"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

sure looks like the illustrated edition of A Feast for Crows, my favorite of the ASOIAF books, used AI art. old.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/com...

I really wish people would stop qualifying these ICE raids as being done "without a warrant." I don't care if they DID have a warrant, you should not be dragging teachers out of schools in front of kids regardless!

the oval office sign is actually a huge security problem. what if someone puts it in front of an open elevator shaft? massive risk.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

sounds like a cool guy

Mamdani speaks. "My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life, but let tonight be the last time I say his name, as we turn the page that abandons the many in favor of the few."

Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you – Ye are many – they are few.

American left-wing patriotism is Jewish guys signing Christian anti-slavery hymns about the first Muslim mayor of New York and I think that’s beautiful

leave trans people alone, don’t fuck with universities, and stop arresting our immigrant neighbors.

[worst centrist guy voice you've ever heard] a great vice president once said "we don't negotiate with terrorists." folks,

seems bad! www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

you ever just remember out of the blue that Goblet of Fire beat out A Storm of Swords for the Hugo in 2000 and get angry about it all over again?

Alan Moore knows the score

I cast SUMMON TRIPLEX

driver blows through red light, testing traffic laws

Crozet folks: we have Grace Grocery and the Crozet Cares Closet (hygiene/personal items). Spread the word!

Getting 10 people in a room to try to work on something together is HARD in 2025. And if you haven't done this, you won't know how hard. I think everyone who can should try to get 10 people in a room together to do something. It is deeply humbling.

Crozet arts and crafts festival is this weekend, which means i get to feel extra smug* as i whiz past the bumper to bumper traffic on my ebike. *smug and disappointed; how many of the people stuck in cars would have chosen to walk/bike on a beautiful fall day if they safely could?

something not enough people are talking about is Rosanna by Toto and how it is perhaps the greatest song ever

Strong showing tonight to protect LGBTQ+ students. Largest crowd I’ve seen at an in person school board meeting in over 5 years.

this is still true btw. although i will make you drop in to the Livable social at brazos, which i assure you is a value-add to your evening.

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

FOLLOW MANU HE’S ONE OF THE BEST PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

here’s to 75 million more debacle.us/mastabasnoopy/

Jmrl book sale remains undefeated

Uhhhh

I love to walk around town with my limb transformed into a Viscera Launcher.

hey if you're out in Crozet and want to carpool to the alb. school board meeting next thursday at 6:30 at the county office building: hit me up!

Not to be a snooty alum, but as a student we did just fine with "sparking new ideas, challenging assumptions, and integrating a wide range of perspectives" without Fascist Autocorrect pouring out formless management-brained slop.

pete hegseth getting red and mad watching the scene from arrested development where the drill sergeant isn't allowed to call Buster a slur anymore

This is a great thread

The Week Without Driving festivities are getting out of control

I'm so glad you said this, because about 30 seconds ago, I published a newsletter piece detailing how conservatives have dump-trucked through all of the previously established common sense, nuanced, compromise positions on trans rights to get here: burns-notice.ghost.io/what-would-t...

Up on da roof

Crozet neighbors! hope to see you there tonight. bring your biggest dreams for making albemarle livable!

went to the weird al show in richmond tonight; inspired to become at least ten percent weirder year-over-year. I've been normal-adjacent for too long.

Folks if you are tired of anti-growth advocacy in Albemarle hamstringing new developments, come hang out & plan with like-minded neighbors (including me) at Bar Botanical in Crozet this Thursday between 5 and 7. We can do better!

Teaching my dog about Sneakers

The Democrat who adopts this platform wholeheartedly will rise up like a great wave and wash the fascists into the sea

[tearily] hark upon the gale

Take a few minutes to read this. It’s quite good.

one of the poems I think about the most is Yeats' Easter, 1916. in particular the end of the first stanza: Being certain that they and I But lived where motley is worn: All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43289/...

it would appear that the Western Albemarle High School chapter of TPUSA is holding a vigil for charlie kirk at Pro Re Nata Brewery on Sunday.

Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened

Over and above everything else, Gretchen Felker-Martin keeps getting suspended on here because she's a great writer, and when a great writer decides they've had enough of some bullshit, the words always sting, and sometimes draw blood. The slap-fighters don't even get noticed.