There's a lot of overlap between the friends of mine who are fervent video game enthusiasts, and those who are the most belligerent anarcho-syndicalists / anarcho-communists / other Revolutionary Leftist… Read the rest of the article: "Tonight We Riot" is a brutal 8-bit side scroller about worker liberation
I only stumbled upon this because I got married in Dorset, Vermont, and did a double-take when I saw the headline. Apparently "knob" is a British word for "biscuit" but… Read the rest of the article: British people proudly held a virtual knob-eating contest
Huge if true.
This makes Alex Jones surprisingly more palatable, but doesn't really impact Chuck E. Cheese's standard level of creepiness either way.
Firestorm Bookstore Co-op is a collectively-owned radical bookstore and community event space in Asheville, North Carolina that describes itself as an essentially anti-capitalist business, in as much as they can… Read the rest of the article: An anarchist community bookstore had the best response to getting robbed
The Boston-based metalcore band Ice Nine Kills has always had a penchant for horror-themed songwriting, including a recent single about It. But their latest recording takes a power-pop approach to the… Read the rest of the article: Celebrate the 40th anniversary of "Friday the 13th" with this parody of "Stacy's Mom"
Astrophysicist-slash-astrophysical-guitar-god Brian May posted this alarming photo on his Instagram last week: View this post on Instagram Reality check ! For me. No – the Virus didn’t get me yet… Read the rest of the article: Queen's Brian May literally rocked his own ass off in his garden
After a cease-and-desist shut down their attempts at a Boober Eats food delivery service, Portland strip club Lucky Devil Lounge has found another new way to keep the lights in… Read the rest of the article: These photos of a pandemic drive-thru strip club are pure cyberpunk dystopia
A decade ago, I became ordained in the Church of Latter-Day Dudes so I could officiate a wedding in Texas; it is, apparently, legal for the Dude to abide over… Read the rest of the article: Get ordained in the First United Church of Cthulhu
After six weeks of negotiating, the UN Security Council was close to agreeing on a resolution for a global ceasefire during the Covid-19 pandemic. Seems fair, right? Let's agree to… Read the rest of the article: Every country in the United Nations agreed to a global ceasefire during the pandemic — except the United States
Tear down all the Robert E.T. statues and stop celebrating his invasion tactics. The creator of Full House Without Michelle returns with a documentary on General Robert E.T. [Reid McCarter /… Read the rest of the article: Robert E.T.: A Ken Burns Documentary
Citizen DJ is the brainchild of Brian Foo, a 2020 Innovator-in-Residence Program at the U.S. Library of Congress. The goal of the project is simple: to provide free audio and video samples… Read the rest of the article: The Library of Congress is launching an open-source archive of hip-hop samples dating back more than a century
From People: PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at the cover of Sweet Child O'Mine, an upcoming picture book the band created in collaboration with James Patterson that takes the lyrics of Guns… Read the rest of the article: Guns N' Roses to release a new book about a child who is sweet and belongs to the narrator
View this post on Instagram Existential crisis? What do you mean? Could someone having an existential crisis tune 24 wine bottles to play music from the Legend of Zelda? Oh,… Read the rest of the article: The theme from "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" performed on 24 partially-empty wine bottles
On Sunday, February 23, 2019, a 25-year-old black man named Ahmaud Arbery went out jogging in the city of Brunswick, Glynn County, Georgia. He was shot and killed by two… Read the rest of the article: Ahmaud Arbery: 2 months ago, unarmed black man shot and killed by civilians for jogging. Video just came out.
Moonward Expansion has always been the inevitable future of the map-making Western world. And now that unsustainable extraction of natural resources is closer than ever to reality. As Reuters reports,… Read the rest of the article: Trump administration is drafting plans for corporate moon mining
My Irish ancestors all came to America between 1847 and 1849 — during the time of An Gorta Mór, the Great Hunger, when the British Empire hoarded all the food… Read the rest of the article: Irish repay a 170-year-old favor to Native Americans affected by COVID-19
My friends John J. King and Ramona Rose King have spent their quarantine creating a new weekly web series called Home Office. Riffing on the confessional style of the original… Read the rest of the article: How to diversify your workplace when you're stuck working at home
“Semantic satiation is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.”
When I was a teenager, I worked at the Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop in New Haven, Connecticut — which, as far as teenage work went, was pretty formative and… Read the rest of the article: How a children's book about a mouse is keeping me motivated in quarantine
