#OnThisDay in 1964, Marlon Brando joined local Native Americans for a fish-in protest at the Puyallup River. historylink.org/File/5332

AI is your friend who knows everything. AI is taking your job. AI is your mom. AI is God? AI is your sexy lover who never says no. AI is going to drive humans to extinction. AI is a cute little crab—don’t hurt the AI’s feelings!

whoof only took an eight hour wait to get the next ferry out of Orcas

I got your back

hearing AI company CEOs excitedly telling you how "we can now all finally become managers" without blinking makes me want to pack my bags and move to the moon

There's an outage happening which manifests as me seeing push notifications from people (asking for help) but then unable to see the posts in the app. For other people, this shows up as disappearing posts and likes and so on. We're working on it!

it's the posting purge, all posts autoexpire like old snapchat, get your takes out while they're cheap

my job is good and I am lucky to have it. my job is good and I am lucky to have it. my job is good and I am lucky to have it. my job is good and I am lucky to have it. my job is good and I am lucky to h

I am once again fantasizing about respectable employment doing something that benefits society in a tangible way

A state of mind should be encouraged that anything can be sabotaged.

In retrospect this had a way larger effect on me then I ever could have imagined.

reading posts online as a form of conceptual hormesis

BOMBOGENESIS BOMBOGENESIS BOMBOGENESIS BOMBOGENESIS

I saw your man introducing European grasses to North American meadow lands

I am currently enjoying this image (infrared_dog.jpg) I found on Wikipedia.

that's right: all cuisines. every last one.

AI, gambling, war, and agriculture: the four American industries

an interest in degrowth in this economy, somewhat like an interest in having parachutes on a plane that's producing a real weird smoke out of one engine

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

it's not a podcast if there's not an rss feed

‘tis the season

the traditional valentine’s morning activity of cleaning baby chicken butts

there are two senders of emails that I just absolutely cannot shake: 1. a listserv from my hometown university that I subscribed to in high school and which has a broken unsubscription mechanism. this one may be incompetence. 2. the New York Review of Architecture, nyra.nyc. this one must be malice.

I wonder what kind of impact the MAHA stuff has had on the freegan community. I assume the freegans aren't a fan of MAHA folks

[urbanist voice] you know what would really help humans move farther and faster on their feet

we as a society are coming up with more and more impressive ideas for making computing expensive again

another day, another random computer nerd getting numbers on bluesky for a 300 character post about how all of global agriculture should work

intelligence is knowing that all advertisements are evil. wisdom is letting your deep-seated hatred for them dominate all aspects of your life

Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble.

in retrospect I do regret not going for Spanish when I was in school

I don't think it's all that mockable that plenty of people don't realize lays are made from potatoes. after all, you can't buy root beer made with its namesake root in the US anymore 🤷

I just hope Mr. Bunny has a good time up there

I’m going to lose my mind seeing people on the internet call organisms “invasive” with absolutely no context or description of location. that’s not how things work!!!

you can get this charming little Chinese e-reader (xteink.com), throw the good open-source firmware on there, and then put on it a large portion of the world's greatest literature (gutenberg.org), all costing like sixty bucks and less than a smartphone's worth of space. the future!

found a new (to me) kind of mushroom today

so the move is flatting down "in the epstein files" into "metoo cancel culture abloobloobloo" in the hopes we all remember our programming where we're meant to identify with rapists rather than their victims. is that right?

That’s right folks. Kamala Harris has not only found, but captured and killed, the legendary ape man known as Bigfoot

today is septidi 17 Pluviôse in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV, celebrating lichen

as an apple-enthusiast owner of some swampy PNW land I am very intrigued by this northwestmeadowscapes.com/pages/pacifi...

1 and 2

Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

dentist appointment in a week and my teeth start Feeling Different. perfect timing for the dentist to start fitting me with dentures I guess

solid stuff. "poverty in the DRC isn't due to the wealthy. it's due to colonialism. which is, um, basically like a kind of nasty weather that hits the tropics, like a hurricane."

this is the most deranged variation of Six Degrees of Separation we've yet seen

SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods. S1: archive.org/details/sctv... S2: archive.org/details/sctv... S3: archive.org/details/19-m... S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s... S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky

this fuckin guy. great shame of Seattle