David McCreath

*increasingly louder fart noises*

dumb fragile dirty little shitstick

Here we go.

We are all frogs in the slowly boiling brains of other people.

Imagine being shoved in this dumb can when you could be in the shuttle Galileo. (I know it’s cookware, but that’s what marine silicone is for.)

Nothing turns me into a cranky old man like someone reissuing a regular old LP as two 45rpm EPs.

It's #BandcampFriday -- a 24-hour event where the music platform #Bandcamp waives its revenue share on all music and merchandise sales, passing roughly 100% of the proceeds directly to the artists and labels. Thank you for your support! queenesther.bandcamp.com

"The social conditions proposed by the companies profiting from AI are beyond Orwell’s bleakest thoughts: constant surveillance; mass behavior modification via social media; [...] art and culture as individually tube-fed corporate consumption rather than communal connection."

Please join us this Friday for our last Summer School session of the season! We are hosting a SELF-PROMOTION CLINIC. Bring us your problems. Bring us your hesitation. Bring us the little voice inside your head telling you that you aren’t worthy. WE’LL CRUSH THEM WITH MALLETS!

A spectre is haunting your neighborhood… I'm in the fight against Flock here in Bakersfield and decided to have a little fun in Affinity. So here's the antifa roundel with the flags swapped out for cameras. Shirts, stickers, buttons, wall flag. 👇 boogah.threadless.com/designs/anti...

It's not you. It's everything. Now what? Practical advice and support for recuperating, resetting, and moving forward. Join us this Friday for How to Get Laid Off, the next Mule Summer School session! No gaslighting. No toxic positivity.

As COVID-19 cases continue to increase, it's important to know accurate information about COVID-19 in order to protect yourself and others! Get the facts about common myths, and take steps to protect yourself and others.

🔓Full decryption complete! Turns out all you needed was launch day 👀 The 2026 GDoCExpo merch collection is here! T-shirt, our first-ever hoodie, enamel pin, keycap keychain (made with MKRO), & a diecut sticker pack - all live now at @theyetee.com! #gdocexpo

This week’s newsletter is for people who are tempted to use LLMs to do their writing. Please enjoy. I wrote every word. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Golden Brown by The Stranglers, played on a Harpsichord. You're welcome. youtu.be/EilFbfx1QRc?...

Who told you you can’t write a book? Who told you you can’t build a rollercoaster in your backyard? Who told you you can’t paint your living room hot pink? Who told you you can’t have cereal for dinner? Who told you you can’t wear that? Not us. Come hang with us. We’ll talk you into things.

From frying an egg, to writing a book, to building a backyard guillotine, to expanding the Supreme Court… you can just DO things. Join me and @erikahall.bsky.social for this week’s Summer School session, where we will be happy to give you the permission you absolutely do not need to DO things.

This is now canon.

This week’s newsletter is a clapback to the NYT. Ultimately there are people who want to live, not in a world of reconciliation, but in a world without repercussions. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

Hey, who wants something to look forward to? This Friday, @stephmoney.bsky.social and I will be talking all things newsletter and answering all your questions! It’ll be a good hang. Come join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/1996742234...

The Friday after that (August 28), Lucy Bellwood (@lubellwoo.bsky.social) and I will be talking about How to Make Books. One action leads to another, and one workshop leads to another. I hope you can join us. I promise they’ll both be good hangs.

I bring this up because the next two sessions of Mule Summer School are very much a 1-2 punch for me. Start writing and eventually you can make a book. Next Friday (August 21), Steph Monette (@stephmoney.bsky.social) and I will be talking about How to Start a Newsletter.

You should be out making friends in the park or grocery store. But meeting people is hard, especially when the world’s most unfriended nerds want you to use slop machines to make slop friends. This Friday, @erikahall.bsky.social and @kiostark.bsky.social will teach you How to Talk to Strangers!

More like Squarespace LMAO amirite. What a dipshit.

Pop music has a project management problem.

I got a nice write-up from KQED! “Colored drips pour down the sides of his panels, but the surfaces are carved smooth with razor blades. The effect is gauzy, dreamy, even as the images he depicts and the language he deploys evoke violence—state sanctioned and otherwise.” YUM.

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

I just found out that a local community theater is doing a production of the Rocky Horror Show and they’re casting one actor to play both Eddie and Dr Scott. I think I might audition. Can Eddie be played by a 62 year old? Paging Dr Leah for advice. @leahreich.com

goddammit

Netflix's Little House on the Prairie tells the truth about whose land the little house was built on and it does so without turning any of its characters into parodies or villains. redpopnews.com/netflixs-lit...

We all want what Wall-E had, we all want to meet an elegant baddie that is low-key a little scary with it that you can show all your Items to

Coincidentally this was just shared by an antiques dealer friend on Instagram.

just reposting for the second shift crew

A good chunk of my spring was spent writing and recording this score for a choreographer friend’s dance piece. I’m pretty happy with it. mccreath.bandcamp.com/track/we-eat...

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just blessing the timeline

No La Tengo

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what if it happens at the game

yourself, but as a cartoon

@monteiro.bsky.social’s newsletter this week says some things about AI (and the people pushing it) that need to be said more. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

Melchior Lorck - Tortoise above the Venetian Lagoon. 1555

Hi there! I label Substack posts. I know that there's another labeler that already does this. But I publish what I catch as filter lists. Point uBlock Origin or your Pi-hole at these and (hopefully) never look at Substack again: kys.makersfield.co/substack-fil... kys.makersfield.co/substack-hos...

Fucking ghouls.

Roses are redde Violettes are blue Narratyves of inevitable acceptance of technologye Are an ideological tool

Anyone have $5billion to spare? I’m fundraising for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation which has been incredibly successful and creating treatments for 90% of people with CF, but there is no cure, and for 10%, no treatment at all. Please give early and often! fundraise.cff.org/ColumbiaWill...

what a great and wonderful moment www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QdW...