My wife and I are building an $80k $85k 2000 square-foot addition onto our house- and we’re doing it completely by ourselves. Framing, sheathing, roofing, doors, windows, flooring, plumbing, electrical, housewrap, kitchen, stairs, tile, trim, reverse bathtubs- everything but the concrete and siding

NFTs are amazing because you apparently “own” them but the AWS outtage yesterday took out everyones apes lol

Every now and then I go back and read the Citizens United ruling to see if it is as unhinged as I thought, and every time I do that I see it is actually far more deranged than I remembered. levernews.com/book

Start of quick swing through Saxony Anhalt and Thuringia to write various pieces. First stop: the Bauhaus Museum in Dessau

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement. Check out how tiny the crowds were: Philly: 200 DC: "several hundred" Boston: 500 Austin: 1,000 Houston: 2,000

I love Guillermo del Toro calling ages 19 to 29 "sublime confusion"

[sighing and tapping a surprisingly well-worn sign reading "THE MANHATTAN PROJECT WAS A MASSIVE INDUSTRIAL PROGRAM WITH A TINY R&D ADJUNCT]

20 October 1963: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin baptises a tiger cub at East Berlin's Tierpark

step 1: hire an elite team of international acrobats, engineers, and hackers step 2: those guys are out of budget. find antoine and guillaume from secondary school step 3: contract a high tech surveillance package and van. buy knock-out darts for the guards step 4: too expensive. borrow a big ladder

It’s a great parody but also this shot is as good as any shot from Kubrick’s adaptation and as far as I can tell, it’s a wholly original one

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

Stayed at the Hotel Marcel, the adaptive reuse of the formerly abandoned Pirelli Tire Building by Marcel Breuer in New Haven, CT (1969) r/brutalism

NEW: White House announces it's going to pause, and potentially cancel, $11 billion in infrastructure funding (via the Army Corps of Engineers), specifically citing cities, like New York, represented or led by Democrats. More to come.

Amazing to see how much technical equipment was left behind/survived in this Soviet Nuclear Weapons storage. Normally this stuff would have been looted or smashed up by now. #abandoned #lostplaces #germany

i subscribe to the new yorker primarily because it's still amazingly good at digging up Guys. "Revolutionary Socialism-Curious Landlord" is an inner circle hall of fame type of guy to uncover

pouring one out for the first person who dies after going within 6ft of an open flame whilst wearing their comically oversized, wildly flammable looking nurgling hoodie

we have got to start killing billionaires. is the first line that the villain speaks in the novel im writing. really though, in the real world, we have to kill these people. he continues

16 October 1968: stamps issued in the GDR depicting 'useful beetles' (1/2)

The abandoned Hotel Forum in Kraków, Poland (designed in 1978 by Janusz Ingarden) has been heritage designated, saving it from demolition. r/brutalism

The grottos and underground lakes of Thuringia's Barbarossa Cave have been transformed into an illuminated art gallery. Until November, visitors can enjoy the mystical Halloween themed light-installation across the 15,000-square-metre cave.

Respectful Jogger Yells ‘Move Or I Could Kill You’ As They Run Past

Reddit shuts down its NFT avatars project August 28, 2025 https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=reddit-shuts-down-nft-avatars

Financial Advisors Recommend Throwing Away Unopened Bills https://theonion.com/financial-advisors-recommend-throwing-away-unopened-bills/

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Step 1: disband ICE Step 2: give ICE's entire bloated budget to the IRS Step 3: record white collar crime task force kicking in penthouse doors and macing unresisting billionaires Step 4: one hundred years of Dem reign

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

great story, this chart RULES

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

anyways as always tapping the "learned helplessness is a disease" sign. you must never resign yourself to stagnation and rot of mind, body, or soul

Area Man's Ex-Girlfriend Glad She Bumped Into Him https://theonion.com/area-mans-ex-girlfriend-glad-she-bumped-into-him-1819564583/

Dropping soon 👌🏻 Shoot me a DM if youre interested, though a page will be up on the website soon.

12 October 1988: in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Erich Honecker opens the 3 millionth new flat to be opened in East Germany since a housing policy decision was announced by the SED in 1971 (via Bundesarchiv)

bitch what

I need him like ive never needed another man

This is a powerful image

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

'Ein frohes Wochenende >erfahren<'. 1956 weekend greetings from the GDR's bicycle manufacturers.

Alexanderplatz, Berlin

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

"Hochbunker" which is an old Nazi WW2, bunker has been revived as a modern hotel r/brutalism

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency @heatmap.news

There are only two types of products and services now: outright scam and pseudo scam (where you're like ehh technically I got something in exchange for my money but cmon)

Happy TPF Day to those who celebrate, and honestly, it should be everyone, it deserves your love! And remember The Power Fantasy loves you!

Marco Rubio is going to hell.

Thag heart like sunset with no sunrise. Forever become night Caveman therapist: maybe Thag heart like old fire, slowly get cold, gone forever Thag understand allegory, Thag need reignite heart fire. Thag lease 2025 Corvette at 19% APR

don’t think this vid can ever be topped

yall know i hate that boy just heads up this is intentional and at least nominally the most “responsible” thing to do with LEO satellites, at least until the data comes back about upper atmosphere effects

Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about