Aloysius the Band

orwell was onto something when he had the cat vote both ways

"late last year a tech exec was struggling with an impossible task" and it's literally thinking of what's cool about your kid, lmao these people are emotionally toast and should not be allowed to make decisions that impact humans

I am contractually obligated to enjoy a 75 degree late October day but my collection of achingly wistful fall albums and light jackets is suffering for it

I usually do Halloween costumes with half of my ass, tops, and this year is shaping up to be no exception, but I have to say I’m pretty pleased with this handmade accessory

Kohen Wiley should be alive and any system that calls his murder justified should be torn to shreds

This campaign isn’t just about me. It’s about my people. Election Day is November 3rd, so Minnesota let’s make our voices heard and show up for our people. Because this election isn’t just about your vote, it’s about our community💜

Guesses: Napster was a light p2p client, anticapitalistic and difficult to monetize, whilst Anthropic requires massive initial and ongoing investment, which capital loves Napster’s model ate directly into royalties of RIAA members, while Anthropic’s probably leaves big book publishing unfazed

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

If you are the judge who signed this warrant betraying whatever principles you pretended to have in service of the whims of a 34-time convicted felon racist bilebaby, hope that works out exactly how it ought to for you

Definitely not wrong here. Hyperpersonalization = hyperfragmentation, each of us in a tiny custom little world sloppily tailored to our determined preferences and utterly devoid of meaning

In France if you don’t fund schools or pay teachers enough the students will burn the entire country down. Anyways lmk if you want to donate to my kids’ read-a-thon

Minnesota is the fucking best and the Somali population here helps make it so. We stand up to dipshit demagogues trying to incite violence against our immigrant neighbors. You already FAFOed here once buddy

George Floyd was murdered for using a counterfeit $20 bill

Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red is so weird and wrenching and funny and weird and tragic and imaginative and weird and utterly inimitable, and I often cite it as my favorite book of all time. So happy she’s getting recognition from my buddy Al Nobel

Ai stans be like

If you have spent time working in kitchens, playing the game Overcooked is a good way to surface your PTSD from your time spent working in kitchens

If they wanted me to work on the new record they would not make it so gorgeous outside

He’s right

*Googling people who share my last name* aw what the fuck

No man is an island but many are volcanoes

Nothing easier in the world for me but even if it’s hard for you you should learn about how Starbucks treats its employees, then stop going there.

Gotta say, when we selected Enola Holmes 2 for our movie this Labor Day we had no idea how apropos it would be, but I’m pretty sure both my kids are union lads now ✊

Good day to my new best friend, whoever drives the car with the “Don’t follow too closely… I became EVIL when Jo-Ann Fabrics and Crafts closed” bumper sticker

Heard two peals of thunder and got so excited for a full, youth sports canceled, cozy up with a book thunderstorm. But alas

There is so much amazing crop art this year at the Minnesota State Fair focused on the resistance to the ICE occupation we faced, this one in particular had me choked up.

Already running a soft 364-days-a-year boycott except when we go for thanksgiving and it’s the literal only place one can obtain coffee, but, fuck it, this year I’ll bring a kettle and a French press. pay your workers or eat shit

yes

just did a google takeout of everything I've ever had in Drive and now I'm reading through very old poetry and I'm not gonna lie I was onto something with this one

Coming out of target with a FUCK ICE shirt on shows that you contain multitudes

btw this project is [always] seeking musicians to collaborate and/or gig with, and has existed in many permutations from full band to indie rock duo to looping guitar+cello, no musical idea is unwelcome (unless it involves using LLMs)

Mamdani and his media team are so good at staying just on the charming side of cheesy and it works so damn well

if you don’t like my music I won’t mind, but the haunted bear that lives in these tuning machines might

FUCK ICE

When we play Mario Kart we refer to Dry Bowser as Bowser and Bowser as Wet Bowser

we cannot observe the quesadilla directly but the evidence for its existence is strong

I’ve never been as scared of anything as these people are of a twelve year old trans girl joining a youth sports team

It’s actually pretty fucked up that there’s a type of gasoline called Blue Planet

did any of these explanations entice reviewers? No, no they did not

We watched Dead Calm on Saturday night and Jurassic Park Sunday. I know it’s a coincidence, but just in case, we’re putting Home Alone 2 on next

For a brief moment I worried the subject matter would seem out of date by the time this song came out, but THANKFULLY fascist goon squads spring eternal aloysius.bandcamp.com/album/tangoi...

Feels like the appropriate occasion for a little poem. This one is called “freedom is an ersatz ring”