I think it was @gregpak.net who recently said something like "action alleviates anxiety." Take that to heart. You will feel less alone, less helpless, less defenseless if you become involved in local progressive action. It's already happening all around you; go outside and find it.

Monstrously shitty Supreme Court rulings aren't new (Dred Scott v. Sandford). Breathtakingly stupid and corrupt presidencies aren't new, either (Harding/Teapot Dome). No one is saying things are great, but calling this shit unprecedented or unrecoverable is just factually wrong. Suspiciously so.

Imagine the history of progressive resistance if every pushback, every assassination, every backlash, every CIA/FBI/cop plot was met with everyone throwing up their hands, shrieking "Oh, well! We're fucked!", and quitting. Yeah. So, take a break if you need to. We'll be here when you get back.

Ten thousand fucking percent. Like, I get it. I get that you're despairing. Shit is rough. But skeeting "we're so fucked" ten times a day accomplishes nothing, alleviates nothing, and contributes to learned helplessness. In all seriousness, if you feel that welling up? Log off. You need a break.

Most of all, drop that "we're fucked" mindset. Time to leave that doomerism bullshit behind and focus on doing good.

I want 2026 to be the year where we collectively stop rewarding negativity. Stop bringing others down to bring yourself up. Stop bringing attention to genuinely awful people. Stop ignoring people bringing positive changes to the world. We need more kindness and empathy. I’m dead serious

Imagine proudly asking the world to accommodate you coordinating your dog with your dickspression

Patriarchy: the culture that every single moment needs to be told by their hive who they are, how to be, how to feel, what’s important, etc.

In less than a week, I will be sworn in as the next mayor of New York City. It was only possible because of the more than 100,000 people who volunteered on our campaign. Here’s a story about one of them, my mother.

The family that “gifted” their grandma with dementia an AI picture of her with Ozzy are the type of people who would root for the hive in Pluribus. Anti-human behavior

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

This is a model for what actual masculinity should be. Men don’t need to spend more time in caves beating their chests with other men; they need to take their daughters to a meaningful thing and talk to them about it. Relatedly I think the biggest cure for toxic masculinity is platonic women friends

As the year begins to quiet, we’re pausing, like a great egret choosing a steady perch over the constantly moving kelp forest canopy. Nature has a gentle way of reminding us to slow down, reflect, and find balance. Here’s to calm moments, the quiet between chapters, and new beginnings. 💙🌊

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

“All that is left to one who grieves Is convalescence. No change of heart or spiritual Conversion, for the heart has changed And the soul has been converted To a thing that sees How much it costs to lose a friend it loved.” – Herbert Mason, GILGAMESH: A VERSE NARRATIVE

Thank your lucky stars. Curse your unlucky stars. Give a polite nod to your neutral stars.

I am going to tell a story as small and close to myself as I can, before I go set luminarias outside. These lanterns, brown paper bags with sand and candles, are part of the recieved culture of New Mexico, the place where my family moved when I was 1.5 and have now lived again for nearly a decade.

‘Twas the High Noon Before Christmas

There’s a killers song about this

We don’t hear much about the West Pole, where Cowboy Santa lives. Probably because of all the people he’s shot

Yee-haw kindness to others is the only law [flies away in a stagecoach pulled by roadrunners]

It still has a soft spot in my heart as a rare sf horror movie where the captain did every single thing right. I love when I don’t have to yell at the hero.

We are now entering the weird liminal space between Christmas and New Year's Eve. Anything could happen during this time. You could feel weirdly nostalgic, you could see a photo of a cat, you could remember to feed your Neopets. The possibilities are endless.

I don't think people realize how hard the US food & farm sectors are declining to do the work of feeding humans. Feeding livestock is just way easier. So that's what they're doing.

When I say "the US gave up on feeding itself" that's what I mean, it's real bad. At the risk of shameless self-promo, I talked about this a few months ago. It's a part of the food/ag problem that just isn't making it onto the news & it really should. youtu.be/2uypc-c5-aA?...

Nearly of the US's garlic comes from China. Another quarter of it from Spain. At least it did before the trade war. It's possible some of the garlic being sold rn is the tail end of garlic that was shipped in before the tariffs started. wits.worldbank.org/trade/comtra...

They’re all hunter gatherers - just not in the way their ancestors would have recognised.

I am telling you that a large part of their dysfunction is that several Trump officials imagine themselves, constantly, as being in a social media sizzle reel where they display status and dominance over others. Their online personas are driving their actual behavior.

BAD COMPANY Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream bookshop.org/a/109816/978...

The deployment of “ai” is not a case study in diffusion of innovation or adoption of new technology. It is a case study in coerced implementation, it is social engineering by the elite class and it’s bad for people and bad for the planet

You are getting a live preview of this as streamers “reinvent” weekly drops of series that return in less than a year with seasons of 15+ episodes. Just straight up looking in the camera and marveling at this “hole in the market” that’s actually the shallow grave they shoveled TV into for 8 years.

This article specifically brings it up but their LLM literally cannot resolve a variety of fairly serious issues. This isn't even about people disliking LLMs and leaving: this is about people who have no idea what that is not being able to use this software they pay for.

That's the real issue: as these companies all made these exact same poorly thought out decisions to boost their bonuses short term, they just assumed people would keep using it and the various platforms would somehow improve. Instead they degraded to a degree that they are unusable.

Salesforce is not alone. The problem was always, because the marketing dollars put behind pretending LLMs would solve every issue nearly every single company made similar moves and mimicked each other. And now, we're here, in a situation where the product is quite literally unusable.

no idea if this will be a good movie or not, I’m just ecstatic to see a poster like this for an upcoming movie — peak of the artform, IMO

I’m sorry but ‘heritage American’ makes you sound like a tomato

I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes: In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art. I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:

The original 3-D printer

Makers are the best.

there’s a woman across the aisle on the bus crocheting a pocket onto a cardigan *that she’s wearing*, incredible, a thing of beauty

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

When I was 34 my 8 year old niece asked me “why do you act like a dad even though you don’t have kids?”

I was walking home in downtown Seattle one night and almost got run over by a pedi-cab. The driver turned back and shouted: Don’t worry! I’ll never hit anyone who looks like Geddy Lee!

This is the insult thread not the compliment thread.

What's an insult you'll never forget?

The house speaks in its sleep. The infirmary reflects the sunlight from too many windows. In the conservatory, the girl sings to herself.

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