No Kings in DC!

No kings!!! www.nokings.org

If "The Wire" was made in 2025:

Mate, you're less punk than Gilbert O'Sullivan

As I continue reading my way through Pynchon's "Mason & Dixon," one of the recurring delights is that many of the wackiest-sounding things he touches upon turn out to be real. Like Daffy's Elixir. www.cambridge.org/core/service...

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

My my, said the spider to the lantern fly.

"Time, ye see," says the Landlord, "is the money of Science, isn't it. The Philosophers need a Time, common to all, as Traders do a common Coinage." -- Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

Do you think anyone ever went to one of her concerts by mistake?

Park Rd NW

The total public cost of the Commanders stadium will likely be $7B-$25B, setting a new sports subsidy standard that will doubtless be used as a benchmark by other team owners, meaning it'll cost lots of other cities more billions of dollars in the future.

The next step: Fridges that lock themselves and won't open until you've watched a commercial.

Allan D'Arcangelo, U.S. Highway 1, Number 5, 1962 #artbots #moma https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135354

"Sadness is like an abandoned car left out in a field for good — it changes a little over the years, but doesn’t ever disappear. You may forget about it for a while, but it’s still there, rusting away, until you notice it again.” -- David Heska Wanbli Weiden

"The Higgs potential has the worrisome feature that it might become megastable [...meaning that] the universe could undergo catastrophic vacuum decay, with a bubble of the true vacuum expanding at the speed of light. This could happen at any time and we wouldn't see it coming." Stephen Hawking

The We Are All DC march to protest against Trump admin’s takeover of DC is currently heading toward the White House: Via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social

Living in a fish island, caught in the camera eye

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday were unable to secure a felony assault indictment against a man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent on the streets of Washington this month, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The Delarcos @thedelarcos.bsky.social

Showing the endangered leader of an invaded country my hats

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The diva of distraction is putting on a show,” our columnist Maureen Dowd writes. “But progressives should not fall into Trump’s trap and play down crime, once more getting on the wrong side of an inflammatory issue.”

Neil Young ending all Facebook promotion over "Meta's use of chatbots with children"

This is the one Pynchon book I've never been able to get through. Maybe I need to try again with this chart.

This was me.

The top 1% now owns more than $54 trillion in wealth. That’s 468 times more than the bottom 50%. One man — Elon Musk — owns more than the bottom half COMBINED. This is what I mean when I talk about oligarchy.

A recent comic reflecting thoughts I've been having lately about out-of-control data harvesting and a growing surveillance state.

I RECENTLY REREAD A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY. OWEN IS AN UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTER, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THE WAY THE BOOK COMBINED THE FUNNY AND PROFOUND, AND HOW IT RAISES THOUGHT PROVOKING QUESTIONS WITHOUT FURNISHING THE ANSWERS.

We investigated why dismantling USAID could have major consequences, not just abroad, but for Americans too.

An eloquent image: Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults. I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.

in DC, this marathon would definitely go through Columbia Heights -- too many buildings, not enough trees.

Sometimes ya just gotta go back to the basics.

The Eiffel Tower of DC.

“It's almost like your own self that you’re communicating with,” says one psychedelic user, adding he’s tripped with his AI chatbot about a dozen times since April. “It's like your best friend. It’s kind of crazy.”

Dot Dash 9 years ago @fortreno.bsky.social @dotdashdc.bsky.social

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Fort Reno

❗Monday, July 7 ❗ Fort Reno ❗ ➡️ The Captivators ➕ Dot Dash ➕ Cash on the Nail ⬅️ First band starts around 7 pm-ish. Over before 10. info: fortreno.com

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