Trying this again... Here is my long-delayed AOTY list for 2024. It’s mostly, but not all heavy music. There were some great metal albums this year, but also some of the best new college rock that I’ve heard in a while. My previous years' lists are here:

Before it was a Jim Henson Sesame Street and Muppet Show standard, the song MAHNA MAHNA was written for the X-rated 1968 film Sweden Heaven and Hell!

Friday PSA 😂

Guilty.. 😂

MAGA: "Why is everything about race with you?" Yeah, they went there. Let's see: •Jim Crow •Segregation •White Flight •Sundown Towns •Housing/Job Discrimination •Denial of Black historical facts/banning books •Attacks on DEI/CRT Truth is: It's always been about race.

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“How to be a Jew after the ethnic cleansing of Palestine” -Mark Braverman

Further suggesting that what Trump is doing is illegitimate as a matter of law even separate from the lack of congressional authorization for his strikes. He’ll kill people, knowing he can skirt accountability, but he won’t try any survivors because he lacks sufficient evidence.

The Government of New Zild has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative! 🇳🇿

First listen, but I enjoyed this one. It sounds a bit different from earlier Coroner, though.

The total USAID budget was $35 billion by the way

The journalists who cover the Pentagon had to choose today between signing a pledge that would make it impossible to do independent journalism and turning in their Pentagon press badges. Almost all of them turned in their badges and left the building.

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks From lectures by Stephen Hawking to letters of British politician Neil Kinnock,it's a race against ⏳️ to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks

🚨NEW: A case at the Supreme Court cites Trump reportedly promising oil donors favors as proof that pay-to-play influence is so pervasive that bribery laws must be narrowed so pay-to-play is no longer a prosecutable crime. The case is represented by a Trump-connected law firm.

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Are you f**king kidding me?

I got banned from the dog park because my dog wouldn’t stop absorbing the life essence from the other dogs and leaving their emptied husks lying around

This is amazing: city lights, aurora glow, and a string of orbiting Starlink satellites, seen from the International Space Station.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

@CensoredMen @EylonALevy "It is not antisemitic to call for a ceasefire to stop the killing of thousands of innocent civilians."

Maya Angelou Speaks On The Difference Between Black Vs. White Womanhood, 1973.