the absolute antidote to all this bullshit [points vaguely around at everything] is to watch #pavements the movie. i don't know why pavement has always spoken so directly to me, but this movie captures that laconic whatever perfectly. and "Grounded" makes me cry. FIght this Generation X indeed.

in my one meeting with him (about bike infrastructure in NYC, sometthing he made materially worse), he told me, a stranger, about his love of and USE of crystals to govern. whatever job he fucks off to next can't come too soon.

explain it to me like i'm five: how did tyler robinson etch "notices bulge OWO" on the bullet but then type to his roommate, IN QUOTES "notices bulge uwu" make it make sense to me so that i don't go down a conspiracy rabbit hole.

i will bet anyone that hasan will be banned from twitch within the week. and the reasons will of course be utterly specious, but that's what's up when billionaires own speech. also, please stop calling it "free" when it's clearly extremely expensive. speech in the US is the priciest on earth.

elon musk is directly inciting violence against specific people, and against a general group. he is doing what nazis did. if i want to be charitable to charlie kirk, i guess i would say he would not appreciate his name being used to incite violence against "the left" (and hasan piker). but i don't.

to accurately comment on this report, one would be "objective" in the true sense of that term by saying "this was something stupid done by stupid people to hurt other people, done as stupidely as it could possibly be done." that is objectively what's happened here. but that's not civil, so...

derrida, somewhere, right now: "that's just absurd"

This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.

i have ZERO tolerance today for journalists and opinionaters today being shocked by trump's vile rhetoric last night about kirk's murder. while i'm calling out @lewisgoodall.com specifically, it's everywhere. the right has used incendiary language over the past decade. go on reddit. do the work.

to honor this guy who was murdered yesterday, i would like to quote him directly. these are his words, not mine: "I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made up new age term that does a lot of damage."

if a person is a member of a violent military operation on the front lines, constantly saying either themselves or through their leaders that violence is necessary and that they people they are killing deserve what they get, if THAT person is killed by an enemy combantant, what should we feel?

this @moultano.bsky.social dude didn't seem to notice that in andreesen's essay he doesn't manage to discuss social housing. as always, it's SV doing a "what if there was a vehicle that carried people to where they wanted to go" and when you say "you mean a bus" they tell you you have NO VISION

This is the best character on TV right now. T-Ocullus, i love you and want you to win.

Listening to this beautiful song by billy bragg “existence is resistance” about Palestine and Palestinian struggles for justice, I’m reminded of when billy came to my college campus (88?) and walked around with a backpack amp and a guitar, what a hero https://youtu.be/1axjhKB96to?si=PI2wE1E_3qZCln4H

i've been saying this for years: there is no country more smug, and no country more full of shit, than norway. everyone driving EVs is good for norway's air, but everyone being able to afford to because equinor is pumping oil endlessly is bad for everyone else. youtu.be/zYjooTz_1lA?...

so @espiers.bsky.social has been saying writing editing or doing smart things for a LONG ASS TIME in the internet media world. longer than most. i would strongly suggest everyone interested in Dems winning anything read her excellent post. like she says, AIr America was 20 years ago.

A good policy for AI and universities.

jonny cardoso has to be one of the best ball winning midfielders in the world, right now.

i believe we can convince newsom to be less terrible on trans rights. i don't believe we can convince republicans to stop being fascists.

"You cannot fight without fighting about how you fight." a vital sentence from a great essay by @andrealongchu.bsky.social with copious (e.g., just the right amount) of quotes from James Baldwin. www.vulture.com/article/post...

so United Airlines is grounded, but we have Sean "shittiest reality star" duffy making sure our starbucks delivery drones can be powered by a nuclear reactor on the moon. all is well.

when an absolutely execrable piece of 💩 like larry "fired for being a sexist pig, hired to run the economy badly, friend to jeffrey epstein" summers is being interviewed as a "voice of the left" we are well and truly screwed.

virginia giuffre's life was a shakespearean tragedy. rest in peace queen.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/o... Rest In Piss you racist scab, to put it bluntly.,

Columbia University is embarrassing. it should shut itself down immediately. this capitulation, and the lying that is now being done about it by the administration at columbia, is shocking. real fascism right here right now.

social media

that's my old station. amazingly, 28th st was, in the 17th century, a creek. as were many of the places that flood in manhattan. nature always has the last word, especially in the newly sub-tropical city of new york. #climatechange

As an Eric Alterman said 30 years ago: “what liberal media?”

the days where a local county like kerr county in texas can decide whether or not to fund protections for their citizens when the results of them failing to do so mean THE REST OF US PAY TO CLEAN UP THE AFTERMATH OF THEIR FAILURES has to end. www.ksat.com/news/local/2...

tony blair still isn't in prison, huh? weird.

the floods in texas were fully precedented. people were living in something called a "flood zone". people were forced, by high housing prices, to buy houses in those flood zones. which, you know, flood. and then flooded. in a precedented way. as it will again.

I'd take this further: democrats need to say that when they are in power ICE agents who follow these orders are going to jail. Maybe in some of the new camps we are hearing about.

@brainking.bsky.social since you won't let me actually respond, i'll do it here: you were right.

nick ferrari, once again proving that if you are paid not to understand something there is no point engaging with you.

hey Guatemala you had better hide your players from ICE and i'm BARELY joking.

so at glastonbury the (new to me, but pretty awesome) artist Bob Vylan (he and Kurt Vile should form a band?) chanted "Death to the IDF", which, last i checked and according to leading Israeli news org Ha'aretz is currently shooting unarmed desperate starving civilians for sport. tell on yourself

hey democratic party--anyone ready to step up and tell Senator Gillibrand that spreading disgusting lies about a fellow democrat all while being astoundingly racist is absolutely unacceptable? @sanders.senate.gov can we start with you? but then a moderate like @markwarner.bsky.social next.

some of us are old enough to remember samuel pierce. history, on repeat.

when my old boss dawn ostroff and my old friend who i will allow to stay anonymous brought joe rogan in to spotify, i told anyone who would listen what an evil and horrid thing they were doing. Rogan's confident stupidity now rules the day as both argumentation and esthetic. it's fucked.

another person who doesn't know what a food desert is, doesn't know how long they've existed in various neighborhoods, and is therefore unqualified to opine on what would work, given profit-taking grocery stores have been unable to solve this problem over 50 years.

[10,000 words about precincts in east brooklyn with an analysis of the Caribbean diaspora vote broken down by island] conclusion: MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMDDDDDDDAAAAAAAANNNNNNIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!

there are two wolves inside you: one thinks the #cwc is a cash grab by an evil FIFA paid for by a saudi dicator's money to sportswash while being hosted in a country that is rapidly sliding into fascism itself. the other loves seeing brazilian fans showing out, some great games, & footie generally

this is brilliant.

it is seemingly a very simple test of everyone's #metoo credentials. what did you say a few years ago? and what are you doing now? if you said "i support women" but now you are supporting cuomo, you will full of shit then and are full of shit now. you're just another sexist creep.

VOTE MAMDANI!!!!!!!! do it like you mean it. #votemamdani

this is objectively absolutely insane. andrew cuomo is credibly accused of a myriad of crimes against women, ostensibly "the future of the democratic party." he's credibly accused of killing thousands of seniors, "the present of the democratic party." retire clyburn, you are an embarrassment.

they call me spacex because i'm always littering in the neighbors yard

How stupid was the discourse leading up to Iraq 2? We wetter supposed to think common Powell was the arbiter of truth by pretending his career wasn't launched by running covert for the US massacre at my Lai. "I thought Colin Powell was good" 2002s stupidest take.