The Curmudgeon
@thecurmudgeon.bsky.social
Aging left wing punk just trying to organize the working class and make some cool stuff along the way.
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I wrote about CNN partnering with a gambling app that lets you wager on famine in Gaza, what this shift portends in our media, the obvious moral hazards of this arrangement, and “news” as politically impotent, disempowering spectator sport
The network will integrate betting odds for life-and-death issues into its coverage. What could possibly go wrong?
By @ahjohnson.bsky.social
By @ahjohnson.bsky.social
CNN partners with Kalshi, a gambling app that lets you wager on starvation in Gaza
The network will integrate betting odds for life-and-death issues into its coverage. What could possibly go wrong?
therealnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I wrote about CNN partnering with a gambling app that lets you wager on famine in Gaza, what this shift portends in our media, the obvious moral hazards of this arrangement, and “news” as politically impotent, disempowering spectator sport
Posting this one last time because I worked hard on it.
Here it is. My newest video on Death to the Algorithm, Space Liberals: An Andor Review (sorta). It took six months but it looks much better, is 56 mins long, and has puppets! Enjoy & subscribe!
youtu.be/flu0lYWWPL8?...
youtu.be/flu0lYWWPL8?...
Space Liberals: An Andor Review (sorta)
YouTube video by Death to the Algorithm
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Posting this one last time because I worked hard on it.
This has been a great series. I would love for Noah to do more. Maybe Tom Waits Austin City Limits and Neil Young Live at Massey Hall.
The last of my Mercury Studios videos is up now. If you only watch one, make it this one. I'm very proud of my work here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz89...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz89...
Nina Simone Explained In A Single Performance
YouTube video by Mercury Studios
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December 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This has been a great series. I would love for Noah to do more. Maybe Tom Waits Austin City Limits and Neil Young Live at Massey Hall.
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We are tabling today at 7pm and tomorrow at 1:30pm at a screening from @means.tv at the State Theater in Ann Arbor for the film Earth's Greatest Enemy. Come on out!
youtu.be/rphBWk15_h4?...
youtu.be/rphBWk15_h4?...
EARTH'S GREATEST ENEMY | OFFICIAL TRAILER
YouTube video by Empire Files
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December 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
We are tabling today at 7pm and tomorrow at 1:30pm at a screening from @means.tv at the State Theater in Ann Arbor for the film Earth's Greatest Enemy. Come on out!
youtu.be/rphBWk15_h4?...
youtu.be/rphBWk15_h4?...
Excited for this. Follow @breadandrosesart.bsky.social for our future projects. It's early days but we are gaining steam on our first group project.
shout out to @thecurmudgeon.bsky.social and his collective friends for the push to do this, the compiling of the essays, and printing the zines. wouldn't be doing this without him
December 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Excited for this. Follow @breadandrosesart.bsky.social for our future projects. It's early days but we are gaining steam on our first group project.
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Making capitalists “pay their fair share into society” means all of it. They do not produce. They own. Their fair share is nothing. Labor is entitled to all it creates. It’s important we understand this.
December 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Making capitalists “pay their fair share into society” means all of it. They do not produce. They own. Their fair share is nothing. Labor is entitled to all it creates. It’s important we understand this.
I'm tempted to enter this with a remake of Be Kind Rewind. Get real meta with it.
AADL is holding its first-ever Slapdash Remake Film Festival! What's a slapdash remake film? A homemade rendition of a popular movie or TV show that's shot with your friends, a shoestring budget, & simple effects.
🎬 Visit aadl.org/remake for guidelines and submit your entry by 11:59 PM on March 8!
🎬 Visit aadl.org/remake for guidelines and submit your entry by 11:59 PM on March 8!
December 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I'm tempted to enter this with a remake of Be Kind Rewind. Get real meta with it.
That time of year again.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1v7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1v7...
Tom Waits - "Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis" (Live at Austin City Limits, 1978)
YouTube video by Tom Waits
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December 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
That time of year again.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1v7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1v7...
Inspired by @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social, I'm gonna write (or really finish) at least another script this year. Will it ever get made, probably not. But I had fun writing my other scripts so why not.
December 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Inspired by @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social, I'm gonna write (or really finish) at least another script this year. Will it ever get made, probably not. But I had fun writing my other scripts so why not.
I have to go to that Chicago show.
XXL NEWS! Greg and Alex are coming to America in January 2026 to spread the word of the Taskmaster.
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Shows in Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and New York! Sign up to the mailing list for pre-sale access.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I have to go to that Chicago show.
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There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.
Just finished formatting the zine yesterday. All that's left is printing and assembling it. It's pretty neat.
got some special things coming up for the anniversary. some time soon i will tell you about the zine that's coming out. i have plans for 2026 that are going to push the site even further, make it better.
December 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Just finished formatting the zine yesterday. All that's left is printing and assembling it. It's pretty neat.
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Here it is. My newest video on Death to the Algorithm, Space Liberals: An Andor Review (sorta). It took six months but it looks much better, is 56 mins long, and has puppets! Enjoy & subscribe!
youtu.be/flu0lYWWPL8?...
youtu.be/flu0lYWWPL8?...
Space Liberals: An Andor Review (sorta)
YouTube video by Death to the Algorithm
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Here it is. My newest video on Death to the Algorithm, Space Liberals: An Andor Review (sorta). It took six months but it looks much better, is 56 mins long, and has puppets! Enjoy & subscribe!
youtu.be/flu0lYWWPL8?...
youtu.be/flu0lYWWPL8?...
Sucked down a milkshake this afternoon and as a result I get a surprise night off. Stupid old man stomach.
December 2, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Sucked down a milkshake this afternoon and as a result I get a surprise night off. Stupid old man stomach.
For the midnighters.
Here it is. My newest video on Death to the Algorithm, Space Liberals: An Andor Review (sorta). It took six months but it looks much better, is 56 mins long, and has puppets! Enjoy & subscribe!
youtu.be/flu0lYWWPL8?...
youtu.be/flu0lYWWPL8?...
Space Liberals: An Andor Review (sorta)
YouTube video by Death to the Algorithm
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 5:27 AM
For the midnighters.
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For all the mfers who say workers just serve coffee, just deliver packages, just stock shelves, just clean rooms, just prep food, or just check in guests, remember this, they keep our communities running every day. And when they’re on a picket line, you respect it.
December 2, 2025 at 3:26 AM
For all the mfers who say workers just serve coffee, just deliver packages, just stock shelves, just clean rooms, just prep food, or just check in guests, remember this, they keep our communities running every day. And when they’re on a picket line, you respect it.
What a world.
It looks like someone invented a fake Russia advance in Ukraine to manipulate online gambling markets.
'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting
It looks like someone invented a fake Russia advance in Ukraine to manipulate online gambling markets.
www.404media.co
December 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
What a world.
What I don't get about this is, I can write bad all on my own, in my own special bad way. This seems like so much effort for small change. If you're gonna be a criminal, do better, aim higher.
so i've gotten a lot of submissions for IHTOV that were kind of weird. long prose, short on details about albums, but long on flowery words and the physicality of vinyl. all from other countries, with the same paypal address. i ran them through an AI detector, but they were ok, just bad
December 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
What I don't get about this is, I can write bad all on my own, in my own special bad way. This seems like so much effort for small change. If you're gonna be a criminal, do better, aim higher.
Here it is. My newest video on Death to the Algorithm, Space Liberals: An Andor Review (sorta). It took six months but it looks much better, is 56 mins long, and has puppets! Enjoy & subscribe!
youtu.be/flu0lYWWPL8?...
youtu.be/flu0lYWWPL8?...
Space Liberals: An Andor Review (sorta)
YouTube video by Death to the Algorithm
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Here it is. My newest video on Death to the Algorithm, Space Liberals: An Andor Review (sorta). It took six months but it looks much better, is 56 mins long, and has puppets! Enjoy & subscribe!
youtu.be/flu0lYWWPL8?...
youtu.be/flu0lYWWPL8?...
500,000 TIMES!
BREAKING: According to a recent investigation by NYC's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, Starbucks illegally violated workers' protection laws in NYC 500,000 times since 2021. Over $35.5 million will be paid in restitution to Starbucks workers!
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gothamist.com/news/starbuc...
Starbucks to pay $35M to NYC workers after city alleges years of abuses
The city says about 15,000 employees will get paid $50 for each week worked over a three-year period. For some workers, that's thousands of dollars.
gothamist.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
500,000 TIMES!
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IHTOV is off today due to some scheduling shenanigans but..
my favorite yacht rock documentary is a year old, so let's repost an in depth interview @thecurmudgeon.bsky.social had with @hollywoodsteve.bsky.social about all things yacht rock ihavethatonvinyl.com/conversation...
my favorite yacht rock documentary is a year old, so let's repost an in depth interview @thecurmudgeon.bsky.social had with @hollywoodsteve.bsky.social about all things yacht rock ihavethatonvinyl.com/conversation...
Talking to Yacht Rock Expert "Hollywood" Steve Huey
“At this point, JD had started calling it yacht rock. Because you look at the cover of Loggins and Messina’s Full Sail album, they’re on a boat. They’re very, very happy to be on a boat. You look at t...
ihavethatonvinyl.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:39 AM
IHTOV is off today due to some scheduling shenanigans but..
my favorite yacht rock documentary is a year old, so let's repost an in depth interview @thecurmudgeon.bsky.social had with @hollywoodsteve.bsky.social about all things yacht rock ihavethatonvinyl.com/conversation...
my favorite yacht rock documentary is a year old, so let's repost an in depth interview @thecurmudgeon.bsky.social had with @hollywoodsteve.bsky.social about all things yacht rock ihavethatonvinyl.com/conversation...
Finally finished my next Death to The Algorithm video. It only took 8 months. Up tomorrow.
November 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Finally finished my next Death to The Algorithm video. It only took 8 months. Up tomorrow.
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The right is full of grown-ass adults who are afraid of vaccines, kid's books, and anyone Twitter or OAN tells them to fear, including the entirety of NYC, and NYC is full of people who cheerfully chase federal agents out of the state and then do stunts on Citibikes; you tell ME who's going to win.
The scene now at Lafayette and Howard, diagonal to the ICE garage which activists remain camped out in front of on both sides of the building.
November 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The right is full of grown-ass adults who are afraid of vaccines, kid's books, and anyone Twitter or OAN tells them to fear, including the entirety of NYC, and NYC is full of people who cheerfully chase federal agents out of the state and then do stunts on Citibikes; you tell ME who's going to win.
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it's the IHTOV black friday sale!
join today and get 15% off your first month's membership or 15% off if you sign up for a full year. it's a great way to support IHTOV, and you get great exclusive discussions, polls, and posts. discount code is 3B72F through 12/5 www.patreon.com/c/IHaveThato...
join today and get 15% off your first month's membership or 15% off if you sign up for a full year. it's a great way to support IHTOV, and you get great exclusive discussions, polls, and posts. discount code is 3B72F through 12/5 www.patreon.com/c/IHaveThato...
Get more from I Have That on Vinyl on Patreon
a collection of collections
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November 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
it's the IHTOV black friday sale!
join today and get 15% off your first month's membership or 15% off if you sign up for a full year. it's a great way to support IHTOV, and you get great exclusive discussions, polls, and posts. discount code is 3B72F through 12/5 www.patreon.com/c/IHaveThato...
join today and get 15% off your first month's membership or 15% off if you sign up for a full year. it's a great way to support IHTOV, and you get great exclusive discussions, polls, and posts. discount code is 3B72F through 12/5 www.patreon.com/c/IHaveThato...
I just figured out why I've felt like I've been forgetting something lately. I missed Sandwich Night. BOO ME!
November 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I just figured out why I've felt like I've been forgetting something lately. I missed Sandwich Night. BOO ME!