We are, in fact, animals, and maybe living outside with a simple movable shelter sometimes makes more sense than living in a building.

What’s up, or should we ask what’s going down?

Too much data, man.

We’re at war with ourselves, and we’re losing.

We need a filter to hide the L word in all Bluesky posts. "Literally." Hide it, ban it, crush it now.

"Trump is as deranged as he seems and more dangerous than people realize."

Gift link: wapo.st/3WzJb2a The evidence that Donald Trump was truly, madly and deeply confused was worrisome when he was a candidate. Now he is making the country a landfill for his nonsensical policies. — Dana Milbank, Washington Post

Mike Davis in his last interview: “Ruling classes everywhere have no rational analysis...for the immediate future. A small group have more concentrated power over the human future than ever before in human history,& they have no vision, no strategy, no plan” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022...

Those who study the past are doomed to watch others repeat it.

It's gonna be fun when Jan. 6 hoodlums who just got Trump pardons go out and commit more crimes. Fun in the bad way, ya know what I mean?

Too dry January cww.water.ca.gov

WHAT DO WE WANT? The same thing as yesterday. WHEN DO WE WANT IT? Today.

Fuck Kamala Harris for losing. Fuck Joe Biden for running. And super fuck Donald Trump for being a bitch.

What does the Geiger counter say now, Cliff?

Craigslist Free is a place even David Lynch wouldn't go into. sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sfc/z...

A new study in the journal Nature confirms that personal book collections that remain unread can transmit up to 25% of the knowledge and stories contained within to the consciousness of the book owner.

Choose lice

Zen unboxing youtu.be/AeUrmYb72s4?...

Cry me an atmospheric river, why don't ya

"All of us are drunk all the time. I did cocaine off of Tim Kaine's back the other night and you all saw me." www.youtube.com/watch?v=jci1...

Why is Donald Trump still rich?

Good @brianbeutler.bsky.social burn of Peter Thiel. I'd add that Thiel's op ed also wouldn't exist in a world where Thiel wasn't a billionaire. www.offmessage.net/p/do-not-wel...

"We acknowledge we’ll lose something, but we’re going to work to make sure we don't lose everything."

When firefighters or policeman sit in their vehicles, parked at the side of the city street with the engines running, that’s when you really know that they’re doing the public service.

And they say bicycles on the sidewalk are the problem

"Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die." — Winner of Best Slogan, Food & Hospitality Awards Ceremony, A.D. 1389

Heroes ride bicycles.

People believing in god is still quite a scam. Nice work if you can get it. A local church can't be bothered to maintain its god-given patch of unpaved earth. They let it go to weeds and trash. And they pray for souls or whatever. Hello god? Giving away food ain't enough.

"Is the world fundamentally a better place because of science and technology? We shop at home, we surf the Web... at the same time, we feel emptier, lonelier and more cut off from each other than at any other time in human history..." The movie Contact, 1997

We are just dumb animals, who've made ourselves miserable by distancing ourselves from the rest of the planet. We took nature, ground it into a chuck and put on the gas grill. We like it charred. 🔥🌎

Be the guy standing on the corner in your city that you want to see standing there.

I'm sick and tired of hearing NPR tie everything to mental health. Life is freakin' hard and you have to deal with it. Circling everything back to anxiety, stress, burnout — this gets old, and it practically frames systemic inequalities as individual issues that require counseling.

What if Geddy Lee isn’t actually a very good bass player? What are we gonna do then?

“Many people from the Andes have settled in New York. They face tremendous difficulties, but their online posts glamorize their lives, drawing others northward.” Gripping read about the human condition — the universality of pretending all is well when it’s not. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Tech guys literally despise all the things that make us human because they're bitter they can't monetize them enough. They're not even really people anymore, they've turned themselves into hungry ghosts, also starving for money and never satisfied.

“California's is not the only insurer of last resort in trouble…insurers are losing their appetite for risk, and the states are doing their best to keep property markets rolling. Does this make sense? Who will rescue them, and on what terms?” susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/what-happe...

Good teachers explain things, but not too much. Good musicians play things, but not too much.

A fun and wide rangong converstion w @volts.wtf on insurance, #climaterisk, the economy, life. www.volts.wtf/p/climate-ch...

It’s weird that we ruined kids’ lives with social media and most adults are like sorry I’m busy

Man, when Trump goes to the Ukraine in early February and pops off a couple warning shots with his personal side arm and stops the war, we are gonna be so glad we elected him, it’s gonna be great.

Rebuild communities, not single-family homes.

Pacific Palisades should rebuild as 2 to 8 story apartment / condo buildings, supporting the exact same number of residents with a bit of wiggle room, in a dense neighborhood. And re-wild the rest of it.

No functional institution designates as true whichever idea excites people the most. The creation of modern society is in many respects the creation of systems to carefully adjudicate which ideas are true, and act on them. But social media and the internet has dissolved that.

“We have to survive; that’s why we’re still here. If you’re a worker, you’re hungry, so that’s what it is.” www.latimes.com/california/s...