I mean, you do understand that there are anarchists on here who irritate me as much, or perhaps more, than any liberal does? This is how it works. It’s in the contract, even!

studio ghibli and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

❤️❤️❤️ (I hope it’s intentional, btw, that the bike is identifiably a…Bullitt.)

Staying my tongue. Gritting my teeth and *staying my tongue*.

They’ll do it, too, the oppressive bastards. Feel the century turning beneath your feet. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/24/world/un-general-assembly-ukraine

I feel like a whole bunch of essentially liberal people are just now learning the distrust for institutions of state more radical folks have always harbored, and I hope they remember what it’s cost those who maintained this stance all along, in credibility, social capital, clubbability etc.

“Shaun King Black Israelite arc” was always here. Before Shaun King was, Black Israelism waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

Happy birthday Gritty!

All this has happened before, and it will all happen again. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/22/judith-butler-is-being-targeted-by-the-us-government-we-must-stand-up

Yeah. Reading the news these mornings is the working your way through Tainter a page at a time.

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I don’t particularly care about Sunstein, but this right here👇? Truer. Words. Never. Spoken.

This is the Rev. David Black of First Presbyterian Church in Chicago. As many of you know, he was an early, heartful supporter of the Lifehouse work, and has encouraged the trustees of First Church to understand that work as part of their witness. [1/3]

@soleilho.com on a vector of “AI” shitery that had never even occurred to me, and is even sadder for that: the pollution of show-flyer art. www.coyotemedia.org/diy-vs-ai-th...

The Big Plane is no longer green. It has started to turn, and the year with it.

I came back from Berlin hell of sick, btw, so don’t expect our reading in “Nomadology” to resume immediately. Laying down a marker of intent to do so directly the cold has resolved, though. 👊

Tesla's robotaxi testing in Austin reported three crashes on its first day, logging only 7,000 miles. This crash rate is over two orders of magnitude higher than Waymo's. Tesla relies solely on cameras, unlike competitors who fuse lidar and radar.

i went to the modern art museum and they had a Mike Kelley exhibit that was ok but it looked like a pile of trash next to this indigenous woman’s textile work www.modernamuseet.se/stockholm/en...

I weep to think that, now the Bulwer-Lytton is no more, Patrick S. Tomlinson will be denied his only credible shot at any kind of writing award this lifetime.

Somewhat unaccountably listening to Kyuss.

Christ, I hate it when circumstance compels me to agree with Bill Kristol. [worstpersonyouknow.jpg]

“Sexy” is among the most powerfully antierotic words I can think of. Only someone whose psychoemotional development stalled out somewhere around pubescence thinks otherwise. This is, of course, a tweet about Elon Musk.

I literally think this every time I read the biography of a pre-twentieth-century scientist, mathematician, jurist, etc. It’s always been right there in plain sight.

If “we’re going to take 100,000s of law abiding residents and make them into criminals overnight and force them out of the country” isn’t extremism beyond the pale of decent society, what is?

OMG this.

Now that I’m back in London, I want to thank the Pirate Care crew and Cassie Thornton for an exceptionally rich few days in Neukölln. It’s clearer to me than ever that if we want to be cared for, body and soul, it’s something we’re going to have to organize for ourselves, together.

Everyone, I wanted to let you know about the sad news that despite everyone's best efforts Bluestockings will close at the end of the year: www.bluestockings.com - I want to thank every single person who sent books to them through my book drive [will share more later]. A tremendous loss to NYC.

This would force us out, and maybe that’s the point.

My anarchists! Whatever you’re doing, keep doing it.

maybe it’s ok to do something that is good and important for 6-10 humans and not to one billion.

Heads up: Jacques Camatte Is Dead. https://contrahistorical.medium.com/jacques-camatte-is-dead-32da46a02c8e

#Berlin ! Tomorrow! I’m giving a workshop on “Equipping the #Lifehouse ”: What material means & capabilities are implied by the intention to develop networks of mutual care, especially when those networks involve the provision of infrastructural goods like power, light, heating or cooling? [1/2]

I yawn at your Kit Kat Club, your Trippen boots and ACRONYM parka. *This* is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in Berlin over the past few days: a *mini-cargo bike* called a muli, with a folding, pop-open front bin. Damnnn.

Look how they massacred my boy! (Actually I’m glad there’s a preservation effort underway.)

So say we all.

‘UK respondents dramatically overestimate how many immigrants there are and how many of them are Muslim. They overestimate what proportion of immigrants are from north Africa by a factor of 10, and from the Middle East by a factor of two, and underestimate how many are from North America.’

Stuck in a line at BER trying to get into the gotdamn country. This Prozess is a Schweinerei.

A gift from duty-free for my Berlin host (and friend of a quarter century) Danny. It says it gives “treacle, bacon, bonfires” rather than the “sea spray, tarry rope, immense smoky intensity” I enjoy from Ardbeg’s Ten, but I suspect it’ll be drinkable regardless.

Every bit of this. Those of us who like to flatter ourselves by believing we have a coherent politics most often have no clue what it’s like for the multitude who do not, have no aspiration to, and act on their beliefs anyway.

Happiness is installing the Berlin public-transit app on your phone. Wheels up in four hours AND COUN-TING.

Bluesky is dreary in a great many ways, but it unquestionably scratches the shitposting itch like nothing since Primordial Twitter.

The single work of fiction that most presciently captures our moment, btw, is @jwomack.bsky.social’s “Random Acts of Senseless Violence.” It has often enough felt to me lately as though it were playing out before my very eyes. rhizome.org/editorial/20...

It is never wrong to mock Yudkowsky.

Whatever you want to say, I promise you that a sloppy AI image is not going to make it more poignant. If anything, a lot of people you deem to be important will tune you out and stop taking you seriously.

Endorsing this without even knowing what it’s specifically referring to.

Best film. Pure Seventies malevolence. The opening titles are exceptional as well.

Just a crappy, energy- and enthusiasm-sapping day. It happens.