31. SEED POD is a podcast about forestry and the natural world. i went on to talk about the ecology of the great lakes

I’m finally going to listen to my doctor and eat more vegetables and get more fresh air

New story alert! “The Assumption of Maria” is a week-after-next techno noir about a detective lacing up their gumshoes to track down the missing accountant responsible for a megachurch’s soul tokenization and financialization scheme.

A reminder that im always looking for full-time work, freelance journalism gigs or even podcast guest spots. Have me on your show! Ive been on a few. Have me write a 20th anniversary look at The Prestige ahead of The Odyssey!

Absolutely incredible that my dumb gay baseball podcast is wiping the floor with this in every metric

The devil’s lettuce has a new meaning I guess

TLDR the normative idea of ‘good politics’ that Peston et al endorse is tautological Centrism—“what most people will like is the centre, because the centre is what most people will like”—and they refuse to recognise that it is precisely this politics, both the project and product, that people hate.

Officially starting my youtube channel today, with a video that begins with Amadeus, and the ethics of fictionalizing history, but gradually veers into Ryan Murphy shows and When We Cease to Understand the World. As this video’s topic starts with A, next week’s will start with B. Any guesses?

my unholy creation. its actually working, it hasnt been an hour yet and the air quality in my place is noticeably better. i can breathe in comparable comfort, and my eyes dont hurt! link to build ur own here: engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/science... beware walmart, they overprice their filters

I like Canada a lot but that doesn't mean I want to breathe it. It should be optional

I love this for so many reasons but this falls squarely into my wheelhouse because it has the kind of fun details and background that I scour Wikipedia to find out and touches on a totemization of real people and real lives that I find sort of corrosive to human history

It amuses/scares me to no end that the right wing take economy is run by several group chats made up of the world's richest men and the people they pay to pretend to be journalist.

You really feel the organized abandonment everywhere now

*hacker voice* I’m in

Tesla led the US EV sector down a dead end of runaway hype and stagnant product, and now it's basically irrelevant

Great for two reasons: 1. The air is chewable today, you need a mask! 2. It’s so easy to mistake JTF Empire Shield (National Guard) personnel for ICE thugs at a glance, so this is good PR.

Arch Connelly was for me a mystery and an inspiration:

industrial food snack while re-reading pro-industrial food book

Pretty useful for everyone and more proof you don’t need AI

The history of Scabby the rat Scabby is one of the most recognizable symbols of managerial misconduct. But where did he come from? It turns out this rat has a complicated history.

making public proclamations about manly warrior ethos while your navy is on the losing side of an attritional fight for a strategic sea route you really really need open for your vague and almost undefined war goals is giving pure uncut imperial japan

The High Crow T Department of War

once the air quality index goes above 500 you start to see entire bricks floating suspended in the air. it’s pretty cool actually, you can climb on them and stuff

A comment we received about congestion pricing. Subway riders pay $3 to go home. And that's per person, so a family of four pays $24 to ride the subway round trip. The same family in a car would pay only $9 since the congestion fee only applies in one direction.

they put the entire run of The Prisoner on criterion, and we’re only two episodes in but: truly nothing is more thrilling than when a thing that you suspected was made exactly for you actually appears to be

I was all excited to show the civil war ghost who haunts my house cool shit on youtube like metallica and dragon force, but all he wants to hear is turkey in the straw. this fucking guy loves turkey in the straw

I'm on a union training call and it's awesome hearing people rattle off their union affiliation and local number when they introduce themselves. Unions are cool man the rumors are true

once columbo is out of cooldown you are all fucked

Literally interrupted my bodega order by yelling that I don’t come see him enough

“Do you want a hug?” “What is this the Italian parliament?”

YOU - I don't think anyone's being promiscuous with me. I wish they were, though.

hmm

me receiving cosmic messages from "And She Was" by the Talking Heads as a 14-year-old working at the municipal pool

i hate when people call me gormless. i have ample gorm

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Remembering some previous Events (June 7, 2023 - 33rd st and 9th ave, facing east, from the 67th floor)

(If you liked this essay you could read his book The West Passage which is weird and beautiful and which I need more of you to shout about with me) bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

at Bon Appétit, i wrote about the nicest knife i've ever used and the existential dread of owning a tool this delicate and beautiful www.bonappetit.com/story/kazan-...

Starmer setting aside time on his last day as PM (and possibly even timing his departure overall) so that his last act would be to attend England's World Cup Final, only for England to not make it so he just like...has a free day now, is the most Starmer thing to ever happen

They sell this at Whole Foods now and I literally gasped when I saw it. There’s a green tikka marinade I’m going to use to make grilled tofu soon, I can’t wait.

Which is bsky.app/profile/elec...

Something else- if the selling points or rationales from the figures behind these things often seem bizarre or tortured ('the “majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music”') it's because they're all working backwards into different angles from the same end goal

There's a whole thread of smoking guns here. The Tech industry has a thievery problem.

Blows my mind how every time I learn about some new form of enshittification, I can track its correlation almost directly with the decline in journalists covering that beat. Tech, local news, movies, games, doesn’t matter. When the critical engine surrounding something dies, industry enshittifies

Until James Corden is burned at the stake like a 17th century witch, I'm afraid it's just never coming home

It Will Not Have Been Coming Home

angrily tearing up my list of Queen Anne's War related jokes

I do not accept that as a name sorry. Please return to the name store and exchange it for a different one.

trying to explain everything since the 2024 election has been a proxy battle between freudians and marxists imo and the freudians have been racking up unprecedented Ws

The article lays this out, but it's a double whammy. State gov won't taken action so cities do, then the state gov comes in and says no you don't, but puts no alternative plans in place. Cities take the blame.