I did pretty much exactly this in my will and my partner was like "great, cremation, easy". Highly recommend finding a partner that with strong opinions and a decisive nature. (Also, read marrowmagazine.com/all-the-ways... for more about me trying to dispose of my own body.)

Liberalism can only ever wear the masks of the radicals it slaughtered Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

in 2026 im gonna log out of my email and put on some chain mail

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

Honestly the funniest thing to me about that Who’s a Good Boy trophy is that *FIFA* made a trophy of *hands* reaching for a ball

if you had only one day left on earth, what would you do? would you waste it or would you make sure to tell me the location of your safe and its combination?

When The Germs played their first gig, they didn't even know how to play their instruments. They created something deeply human and great. AI is definitionally incapable of giving us something that is great in the way The Germs were great. www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Mq...

*everybody who has paid off or is still paying off their bachelor's degree in classics* OK THANKS CHRIS I'VE GOT THIS IT'S GENITIVE OF SUUM GENUS, "HIS/HER/ITS OWN KIND," GENITIVE OF ATTRIBUTE, YOU GOT ANY MORE QUESTIONS LIKE THIS YOU CALL ME UP OK I'M RIGHT OVER HERE

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

Abolishing DHS entirely and putting all of its principal actors on trial is the moderate compromise position.

i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff

Doctor: I’m sorry, you have Microsoft Teams Exposure…. the only cure is watching a movie from the 90s on mute at your local dive bar

I'm honored to announce that my piece "All the Ways I Can't Be Buried" has been published in issue 15 of Marrow: marrowmagazine.com/all-the-ways...

St. John's University banned one of the oldest hacker conferences in the world because they are complicit with a fascist regime.

We gotta start close-reading Dead Kennedys album artwork like it’s the writings of Nostradamus

This would be so fucking rad. You Can't Win is not only a great book, it's also one of the best cases for prison abolition ever written and it's like a century old at this point.

I read Italo Calvino's _Invisible Cities_ on a work trip trapped in a dull hotel, over a cold, slushy evening in New York. I didn't want to be there and the way the book transported elsewhere struck me in a way that I don't know can ever be recreated.

At least four cops spending Saturday night shutting down a local business. Seattle cops make up to $300k/year. Their clearance rate in 2022 for all reported crimes was 12.5%.

The union is calling on people to boycott btw!!

Don’t forget that the sandwich guy was released at the scene and then re-arrested in a raid by a full tactical team. They were willing to kill him and and any neighbors in the way to get propaganda footage of the “arrest”.

Sandwich guy is 3-0 against the feds, absolute king shit

Going to be walking around all day muttering "I had to yabba dabba do it to 'im"

Growing up in rural Eastern Washington every poor kid was either from a Taco John's family or a Taco Time family. I was Taco Time until this moment. I will betray the shitty fast food of my father and am now a committed soldier Taco John's army.

This argument drives me insane, because Alan Turing literally told us his position. In plain English. In the same paper in which he proposed the Imitation Game: "The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion." courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/t...

The two best pop bands I've discovered this year (Alvvays, Wet Leg) both hail from small, lightly populated Atlantic islands. I need some grant money to raise four kids in a remote cabin on Tristan da Cunha with nothing but snythesizers, guitars, and Queen records.

trying to explain “make (thing) great again” to a buddhist monk while they respond with parables using simpler and simpler language until they just give up and punch my face off

A buddy and I went to the Roblox recruiting party at DEF CON this year. It felt like the hedonist corporate parties of a decade ago. Like a proper ZIRP-era, dodge the recruiters to drink all the booze, bacchanal.

Update: I still love this fucking team, and I will be back next year to get my stupid little heart broken once again.

In this week's Cascadia Calling, I write about Stephanie Yue Duhem's wide-ranging collection _Cataclysm Moves Me I Regret to Say_ and a demo version of Justin Townes Earle's "If I was the Devil": open.substack.com/pub/aaronmbr...

I feel compelled, on this eve of ALCS game 7, to repost what I wrote at the start of the season about my doomed love for the Mariners. "I Love this Garbage Team with All of My Stupid Heart": substack.com/@aaronmbrown...

Going back for one more game of Seattle Mariners playoff baseball.

I met a hacker from an antique land, who said: A vast and pointless bio blurb stands in the desert. Near it, on the sand, half glitched, a headshot lies, whose frown, and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command tells that an AI app those passions stamped, which yet survive upon this lifeless thing.

As a member of a CWA-affiliated union and a regular donator to the EFF, I'm stoked to see both of them involved in this lawsuit. We need to leverage every possible tactic we can to stem the tide of fascism, and suits like this are an important part of a unified front.

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

In this week's Cascadia Calling, I talk about the Protomen and how hyped I am for the upcoming release of the third installment of their Mega Man themed rock opera. Yes, you read that correctly. aaronmbrown.substack.com/p/cascadia-c...

If we get out of this, we’re going to need a truth and reconciliation commission, and many many ICE agents and enablers are gonna have to go to jail.

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

As someone who goes to Las Vegas every August for years to attend DEF CON, I have wanted to write this essay for over a decade. "Las Vegas Delenda Est" - aaronmbrown.substack.com/p/las-vegas-...

In this week's edition of Cascadia Calling, I talk about drunk book shopping, Philip Levine, A. A. Bondy, and Neko Case: open.substack.com/pub/aaronmbr...

the strategy to deter blue state incursions of federal troops is to promise, repeatedly, that when you are in power you will prosecute everyone involved, starting with top officials and going down to troops on the ground.

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

I just read an AI "analysis" of one of my favorite Richard Hugo poems ("The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir"). It wasn't even factually correct about the contents of the poem. Like "invented new stanzas that weren't there" levels of bad.

Speaking officially as the host of Jeopardy!, Cal Raleigh is the correct MVP vote.

The whole "there are no elderly autistic people" is hilarious to me. My dad wasn't "autistic". He just spent his retirement obsessively collecting and rewatching VHS tapes of train journeys filmed from the cabs of those trains.

In this week's Cascadia Calling, I write about the latest album from Patrick Cosmos (@veryimportant.lawyer) and Leila Chatti's (@leilachatti.bsky.social) stunning essay in LitHub: aaronmbrown.substack.com/p/cascadia-c... Links: patrickcosmos.bandcamp.com/album/future... lithub.com/on-not-writi...

I will immediately donate to, vote for, and volunteer for any candidate that pushes for congestion pricing in Seattle's downtown core neighborhoods.