Dark Day - The Metal Benders [US, Experimental / Synth / Minimal] (1982) https://redd.it/1neb31a https://youtu.be/lyAY-Z5J4wE

RIP Danny Thompson youtu.be/sY8ZpHRsfYU?...

As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Rich or poor, each of us only has a certain amount of blood available at any time, which we tend to to be attached too. Rather than congestion pricing, speeding fines, or parking meter fees, the state should simply extract a set amount of blood in user fees to ensure efficiency & equity in rationing

further elric

“Disney = Fash” has been a part of the counter/subcultural dialog for so long (to the point of exhaustion at times) and as a result it’s easy to forget that many people just aren’t aware of the very real history of the company’s links to and support of the conservative project. An excellent 🧵

i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view

A National Day of Remembrance for a racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Christian Nationalist is when remember the long history of Indigenous genocide, theft of land, exploitation, slavery, Jim Crow, KKK and fascism all leading to MAGA and the GOP. That's how I will remember Charlie Kirk.

During my college radio days, we had a new guy that wanted to do a call-in political show, and he did not plan for when nobody called in. So once he put on some really annoying squealing experimental music and announced that he would not stop it until someone called. No understanding of the medium.

"We need to accept virulent anti-black racism as acceptable political disagreement because the president is racist" seems like bad logic

Song of the Sea

The media and politicians briefly pretended to care about a two bit Nazi YouTuber because they thought it might be useful against the left, and then when it turned out it wasn't, every single one of them stopped pretending that they cared

Not so gentle reminder that “transgender ideology” isn’t a thing - it’s a way of negating the existence of trans people

you don't have to make him a martyr just because he was a victim

I wrote this short piece on mainstream efforts to hide the relationship of white conservatism to state & vigilante violence in the U.S. & why—esp in these moments—we have to push back against that impulse to whitewash & preserve the systems of violence we claim to oppose.

and while i am on the subject, i don’t need to make big, plaintive bleats about how political violence isn’t the answer because i don’t call for political violence and i don’t support people who do. know who did? charlie kirk.

there was never going to be a world in which the right didn’t claim the left was celebrating the death of charlie kirk, no matter how respectable anyone tried to be.

the people who mocked and made up shit about the attack on paul pelosi have thoughts about decorum and we should definitely take them very very seriously

Please fulfill Charlie’s wishes.

You are under no obligation to mourn the death of people who would’ve celebrated yours.

I'm respecting his memory by rejecting empathy

The thing about investing in public transit is that it *scales* — the more people use it, the better it gets. For everyone. Whereas the more cars there are, the *worse* everything about driving gets. Traffic. Parking. [Ever noticed that in just about every car ad it’s alone on the road? Yeah.]

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.

EACH MAN KILLS THE THING HE LOVES EACH MAN KILLS THE THING HE LOVES

UNLIMITED VELOCITY

If I asked them about this stuff they'd say "well, crime *is* pretty bad, do we know vaccines really work?, but aren't those deportees criminals?, why is AIDS in Africa our problem, aren't all politicians corrupt anyway?" These aren't particularly political people, they just can rationalize anything

we’re going to have to throw a lot of people in jail after all this is over

Now consider our Vice President's own words on extrajudicial killing of suspected narcotics smugglers:

How I performatively read

"hearing someone talking in a language you don't speak" is an authentically American experience and I will not accept pissbaby whining about it from people who tell me they're "real Americans"

Boy I sure do love how it’s always people on the left side of the spectrum who need to be understanding, and nice, and to get out of their echo chambers, but those guys over there? Well, they’re just precious little flowers who don’t need introspection, criticism or anything!

The private market, by itself, is never going to build all the kinds of housing we need for every person to have a safe and affordable place to call home.

every time I go to a bar in New York it's full of people talking about living in New York

If you see this, post a chef

Since Trump was elected, there has been this obsession about figuring out who is REALLY in charge. It's Putin...no wait, its Steve Bannon...no wait, it's McConnell...no wait, it's Elon. It's Trump. He is literally the one in charge.

Sure Gavin Newsom sucks, is a transphobe, covered up SA at his business, intercedes to help giant corporations get more power, vetoed human rights bills and is so obviously power hungry he should never get an iota more, but did you consider: nobody likes him and he polls terribly in 28 match-ups?

if you have to use an app to control a physical appliance or object then it was made incorrectly

There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with: “What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

You can very easily make a case for yourself as being someone who qualifies for Covid vax on this list. Physical inactivity, former/current smoker, depression, ETC - these are extremely broad and wide ranging categories. *You can also just lie* and say you’re depressed. Do what you need to do!!!

“Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” only works if the good is actually good and not, for instance, throwing an entire class of people to the wolves

🔥🔥🔥 Patrik Fitgerald does not get enough love. Old school folk punk, the best to ever do it.

an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening

oh shit, a state prosecutor may actually do the thing

Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.