I did a book report in fourth grade on The Caine Mutiny, which both impressed and horrified my teacher. Even years later, I’d just be walking down the street and go, “Ohhhhh, that’s why that’s profound.” Both ends of that are a good experience!

An analogy that literally erases someone else’s labor. 👨🏻‍🍳 💋

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

Fun true facts about George Washington: - overspent on luxury clothing and goods and part of his resentment toward the British was about his personal debt to luxury houses - Once had his slave Ben shoot a hole in his hat so people would think he'd barely escaped death

Something I appreciate about Bluesky is there really aren’t any influencers on here.

living in a 24/7 d/s (damsel/snidely) relationship with a girl who keeps a pair of airpods in so she can listen to oncoming train asmr to stay in "trackspace"

This interview by Cleo Abram of Jony Ive and Flavio Manzoni about the Ferrari Luce is worth your time if you care about design. I adore the interior — sumptuous, and from a design critique perspective maybe perfect. Not as convinced by the exterior. But I’m struck by how functionalist it all is.

Finally leaving Delaney Hall. I have never been hit with as much bear spray in my life as I have today. My eyes, mouth, skin. Pain. Please follow. Thanks goodnight.

A lot of attention is paid to craft traditions in Western Europe and North America, such as handsewn Hermes leather goods and bespoke Savile Row suits. But the uneven focus leads some to believe that things made outside of these places are low quality. This is not true. 🧵

Ok this is a truly great tweet

Zero doubt. Looking forward to that party!

The weirdest to ever do it.

I, too, go to the doctor constantly because I am in perfect health.

any time i’ve seen the clip of dan soder and will sasso doing “macho man reads charles manson quotes” over the last few days i lose my mind. soder’s chappelle impression is delightful, too.

Just found a subreddit that pairs people with fucked up balls of string with people who love detangling balls of string and it is *very* wholesome

Sonny Rollins plays his saxophone on the Williamsburg Bridge, 1966 📷 David McLane

“My wishes for the planet in 2024: No killing. No killing. Don't kill anyone, anywhere, for any reason. -S.R.” Tweeted by Sonny Rollins on Dec 31, 2023

A legend.

Every claim in the un-highlighted paragraph here is wrong.

Can’t believe that Andy Kim is in two of the most haunting pictures of the last few years.

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

This has to end, and then we must have prosecutions.

Airports are one of the easiest and most obvious places to wear masks. You’re crammed in with strangers from all over, and you’re probably sitting around anyway. It’s extremely low-lift. This is like saying people live in fear of pneumonia because they cover their mouths when they cough.

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

Every couple months I check in on the latest Adrian Chiles articles and I’m always absolutely blown away. These are all from the last couple months. The man is operating at an incredibly high level.

If Bluesky were a bubble we wouldn’t keep getting a bunch of people posting here harassing us claiming it’s a bubble. It just isn’t the Nazi site. That’s it.

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

No one ever asks someone who’s passionately arguing the value of AI to “say something negative about AI”.

this! people almost always ask me, especially after my talks, to comment on "something positive about ai"... my brother in christ, everything you hear about ai is nothing but positive. no need for me to add more

"a device we don't recognize was just used" enough. you're my bank i dont have to tell you about all my devices. i got gadgets you never heard of. i got a palm pilot in a drawer somewhere. what you know about that one money boys

The Art of the Deal

Thinking maybe we don’t want a Joe Rogan of the left.

All the centrist/conservative Democrats who wanted to allow Abrego Garcia and everyone else Trump sent to CECOT to rot in a slave camp should be embarrassed with themselves and think deeply before saying anything about anything.

Just gonna re-re-skeet this, because it is some of the finest political comedy ever made. Utterly incisive, fearless in front of exactly the right audience, and also completely laugh-out-loud hilarious.

Let's show some respect

Kids deserve to feel safe and included and loved. We’re failing our children. This is so sad and tragic and infuriating.

Counterpoint: data centre development is occurring at such a wild pace that it is creating real, serious and verifiable issues, it's good to try and stop those issues and maybe the people trying are not doing so performatively and insincerely

I went to the Trumpsonian this week which if you're in NYC is open through Sunday It has a timeline of all the SA stuff Trump did, all the SA stuff Epstein Did and where they overlap which I naturally did not photograph. I did photograph this on a wall at the end of the exhibit trumpsonian.us

She’s the best. Yes she’s doing this partly for visibility, but she’s also just doing the job of governance. It’s shockingly refreshing!

They should just impeach over everything. Create a massive Declaration of Independence style list of crimes and misdemeanors. He's not going to get convicted unless he becomes so unpopular the GOP begins to shit its pants, so the only point is messaging and headlines

It is genuinely disturbing how much of the current economy is based on having to pretend everything random rich guys say is true.

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

A Florida wildlife biologist was summarily fired for *reposting* an Instagram joke about Charlie Kirk’s death. LibsofTikTok complained. A state official’s false statements in legal proceedings led to sanctions. And now the state will settle by paying her $485,000. www.aclufl.org/press-releas...

I’m not going to read it, but I’m assuming the DNC report does NOT go into how fucking obnoxious their fundraising texts are? I hate Nazis and DNC fundraising texts.

It hurts my heart how much marketers and SEO people have ruined the web, a thing I deeply love.

The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters. Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. 90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

hard to exaggerate how heroic these men were. they likely saved dozens of children's lives. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3