An ad full of normal words and phrases that all my New Yorkers say every day.

IM SO SALTY

People say the Pogonia ophioglossoides smells like raspberries, but I thought it smelled just like roses. Maybe some kind of olfactory illusion based on the common name, (Rose Pogonia) and also having sniffed a bunch of roses earlier in the day, though.

unfortunately climate change has reduced the rubicon to a wading pool and now everyone is just splashing back and forth across it like toddlers about to get cryptosporidiosis at the water park

Today's TRO means that the Adams administration must halt any changes to the bike lane until a court hearing in August! But the fight isn't over: join us TONIGHT for a Bedford Safety March to the sites where people have been killed by drivers. RSVP now: www.mobilize.us/transalt/eve...

sometimes I feel like I am a small obstinate dog and @nyccoib.bsky.social is a human trying to feed me a pill wrapped in bacon.

handmade artisanal algorithms, tokens guaranteed non-fungible because they are made of paint

clasp your hands together thrust your pointer fingers out draw angry eyes on your thumbs (ask friend for help). your finger bird is probably still too big to be the least bittern.

The other day, I stopped to check out the powdery mildew on my neighbor’s japanese euonymus and found an even more exciting plant pathogen on their black cherry 🍄✨🍄‍🟫

Some of the details are specific to Amsterdam, but the horrors are universal and familiar from any of the many other housing-crisis-afflicted cities I have rented in. Def recommend if you want to Feel It from New York, or SF, or Boston, or London, or…

A perennially relevant tract, formatted for printing. Or get it as a pdf here: alomalo.co/PDFS (the password is still "timberdoodle")

Inspired by @prisonculture.bsky.social on the virtues of flyering at protests, I adapted some flyers from @alomalo.co to hand out at the protest in support of Mahmoud Khalil. Posting to share with others!

have some .jpgs for printing and flyering or you can use the pdf here, password "timberdoodle": alomalo.co/PDFS

bird law

“We urge the administration to reverse course” great, but also enough of your members are paid through federal funds that you’re going to sue, right?

If you are feeling overwhelmed, I strongly recommend the livestream of the corpse flower at Sydney Botanic Gardens on YouTube. There are currently 1,500 people in chat waiting for a flower to open, and occasionally claiming that it definitely has moved this time. WWTF: We Watch The Flower.

happy new year

Apple really missed an opportunity to fill their subterranean contemplative space with reminders of their role in conflict mineral trade, imo: www.dezeen.com/2024/09/09/t...

Is the gooey chrome aesthetic still cool or does this mean it's over now?