A dog named Taco from my building got skunked right outside and that is actually one of the most Los Angeles things to ever happen

My same phone camera took this photo? Can I get a software upgrade back to this?

If the Democrats realized that politics is the art of persuasion they'd be one hell of a party.

"Culturally normal" sir the state you govern produces the culture

Almost every bit of snow had melted by sunset

it's hard to get your mind around how irredeemably broken this country has become. no one in charge at this time seems to understand even the basics of our system of government as written or our stated set of values as a secular society

Thankful I grew up walking distance to this

Wild how the Scarecrow makeup was makeup in Wicked: For Good, because I thought it was some of the worst cgi I've ever seen.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Los Angeles is a mashup of the Albuquerque, Atlanta, and the Tuscan country side

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

When I turned that off, the tabs "Updates, Promotions, Social, InBox" were deleted by default. The tabs that existed BEFORE Gemini. #rage

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Did Google just nerf gmail?

Funny how in the Platner case the opposition research provided Reddit account turned into a nothing burger and the "putting this out there to get ahead of it" Tottenkopf tattoo did not.

Donald Trump announces he has signed the bill to release the Epstein files.

I worked at TV-9 when it was still part of The Gazette, I even wrote for The Gazette for a while, and really hope that the Adams purchase is a good thing. I wish the company had held on to Color Web Printers a little bit longer. It makes me sad to think of the paper being printed in Wisconsin.

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

A car is not a choice in most of America and that's a longstanding result of policy. The overwhelming evidence is that in spite of the purposeful destruction of American cities directly through government policy cities survived and came back to thrive again, large and small.

Keep in mind how insane that y-axis is, merely showing the top one percent of earners. Even amongst that group the overwhelming amount of gains have gone to the 0.01 percent. 0.01% of Elon Musks net worth is about $50 million dollars. For now. We could see a world where that's a nine figure 0.01%.

And how much Transportation is hidden in the other categories? What portion of Housing costs is the garage under your apartment building? What portion of Food is the sea of parking surrounding the supermarket? What portion of Healthcare is car-related injury and respiratory disease?

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

jesus christ man

He did WHAT to WHO

People should be allowed to have a THC seltzer if they want to

my most woke opinion is that any truck/SUV over 4,000 pounds should require a commercial drivers license, increased insurance/registration, more expensive parking, and higher punishments for traffic violations

Sunset Blvd #photography

if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.

Hollywood, California #photography

Now I'm a dummy but it really feels to me like there has to be an entire relatively broad-based winning politics based around being in opposition to *just this one sliver* of what the Trump administration is doing right here www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

It is hard to come up with a better analogy for whiteness than preferring the AI simulacra of your supposed authentic art form to whatever a Black woman from your art form’s cultural geography might make.

Hollywood, California #photography

This was a hoot actually

A 50 year mortgage is a terrible idea. It's a debt trap not a path to wealth building.

We have invented a machine that can turn all the worlds resources into fake people emailing each other to the point no actual labor happens

Obvious reason to domesticate a raccoon: have you seen one? Obvious reason not to domesticate a raccoon: have you met one? Why would you give a cat hands and leave it alone in your house?

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Auto companies have already failed to provide a better infotainment system than the one I have with me all the time and prefer. That ship has sailed and my next car will have CarPlay. The quality of the car as a manufactured object still matters a lot. Work on that. fortune.com/2025/11/05/f...

The thing about this city is the cars.

Some old favorites #photography

Socialism!

Walked to my polling place

The tension between me and the Lego Botanical Gardens continues because it was $230 and I have Legos I haven't unpacked that I want to be an adult about and play with first

I am going to go the Lego store and impulse buy something

Democratic policies are much more popular policies than Republicans. But because they have little advocacy infrastructure, the public generally doesn't know that it agrees with Democrats. Messages and policies don't matter if they can't be heard.

Oh, I remember what happens next with this one!