Truly think my husband acquired the majority of his world and local political knowledge from 90s punk band liner notes. “Yeah crimpshrine used to always talk about that” ok babe. Honestly, retvrn.

Shoplifting from wholefoods, is it praxis etc. Not my job to answer that one. But apparently it IS my job to scan my own groceries at WF, and what if I'm bad at my job?? Sorry I forgot to scan those bananas... re-hire the cashiers if you care (they don't).

Reading the new Ben Lerner which is funny to me in the same way as Knausgaard my struggle was - both are “I didn’t know they let men do that sort of writing” kinda books (writing about phone in Lerner’s case)

My bf’s response to the Hampshire news

Looks like Tyler Cowan found the New Aesthetic he was looking for and turns out it’s Helen Dewitt

Hell in Hayes Valley

I saw Sirāt - send in the ravers

This (from Stewart Brand on the progress of his now-published book about Maintenance) is gagging me ... essentially a rewrite of Mierle Ladreman Ukeles' Maintenance Art manifesto. "Maintenance is a drag; it takes all the fucking time" (M.L.U 1969) queensmuseum.org/wp-content/u...

Printing out my tabs so I can read the internet phoneless at the beer garden as is my right

Ew the San Francisco tech dads are posting their Gramicci and Orslow pants on the tl… they’re blowing up your spot boys. Time to get the next military inspired post-gorp trou locked and loaded before this shit starts to read like 4-way stretch joggers by association

i’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe

i’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe

WHO GETS TO LOOK AT THE WORLD? The memeification of war and the ubiquity of cellphone cameras makes it feel like we are watching this shit play out live. But the surveillant aerial view is only ever selectively available to lay-people.

Just had this from Planet Labs, the US government have asked satellite imagery providers for "voluntarily" restrictions on access to satellite imagery. Given a lot of them provide satellite imagery to the USG we can probably guess the outcome of not acquiescing to that request.

So many of these "taste" bros are building bodies that are very UNtasteful. Looksmaxxing and creatined to the eyeballs - boys you look TACKY!!

Why is Marshall McLuhan being cited everywhere again all of a sudden? The idea of a Canadian philosopher... it just doesn't sit right

Wow i just went to the most cursed bar in Berkeley (a city of few, and mostly terrible bars)!!

FPV drone footage... evil perspective, nothing good comes from this angle, don't show it to me

The dental clinic was so popular today, a line formed down the sidewalk! If you weren't able to be seen at today's dental clinic, please come again Tuesday, March 24th 10am at the Oakland Main Library. We added another date to this service just for you!

Something sooooo irresistible about a little freestanding theory of technology. "fragment on machines" - "the technology question" - "postscript on societies of control" - "a rant about technology" yes go on tantalize us

Have now watched Heated Rivalry and laughed out loud when the climactic moment of the whole series was accompanied by Wolf Parade’s 2005 hit I’ll Believe in Anything in case we didn’t already realize this show was created by Canadian elder millennials

I’m sorry ChatGPT is NOT helping you fix that tractor - John Deere still has that shit on lock you better not touch a nut without speaking to an authorized dealer

ok nevermind guess i've already wondered about this

I want to read about the history of basketweave for cop belts and accessories … anyone got anything on this??

I’m ethnically Irish but the bad kind!!

Some of you wish to be Connor O'Malley but you can't be bc of your American teeth!! cosmetic orthodontia is the botox of the mouth and equally detrimental to Acting

At the airport bar and two 30-something guys sat down at the seats next to me w big beers., one guy says to the other: ok what do you know about One Piece. bros are locked in

David Cronenberg (hbd) is my David Lynch and I’m gonna be soooo sad when he dies

i just had a prophetic vision that the new buzzword for all the guys currently obsessed with "taste" is gonna be "appetite". Eg "In the anhedonic post-ozempic era, the only thing that matters is obsessively discerning, high-agency appetite"!!! Sorry for writing that sentence!!

I fear this was my Infinite Jest (now in use as Y2K lamp holder at my parents house)

If someone says they’re “noticing” something these days it is either a dog whistle that they’re a conspiracy theorist/antisemite or indicates they’re a moron about to reinvent an existing field of study. Sorry to that word

No one is watching the a16z boys as closely as I am and that’s ok bsky.app/profile/kell...

TOMORROW NIGHT! Release party for SF Review of Whatever Issue 3. Tragically I won't be there (still deployed in the Antipodes) but everyone else cool will be there. Go buy a mag and a marg and hang out!

We're doing a TMK live show in San Francisco next week with the wonderful folks at @bayareacurrent.bsky.social and @dsasf.org. Come join us for a night of left-wing tech criticism! Registration is free, encouraged, but not required: www.eventbrite.com/e/decoding-t...

"The only ones who need to be worried right now is the Iranians who think they're gonna live" -Pete Hegseth, Very Normal Guy

“More like Cuck Mason” (<—me to every “in the age of AI, taste is everything” midwit SF guy I see

The AI frothers and e/acc fash are constantly writing about their awful parties like they're the only thing happening in the Bay BUT just a few miles away are ACTUAL parties with hot punks who know how to socialize, godbless!! bayareacurrent.com/party-report-east-bay-rats-valentines-fight-party/

Just subscribed to @flaminghydra.com so I can read this @katewagner.wehwalt.net piece. Lots of good twt/bsky threads out there on contemp fascist aesthetics & some longer form work, but I'm so stoked for Kate's series bc this shit is RANCID and needs mucho analysis flaminghydra.com/toward-an-un...

Selective Service System (mentioned below) had a huge impact on me when I first watched it. Made by SF State students, it documents the lengths some young people went to avoid the draft, the violence of those (these) times, and the way wars makes losers of us all. mubi.com/en/nz/films/...

I pretty much think the semi-apocryphal Truffaut truism that "it is impossible to make an anti-war film" is correct when it comes to hollywood narrative cinema. However, it is 100% possible to make an anti-war experimental film. Time to tap back in at the cinephile factory, friends.

The Anton Jager Hyperpolitics cover design works and I like it, but that book jacket style cycle is now complete

It appears that a Polymarket account called "Magamyman" made $515,000 in a single day betting on last night's U.S. strike on Iran, with the first trade placed 71 minutes before the news broke publicly.

Pop culture shock of my life last year, as a 90s kid, was to find out that the guy behind White Town (of "I could never be your woman" fame) is a British Indian communist straghtedger from Darby whose music was an attempt to combine bedroom pop and revolutionary theory

Every time I see either of these men:

A piece of footage I think about every week. An image from the future

Visiting my best friend in New Zealand at his new place (a decommissioned community center he bought & now lives in) and this is the bathroom

Last time I flew to New Zealand I skipped New Year’s Eve entirely thx to crossing the date line. Straight from the 30th to New Year’s Day. This time I get to skip Valentine’s Day! Bye suckers!!! ✈️🚫❤️

The posters who act like it's their job to evangelize AI and get everyone else on board come hell or high water are similar to (but worse than) the people who do ayahuasca and come back convinced it's their job to evangelize mother aya to the nonbelievers. Please! mind your own business.

Caught wind that my manifesto about stew and the social necessity of affordable public dining has influenced the founding of at least one local dinner series ... that's impact baby

Whenever anyone under 40 acts in a way that indicates they think smoking a cigarette makes you look cool, I think less of them - oh wow you had a bowl of cigs at your party????? sorry what is this, dimes square 2022