I was walking down a street in New York and I thought how lovely it was, with the trees and the light. Tried to take a photo and this came out. It’s incredible how blind we become to the ugliness of cars. They really do mess things up. Yet somehow we manage to filter them out.

Happy first day of autumn Chicago.

FDR won 42 states in 1932, it wasn't by pandering to Hoover voters. Then Republicans called him a socialist for 4 years. Then he ran for reelection and won 46 states

Be like Annie, nobody is stopping you

I met Dr. David Ho! He’s responsible for the fact that HIV is no longer a death sentence and his work has saved tens of millions of lives. Why he doesn’t have a Nobel Prize is beyond me. AMA.

TAX THEM ALL TAKE ALL OF THEIR MONEY 2% isn’t enough, you crybabies

I try to remember that while they were fighting the ban on gender affirming care for minors here, one of the (trans) lawyers did a thread reminding folks that they're really good at making this feel like an overwhelming groundswell, but it is one clown car of debunked experts on a road trip.

‘Chief Of War’ Producers Confirm Season 2 Will Show Hawaiians Battling Mark Zuckerberg https://theonion.com/chief-of-war-producers-confirm-season-2-will-show-hawaiians-battling-mark-zuckerberg/

What “fascism” means Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DO6EvDz...

"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...

hallmark romance film where time traveling tourist career woman from the big city teaches a blacksmith in 1518 strasbourg france how to stop dancing before he dies and he teaches her how to have an old fashioned christmas

technologically advance a band. Aeroindustrializedmassproduction

there's always a John Waters quote, it seems

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.” -Thomas Pynchon #unabooksboardthoughts #thomaspynchon

ADUs citywide are up for a council vote THIS WEEK. Sign the petition to support Ald. Lawson's ordinance, which will help everybody create more naturally affordable housing:

No particular reason

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Is it time for a career change?

See 'cause THIS is the better solution. This right here: the ability to label, tag and filter content so people can decide what they do or do not want to see.

“OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws” https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html

Cast yourself as a villain. (Keeping it all together on the surface, but a hair trigger away from utterly dissociating and leaping into a dimensional vortex.)

What the Ezra Klein brigade always misses is that if the only way “we can all live together” is to sacrifice the rights and dignity of huge swaths of Americans to appease far right reactionaries (who won’t be appeased anyway)… we actually can’t all live together!

Happy #batmanday! This wasn't exactly meant for this, but it fits. I've always had a soft spot for Julius Schwartz method of working out a comic backwards, going cover first and then figuring out the plot from there and this is a bit of an ode to that. #art #digitalart #illustration #batman

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

this got more views than the real thing. This was real also

companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

The oath of allegiance sworn to the King of Aragon in the early modern period is amazing. "We who are as good as you swear to you who are no better than we, to accept you as our king and sovereign lord, provided you observe all our liberties and laws; but if not, not."

In honor of farm aid being up the street from my office, I’m bringing the bus driver post back from Gehenna:

No one should get violent threats. But if you’re gonna change your vote because of it, you should resign. I’Ve been getting violent threats all week and not only do I have no intention of shutting up, I think it’s evidence that we need to say it louder

The federal government has made it a more difficult climate for orgs like ours to fundraise, so I really can’t express enough how grateful I am for your contributions.

A great small press doing exceptional work in Chicago. Drop those big legacy subscriptions and give to the small press. We need them. They are here for the people.

putting this on your timeline again

You might see several artists mad about the bluesky policy update banning non-con, even artists who do not make that kind of material, and wonder why it's such a problem. If that's you, here is a quick breakdown: 🧵

The old white ladies are hanging an american flag, mexican flag, and lgbtq+ flag off the highway overpass today (with another protest sign) I remember the discourse about mexican flags at protests. Anyway lfg suburban grandmas 🫡 🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈

Human translation is evidently better than machine translation.

"We are going to have to live here with each other" is the exact premise that Republicans do not agree about. Their proposition is mass immiseration, mass expulsion and mass murder. The only way to oppose political violence and avoid further political violence is to contend directly with that fact.

the whale car wash, n. 50th & meridian, oklahoma city, oklahoma, 1979

As a teenager I was prematurely nostalgic about being a teenager. And in those years, no show captured that exact weird sentiment better than The Adventures of Pete & Pete. 🥲

the department of homeland security released a statement claiming “over a hundred violent rioters surrounded” the broadview ice detention center this morning. what actually happened was ice/cbp tactical teams aggressively threw, dragged, & tear-gassed protesters. one agent literally drew his gun.

TFW you're an idiot who helped put a fascist in power and now he talks about taking you down next.

This is peak teaser movie poster art

bruh i thought my photoshop was obvious

brb, replacing “estradiol” on my prescription with “Womanite”

(pt. 2)

We’ve made you a step-by-step guide for supporting your trans loved one through a crisis. Remember: it’s better to show up imperfectly than not show up at all. (pt.1)

The real ROI they’re seeking is a more malleable public they can more easily dominate. Weaken the labor market, isolate people, dull critical thinking, drive poisoned communities to desperation, erode truth and our capacity for trust. That’s what it means to identify AI as a fascist project.

The Trump administration wants to revoke the "Roadless Area Conservation Rule," an extremely popular 2001 policy that protects the wildest parts of our national forests. Help protect wildlife, water, and climate by keeping our forests development-free: act.sierraclub.org/actions/Nati...

Oh this brought back a memory! As a kid I had cups for water, milk, and sometimes pop, and I *did not* cross those streams if I could help it.