In 2026, I have next to zero hope that the nations, corporations, and institutions of the world will trend toward better versions of themselves, but I’m sure as shit gonna be trying to trend myself in that direction. Happy New Year, Auld Lang Syne and all that jazz

target demo: men who wonder if its gay to be warm

Every time I get a served a video ad for a "tactical hoodie," I think to myself that maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing if we blew up the world's internet infrastructure and plunged all of mankind into a new dark age

This last PPW show is lookin hella 1997! @torchmeetsworld.bsky.social @kennyk5.bsky.social

2020s life goal: delete social media, get a record collection www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgjo...

Whenever I interact with a server who’s a trans woman, the old-Southern-man part of my brain tries to convince me that casually calling her “hon” would be very progressive and gender-affirming of me, and then I have to gently remind that part of me that a weird-old-man ally is still a weird old man

I’m in an Uber on a dark, rainy morning, hurtling toward the airport on slick, misty roads, in a world where tablet computers are such a cheap commodity that there’s a screen attached to the headrest in front of me, serving really bright ads into my eyeballs for the benefit of Uber shareholders

"Nobody to challenge me. Nobody to exclude me. Nobody to trap me with expectation or accountability. Nobody to disappoint me. Nobody to disappoint. Nobody to make me feel shame or guilt. Nobody to tell me 'no'. No one. No one." They're selling you their own dreams, and it's the saddest grift.

love me some old-time music www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8AG...

Yeah, I eat phở: -   Pig - buttHoles -   Ởver leftover broth

I had a dream that Al Jolson died, and I felt conflicted about celebrating his life and legacy in the public sphere because most people just know him for being the single most famous blackface act in Hollywood history… but then I woke up and realized that Jolson has not, in fact, lived for 139 years

I've never been into Zachtronics-style games, and Kaizen has definitely been a slow burn, but it's hooked me. I'm so proud of my dogshit coffee-maker manufacturing process

Sometimes you’ve just got to enjoy the seasonal foods of your people

Québécois banger of the week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ2d...

🇫🇷 Culture shock upon visiting France: damn, so many people still smoke here, don’t they realize how addictive and harmful cigarettes are 🇺🇸 Culture shock upon returning to the US: holy shit why are children walking around drinking 20oz bottles of soda with 65g of sugar per serving

The best thing I’ve eaten in Paris, no lie, is le Hot Dog à 16€ (see alt text)

Paris: a story in one trash can

This is what the internet is supposed to be youtu.be/_pO7BRNdJdc

Stop what you’re doing and watch these pro wrestling intros for FF Tactics jobs classes. 🤼 #wrestlesky

This is almost as exciting as when my ‘98 Ford Escort rolled over to 100,000 miles

I love this, all 7 minutes of it youtu.be/j9V504V7-9k

This dude is the Lawrence Welk of our generation youtu.be/CGJrtALLUCU

I love a good 1980s Czechoslovak fever dream youtu.be/K-lXdx_ytSE

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“Hail team well met” hasn’t caught on?

My new favorite bit of corporate jargon is “Hi team,” which is apparently a required salutation when posting a question or request to a large Slack channel. Variants include “Hey team,” “Hello team,” and “Hi team 👋”

I'm not going to stop posting my favorite French-Canadian pop songs on a weekly basis; you have been warned www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCCm...

I love Kunio Okawara’s OG Gundam illustrations- they have such a campy, toy-commercial vibe, but they still hit the cool-as-hell 70s sci-fi nail right on the head

Every time I hang up a shower curtain, I think of John Candy and smile

Sunday mood youtu.be/Nk4pB1NxM1o

It seems like we could pretty easily afford to pay for a universal healthcare program if we just taxed everyone a fixed percentage of their income rather than perpetuating a system that lets people who are already extremely rich get so disgustingly rich they can buy state and federal senators

I love discovering bands in the thrift store. Every time I’ve picked up an offbeat-looking cassette tape and thought “OK, I have to know what this sounds like,” I haven’t regretted it youtu.be/fhwy4j_tF9M?

lets play “gorbo’s dream hell” on nintimbo skitch 2

Gros truck, jacké comme le fuck www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7d5...

Akio Matsuyoshi, 1988

everybody post songs about linguistic diversity www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3AQ...

This may come as a shock, but I’m actually neither of those

If all you have is a crappy phone camera and the subject is far off in the distance, “photo of people taking photos of the thing” can often be a lot more compositionally interesting than “photo of the thing”

I took the ferry to Staten Island and ordered Chicken Parm, and they gave me two of them topped with prosciutto, what the fuck, help

The waiter complimented my pronunciation of “orecchiette salccisia e rapini,” so I’m pretty sure I’m Italian now

gang you’re not gonna believe this, they dug tunnels and put (get this) TRAINS in them

Now I know what the East River smells like

The people of Midtown Manhattan have erected great temples to their gods, which anthropologists believe were twin deities named “Crate” and “Barrel”

I have never seen a more beautiful city that just so happens to smell like pee and poo and piss and shit

Reading a 14th-century monastic treatise on contemplative meditation at a bar in the East Village where the background music is 100% Gregorian chants and they shush you if you talk any louder than a whisper #JustAlexThings

Mallard.

Yearning to breathe free

Ready to discover the REAL New York City

“Please read this sign. A slippery floor may cause you to fall, and because a fall would be unsafe for you, and since we care about your safety, it is our duty to remind you that the floor may be slippery when wet. We love you.” #SignsWithTooManyWords #PlainLanguage