Bird be that way. Rare birds? Some fucking mottled earth-toned thing that looks only obscurely different than all the other damn birds it's hanging out with.

It was hot outside at the museum so I played some Songs of the Summer and also some aggressively dissonant dance music. I also tried out a new radio voice and am willing to accept constructive feedback s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/archive.kchu...

Learning yesterday that Byron Allen is paying the Ellisons to air his shows instead of the other way around really helped it all click for me.

Talks are starting in less than 20 seconds! Here is an updated stream link www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFF9...

ONE WEEK.

I love his paper version of this: eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237 "Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog"

My take a seed/leave a seed bird feeder is a failure.

my radio show OPEN BORDERS returns LIVE on the radio TODAY 1-3p PT / 4-7p ET / 9-11p BST kchungradio.org moca geffen stream

Today @victoriascott.bsky.social writes about Juniper Blessing, a University of Washington student who was murdered last week, and worries about the potential loss of a better future for young trans people she had always hoped was coming. www.welcometohellworld.com/this-pain-ha...

A maple helicopter seed pair #bloomscrolling EOS M50, Helios 44-2, Darktable

🧵 Local news has long been in dire straits. Hedge funds gutted newsrooms, Big Tech swallowed ad revenue. Full communities are “news deserts” with nobody left to cover schools, corruption, police, or local government. But a few states are testing a fix.

Any political coalition worth a damn has to have as a core principle that no subgroup can be sacrificed to the wolves, no matter how small the subgroup or how convenient it might be to sacrifice them. In fact, the smaller & less powerful the subgroup, the more they should be defended.

Memphis deserves all the national attention and outpouring of love we experienced here in Minnesota.

Okay this video footage (from the 5min mark below) of that UPS MD11 that crashed it crazy. The left engine practically fires off like a rocket as they begin to rotate on takeoff

May 20th - It's #ElizaDoolittleDay 📽️📅 My Fair Lady (1964)

I watched the Google presentation dealie, and the thing that consistently infuriates me is watching human beings clap for things like *generating a graduation speech and asking it to summarize the importance of your relationship to your brother*. Don't you want to do that, dog? Is it not in you?

If your website does that thing where a random, tangentially related video auto plays at the top of the page and locks to the top third of my screen wherever I scroll, I’m gonna assume you didn’t think the article was worth reading either.

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

Mom almost made me cry at the Charge game tonight. Arena was real rowdy before puck drop. She was looking around and seemed a bit somber. I asked what was wrong. She smiled and said: "This feels a long way from getting dressed in a janitors closet to play goalie for boys who called me names." 🥹💜

Speaking of slush funds, Ohio has had an insane one in place for 15 years. It's called JobsOhio. It was created by the state in 2011. It's funded by liquor taxes. It's set up as a private corporation, however, and it's a black box with no disclosure or reporting requirements.

I need a million dollars from a slush fund

Hey ladies: that Civil Rights Act that they’re trying to overturn also protects women from being discriminated against in employment because of sex. It outlaws, among other things, a “marriage bar”: refusing to hire married women or firing previously single women upon marriage.

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Got a nice rose at the Park of Roses tonight #bloomscrolling

one thing that's really interesting to me is that while you can learn dead programming languages, that doesn't mean you'll be able to read or write code that looks correct to the historical period because best practice and idiom change with the broader metadiscussion and wasn't recorded

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

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For you to understand how much the world has changed, in the 1970s as a second grader we were REQUIRED to watch the TV show adaptation of ROOTS. REQUIRED. www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e...

I’m from the Ohio generation that remembers when you never saw charter school advertisements on cardboard signs illegally placed in public right of ways.

i still don’t know what to do about it and goddamn has it ever gotten worse over the last few years. it got so bad so fast.

But they were all of them deceived, for another leche was made...

This. If you straight up quote him in a story, headline, or newscast without any qualifiers, you're misinforming your audience.

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

sometimes the internet is very, very good

really not sure why this O Brother Where Art Thou remake is set in Ancient Greece

There have been very few airborne bombings by US aircraft on US soil. The first was the 1921 Tulsa Massacre of Black owned businesses. The most recent was the MOVE bombings in 1985, of Black occupied apartments in Philly.

1986 is still calling - pick up!: "The Coca-Colonization of space is another way to project an ideology down to many. Deep Dish is an attempt to let many voices be heard & create something that has not been tried to date: a democratic, pluralist TV network that shows real people TV" #othernetworks

I'm delighted to announce the forensic recovery of the original single-stroke font data from Vib-Ribbon (1999) — exhumed from Playstation ROMs — and now part of my archive of procedural skeleton fonts for #p5js: github.com/golanlevin/p... #mediaArchaeology #typography #plotterArt #creativeCoding

Same issues with the tools used by NPs and doctors here in Quebec, which misrecord medical conditions and reasons for appointments. This is not a surprise when these systems generate words based on statistical prediction. They seem to function worse based on language/accent, gender, etc.

THEY LIVE (1988)

Trust me, I *know* what I'm *doing*

The cut through the woods for the gas pipeline at Blendon Woods Holga 120N on underexposed Fuji 400 35mm

the thing everyone must understand with trans issues is - when right wing insanity and bloodthirstyness against a group is bigger than your support of that group, the right wingers win. you have to match them in forcefulness. any sort of passivity will make you lose to them.

tragically evergreen

area closed / do not enter holga 120n with 35mm film at blendon woods

We grew up so poor we could only see Le Miserable. It was just one miserable up there, wavin' a flag and singin' and firin' a cannon and whatnot.

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.