37 today 🥳🎂

There are already at least 3-4 talks happening at the same time at any point during AWE that I want to see and they just keep adding more 😅

Never forget those we lost at Pulse 10 years ago. #Pulse #Orlando #lgbtq #latinx

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"Musk is a trillionaire." Ok let me see him pull that trillion up. Oh he can't do that? Guess it's fake and he's not a trillionaire then.

LA folks, if you have a minute this morning, I encourage you to call your councilmember's office to encourage them to vote to advance ranked choice voting, an expanded city council, and police oversight reform to the november ballot! A critical vote is happening this afternoon and it needs help!

🚨TOMORROW City Council may block some Charter reforms that WERE possibly headed for your Nov. ballot: - Council expansion - Ranked choice voting - More LAPD oversight 📣Make your voice heard Fri 1pm at City Hall! ✍️Submit written comment: lacouncilcomment.com CF 26-0489

Today the Rules Committee is deciding which recommendations for Charter reform advance to the November ballot. EVERYTHING the Reform Commission recommended is a transformative proposal that should be advanced, but unfortunately City Council themselves is responsible for making that call. SPEAK UP!

There are many important reforms proposed, but I want to focus on a few to shift the balance of power in LA: (1) ranked choice voting, (2) City Council expansion, and (3) police oversight and accountability. If you are nerd like me, you can read all 300 pages of recs here: reformlacharter.lacity.gov

If you are mad about how broken LA feels, confused why no one seems to be in charge, and brokenhearted that I lost my election to an anti-housing MAGA funded incumbent, let me direct your energy toward the LA City Charter, which is going through a big rewrite. 🧵cc @fairrepla.bsky.social

Really sucks to see this with Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate. They had a rough launch but the updates really helped bring things around for the game, but those are now stopping and the sequel's been cancelled. We are witnessing the gradual impact of Meta pulling funding for VR games

I stumbled across some real-life Amanita Muscaria mushrooms on a walk! Couldn't resist! Making textures & materials is altogether too much fun... 1st photo is a mushroom in the flesh. All the rest are textures that I made from photographing it, placed on 3D models. Amanita Muscaria, rVb, 2026.

The LA County Registrar/Recorder surprised us with an early release of precinct results!! My results by cluster map is now updated 2026-warroom.talevy.soccer/map

Good lord this is a filthy mix. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfvs...

Please Use AI

This one hits hard.

I wrote an obituary for the Spencer Pratt campaign. It died as it lived: encouraging people to believe lies about Los Angeles, each one a little bit less believable than the last. What worked on Twitter did not work in LA, but his supporters can't grasp that. slate.com/news-and-pol...

If you don't understand that every inch of where the city limits of LA are is the result of like 150 years of wealth-exclusionary balkanization & you're just learning you don't even live in the city limits now, I don't know what to tell you. You chose to live somewhere that makes our problems worse.

I can't recommend checking out @tenderclaws.bsky.social 's latest project "Body Proxy" enough if u get a chance to try it. They've been mining the same themes since Virtual Virtual Reality but this is the most effectively I've seen all the pieces come together into something so brilliant & original.

I'm so looking forward to Nithya crushing Bass in the general. I remember having conversations with friends months before the primary started where we discussed who would even be a good candidate to run for Mayor and even the suggestion of Nithya got me really excited. This is literally my ideal.

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO

Wow, I have never heard this piece before and now I'm entranced with my jaw on the floor. And definitely not crying. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmkC...

I didn’t grab the Sawtelle Sake, but fortunately Britney’s parents had some sake in the fridge!

The thing to remember about LA County politics is that the type people who hate the City of Los Angeles enough to vote for Spencer Pratt carved out hyper segregated municipal exclaves for themselves decades ago

"Nobody knew who Nithya Raman was until like 3 weeks ago" says the lowest-information voters of all time

Man, I just finished my grocery run, but now I'm thinking I need to stop by Blackbeard's in order to pick up some Sawtelle Sake in order to celebrate when Nithya passes Spencer tomorrow. And it will taste alllll the sweeter seasoned by the tears of reactionary Nextdoor homeowners. Suck it, idiots.

LA Mayor candidate Spencer Pratt posted this pic of him kneeling at Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church in Downtown LA with the caption "God is good." That's actually a statue of St. Jude Thaddeus, patron saint of desperate cases & lost causes. At this point, he's praying for a miracle.

We built a community around a message that we could all be proud of: we deserve a Westside where everyone is taken care of. This message remains true, now and forever. All of us deserve dignity, a livable future, and a government that works for everyday people.

Trying not to dwell too much on the fact that the vote tallies for CD11 pretty much exactly matched the funding for the respective candidates. Thank you Faizah!

Yesterday I discovered that kumquats rule and I ate too many of them and spoiled my dinner. A grape-sized citrus that you eat whole?? Are you kidding me?? I'm fucking in.

NYBD is my strongest neighborhood haunt, but the changes the new owners have made have turned me off. It's pretty embarrassing for Adaeze Nwanonyiri to be touted as having a design bg, but the 1st thing she does is put a tacky AI slop logo all over everything. Ew. marvistavoice.org/new-owners-t...

I am just fucking dumbfounded that Measure ER is on track to fail. What the fuck are we going to do, then? Just let people die? How did corporate interests convince LA voters this shouldn't pass?

Guys I'm just so fucking stoked that Boards of Canada is back. "Naraka" is already my favorite, I'm obsessed. I'm like 7 listens deep into the whole record top-to-bottom already. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6tE...

Been told I keep muttering "fuck off" when checking LinkedIn

Rae doing even worse than Adam Miller was not on my bingo card.

there's a moment early in the film of Ready Player One, where the voiceover says, "the only limit was your imagination", as the screen fills with pre-existing characters & IPs. It would one of the most on the nose satires of modern culture if not for the fact that it's meant entirely without irony

Alexa, play “Mediocrity Rules” #CaliforniaPrimary

Initial reaction: This is my #2 after Geogaddi. I find it deeply in dialogue w/BOC's influences as well as those who are clearly descended from them. I hear Reznor & the "Low" b-side. "Into The Magic Land" could easily be latter-day DM. But there's also a lot of Tycho, melodysheep, etc. Fantastic.

Today’s British society as I have turned the “Chairing the Member 1828” painting into 3D. After all, we will always have British drunken MPs during Parliament debates about our lives. #3dgs #tatebritain #art #galleryart #gaussiansplat #3dgs #british #britishartist #britishpaint #history #london

Spectrum internet went out around 230p yesterday. First they said 530p fix. Internet came back on for about 2hrs around 615p then died again. Spectrum revised to 1a. 1a passed and they revised to 230a. 230a passed and they stopped estimating. This is fucking bullshit. I hope they're ready to refund.

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Urbanist Angeleno friends, what are your recommendations for an entry-level e-bike for someone who's a) not very good at riding a bike, b) optimizing for foldability and c) not looking to spend a zillion dollars and not wanting to buy landfillcore either?

Metro bus, rail, bike, and micro are all FREE tomorrow for election day in Los Angeles. Don't let fear of gas and parking restrictions stop you! It's never been easier to cast your ballot! Voooooooooooooote! #vote

california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...

Governor: Steyer Mayor: Raman CD11: Malik Let's end the obstructionism, take the power away from NIMBYs, debalkanize the civic administration of Los Angeles, and make the 2nd biggest city in the US a place that people can put roots down in again.

Eating literally anywhere is like $22/item now. It's too expensive to go anywhere anymore. I'm going to start dropping off some of my local haunts just because I can't keep getting shanked like this.

If you haven't voted yet in CA and are planning to send in your ballot rather than vote in person, USE A DROP BOX - if you send via mail now there's a risk it doesn't get counted. Drop boxes are truly everywhere.

For the past year and a half, Traci Park has been telling CD11 constituents that the Venice Dell affordable housing project is “dead.” Well guess what? As of this past week it’s clear that the project is not dead and it never was. Traci has been lying.

Came across some software gore on the 10

My favorite example of this that I can speak to personally is that LA is home to the largest population of Japanese Americans in the country, but there are so many superlative populations that live here already that this just gets lost in the hugeness. You'd never know it, looking at eg SF/Seattle.