Absolutely world-shifting for uptown. Hopefully will be finished before we die of old age.

Lee Bontecou my beloved. Why *shouldn’t* sculpture punch a mesmerizing deep-black hole in a sinister bio-industrial terrain.

Omg AMAZNG

Congrats to @katieshepardbooks.bsky.social on her new book! I got my copy!

They should not be able to do this, and when I say that I don’t just mean it shouldn’t be legally allowable, I mean that the technology that makes it possible should not exist.

Woman Leaving the Psychoanalyst https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19734

I thought someone opened cat food can but it was just onion soup. Please respect my privacy in this difficult time

Saw the movie in a very nice spot.

Reading the Pope Francis/JD Vance a/b/o fic no doubt.

crystal clear black letter constitutional violations happening on camera and absolutely no chance anyone involved faces a single consequence

3000 missing. makes me nauseous to think about.

On Twitter, Zohran Mamdani's post expressing sympathy for the Jewish community of Jackson, Mississippi on the arson of their synagogue has the following quote tweets: - AIPAC sellout - ZOG - Hamas Taqiyya! - ZOG - Jew - this is your fault, antisemite - Satmar: thank you for your kind words

Tomorrow night I will EITHER go see The Testament of Ann Lee OR I will see if I can watch the hockey show by posting about it as I watch. I AM going to participate in culture.

My "What You Need To Know About Tear Gas" thread: First, tear gas is a particulate, not an actual vapor or gas. In some cases, this means you can get some of the tear gas off your clothes by standing in a stiff breeze or strong fan.

this is some of the best legal advice you will ever read

Here are some nice mushrooms

A Maenadean Revival is long overdue.

Deeply love when the train stops and all the people with protest signs empty out in the same spot. Public transit and public protest combine.

I have a plan to save movie theaters and it’s gonna work: Double-price for phone-friendly showings. You can have your phone out the entire time, make calls, talk, bring young active children without fear of being judged. Half-price for silent showings. Phone use gets you banned for six months.

Be it known that I did try to watch the hockey show. At the lesbian bar.

A31: Tennessee Entrance Hall, 1835, by Designed by Narcissa Niblack Thorne American, 1882-1966 c. 1940 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/45401

I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building. Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained. The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.

Please donate to Keith Porter's family. He was killed by an off-duty ICE agent in LA earlier this month.

I bought a pretty whistle, because look I’m not a snappy dresser but I thought it might be nice to have an attractive one. (Also it’s a “bobby whistle” so it’s supposed to be quite loud and attention-getting?)

I have a dizzying amount of plans for the weekend (three things)

Please be aware that contrary to their fundraising ads, @forwardblue.bsky.social has no relationship with the No Kings mobilizations, no record of doing anything in support, no inside information, and is ignoring requests to cease advertising that suggests they are involved.

I know people are dismissive if how cute and safe these are but I think there's really something to this business of training normies like myself to get mobilized at quicker and quicker intervals. Doesn't feel like it's sapping anyone's energy or making them feel like they've done enough to me.

This keeps me awake at night, frankly, as a New Yorker. (She said, at 3AM.) I remember when they threatened DeBlasio’s daughter. I am genuinely afraid of what they might try to do with Mamdani. I hope he has private security.

Big fan of characters who are incredibly down bad but instead of expressing it like a normal person they just repress it until it comes out in increasingly questionable ways

that’s why they say “all cops” and not “some cops”

“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”

In personal good news: my nearest HMart is once more carrying the vegan Shin Ramyun. (It also has KPop Demon Hunters stickers in it.)

A thing which is interesting to me is that we get increasingly disciplined and resourceful in our nonviolence and they get increasingly less so in their violence.

There's a protest scheduled for this Sunday in NYC, and I plan to be there.

Are you moving in? In an otherwise unassuming neighborhood, this modest house has undergone an unusual transformation thanks to a Japanese art collective. www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/01/%e7%...

you can't just escape epistemology with the blockchain. or the politics of your users, base of operations, etc. what happens when your oracle resolves carefully worded rules in a way that makes sense, but your users stop caring?

Saw a flyer for Esperanto lessons on a side street and maybe it’s just the Tony Kushner fangirl in me or just the general sentimentalist but every time someone sets out to learn the Hope Conlang a little sliver of my faith in the goodness of people is restored.

California has zero counties in drought, somehow! Good things can happen sometimes, as a treat

In his reading of Antigone in Seminar XX, Lacan called this the Second Death: the (attempted) prohibition on grieving assassinates the victim a second time in the symbolic order.

Its great for them but terrible for our information environment & our politics. And this is a big part of what I try to hit on regularly: not that Ds are perfect & we should never complain but that whats been built is a landscape where "anti-Democratic Party" is foundational above anything else

Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations

"finished that up, let me just open bluesky and WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED NOW" - me, six times a day

actually good if it's CBP's time in the barrel, they have to go too

Legit good news! When we fight we win!

Since the infighting and one-upsmanship has started--people who feel helpless + frustrated turn on each other, it's just a sad fact--remember: you don't have to like the people you fight alongside. Your comrades will say profoundly stupid bullshit to you, about you, etc. Let it roll off, keep going

bsky indexing is notoriously bad and id give it a bit before yelling at the devs over this

We've all sort of been talking about it for a while in various ways, but it's really worth reiterating this bluntly: all of these people are completely captured by the logic of "generating content on social media" and their default way of doing this is terrorizing (and killing) people

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

Rally against ICE in downtown Seattle: