“America is ours.” ❤️💙

Electioneering: #art and remembrance as protest.

woke up this morning, thought about why I feel so sad today, why I want to celebrate all the same because I’m a patriot, ofc “Loving our country means fighting for the best version of it.”—Mayor Mamdani

I agree with all the takes about an attack on the humanities being an attack on critical thinking, &c. It’s also about joy, though. ‘Why bother studying that’ is always also a sneer at — why do you think you should get to do something you enjoy? Grow up and be miserable all the time!

you’d think that New Bedford was just up the road from “old Manhatto” “I stuffed a shirt or two into my old carpet-bag, tucked it under my arm, and started for Cape Horn and the Pacific. Quitting the good city of old Manhatto, I duly arrived in New Bedford. It was a Saturday night in December.”

having traveled by bus today from Manhattan to New Bedford, not a short trip, one wonders how Ishmael made the trip; he does not say

Which is why a Dem trifecta will be ejecting insurrectionists from Congress, expanding the Court to 13 seats, and impeaching Alito and Thomas for corruption.

heading to Cape Cod for the first time in probably a decade? last time was for my stepbrother’s wedding

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FWIW the DSA won more than the two Congressional primaries in New York this Tuesday.

following the boys to the second of two graduations this week, on Thursday 💕👨🏻‍🎓🧑🏻‍🎓💕

I will vote for a platform of de-Trumpification. It needs to be a scorched-earth removal of every hateful symbol.

god this is harrowing - obviously Slava Ukraini but those poor lads

look at them asking brad lander in his mr. rogers sweater about the tea party lolol

My first real exposure to Brad Lander was my sister saying “the comptroller goes to every single parade in the city and he is always having the best time,” chalk up another victory for Just Fucking Loving New York

SO PROUD OF @bradlander.bsky.social — he has stood by us for a decade+ and we love getting to stand by him as our next rep in Congress (and, of course, hold him accountable like all our other reps) 😉😍😍 GO GET EM BRAD!

In honor of his apparent victory: @bradlander.bsky.social eats a hot dog on the Cyclone

after graduation—the first of two this week yet another photo of those two boys of mine, walking in front of me, talking about whatever it is they talk about with each other

what beautiful little books, just gorgeous

this is why it really frustrates me when people say, "why aren't Americans resisting? How can you let this happen?" there's a huge amount of resistance, and it's been strikingly effective in many cases, from Kimmel to forcing the partial ICE retreat in Minneapolis and on and on.

Why yes I do organize my voting plan around the availability of excellent stickers! 🤩 Vote today & get your sticker before they’re gone!

with TWO children graduating next week (😭), I’m late in posting my voting plan 1. decide when I’m going to vote: today! ✅ 2. review my sample ballot (& polling location—it’s changed!) at findmypollsite.vote.nyc ✅ 3. review the NKD voter guide at tinyurl.com/NKDGuide26 & make voting decisions ✅

Thursday! What a concept!

realized the reason I particularly like this jaunty little track is it sounds like it comes from one of those films that were on Sesame Street in the 1970s I mean I know that’s their bit (music as though from 1970s film strips), but there’s something especially Sesame Street about this one to me

based on my understanding of how LLMs work tbh I don’t understand why anyone would expect them to do otherwise

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time for Flatbush to break out the fireworks

Ding ding ding

SO FAR 🧿

no way that man stays to watch the entire game

WE’LL BE BACK

Did another political thing where 80 percent of the volunteers were femme presenting. Dudes, gotta step up. If you're not volunteering for anything, pick one (1) thing and start this week.

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an all-time great birthday in an otherwise terrible year in which we watched Buffy with the kids because with everything happening in NYC that spring I wanted them to watch kids kick demon ass

no not Giles 😭

looking forward to this, we will be making joyful noise 🎺🥁

yea for us!! 🫠

“Content” also insidiously shifts significance and validity to the platform, not the substance — content is contained, what defines content is the existence and form of the container

I point this out to say that “AI” is most legible in the context of technological advancements in labor busting and the least legible as a productivity or efficiency tool.

A couple years ago I looked into when we started to use “content” in this way; the OED & Google N-Gram didn’t really help. I found a 2004 report on a 2003 survey by Pew of “content creators,” so by then the word was being used in this way.

We asked and @bradlander.bsky.social answered some of your biggest questions in less than two minutes.

In the end we were just his latest casino and whatnot.

made this post to check a function in Pressbooks (it works!) taking this opportunity to share this book again because why not

"On Your Mark" at The Next Wave Gallery will have special hours on Friday 5/29! We're open 11am - 5pm and by special request after 5pm (DM me or reply to this!) 37 North 15th St in Williamsburg/ Greenpoint. Curated by @nortonmythos.bsky.social , a Norton & Wade Bonds production #art in #Brooklyn

website that picks the Rothko closest to how the weather feels in your location (by Joonas Virtanen) rothko.joonas.wtf

When I was a young White House intern, they took us to Arlington National Cemetery and they took us to see the graves of the first freedmen buried there after combat. It’s a reminder that some of the greatest defenders of American freedom are often the ones to whom freedom hasn’t been afforded yet.