It's slow going but The Pile CAN be smallened!

Hell yeah! Progress is incremental! And that's ok!

It sure is! And as I said in the blog post I wrote about The Pile, if it's been built up over many years it's unrealistic and unfair to yourself to expect to finish all those things quickly.

Also I added 2 more things to The Pile in 2024, but none in 2025, so I'm getting much better at finishing things before moving on to new things! It gets easier and easier to pick up old projects the more of them I do too!

this is my favourite post ever

"Rings" by ND Stevenson

My absolute favourite comic journal by Stevenson. Made me cry my eyes out. Even when I can't articulate it, it gets to the core of what I think love is.

i....found a rare shoegaze tape. legit. band does not exist online. tape is at least 20 years old. This is so Sam

rare tape.

ok ok....track for you from rare tape. ripped by me

I HAVE SOURCED MORE INFO!!!! from my friend who works at an nz audio archive and they HAVE THE TAPE THERE? COVER:

Final info ive put together after i have just looked over the insert notes (inside the other tape) sent to me by my friend:

This band had Steven Wells and Andrew Bain in it - they went on to be in a pretty popular NZ rock band called Fur Patrol from late 90s-2000s, so this is a precursor to that. in the notes they also thank Campbell Kneale, a prolific underground nz musician in bands like Birchville Cat Motel and Black Boned Angel. they also thank "Drinkwater".

alright everyone. after 33k+ notes on an obscure 90s indie song from Aotearoa i gotta admit many want to hear the rest, & as i cant think of a better format to supply this, here's the rest of the tape in this post. please let it stay here where it needs to be, don't spread it like its yours. its not mine either! i now present to you: Clayflower - Still (1993, Aotearoa, Cassette, Shoegaze/Indie Rock)

beautiful and cool obscure music like this is everywhere if you just wanna look for it even for a few minutes. dont let yourself think someone has to come along and show it to you <3

I turned on closed captions for the Swedish Chef and I just started weeping with laughter.

These captions are peak Muppet and Jim Henson would be delighted.

how can you post this and not link to the original on the official Muppets youtube

certified muppets post

He’s got his own language setting lol

…I wonder what the auto-generated English looks like.

reblog to give your headache to elon musk instead

If I'm being honest, I didn't expect any good news to come of several votes today, but there are a few things to cling to as things continue to escalate on all fronts. A War Powers Resolution votes passed the Senate thanks to 5 Republican Senators defecting and voting in favor of it, and Democrats holding strong and voting unanimously. Thanks to unanimous Democratic votes and 15 Republicans crossing party lines, a vote to extend ACA subsidies for another three years have passed the House. Despite major opposition from House leadership and the White House rewriting history on the 5 year anniversary of the January 6 coup, a majority vote forced the raising of a plaque that celebrated the law enforcement involvement in protecting congresspeople from the coup. Additionally, Trump's vehement response to the 5 Senators who voted against him in the War Powers Resolution vote has led to several other Republicans saying they will vote in favor of further measures to constrain Trump's power over the military

I admittedly don't have the energy to write specific scripts for this, but it may be worth contacting your legislators to either thank them or condemn them depending on their stances in these situations. I will provide tools to identify who voted in which way on different matters mentioned here, if anyone wishes to make such calls

It's important to celebrate victories where we can while keeping focused on the work we have to do. Especially when things happen all at once like the last week or so. Hang in there, y'all

Republicans who voted in favor of the War Powers Resolution:

ACA Vote:

The vote to erect the January 6th plaque was unanimous in the Senate

Posted January 8th, 2026

Could it be? Could Congressional Republicans finally be growing at least 1 vertebra?

If you live in their States? Call them. Give the impression you will vote for them even if you don’t plan to.

You can say something like “This what I want my elected representatives to do in Congress. I’m going to vote for the Candidate who does that against Trump! You tell them that for me!”

It’s true and nowhere in there does it promise that promise a vote.

What is geology the study of?

I was reading abt the history of hanging and I had a thought:

Ppl who today say they support the death penalty but crow about how it ought to be "reformed" are a very, very good illustration of the problems with centrism in general and American so-called progressivism in particular. It's like this:

Execution by gas chamber or lethal injection are both slow, agonizing ways to die. Botched executions where ppl lie there writhing in agony for multiple hours before dying are common here in the US. Very common.

Long-drop hanging and decapitation, both of which cause near-instantaneous death when conducted even sort of correctly, are generally derided as primitive, barbaric, inhumane, etc; their abolition and replacement with the above methods is seen by most people as an enlightened and humanitarian development.

So what we're looking at here are people who (1) think that subjecting people to a full afternoon of incompetent torture-murder is the humane choice and (2) think that just not killing these guys and doing literally anything else with them instead would be "too extreme." How can we make that make sense?

It's very simple: They no longer have to look at it, therefore it no longer exists to them. The only real, meaningful change is that it's ceased to be an unsightly and embarassing public spectacle. The fact that the black work is being done behind the closed doors of an institution where they don't have to see it and therefore don't have to think about it is for them the entirety of the issue.

Lots of other stuff is also like this

now that they've been gifted, i can show my last two weaving projects! an easy-to-clean scarf for my tornado of a nephew and a wool scarf with a small leno lace accent for a friend

The majority of people seeking abortions (51%) reported using birth control that failed. That is affirmative non-consent to pregnancy. And consent to sex is not consent to pregnancy.

Consent to one activity with one person for a few minutes is not a binding contract to lease your body to an unwelcome third party for most of a year.

A child should never be "a consequence". All children should be wanted. "Taking accountability" doesn't have to mean "giving birth".

An abortion is way more responsible than birthing a child you're not ready for.

thinking about “you haven’t met all the people who will love you” and like!!! you also haven’t found all the things that will make you happy!!!! there will always be new authors and musicians and artists whose work you will one day discover and love!!!! there will always be new hobbies and skills for you to learn and feel fulfilled by!!! there will always be new things around the corner that will bring sudden and unexpected happiness!!!!!!!!!!!

looking at jobs is like vintage toothpick sorter entry level immediate start ..... wow maybe I could be a vintage toothpick sorter.... *starts to envision a future where I am deeply involved in vintage toothpick sorting* *scrolls down* "5 years vintage toothpick sorting required Minimum!" *my dreams of vintage toothpick sorting dissolve into dust"