Magneto Was Right
@thomdunn.net
Writer, Musician, and Utterly Terrible Dancer. ADHD Bostonian who 🖤s rock n' roll, time travel, mutants, & chaos magic and absolutely hates Journey. he/him/sé/é
Ah yes, re-education camps are good, actually, as long as they're used for maintaining the centrist status quo. Good to know. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/n...
This has broken me. How can humanity ever recover from this?
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Had a shit day at work but then tonight someone told me that my band sounded like Reggie & the Full Effect combined with Ted Leo & the Pharmacists and it was the best day ever
"Criswell urged voters to reject the measure, claiming some parts, such as providing full-day pre-K programs for all students, were 'communist in nature.'"
Ah yes, everyone knows that Karl Marx also invented universal pre-k for kids.
www.texastribune.org/2024/05/15/t...
A GOP Texas school board member campaigned against schools indoctrina…
Courtney Gore, a Granbury ISD school board member, has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on. Her defiance has brought her backlash.
www.texastribune.orgRIP to the GOAT boingboing.net/2024/05/14/w...
Watch the final performance of a Chuck E. Cheese animatronic house band
The infamous animatronic house band at countless Chuck E. Cheese locations across the country is finally calling it quits.
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Just received an email from a playwright and fiction writer who was looking for a Thom Dunn... Who somehow wasn't me?
In hindsight though, maybe I shoudn't have told that stranger that I was going to find the other Thom Dunn and murder him Highlander style?
Wait people use "bacon Lettuce and Tomato" as a pejorative? What about Guac and Quesadillas? How do they feel about apples? Or ice cream?
Today someone asked me, “why are you dressed like that” and if I was part of the “bacon lettuce tomato community” and if I wanted to hear the gospel. This is what I’m dressed like. I think I just levelled up my gayness. Shout out to @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
What better way to make the students feel welcome and included than by funneling their tuition *directly* into the things that will silence them and stunt their education with a boot on the neck?
UNC trustees voted this morning to reallocate the university's $2.3 million DEI budget to campus police.
Budget vice chair: “I think that DEI in a lot of people’s minds is divisiveness, exclusion and indoctrination. We need more unity and togetherness, more dialogue, more diversity of thought.”
UNC-Chapel Hill BOT votes to divert DEI funding, redirecting it to campus public safety
The UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted to divert millions of diversity, equity and inclusion funding to public safety and campus law enforcement
www.wunc.orgTrust me, you will absolutely NEVER guess what kind of package this "No Penguins" warning came with
Is there an official musical term for the Generic Funky White Guy Pop Wannabe Jason Mraz Voice?
What a difference it makes with you're not scrounging to pander to donors in front of the same Congress that decimated the rest of your funding
Guy who runs the NYC public schools system with not tolerate Republican grandstanding on anti-semitism and does not take orders from petulant hedge fund managers who happen to be alumni. This is the way: www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/u...
THANK YOU @danozzi.bsky.social for finally showing the brave truth to the world (and also kind of freaking out my wife by sending me a handwritten envelope with a skull-faced Crimson Ghost stamp from a PO box in LA that was was surprisingly not full of ricin)
Love it when The Algorithm™️ feeds me an Instagram post of a screenshot of a post I made on Twitter of a screenshot of a post that Steve Albini made on Bluesky just before he died. A purebred human centipede of recursive content-making, just like Steve Albini would have absolutely hated.
Today I learned that 401Ks were basically an attempt at union-busting, because of course they were. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/m...
Was the 401(k) a Mistake?
How an obscure, 45-year old tax change transformed retirement and left so many Americans out in the cold.
www.nytimes.comWait…the guy who cleared the Uvalde cops of any wrongdoing is the same guy investigating police misconduct during UCLA campus raids? Who watches the watchmen again? www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...
"If a god runs the planet, can you get him to bring your dead loved ones back to life? If governments are abolished, what happens to spy agencies? When a couple splits up in a utopia, who gets custody of the kids?" www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/b...
Neil Gaiman Has a Hero Out of Step in a Book Out of Time
In an era of endlessly safe comic universes, “Miracleman: The Silver Age” goes another way with the return of a godlike hero from a world more like ours.
www.nytimes.com"The rituals and the law still matter, if only because people with power say they do and even, as in the case of Mike Pence, believe it. The stories we tell about power are part of its exercise—that’s why writing history is one of the prizes." www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/anarcho...
Anarcho-Trumpism: A Thesis
Hello! A fun coda to what’s probably my favorite essay in Neoreaction a Basilisk sits below. But first, I wanted to flag that the Patreon is currently $90 or so below the threshold where my Doctor Who...
www.eruditorumpress.comThis might be my The Day The Music Died. RIP Steve Albini, oof. pitchfork.com/news/steve-a...
Steve Albini, Storied Producer and Icon of the Rock Underground, Dies at 61
The Shellac and Big Black frontman, who recorded classic albums by Nirvana, Pixies, PJ Harvey, and more, has died of a heart attack
pitchfork.com"By being at Standing Rock, El-Zabri and other Palestinian activists took on the risk of being subjected to fossil fuel industry surveillance. Now, as historic antiwar protests arise across the U.S., the roles have been reversed." drilled.media/news/gaza-st...
In Backlash to Campus Pro-Palestine Protests, Echoes of Standing Rock and the Global Crackdown on Climate Protest
The use of militarized police and “antiterrorism” laws against activists is not new in the U.S.
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And they say nothing bad ever happens to the Kennedys!
It's a little known fact that Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts was once home to Alfredo Hero, the legendary World Pasta Activist
My band has a new song coming out soon and the playlist submission service we use now lets you use ChatGPT to generate AI press quotes and press images for promo, based on the private responses we get from promoters (many of which are already AI-generated, or at least translated).
Neat. 🙄
I find it hilarious when people say that Palestinians elected Hamas so it's all their fault. Like imagine if George Dubya never stopped being US President, and the world decided it was totally fine to bomb Americans anywhere and everywhere because they all deserved it.
I'm not like other Dads, I'm like a cool fuck you punk rock Bluey fanatic dad
Fell down a wormhole about international BLUEY censorship and it did not disappoint
"Police ban Head of Jewish Studies department from Ivy League campus" is a depressingly perfect microcosm of where we're at right now www.thedartmouth.com/article/2024...
College clarifies stance on professor Annelise Orleck’s arrest
Dartmouth did not seek Orleck’s prohibition from campus.
www.thedartmouth.comHuh, I wonder why this place is back on the market so soon after they just sold it in November 2022 and — Oh. OH. 😳https://www.redfin.com/MA/South-Boston/838-E-Broadway-02127/unit-4/home/9197121
Last year, I was interviewed for a book called "Into Abolitionist Theatre: A Guidebook for Liberatory Theatre-Making" and I can't believe I got a Grant Morrison reference into a textbook on radical theatre practices: amzn.to/3y4uI4U
Trump has a yoog opportunity to do the funniest thing and start campaigning on police reform
My three year old has started to use the word "policing" as a synonym for "burning" and I swear I didn't teach him this
"Rules are not real. They do not exist the way the rock or a tree exists; they exist the way that religions exist, created by us, in service of us, and subject to our own revision as we grow wiser."
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/rules-and-...
Rules and Their Limits
Injustice is the space between the rule and the real world.
www.hamiltonnolan.comSure feels kinda weird to live in a country founded on the freedom of religion and expression that has now enshrined a specific legal criteria for Being A Jew!
Am I legally allowed to read from this 19th century Irish pamphlet or nah?
Surely the same zero-tolerance policy that applies to "From the river to the sea" will be applied to "Jesus was handed over to Herod to be crucified by the Jews"
Anyway, congratulations to the winner of the first ever World's Funniest Crab Joke competition! Now let's not be too snippy here.
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Here's the funnest crab joke
50-year old Leon Price went home with the prize of the night, with this side-slappin' stinger of a crab joke
boingboing.net(naturally, this was in response to me saying "Hey maybe we shouldn't assault students with riot cops with also bombing children overseas." Which really shouldn't be that controversial!)
A stranger on the internet just told me to "Go back to Britain where you came from!" and honestly there's just so much to unpack there
If riots are the language of the unheard, then riot cops are the language of those who want to keep not hearing it.
When there's a mass shooter, the police wait outside and twiddle their thumbs.
When there are college students outraged at the loss of human life, police show up with riot gear and tanks to crack some skulls.
Where did we go wrong?
2020: Sorry kids, you don't get a graduation celebration, because COVID
2024: Sorry kids, you don't get a graduation celebration, because Palestine