Extremely good long read on how prisons shape local economies and politics. So many moments of clarity where the absurdity of the prison-as-industry proposition just slaps you in the face

Weird, no mention of his collaboration with the ratfucking IDC anywhere in this piece. Was that not a party of his long history worth mentioning?

Free speech is so back

i did the same and for the same reasons. note that blacksky has no mobile app yet, but i can very much live with that

switched out to Blacksky's PDS (for non-Black users, of course) using @tektite.cc - i like the people i follow on bsky but i have no interest in being governed under fuckass Lowtax behavior. you can do the same here: docs.blacksky.community/migrating-to...

When Andrew noticed a little old man among a group of new arrivals at his prison, he instinctively knew that the man was Korean. He went over and greeted him. From there, they formed a powerful bond: "He needed help navigating incarceration. I needed a father."

I gotta say it's pretty stressful to see how hard they're grinding to create this out of nothing while the national Dems and their blue maga pals are already writing us off as a necessary oopsie.

Mets have always been the team of the People

Saving this one for every person I know who is still under the mistaken belief that Bill Gates is “one of the good ones” (or indeed that such a subcategory exists)

today i'm bowled the fuck over at these photos Étienne-Jules Marey took of smoke in 1901

!!! ALERT !!! !! New album The End by Junior Brother out today !! He's selling it on his own website to which there is so much traffic that I am timing out every time I try to connect. But at least you can watch the new music video that dropped today! youtu.be/tiGEv34DywM

went to a Labor Day party

“…but at what cost”

What I found especially noteworthy about this particular story of ICE abduction was that Shin's friend and stand partner, in the orchestras they play in together, has decided to play every day in the state Capitol until Shin is released, in an intimate and powerful act of personal solidarity

Sorry i need way more people to grapple with the fact that other humans suffer before we can start wondering if slot machines do too

You can’t fool me with your silkposts i will not believe any rumor or announcement regarding Silksong until its already been out for two years and goes on sale for 30% off

Mebendazole? But me hardly knowazole

DIY > AI

Sam Bridges walked so she could run

I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was

"It felt like I was on the back deck of my mountain home in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. In fact, I was enjoying fresh air from the largest women’s prison in Colorado, Denver Women’s Correctional Facility."

Also the premise—that anti-genocide protests filled with Jews holding Shabbat services, leading teach-ins, and getting violently attacked by Zionists constituted "antisemitism run amok"—is a contemptible lie that should be countered whenever it slithers out.

Hail Ozzy, Hail Black Sabbath

came to learn about electromagnetic waves, stayed for the mental picture of boiling all the water in your eyeballs, 10/10

Just listened to this for the first time and was moved! Truly recalled the feelings of being a fellow spacey 90's kid 🥲

Trash institution. Throw it out

manifesting a Loon Girl / Swan Boy fanfic where they meetcute at a drive-in theater showing the CKY movies

Super weird that Warren’s incorrect self-identification as part Cherokee wasn’t a barrier to the NYT endorsing her in the 2020 presidential primary, but they wail on Zohran for far more reasonably checking “African American” as an American from Uganda

i need to get the people i know who only play video games on NYT to understand they are gamers and broaden their horizons

I don't think NYT should know peace until they divulge the full chain of decision making that led to the laundering of Nazi propaganda against a leading anti-fascist politician the same day fascism was codified in Congress.

Do not give into despair

And give up their nice fat paycheck? Well, i guess there’s one place they might go. ICE, if the Republicans pass this bill to make it the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the country.

He does have the specific energy of a guy who always surprises people when he swears because of his polite “aw shucks” demeanor

This is literally exhibit A for why queer joy is so profoundly subversive. Anger is important too. But joy -- "smiling and talking and crying and laughing" -- that's what the fascists want to stamp out. That's the real challenge to their reign.

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

Brad Lander is the leading Jewish candidate for NYC mayor, doesn’t look like this administration is too interested in protecting that community after all, does it. Vote progressive to protect *everyone’s* rights - Mamdani/Lander and DONT RANK CUOMO

Oh youre jacking off to the sabrina carpenter sexy dog pic? Boring. Ill instead be jacking off to the album covers of Schubert , and Strauss

Trump taught me preserving records just because some government bigwig or judge tells you is for chumps

r e m i n d e r

SHIELD • YOUR • NEIGHBORS Here in #LosAngeles, we protect our neighbors at all costs.

Folks, remember

Don’t ask me to rank my top five games of the past five years, but if i did NORCO would absolutely be one of them. It is dark and riveting and weird while also being bleakly realistic, and the art and music are gorgeous. In my house, the soundtrack is always worth another listen

DARK VALLEY - WORLD FADES Releasing TOMORROW! Tapes have been flying off the shelves, only six more pre-orders remain! Artist copies are also available from @larkfall.bsky.social grab yours here: negativewingspan.bandcamp.com/album/world-...

The speed of writing code has never, and will never be the bottleneck. The bottleneck, the limiting factor, is always in the thinking about the code and how it works, understanding it. People who use chatgpt to write code are literally removing the only part of programming that is actually useful.

I've said before and will again, Junior Brother is absolutely one of my favorite songwriters of recent years. But also, credit where it's due, he and his collaborators make some wild music videos