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"Trans women are actually women for real, not in a metaphorical sense, not in a "anyone can be anything" sense, but genuinely actually make more taxonomic sense to classify in the category of women than any other group you could classify them in" is a position you'll find is pretty radical even in queer spaces

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they don't want you to know this but you can just put regular yogurt in the freezer too. it'll be a little too hard to dig into with a spoon at first but it softens up and also shaving curls of yogurt off the block is really nice. this has been yogurt corner

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In the pre-dawn hours of August 5, 2001, Richard Ankrom got in his pick-up truck and drove out to a downtown L.A. freeway sign. He parked along an off-ramp near 4th and Beaudry Streets, stashed two large sheets of aluminum in the bushes, and took a deep breath. Ankrom needed a moment to reflect on the laws he was about to break in the name of art. “I was scared,” he recalled recently, perched on an overpass, staring down at the area where this occurred two decades earlier. “I stood there, just to kind of calm down, you know.”

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This was the original germ of the idea: The California Department of Transportation had screwed up. For many years, if you were traveling north on the 110 in downtown Los Angeles and were intending to go north on the 5, there was no easily visible signage to prepare you for the sudden interchange. And it’s not just any interchange, either — it’s a strange corkscrew of an exit on the left side of the freeway, sneaking up on you at the end of a tunnel. Without a decent amount of warning, you would very likely miss it — and plenty of people certainly did — ending up halfway to Pasadena before realizing what had happened. Ankrom was one of those who had missed the exit before, so he decided to fix the problem himself.

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There happened to be a Caltrans crew working nearby when Ankrom was up there, and he was told later that they gave him a good, long look. But ultimately no one questioned him. “They say if you’re dressed correctly and carry a clipboard around, you can get away with a lot of stuff,” he put it. (Also of note: It was still a pre-9/11 world — just barely.) Even so, after 20 or 30 minutes up there, carefully drilling the signs in as traffic zoomed by below, he arrived back at his truck drenched in sweat. “My hair was like I put my head under a faucet. I was soaked to the bone.”

Nevertheless, the installation went off without a hitch, and for a while, that was that. If anybody noticed the new addition, they didn’t suspect it was a forgery — and why would they? To Ankrom, it was something that needed to be done. It helped commuters. It was a service.

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aye can i get uh………ingredients on my burger

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being as i am an idiot, and having been one my whole life, i just wanna say that i find it very easy to do nothing, and go nowhere. i eat chocolate late at night in the dark. i stand in the garden also. and i’m often waiting for something to happen. and i’m stupid.

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andre lotterer on commentary grunting "so close", '24-'25 fe sao paulo qualifying

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it's bandcamp friday!

here are some music that i liked that you can also get from bandcamp (some of them might even be free/pwyw!!!), not necessarily all from this year, but i did listen to all of them this year. pretend that this is my spotify wrapped. i promise that i'm not gonna 2 kool 4 skool you and share ".jpeg converted in audacity into 3 hours of droning noise". the following are radio bangers only.

making a door less open (2020) by car seat headrest

it's your favorite local homosexual will toledo. car seat headrest has always had that heaviness in their songs; will toledo's earnestness and desperation just come through unfiltered through the speakers. this album in particular is heavy on pop, though. somehow will got even better at writing catchy stuff. "deadlines (thoughtful)" is a straight up club banger, for instance. a very nice entry point if you wanna get into car seat headrest.

standout tracks: "can't cool me down", "martin"

my method actor (2024) by nilufer yanya

nilufer yanya recently became a fave. "crash" was in such heavy rotation on the radio station that i listen to back when it came out that i was ambivalent about the track. a relisten sometime away from that did confirm that the track did have merit. the simple heavy distortion guitars in the chorus are really fun. it is no wonder then that this album is such a hit for me: it's got that in spades.

standout tracks: "(like i say) i runaway", "method actor", "mutations"

room 25 (2018) by noname (FREE/PWYW)

one of the best albums out of the last decade is just. there. free for you to get. hm. noname weaves through self-introspection, culture, and politics with clever writing and skillful switchups. and y'all thought a bitch couldn't rap, huh?

standout tracks: "self", "prayer song"

brick body kids still daydream (2017) by open mike eagle

one of the great albums/artists for you to answer with when someone says "ugh all rap is about money women and/or violence". somehow open mike eagle is underrated. it's a fun album, open mike could write some really funny shit (the chorus to "no selling" is entirely puns, for instance), but it doesn't undercut the sincerity.

standout tracks: "no selling", "tldr (smithing)", "95 radios"

somewhere city (2019) by origami angel (FREE/PWYW)

very accessible math rock/midwest emo. it's your regular nice catchy rock but with rhythm switchups and fun chords. what's not to like. their next record, the brightest days is also free/pwyw so check that out as well.

standout tracks: "the title track", "skeleton key"

everything so far (2014) by pinegrove (FREE/PWYW)

standout tracks: "need 2", "namesake", "unison", "recycling"

expert in a dying field (2022) by the beths

a new zealand institution. i liked the combination of wistfulness and poppy rocky sensibilities of their debut album future me hates me (how's that album title for moodiness). didn't really enjoy much of their next album ("dying to believe" is a banger though), but expert in a dying field is a return to form for moody goodness (the titular "dying field" refers to love, y'see). not that "moody" means it lacks fun: "silence is golden", for instance, is an ode to getting overstimulated by way of a frantic track that keeps building up and building up to the end. it's a well-balanced album. a pretty good winter listen.

standout track: "silence is golden"

give up (2003) by the postal service

sorry to be all mark fisher cancellation of the future about it, but electropop as a genre kind of got stuck in this ceiling after this album was released. it came out and it was so good and nothing better (sorry?) really came along in the intervening decades after. if you're one of the lucky 10,000, if i got to be the one to introduce you to this album, that would be so fucking cool you don't understand.

standout tracks: "such great heights", "this place is a prison"

triple seven (2024) by wishy

i got this album on a whim after hearing the second half of "honey" being played on the radio. amusingly turns out every song on the album is pretty much a hit for me (except for "just like sunday". sorry nina pitchkites). very lucky (heyyy). exemplary power pop. kevin krauter and nina pitchkites trading vocal duties balance out the album really well.

standout tracks: pretty much everything except "just like sunday"

hope some of these could bulk up your mp3 playlist...

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he soars through the air with the greatest of difficulty, the daring young man on the flying trapifficulty

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randomly had to name her so i threw this together

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my new video is finally complete! as ive been teasing for about half a year now(!!), it's about one of the most infamous fan theories on the internet! hope you enjoy ^^

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i was genuinely worried that jorge was gonna fall off his bike after finishing. he couldn't even peel himself off the bike to do a triumphant celebration at the line. i thought he was experiencing cataplexy; the relief was so palpable even through the screen