as "object permanence"
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
it both rules and sucks that isaac chotiner continues to run circles around basically the entire media class using a unique genetic superpower known as "object permanence"
Reposted by Matthew Mercury
Reposted by Matthew Mercury
Isn't it so weird to deeply know in your bones something obvious with no equivocation, for years and years, and then to one day see articles about people wondering if maybe the incredibly obvious thing you've known this whole time might be happening, as if the media is discovering it now??
“This is total armageddon for the online right. It’s looking like half of their large accounts were foreigners posing as Americans all along.”
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Isn't it so weird to deeply know in your bones something obvious with no equivocation, for years and years, and then to one day see articles about people wondering if maybe the incredibly obvious thing you've known this whole time might be happening, as if the media is discovering it now??