In 2000, John Waters donated 372 pieces of his art collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art. They named a rotunda after him in their gallery. He requested an all-gender restroom be named for him instead. #BOTD

I’ve never written anything using AI, I never will, and I have zero respect for any professional who does.

Ah, so Andy Weir is like... *dumb* dumb gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...

My Congressman regularly attends #NoKings rallies, so I made a sign that read "No Money for War." Guess who I ran into while walking back to my car. Got to tell him, "I made this sign for you." Gotta make the most of these opportunities. Felt even better than calling his office.

"If I go to a concert and I hear a quartet playing Beethoven beautifully, I feel they are making the social and political contribution of saying, Well, humanity is capable of something better." - what a lovely way of putting it

The new largest data center in Illinois has been approved by the Joliet City Council. It will be the size of Central Park. And use more than half as much electricity as the entire city of Chicago.

One thing about the MacBook Neo is how jarring it is for a company to release something (tangible or virtual) in 2026 that doesn’t feel like a scam in some way. When everything sucks shit and/or costs 5x what it used to, it’s newsworthy to clear the low bar of “well-made and not a total ripoff.”

"Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free." --David Graeber

Life is short, friends. Spend as much of it as you can loving people.

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

Konkona Sen Sharma is good in everything, but ACCUSED is otherwise pretty thin. My review of the new Netflix Original Hindi film: accessbollywood.net/2026/02/27/m... #DesiWatch

The sole guiding principle of the US right wing is “do harm.” Every idea, policy, vote, and speech is delivered with the intention to hurt someone. I don’t even think it’s accurate to add, “and give tax breaks to the rich” or some such. I think it’s just paramount that someone suffers, somehow.

This sucks, man. The world is a better place with grouchy, impolite workers. Long as they’re competent, let them be who they need to be to get them through the day. Just give them the money you’re paying for this crap, and they’ll cheer up anyway. Or maybe they won’t.

This is my favorite album cover because it is a photo of something that actually happened.

My axe-con talk on keyboard accessibility testing is in just a few hours! I’ll be demonstrating one of the most effective ways for anyone (regardless of dev/design/accessibility knowledge) to improve the quality of their websites. www.deque.com/axe-con/sess...

the problem with giving Idea Guys the ability to build apps is that their ideas are bad

Change of plans. The DVD didn’t work, so we’re watching SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT.

What’s most disturbing to me re @mayor.nyc.gov’s failure to uphold the .05% allocation for libraries is that these are THE socialist institution, islands designed to secure everyone’s equal & free access to knowledge, tech & space otherwise monetized. They should be a socialist’s top priority.

October, 1984: Paul McCartney invents the YouTube thumbnail

He had a joke in his stump speeches about how, if he were to walk on water, the headlines the next day would read “Jesse Jackson Can’t Swim”

Rev. Jackson had the same neurodegenerative condition my mom did - progressive supranuclear palsy. I assure you, it's horrible. I'm sorry he suffered with it, and my heart goes out to all those who cared for him. www.psp.org

Glad that’s settled 👍

My favorite sport finally makes headlines in the US, and it’s for the dumbest possible reason.

"John Goodman on Hume Cronyn's back could outrun this guy!"

We are impoverishing ourselves in a market economy that only rewards wealth extraction, market manipulation, and destructive ai data center construction. When historians like myself argue that the market is a creation of the state, this is what we mean.

Martinez: "[I] sat in federal court and watched from 20 feet away as the border patrol agent who attempted to kill me testified at a hearing. Agent Charles Exum—Charles Exum, my attempted executioner was Charles Exum—I hope the government does not consider my use of his name here to be...doxxing."

The public library is an essential component of a 21st-century left political project as an example of both what is already available to us and what can be improved upon in the future. The library is a public good, and it is free as a public service. I want more people to make the connections.

At last, the pinnacle of your creative writing career! You published with the biggest houses, won all the awards, now take the position fitting for someone with your accolades! Training the child porn bot that's poisoning Memphis!

heres the thing: im sick of these guys. not great guys.

As Animal Kingdom’s DinoLand prepares to close forever this weekend, I want to give a shoutout to the Disney imagineer who somehow got away with shaping this sign like a dong and balls for an area called “The Boneyard.”

Wemby piling up Ws on and off the court

Perfect example of why unions aren’t just about your own workplace (though they are certainly about that too). Organized labor amplifies the voices that need to be heard.

Good piece that gets at an often underdiscussed issue -- of how much work in rebuilding state capacity (or denazification of remaining state capacity) will be necessary post-Trump dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

I'm sorry for the person who was beat to death and killed. My sincere condolences to their loved ones. ICE is going to continue to kill people because the purpose of a system is what it does. It is not what it says it does or what you hope it does. Maybe USians will finally confront this truth.

Hollywood focuses on aesthetics first and foremost. Disability representation includes glasses users and if glasses can’t be on-screen there’s little hope for more physically disabled people on-screen.

Not just the rich and that's also something to sit with.

“The Curse of Chalion” by Lois McMaster Bujold

Ah, the coffee analogy reminds me of this:

If it’s bad to be sedentary, what are we supposed to do all day?

I am about as cynical a person as can be imagined when it comes to capitalism but I honestly cannot remember any development since the dawn of industry that immiserated so many people and created so much environmental havoc with so little to show for it

1) Contact’s opening day: as the opening cacophony faded to silence, nobody in the packed house made a sound. I was so proud of everyone in attendance. 2) An old lady sat next to @kathyfgibson.bsky.social and me at an otherwise empty showing of Something Borrowed in an incredible dominance display.

When I saw this headline, I thought, “Wow. Getting $1B to hand your characters over to OpenAI is not a great deal for Disney.” Then @kathyfgibson.bsky.social told me Disney are actually the ones _paying_ the billion? Bob Iger pulling some serious Business Secrets of the Pharaohs shit there.

My typical Midwestern winter day: Breakfast Try to purchase roof rake Fail to purchase roof rake Borrow roof rake Lunch Rake roof Break roof rake Buy supplies to repair roof rake Repair roof rake Return roof rake Dinner

It was only a matter of time

My advice as a tech professional: When you need to be productive, you can’t go wrong with a computer.

Even though it never had any noticeable effect, I feel like we as a society lost something important when we stopped needing to defrag our hard drives.

Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

Democratic pols always say things like, “We can’t be distracted by [some non-economy issue]. My constituents are worried about feeding their families.” They can’t even comprehend that many of us also care about people we’ll never know. And that’s why we hate—and want them to fight—Republicans.