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.

You pull yourself up by your boostraps. Me? I DESERVE free money from the government, and so do my rich friends bsky.app/profile/cwar...

I'd vote for anyone who ran on a platform of making billionaires into millionaires through tax legislation.

Sharing some more thoughts on #NSPM7 today and how it pits the term #antifascist against dissent. The label is being deployed not to confront real #fascism, but to silence critics of Trump’s fascist regime. 🧵

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#urbanism #cardependency #walking

I just got back from spending a long weekend in New York City, and one thing that really struck me about my time there was how many different ideas I came up with walking around. And that got me thinking about a book I read in 2019 or 2020 about walking and neuroscience.

LGA looks like a parking lot.

The Amazing World Of Tomorrow

NSPM-7 — the new “Countering Domestic Terrorism” security directive from the Trump administration — prominently includes anti-capitalist beliefs among the ideas it’s concerned about. Let that sink in: the U.S. government now officially associates being anti-capitalist with domestic terrorism.

Godspeed to everyone else braving an airport in the US today 🫡

If I ever become president, the second executive order I’ll sign after signing one to defund ICE and use the money to build housing for all homeless people — build public restrooms lol

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

I’m kind of scared to get a tattoo of some cool looking old symbol or something in the fear that it might wind up as a tech company logo one day

It’s been a while since I posted on my blog (or here), but I recently revisited the last thing I published there and have been reflecting on it. Here’s the link to the full post if you want to read it, but this is the gist. 🧵

I need a button that opts me out of all AI unless I ask for something. No more fake artist mash-ups or fake movie trailers on YouTube. No more fake animal videos on Facebook. No more every software shoving AI into everything I try to do. I would pay good money for this. /curmudgeonly rant

Me, living on a diet of black coffee, weed, and Oreos for the past two weeks with no exercise while every day gets shorter: “I wonder why I feel bad?”

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

I watched part of the Emoji Movie with my nephew over the weekend and can I just say that it is a crime against the human spirit

Breaking my silence on Bluesky just to say… afternoon pancakes are really just disgustingly overlooked and underrated as a really fantastic thing to snack on in the afternoon. Why is no one talking about this?!

Asking another guy to hang out for the first time is so embarrassing, it’s like “Hey man no homo but like you seem like someone I could maybe be friends with dude *AHEM* uh yeah man so like idk do you drink beer and stuff man bro? Dude?”

The richest man in the world has taken over the US government and his first order of business is taking revenge for the fall of apartheid in South Africa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Dear anyone who writes professionally: EM DASHES ARE NOT MEANT TO REPLACE COMMAS AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY! If I see one more instance of an em dash followed by a conjunction to join two independent clauses I am going to scream.

This is disturbing. The thought of AMOC collapsing really freaks me out.

"When we are bound in a system of reciprocity, not return on investment, we will be closer to being the kind of ancestors future people need." - @frrstbrwn.bsky.social

I'm very excited to announce that the essay I wrote last year about The Ministry for the Future by #KimStanleyRobinson and the social discount rate was selected for the inaugural issue of Pace Layers, available now from @longnow.org!

Best of all possible worlds right here y’all. Shame Voltaire isn’t around to witness this.

Old people on Facebook with AI generated images be like “wow look at this beautiful cat……one of God’s marvelous creations”

Here’s a little roundup of some writing that’s been keeping me going lately, with at least one piece that I wouldn’t have discovered were it not for Mastodon

A big part of the problem with the Election Takes is the infantalization of idealism and the adultification of moderation.

Hell is being trapped in the Sam’s Club in Cookeville, TN with no way to kill yourself

I donate a few bucks a month to my local Mastodon server and would gladly do the same with Bluesky. Social media apps like this (outside of billionaire control for now) are really important, and I’d much rather spend a trivial amount of money than have to deal with ads.

Trump won the election. They are making a play, however feeble, to prevent more of their people from dying. Mocking this as stupid is genuinely disgusting.

we must stop sharing the news. if we want news, there is reporting. unless you are a reporter, YOU ARE NOT A REPORTER. the constant drip drip drip throughout the day is INTENTIONALLY DISABLING. STOP IT

Welcome to the next four years of our lives

Oh Jesus this is actually terrifying, not like everything leading up to now wasn’t. Good God Elon Musk is about to do a buying-Twitter to the US federal government 😵‍💫

Well. I have become a person who reads books that look like this now. #systemstheory

This article sums up pretty nicely what I’ve been thinking since the election last week. Worth a read. https://jacobin.com/2024/11/trump-election-lessons-democrats-labor

It feels different than it did in 2016. I feel existential weariness. You don’t bring back a guy like that unless your country has a collective death wish. It’s like inviting the xenomorph back onto the Nostromo.

Really glad we early voted 😳

Have we considered that Nate Silver is just Nick Kroll doing a suuuuper long piece of performance art?

As a person, a writer, and an activist I started with a lot of faith in liberal values that is routinely let down by liberal institutions and have shifted left as I've learned and lived more, but if I'd moved right those same institutions would be moving heaven and hell to win me back

counterpoint: shut the fuck up

80 degrees on Halloween 😱

Just finished reading The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry (published in 1977), and he talks about this a lot. While I do think we should be careful not to mistake many of his ideas for degrowth, they are definitely in the same realm of thought, which is something like: we as a species […]

We would have fixed climate change by now if Steve Irwin hadn’t died

Wrote about feeling despair for the world https://stickyweather.com/2024/10/27/notes-on-despair.html