Rare photo of Ron DeSantis’s friend “Penny,” enjoying story time with DeSantis’s mom

God forbid people get paid fairly for their work no matter where they’re located 🙄

My mom’s biggest guilty pleasure was Jimmy Buffett so after she passed it was surreal to deal with Jimmy Buffett’s music being a trigger that would make me tear up. Feels even more surreal that my dad happened to be visiting today and everywhere we went was playing Jimmy Buffett

Welcome to Splootch & Sip

wow such free speech gizmodo.com/twitter-shadow…

Every book I’ve ever read about Rolling Stone and Jann Wenner makes it abundantly clear that that institution succeeded in spite of Wenner not because of him; his talent has always just been for stroking celebrity egos and self-mythologizing

You vs the gorilla she told you not to worry about

Here’s a guy

Just launched a new Kickstarter! No Moderation is a (not depressing) queer sci-fi comic about love and art in a dystopian future. Written by Elizabeth Brei, drawn by Carter⚡️elsewhere, and lettered/designed by me. Help support the book! kickstarter.com/projects/djelj…

This is pretty troubling news about how the Epic mess is going to affect Bandcamp

Musicians and indie labels will be watching close. We hope to see bandcamp keep its transparent terms, open platform, and ongoing investment in niche-oriented music journalism intact.

Probably should have done this sooner, Lyft

Bandcamp employees say they've been locked out of critical systems and unable to do their jobs since Epic announced it was selling. This will hurt Bandcamp Fridays where 100% of the profits go to artists. They're bargaining over layoffs and severance. It's an epic mess.

SXSW and Austin Chronicle co-founder Louis Black is being sued for sexual harassment and assault, as well as “violations of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act” austinchronicle.com/daily/news/202…

📣Last call📣 We're preparing to deliver our petition demanding recognition from Songtradr. Get your signatures in while you can! Link: bit.ly/songtradr-bcu

Roughly 60% of Bandcamp United workers were laid off by Epic Games in October 2023. We are asking for your help in this moment: bit.ly/BCUsolidarity

Popping back on here for a sec to share that my new band Mikky & The Doom got Song of the Day on KUTX! kutx.org/song-of-the-da…

Really loved working with WEEKDAZEDANDCONFUSED😵‍💫 on his new single “Just Vibes,” super excited for everyone to hear more of what he’s doing open.spotify.com/album/4hQIKAU1…