And this gets me blocked by people lol

This articulates how I feel exactly. Mamdani is exciting; AOC is exciting. Not because they’re perfect, but because they are quite ethical and they’re good at messaging.

Yeah this is a list of what I will not be doing

#print #printmaking #color

dudes rock

We don't hear much about the Texas 1836 project these days. Maybe because the 1836 Texas Constitution went to great lengths to write down how Texas is an explicitly white supremacist project, with slavery at the very heart of its founding.

Poodle with a Mohawk — Lynda Barry, 1982

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

I love Texas. We have the best food, the best music, the best culture, and an amazing diversity of people there. We have a shitty government, but it's, like, a third of the state that votes for it. You don't know Texas. I fucking love Texas. Stop shitting on Texas if you haven't lived there.

It’s nice that Apple gives me the opportunity to “emphasize” a text message. But what I really need is to “over emphasize”

JFC suddenly every sponsored post on IG is some crazy maga lunatic account

I think this singer is earnest, but I’m really not sure. Equal parts the worst I’ve ever heard, the strangest, and maybe kinda brilliant? Gives almost early Borat vibes. youtu.be/6672wjBlfpg?...

there's no world in which a faculty senate's resolution in support of the university president should merit an investigation from the US DOJ.

@mosebuchele.bsky.social Look, I’m going to double my monthly contribution to KUT, but your last post here was one month ago — can’t expect people to follow if you don’t post. I understand you’re required to be on xitter, but I’m not and won’t be anytime soon.

@kutnews.bsky.social Look, I’m going to double my monthly contribution to KUT. But dammit your last post here was FIVE MONTHS AGO. You can’t expect people to follow you if you don’t post here. I understand you are required to be on xitter, but I’m not, and won’t be anytime soon.

Daddy’s power-drunk cosplay and the day-after videos.

I love this article about dry stone walling and why it’s awesome. And here’s one of my walls. Link below

I finished a fence behind my house. 8’6” tall, first 24” are gabion cage filled with local limestone, horizontal wood above, both sides identical. I’m proud of it.

Soldiers may or may not want to kill, but they will be gooners with mommy issues

If you campaign on fixing the roads, once elected you might want to avoid claiming roads don’t actually exist.

Rescue and recovery efforts following Friday’s catastrophic Guadalupe River floods continued on Tuesday. Officials said at least 87 people have died. Not identified are 19 adults and seven children. Five Camp Mystic campers and one counselor were still missing.

It’s a full-on police state.

This is free advertising for a meaningful #boycottisrael

If any individual is not happy with their role as prison guard, they can easily be changed into prisoner.

At this point it’s class war. Anyone in the top 20% of wealth must work extremely hard, and very publicly, for me to even consider the possibility they have a soul.

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

When I took my Texas public U job in 2000, my thought was like Thelma and Louise, “Anywhere but fucking Texas.” I took and kept the job anyway, as I too did not imagine what we’d become.

Jackson: "Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more."

Nightmare

Emil Bove always looks like the undertaker’s assistant who just ate a chunk of flesh and is trying to hide it by not chewing.

If we can figure out a way to put a fungal material thru a 3D printer, we could make unique sculptural coffins that will decompose in 1.5 months.

Detail of a gabion cage filled with central Texas limestone, used as a retaining wall and geometric element in the #landscape

Is that an actual design from Tesla? Why are they so bad at design? Why do I hate that so much?

But in a little-known amendment, the leader of Israel can unilaterally declare war for us to fight in.

I wonder if Jonas Wood’s prices will drop now

So I’m watching tv and I set down an empty bowl of ice cream. The show ends and I go to pick it up, and there’s a roach in it. I tried to quickly dodge the spoon while grabbing it with a paper towel, but it got away.

I am watching ‘Adolescence’ and one of my takeaways is I’m jealous that the UK gets to have proper cops.

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

Genuine Question because I Do not understand… so if these men roll up in plain clothes and masks, grab a human being… even a child, and throw them in an unmarked vehicle I am just supposed to look the other way and say nothing ?? Ask Nothing ?

Hey now. Men my age (55) are far stupider than these kids.

I drink your milkshake

Buried in a Senate budget bill is a massive giveaway to corporate developers and fossil fuel companies. It forces the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management land in 11 Western states *every 60 days* until millions of acres are gone.

Detail of a fence I am building.

If you are deleting social media ~48 before your flight to the US, *it is already too late.*

But a big protest like this is primarily a show of strength and opposition. It exists to be a symbol. That's often more than enough. As I said earlier, the mere image of the contrast between Trump's limp parade and these No Kings protests is propaganda you couldn't buy for a million bucks.

In the early days of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, I saw photos of civilian molotov cocktail making stations with the American flag on the wall in the background. It means something Americans dont even know it means.

San Marcos TX showed up!

Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.