Whoooof

Made it to Friday but at what cost

One was a cab driver and then NYPD. The other was a neighborhood pharmacist. They couldn’t have been more opposite!

Oh hell yes 🔥

new mcmansion hell to cleanse the horrors: mcmansionhell.com/post/8099372...

I am capable of object permanence and am able to be enraged about, it turns out, hundreds of things simultaneously.

Suddenly thinking about Rome at least once a day..........

Can we just not

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

I ❤️ Brooklyn

The broken social compact escalates so quickly! There are too many people who see one guy getting away with something so they figure it's OK for them to get away with it too. Why bother being decent if your neighbor isn't bothering? (........BECAUSE IT'S BASIC DECENCY, DIPSHITS, THAT'S WHY)

i read that stupid blog about the left "missing out" on AI and got big mad aftermath.site/anthropic-cl...

This episode on "crusadercore" and the fetishization of medievalish stuff going on in current pop and political culture is terrific and fun and chilling all at once.

Random discovery is so important everywhere in life! A song in a genre you never normally listen to, a book on a display at the library, an old movie on the TV in your neighborhood bar, someone on the train wearing cool boots you suddenly kinda covet...life becomes so flat without these encounters!

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

Gung hay fat choy! May the Fire Horse trample all of the injustices and abuses that slithered in with the snake year.

"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?" "I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands." After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?" "This, too, is magic."

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

We don’t have a GREAT track record with this tbh but I was delighted to see it happen here

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

I could have kept dancing for another hour to Bad Bunny. And.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Attention, passengers. This is a Brooklyn-bound C train. We are being held in the station while the E train passes in front of us. Thank you for your patience. While another E passes in front of us. And now an F train. And a pedicab. Another E train. A hot dog cart. Thank you for your patience…

Chills.

That’s a great pick, and a great thread. Adding “I’m the Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side” (the Magnetic Fields)

I am deceased

Photo shows 5 Greenlandic women in their national dress with beaded yokes. In the late 1920s Norway sought to possess East Greenland. Norwegian knitting designer Annichen Sibbern Bøhn designed a sweater which mimicked the Greenlandic beaded yoke. And that's how yoked sweaters became a thing. 🧵

Leaving angry voicemails for my reps again! The only problem with 5calls is that the list of urgent topics to call about is horrifically long... 5calls.org

I heard someone ask someone else “what radicalised you?” and I thought quietly to myself, what has NOT radicalised me?

Pizza rat appears from a subway tunnel, and has an army behind him. Squirrels, pigeons, a pair of owls, and for some reason Mandy Patinkin is leading them. Then shit gets real.

kaiju wisdom 🙇

I often see people being like “why aren’t Americans in the streets” but like we are. Often. Are you just mad because things still suck? We are too that’s like one of the main things we’re mad about

i think american life would improve significantly and quickly if society was more encouraging of people to have Hobbies. the most perfect and serene state of mind that exists is when one is Doing one's Little Things

To every nether hell with this, NYC.

Jen Sorensen nails the hypocrisy and racism of the "European culture" argument.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

The podcast up in my queue today was the excellent first chapter of @trufelman.bsky.social's Articles of Interest: Gear, on the origins of American outdoor wear and its relationship with the military. Teddy Roosevelt's machismo and the Spanish-American War hits like a gut punch today...

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

My parents' house is full of SO MUCH collected stuff. Their own, and things inherited from my grandparents. Any suggestion to start culling some of it is met with horror that I could be such a heartless monster. Mom, you have grandma's Hummels shoved in a drawer because you don't like them either!

Famously Sauron is known for never allowing his home to he penetrated by intruders.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains

One of my favorite works this year was this illustration of a pigeon on a hero's journey, commissioned by my MFA program as this year's student/staff shirt. I later made a risograph print of the image!

My dad, three (3) minutes into working on a jigsaw puzzle, “What maniac invented these things??”

I wrote about Christopher Anderson’s @vanityfair photographs for @print_mag and it’s not about the way they all look. You can read it here: www.printmag.com/photography-...

Ok this is getting silly. Every other song in every holiday retail playlist does not need to be a cover of “Last Christmas.”

So many times, the entire nature of what I'm working on has changed because of things I've discovered during the "tedious" work that they claim AI will save me from. It's in fact extremely common that I don't know what a thing really is until I start trying to do the hard stuff and then I find out