Meaningless Excitement
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Like a cross between a hurricane, and a ship that’s run aground. Phish, Grateful Dead, mountain biking, snowboarding, gardening in Brattleboro, Vermont. Sometimes using my doctorate to talk about Phish.
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If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to give to EFF, now’s your chance to all donations through Dec 9 get an automatic dollar-for-dollar match! eff.org/powerup
December 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to give to EFF, now’s your chance to all donations through Dec 9 get an automatic dollar-for-dollar match! eff.org/powerup
McSweeney’s nearly as lethal as Pete Kegstand
"Can we all calm down for a minute? It appears my command to take no prisoners, exterminate all traces of life, and torch any semblance of international law has been misinterpreted. You shouldn’t rush to conclusions until you have all the facts."
My Order to Kill Everyone and Everything Was Taken Out of Context
“[Secretary of War] Hegseth ordered a lethal attack but not the killing of survivors, officials say… Amid talk of war crimes, the details and preci...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
McSweeney’s nearly as lethal as Pete Kegstand
Sure today was the first day Jerry, Bobby, Phil, Pig, and Bill the Drummer ever performed as the Grateful Dead, but there’s an equally huge if not more important anniversary today: relisten.net/disco-biscui...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Sure today was the first day Jerry, Bobby, Phil, Pig, and Bill the Drummer ever performed as the Grateful Dead, but there’s an equally huge if not more important anniversary today: relisten.net/disco-biscui...
Still, unfortunately, ISO 2 for 12/31 Phish. Below Chase bridge, please
December 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Still, unfortunately, ISO 2 for 12/31 Phish. Below Chase bridge, please
As of now, you have not purchased any tickets and you are not guaranteed any tickets.
December 4, 2025 at 3:36 AM
As of now, you have not purchased any tickets and you are not guaranteed any tickets.
If you are trying to sell platinum tickets, just list them as platinums. Jesus it’s not that hard, people #cashortrade
December 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
If you are trying to sell platinum tickets, just list them as platinums. Jesus it’s not that hard, people #cashortrade
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(RACHEL walks past children playing. Her biological clock ticks. She’s thirty, almost dead.)
LITTLE GIRL: Are you excited for the County Hanukkah Fair?
RACHEL: Not really. I’m not super into Hanukkah.
LITTLE GIRL: Are you excited for the County Hanukkah Fair?
RACHEL: Not really. I’m not super into Hanukkah.
Scenes from a Hallmark Hanukkah Movie Written by Someone Who Has Definitely Met a Jew
EXT. SMALL TOWN BUS STOP – DAY (A beautiful woman with slightly wavy brown hair steps off a bus. She’s RACHEL, a corporate lawyer from The Big Cit...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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I just found my most beloved hat—if you’ve ever seen me outside in either spring or fall, you’ve seen me wear this—that I thought I totally lost peeking out behind a couch cushion!! I’ve lost this hat before but always find it eventually, but this time I thought was THE ONE. Had it almost 20 yrs…
December 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I just found my most beloved hat—if you’ve ever seen me outside in either spring or fall, you’ve seen me wear this—that I thought I totally lost peeking out behind a couch cushion!! I’ve lost this hat before but always find it eventually, but this time I thought was THE ONE. Had it almost 20 yrs…
Coconut locked in during What’s the Use? Friday night #beaconjams
December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Coconut locked in during What’s the Use? Friday night #beaconjams
Part of what made this so good during the original Beacon jams was that they filmed it so you didn’t realize the TAB singers were there until they came in with “BOY!”
December 1, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Part of what made this so good during the original Beacon jams was that they filmed it so you didn’t realize the TAB singers were there until they came in with “BOY!”
This aged well
Excited for a big Burlap Sack and Pumps later in this show
December 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
This aged well
“This one’s for the haters” - Trey, probably
December 1, 2025 at 1:55 AM
“This one’s for the haters” - Trey, probably
Excited for a big Burlap Sack and Pumps later in this show
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Excited for a big Burlap Sack and Pumps later in this show
If I encountered this kind of essay under these circumstances, I’d just write “whatever, nothing matters ¯\_(ツ)_/¯” and give the kid full credit. I think that’s what university admin wants profs to do now
idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was
November 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
If I encountered this kind of essay under these circumstances, I’d just write “whatever, nothing matters ¯\_(ツ)_/¯” and give the kid full credit. I think that’s what university admin wants profs to do now
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If a Psych prof assigns students an essay response paper with explicit guidelines and then flunks a student for turning in a paper that ignores those guidelines but instead makes vague gestures to "the Bible" then THAT IS NOT A VIOLATION OF THE STUDENT'S RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
If a Psych prof assigns students an essay response paper with explicit guidelines and then flunks a student for turning in a paper that ignores those guidelines but instead makes vague gestures to "the Bible" then THAT IS NOT A VIOLATION OF THE STUDENT'S RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
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The message here to students at OU is that you can get away with anything if you just claim your religious freedom is being violated.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The message here to students at OU is that you can get away with anything if you just claim your religious freedom is being violated.
Man, I remember the first time I heard Last Tube, it blew me away. Great Woods 2001, first set, my shrooms were peaking and they just slammed into that horn riff and it knocked me off my socks. Then they jammed it for like 20 minutes and another iteration of that riff.
a man with a feather boa around his neck says wooooooo
ALT: a man with a feather boa around his neck says wooooooo
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November 30, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Man, I remember the first time I heard Last Tube, it blew me away. Great Woods 2001, first set, my shrooms were peaking and they just slammed into that horn riff and it knocked me off my socks. Then they jammed it for like 20 minutes and another iteration of that riff.
Ah man remember when Phish used to play this like every 3rd or 4th show? That was nice. #inlawjoseywales
November 30, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Ah man remember when Phish used to play this like every 3rd or 4th show? That was nice. #inlawjoseywales
Remember kids, Ghosts of the Forest is TAB
November 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Remember kids, Ghosts of the Forest is TAB
This is gonna be gorgeous with the strings and horns I hope all you haters are extra butthurt
November 30, 2025 at 1:46 AM
This is gonna be gorgeous with the strings and horns I hope all you haters are extra butthurt
Well I guess the “TAB should play more TAB songs” lobby is happy
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Well I guess the “TAB should play more TAB songs” lobby is happy
What was the first song of this set? Didn’t recognize it
November 30, 2025 at 1:23 AM
What was the first song of this set? Didn’t recognize it
Dark Star Project free show in the castlerock pub at Sugarbush. A groovy Choogly afternoon
November 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Dark Star Project free show in the castlerock pub at Sugarbush. A groovy Choogly afternoon
Goddamit people DON’T MAKE NOISE DURING THIS!
November 29, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Goddamit people DON’T MAKE NOISE DURING THIS!
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One fart to rule them all.
November 29, 2025 at 2:56 AM
One fart to rule them all.