I always go by the Colson Whitehead definition of what it means to be a New Yorker: "You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.”

correct spelling MacLeod. tough interview process because there can be only one

I like flavor themed films directed by alfonsos, such as 'como agua para chocolate' and 'it umami tambien'

arendt is too DAMN high

“Starter man”

neighbor needs to lay of the nutritional yeats

Brb writing a bargaining model that incorporates the death drive

"quartz has energy god didn't tell me how much" checkm8

yes a cute 404 page from the e-file system is exactly what I want when I'm filing something, thank you. not in session indeed haha

terry pratchett cylon CONFIRMED

moving all my future litigation to the nonhuman rights project because 1) it sounds like a good org but 2) it is impossible to lose a jury trial with this caption

Have you perus’d the letters from the Pope

Masticating it like a mouthful of carrot, one might say

this implies a pet robot who does lie

those beasts were legally impounded for trespass done

tomato carrying around two laptops

going to invent a new file format halfway between PDF and excel that will put both the IRS and pacer out of business

to insist that law be reasoned rather than inferred from silence is not defiance it's fidelity

"attention is all i have and it is borrowed from you" is a banger tbh

Sunset Chapel in Acapulco, Mexico by BNKR Arquitectura (2011) r/brutalism

at long last anthropic has published the chart of 'emotions' to 'tylenol dose' that is missing from the tylenol bottle

this accurately captures my experience of being sent any artifact where at the end of an hour of staring I realize it makes no sense at all, and where the sender has no empathy for this because they have apparently never reviewed or checked any text ever

time is a flat circle

I think it's also worth noting that the initial surge of batteries at sunset is now big enough that it buys time for the gas plants to ramp up. This means they are mostly off during the day instead of running wastefully and leading to solar shedding. Phase 1 in complete replacement of gas.

dissents in fong yue ting are cooking quoting madison, 'if a banishment of this sort be not a punishment, and among the severest of punishments, it will be difficult to imagine a doom to which the name can be applied'

One of my moots liked this post. I have now blocked them.

well if Platner were running against someone with a tattoo of a rat's anus, I'd be a lot less worried.

you don't know my life

it's simply not healthy to look directly at the rays. that's not a "blue sky" that's Cherenkov glow. some tweets should have "DROP AND RUN" engraved on them.

finally got around to hyperion by Dan simmons

adobe's "photoshop" must apologize after posting photos of me at a party where I did not attend fiskars "scissors" are in a timeout after posting a collage of my torso attached to various thoroughbreds cut out of horse magazines, who just had their birthday

old twitter was like a place in interwar berlin, paris, or shanghai people have romantic memories about in spite of witnessing knife fights between prostitutes daily and heroin junkies overdosing

when marshall mcluhan gets asked 'hard or soft' at the airport massage chair does he say medium

elon brockovich

confident in my ability to properly legal, I tell the judge to read my signature. I see the smile on his/her face and smile back. it is unsettling when a judge is nice, I realize. the order to show cause passes cleanly through my skull, killing me instantly.

Going with Occam's razor here: I think they are just dipshits

let them eat cake DONT let them eat cake

oh no

I faid what I faid.

hate going to the cryopractor for suspended animation and instead it's some guy who cracks your knuckles for you

I haven't even begun to peak

Holy shit. Read the footnotes. This one, from Jackson, is jaw-dropping. The Dual State was published in 1941. Fraenkel was writing about Nazi Germany.

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

Or, as the Car Talk guys so aptly put it, “unencumbered by the thought process”

day 7 of not using twitter: the brain swelling has lessened. i see visions of the future, you are in it. dolphins splashing in the horizon