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

Wow

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

For decades, Penguin Random House has proven that you can just zoom in on a royalty free image, add a black banner along the bottom, and then place the title on the banner in a bold white font, and people will not only find them beautiful but buy them!

Lost Whammageddon TWICE at my office holiday party, I quaff to you my fallen festive soldiers!

As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson. Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa! [BIG ASS THREAD]

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When you know a recipe can fit on just one printable page at a legible font size if you just do a new layout for it yourself real quick...

it's not just appropriating someone's artwork (important as that is!); it's also reframing these incredibly sheltered comemierdas, who shift all the risk and consequences from their decisions onto others while hoarding the profits, into this position of casual, almost heroic precarity.

Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.

Salted black licorice. Because sometimes we need to savor a little morsel of delicious suffering.

just for the record, I would much prefer to live in a time where all it takes to support hundreds of good local jobs is to wake up every day and buy a newspaper for a nickel from a legally employed minor with a cool hat

Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!

AI Overview hijinks! That is to say, a great illustration of why to never use or trust AI Overview!

This was incredible.

Spent my afternoon arguing that genius isn’t limited to STEM fields and that it’s unfair to discount human brilliance just because it’s expressed through the arts and well…….

Making a note to leave my bike helmet on the next time I go into Court St Pastry for cookies. Not every Italian-American needs to double-park to get our sfogliatelle!

Was recently told by an exec, "Very soon AI will be good enough and we won't have to hire expensive illustrators anymore. They'll just have to get a barista job hahaha!" But... will there even be barista jobs if no one is employed enough to afford the bougie coffee?

You ever think the guy with the Tiny Desk just wants to get back to work?

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

I named my fists John and Cage because you're not going to be doing anything for the next four minutes and thirty three seconds

This is an excellent thread throughout, but you should definitely read at least from here.

truth coming out of her well to shame humanity

Accurate except I think I went through all three phases in tandem with my cousin’s genZ stepson while I was still on my first glass of San Pellegrino

We have a “poverty trap” and it’s driving the destruction of social cohesion. The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”. Which is why the rage. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

This comments thread was the schadenfreudefest that I badly needed

We talked about "bicycle face" and other things people thought cycling did to women in the late 1800s during our conversation with @jessicavalenti.bsky.social on episode 69: thewaroncars.org/2021/09/21/t...

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Hey I made a game in twine you should play it, it's very silly. thesummerfletcher.itch.io/barbarian-be...

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.