What was your week like after the election Nov. 2016?

Yup. It's really the perfect metaphor for all his crimes: Abuse of process Open corruption Destruction of the notion of "public" Bad taste All during a government shutdown necessitated by tax cut for some of the zillionaires who paid for the ball room.

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

Whatever you think of the White House as a building or a symbol, the fact is that the image of it being torn apart on a whim two days after 7 million people hit the streets against autocracy is going to make a HUGE amount of people really, really angry, and that's an energy that should be harnessed.

Did you know we have flying squirrels in Michigan? I realized we do, because there is one in our fireplace.

The No Kings March in Chicago is one of the largest gatherings I’ve seen here. Looking down from by the river, the crowd stretches for blocks down Michigan Ave and wraps around Wacker Dr. This video is from a few minutes ago and the end of the protest is nowhere in sight. @blockclubchi.bsky.social

Do you know how hot it gets inside of those suits? There was some sun, it was warm, above 70. If you see an inflatable creature you better salute and say "THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE."

Kalamazoo No Kings.

Kalamazoo No Kings! All Critters!

Posting this here because it’s late and I can’t start watching now. Rails to trails have been a big part of my world since 2011.

Don't engage. Just block. They want to push their rage bait on here. Don't give them the satisfaction. bsky.app/profile/did:...

My latest:

In May 1975, Evel Knievel visited London and rode a Raleigh Stowaway. He also broke his pelvis trying to jump his motorcycle over 13 buses at Wembley Stadium in front of 90,000 people. But let's focus on what's important. #BicycleBirthday Evel Knievel October 17 (1938-2007)

This could explain the entire manosphere

We're flag-waving, USA-loving patriots who want this country to be better, and honestly hate what our President is doing. And that is so triggering to them. It'll be bad optics to pepper-ball a preacher, beat on a guy dressed as a frog, cuff and detain a senior lady waving a flag.

it happened again, so it’s time for a reminder: Drivers, please do not wave pedestrians and cyclists into situations on the road when they do not have the right way. I know it feels like the polite thing to do, but it is incredibly dangerous

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So much of this fight is reminding people what a great concept freedom and democracy are and how we could be living a good life together if it weren't for the most miserable losers running everything

Like the BIGGEST danger of Generative AI, particularly in Journalism, isn’t in it’s ability to fabricate lies, its instead a side-effect of that: that people will doubt the truth, even when presented hard evidence. AI is pushing us toward a dangerous cultural psychosis, where reality doesn’t exist.

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trying to scare people. But it won't work. No one looks scared to me anymore. And it's power in numbers. All the TV hits in the world won't change the fact that when Americans see the sheer number of people out there, absolutely no one will believe anything these guys say.

Pritzker to @gregsargent.bsky.social: "Trump says a lot of crazy things. I genuinely think there's something wrong with him. I wish his family would intervene... I don’t think anybody around is going to do it bc they’re benefiting from his dementia" Full interview: newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight. Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

Gustavo van Peanuts isn’t sure about Ty Segall’s later output.

"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring." -Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid and human rights activist #BicycleBirthday October 7 (1931 -2021)

“The human centipede of content”

yep

Pose for me you fat bastard.

Slow Roll (sped up), Detroit, 10/2/2025. Huge mass of bikes and other wheeled things. Here we see the Heidelberg Project, Gratiot. Over 9 minutes, condensed.

Could he be….?

I would like to know how we can identify the specific persons at CNN who researched, wrote, edited, and approved this and hang it around their necks for the rest of their professional lives.

This is the biggest, toughest article I’ve done about so-called “AI psychosis.” It’s the story of a man who committed a horrific crime in his youth but served his time and against all odds found love and a new life—one that completely unraveled after he started talking to Google’s Gemini chatbot.

this is basically portland's version of a haka

My latest. "Some of these films were made during the time of Queen Victoria. With movies this old, you’re looking at flickering, degraded film, like seeing dreams of people long dead...."

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has cited the treatment of reporters as part of a broader pattern. "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters when unprovoked, what would we call it?" He answered: Authoritarianism. cnn.it/4pK7hUF

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

Marshall: For the Democrats to sit there and blame Republicans for the plight of rural hospitals is just so wrong. Collins: But couldn't the president just say these demands are ridiculous and not post a video with Hakeem Jeffries wearing a sombrero?

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

The LDS church shooting has me thinking about the complicated history of Mormons in Michigan. I got a little obsessed with King Strang a few years ago, rode my bike to Beaver Island, wrote this.

bikes deliver the freedom something something

I keep using the term "non compos mentis" to describe Trump because that's how he's acting. It's beyond his longstanding history of total ignorance, habitual lying, and constant exaggeration. He's genuinely disconnected from reality and often incapable of expressing coherent thoughts.