paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)
@danlehner.bsky.social
Opened at gunpoint in a Lady Footlocker. Trombonist, composer, bandleader (The Great Long Meadow Fire, True East, Store Hours). Brooklyn, NY. he/him.
https://linktr.ee/Danlehner
https://linktr.ee/Danlehner
“lol once again you’ve foolishly voted for a candidate to the right of my preferred one, a hypothetical Leninist who can win over winemoms”
November 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“lol once again you’ve foolishly voted for a candidate to the right of my preferred one, a hypothetical Leninist who can win over winemoms”
things happening on the other site you wouldn’t believe
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 AM
things happening on the other site you wouldn’t believe
picking up the toddler from 2K at 5:00 in September: “let us walk home in the jaunty sunshine of early childhood education”
picking up the toddler from 2K at 5:00 in November: “I have abandoned my baby in the dead winter’s darkness, never to know living things again”
picking up the toddler from 2K at 5:00 in November: “I have abandoned my baby in the dead winter’s darkness, never to know living things again”
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
picking up the toddler from 2K at 5:00 in September: “let us walk home in the jaunty sunshine of early childhood education”
picking up the toddler from 2K at 5:00 in November: “I have abandoned my baby in the dead winter’s darkness, never to know living things again”
picking up the toddler from 2K at 5:00 in November: “I have abandoned my baby in the dead winter’s darkness, never to know living things again”
the present is violent and shameful, but to add insult to injury, it’s also embarrassingly stupid, like: “our ancient, 50/50-on-what-day-of-the-week-it-is president expressed killing the opposition via an Iron Cross anon account he ReTruthed (a feature from a social media site he owns)”
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
the present is violent and shameful, but to add insult to injury, it’s also embarrassingly stupid, like: “our ancient, 50/50-on-what-day-of-the-week-it-is president expressed killing the opposition via an Iron Cross anon account he ReTruthed (a feature from a social media site he owns)”
two criticisms of Zohran in the talksphere right now are 1) appointing a police commissioner who associates with people who call him a terrorist 2) endorsing a Palestinian candidate for NYSA who said 9/11 wasn’t worse than colonialism
which is to say: NYC bay-bee! a tent as big as the Apple!
which is to say: NYC bay-bee! a tent as big as the Apple!
November 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
two criticisms of Zohran in the talksphere right now are 1) appointing a police commissioner who associates with people who call him a terrorist 2) endorsing a Palestinian candidate for NYSA who said 9/11 wasn’t worse than colonialism
which is to say: NYC bay-bee! a tent as big as the Apple!
which is to say: NYC bay-bee! a tent as big as the Apple!
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"Looper" (2012)
A Michigan man named JD Vance was sentenced for threatening to kill JD Vance. www.fox5ny.com/news/michiga...
Michigan man who shares same initials as JD Vance convicted of threatening to kill president, vice president
A Michigan man named JD Vance was sentenced for threatening to kill JD Vance.
www.fox5ny.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"Looper" (2012)
hey does anyone with saṃsāra experience know what to do about the cyclicity of all life, matter, and existence? Reddit wasn’t helpful
November 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
hey does anyone with saṃsāra experience know what to do about the cyclicity of all life, matter, and existence? Reddit wasn’t helpful
there’s gotta be like a couple hundred in the US at least, right? poor bastards
November 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM
there’s gotta be like a couple hundred in the US at least, right? poor bastards
“the crisis has loosely or ill defined benchmarks for improvement” feels like a reasonable but selective critique, like, you could describe a lot of things this way
November 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
“the crisis has loosely or ill defined benchmarks for improvement” feels like a reasonable but selective critique, like, you could describe a lot of things this way
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I love the Dropkick Murphys because "Irish-American" + "gen X" + "punk rocker who's been at it for 30 years" should be the formula for the most racist guy alive but instead Ken Casey is constantly giving interviews where he's like "fascists are demons from hell and that's where they belong"
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I love the Dropkick Murphys because "Irish-American" + "gen X" + "punk rocker who's been at it for 30 years" should be the formula for the most racist guy alive but instead Ken Casey is constantly giving interviews where he's like "fascists are demons from hell and that's where they belong"
wild that I haven’t seen a single person post the Justin Timberlake “it’s gonna be May” meme today — really shows how far it’s fallen off
November 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
wild that I haven’t seen a single person post the Justin Timberlake “it’s gonna be May” meme today — really shows how far it’s fallen off
stared at this shirt for a while
November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
stared at this shirt for a while
one interesting thing I’ve found via making these running playlists is that it’s surprisingly difficult to find songs by exact length. Google is very scant with it, LLM’s hallucinate them almost 100% of the time. obviously I just sort my Apple Music and add from there but I can’t make it any easier.
November 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
one interesting thing I’ve found via making these running playlists is that it’s surprisingly difficult to find songs by exact length. Google is very scant with it, LLM’s hallucinate them almost 100% of the time. obviously I just sort my Apple Music and add from there but I can’t make it any easier.
Cali Swag Redistricting
November 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Cali Swag Redistricting
when “Only Murders in the Building” sets up a new season cliffhanger after a kind of lackluster season
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
when “Only Murders in the Building” sets up a new season cliffhanger after a kind of lackluster season
my kind of hot take is that all of these guys are individually great but this album would’ve more likely sounded kinda bad (or at least not amazing) than good; I don’t imagine Paul and Tony getting along musically *at all*.
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
my kind of hot take is that all of these guys are individually great but this album would’ve more likely sounded kinda bad (or at least not amazing) than good; I don’t imagine Paul and Tony getting along musically *at all*.
I know there are dimensions of this that are obviously much worse, like poor parents being taken from their children, but there've been so many stories of friends and colleagues in the music world on O-1's that have been deported or laying low abroad amidst pressure and it makes me so fucking angry
November 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I know there are dimensions of this that are obviously much worse, like poor parents being taken from their children, but there've been so many stories of friends and colleagues in the music world on O-1's that have been deported or laying low abroad amidst pressure and it makes me so fucking angry
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i think that a lot of people (of all ideological varieties) conflate "face genuine economic pressures personally", "face structural trends that favor certain forms of conservatism", and "have personal issues that funnel them into extreme politics" into a single issue and that's unhelpful
No, the neo-Nazism of young Republican staffers is not driven by economic anxiety
www.vox.com/politics/468...
www.vox.com/politics/468...
November 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
i think that a lot of people (of all ideological varieties) conflate "face genuine economic pressures personally", "face structural trends that favor certain forms of conservatism", and "have personal issues that funnel them into extreme politics" into a single issue and that's unhelpful
“I tell you of my mezzanine, with its cupped sound and partial views. It’s a sick middle, a grand tier in name only. But there was a balcony where, this time, the Romeos spoke to *me* from that perch”
November 18, 2025 at 5:03 AM
“I tell you of my mezzanine, with its cupped sound and partial views. It’s a sick middle, a grand tier in name only. But there was a balcony where, this time, the Romeos spoke to *me* from that perch”
a second stop has been found on the Appalachian Trail
November 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
a second stop has been found on the Appalachian Trail
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Couldn't remember Jon Hamm's name or the name of his character. So I made a discovery
November 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Couldn't remember Jon Hamm's name or the name of his character. So I made a discovery
tbc, I think this is a big long shot for Ossé, as Jeffries is well-liked and strongly demo-aligned in his district, but man, if he managed to both knock him out AND put a damper on the stupid ways people use “gentrifier”…
November 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
tbc, I think this is a big long shot for Ossé, as Jeffries is well-liked and strongly demo-aligned in his district, but man, if he managed to both knock him out AND put a damper on the stupid ways people use “gentrifier”…
it always seemed like Dasha Nekrosova’s casting in Succession was a sort of meta-commentary on the increasingly bizarre world of Internet politics, and the question was “how long will she actually have a career for” and honestly, “four years” was longer than I thought
November 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
it always seemed like Dasha Nekrosova’s casting in Succession was a sort of meta-commentary on the increasingly bizarre world of Internet politics, and the question was “how long will she actually have a career for” and honestly, “four years” was longer than I thought
father-in-law cracked a good one about Jack Schlossberg: “I wanna show up to one of his rallies with a sign that says ‘No Princes’”
November 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
father-in-law cracked a good one about Jack Schlossberg: “I wanna show up to one of his rallies with a sign that says ‘No Princes’”
I would see the Mario Galaxy movie in theaters twice if Benny Safdie played Bowser Jr. with his Edward Teller voice
November 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I would see the Mario Galaxy movie in theaters twice if Benny Safdie played Bowser Jr. with his Edward Teller voice