Arcade Fire. Arcade Water. Arcade Air. Arcade Earth. Arcade Spirit. Captain Arcade Planet.

Okay, but I need a longer list, because I've been avoiding Home Depot since the 2000's, Amazon since the 2010's, and Target for nearly all of 2025 (and it wasn't a place I shopped at very much anyway). So what are other businesses to eschew? I mean besides Chick-fil-A and Hobby Lobby and Walmart.

My BFF dragged me to England on a 6-month work abroad program. Came back to Los Angeles and thought, "why can't I live without a car here, too?" Six years later, I enrolled in a grad program for Transportation Planning. 18 years after that, I finally started working in transit. I'm home!

This is why complicity only feeds the cruelty, rather than appeasing the monsters.

"The past is steeped in shame, But tomorrow's fair game." --Aztec Camera, "Good Morning Britain"

My head canon about the whole Piggy thing: Trump had a long ago fantasy about being invited to guest star on the Muppet Show. With the stress he's under plus the general dementia, he had sort of a psychotic break and thought it was finally happening.

parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole

My most Gen X trait is that I miss getting my canceled checks in the mail every month. But strangely I don't miss writing checks.

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Transformative work of the day, that's some pig edition

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On this Veterans Day, I'm reflecting on the fact that our Commander-in-Chief is a lying draft dodger who kicked out 5,000 trans service members who, unlike him, were serving ably and honorably, after hiring a white supremacist, alcoholic TV chatterbox to run our military.

Mamdani is going to implement Shakira Law. People must only tell the truth with their hips or face his wrath.

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

Clearly a CIA front.

NEW polling: Majority of voters believe SNAP benefits have been cut & delayed because Trump is choosing to withhold available funds. It’s no wonder why. Just this morning, the Trump admin appealed the court’s decision to fully fund SNAP. They’re choosing to let people go hungry.

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

Jeff Bezos paid $50M for a wedding. He just got a $16B tax break. He laid off 60K people. And you’re furious about a kid getting a free school lunch. Oh, right, your anger is totally not misplaced.

In case anyone is still thinking AI isn't a bubble, they're doing with data center leases what they did with mortgages in the run up to the 2008 crash.

YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE

Sorry, but my hands were tied!

If you need to get somewhere south of 7th St between Olive and Figueroa / 110, take the A Line to Pico Station. 7th is 100% full of people right now.

We stopped ordering from Amazon years ago. When we needed a part that we could ONLY get there, we donated its purchase price to a union trying to organize there. Convenience isn't worth supporting this.

Meanwhile a Catholic Bishop is protesting the government detention of thousands of Christians in Chicago. Some of whom have already died in the horrific conditions there.

Saw some crew members at our local Trader Joe's looking vigilant and alert. Soon identified the cause: a man came stomping by, shouting "And they're out of TANGERINE juice now?!" So Silver Lake.

Note for people packaging Javanese food for delivery: be careful how you abbreviate shrimp tempura.

You bought this car in August 2023. If you didn't know then, you didn't want to.

We live in an episode of Veep

If you are wondering why you haven’t heard much from the Proud Boys lately, it’s because they’re called ICE now.

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino is set to appear before U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis. What you need to know, for @wttw.bsky.social:

Undoubtedly the weirdest piece of junk mail I have ever received.

This is how you do it. I hope Los Angeles is watching, because the same thing is going to happen with Olympics funding.

we'll believe it when we see it (not holding our breath)

I have "Unstoppable" by Sia stuck in my head, but my brain has replaced the titular word, so I'm impossible today.

I think I found the right Halloween party

If you are a Whitney Houston fan, this show is definitely worth seeing: thegreatestloveofallshow.com Belinda brings it. And the rest of the band is great too ;-)

Like make it make sense!

I have friends everywhere. #NoKings

#CancelChristmas. Make things for people, donate to charities in their names, but let the big corps bite their nails and wonder if they can survive if we don't fund them.

LA folks, get on this.

Anyone in or near SLO who wants to go waste their time?

Just read Remake by Connie Willis. It's a weird love story set in a near-future Hollywood where all movies are remakes with CG versions of dead actors, and there's constant litigation on who is allowed to use who. The Chinese Theater has Trump's name on it. It was published in 1995. O.o

I researched and wrote a term paper for 11th grade US History about populist symbolism in the Wizard of Oz in one weekend before the Monday deadline. I missed the 25 points for not having an outline and bibliography done weeks before, but got 175 out of 200. AI could never.

I went here and everyone knew Garak