New free zine by me & @shane.logoff.website: "Absolute Units of Letterpress: Plus Rad Measurement Facts"📚🎉 34-page square meal of Absolute Unit letterpress type, blocks, press eye candy (ft. a Very Good Hog print courtesy of @ryancordell.org) & 6 mini-essays on neat measurement history+current facts

Something that now occasionally comes to mind, as a 40 year old man who grew up and went to school in Texas: which peripheral weirdo from my past will end up in the Trump admin?

Strong floor, no ceiling

"strong floor no ceiling" describes a pit

Coming this week(?), a 20-page zine w/Rad Measurement Fact/history mini-essays by @shane.logoff.website + Absolute Unit letterpress eye candy collected by me.

This op-ed glosses over 2020 and the Gaza protests too quickly. You can't understand why so many young people aren't in the streets without a deep dive into both. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...

the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul

This is just the latest turn in long-running and bipartisan campaign of Sinophobia. The Democrats are just as much to blame as the Republicans.

no money for politicians

"What was the point of the shutdown if the Democrats are just going to cave for nothing?" The point was to do what everyone wanted for only as long as it took to win an election and then immediately betray them. The election was 3 days ago! The disdain they hold for us is majestic.

And fuck them all unless they do

Dems are turning an issue that they’re both winning and right on and making it a defeat that people should rightly blame them for. Amazing political acumen. Four dimensional goddamn Russian roulette.

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

They should make telescoping flagpoles so I can fly the flag at double mast when people I don't like die.

but to offer a concluding thought, the real problem with "we need a new renaissance" is that a "renaissance" is created not by doing fundamentally new/ better things but rather by demonizing people in the PRESENT as "backwards" and hence enemies to be vanquished 9/

There is no bigger disconnect in politics right now than the difference between what Zohran says he's going to do and what his opponents say he's going to do

"pretend a right-wing activist is just a Concerned Citizen" is the go-to move for crypto-reactionary NYT people. Jeremy Peters did this for a militia member at Charlottesville, I pointed the error out to him on Twitter and he blocked me." theracket.news/p/how-the-ne... bsky.app/profile/ryan...

If I didn’t know anything about modern American politics, I would think that a former White House Press Secretary would have the best chance of coming out of a Chotiner interview alive. But instead, Jean-Pierre has maybe the worst interview that I’ve ever read.

npr: so, no kings tyrannosaurus rex: yes npr: how shall I put this trex: this interview is over

A Solution to the CIA’s Kryptos Code Is Found after 35 Years www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-so...

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

there's a lot of competition but i think you can make a valid argument that the TikTok ban is the biggest political unforced error the Dems have made in modern history

So this is apparently a thing that exists, but unfortunately their events page is completely broken so it's a little difficult to figure out which coffee shops to boycott.

“Every aspect of the university needs to incorporate AI. Also, humanities research only counts if you can print it out.”

It’s actually amazing that Dems are both dumber and worse at politics than Republicans. Really hard to believe, but there it is.

Correggio, Martyrdom of St. Rocky (1524) (h/t Todd Burks)

one day, everyone will have always been against this

I think you'll find that this isn't true.

THEY'RE CALLED GROYPERS COOP. A GAGGLE OF YOUNG MEN ONLINE WHO CAN'T DELINEATE BETWEEN VIOLENCE AND ENTERTAINMENT. DARNDEST THING. ONE OF THEIR SHELL CASINGS TURNED THREE OF OUR BEST AGENTS GAY.

Pretty gross! NYT characterizes the murder of civilians as part of an “uneven track record” and immediately parrots that the killings were “justified.”

America’s answer to that Japanese dog that sells sweet potatoes.

I imagine that in 30 years, historians of this period of American decline will probably call it something like 笨蛋时代.

There are many fascists working in higher ed. They are a minority, but they know that this is an unprecedented moment for them to gain power within the institution. They are making their plays. You can just tell them to shut up instead of extending good faith to their nonsense.

the uva interim president isn't just any old FedSoc member, he's in good enough standing that UVA's local chapter named an award after him then, in classic FedSoc self-dealing fashion, proceeded to give it to his wife two of the first three times it was awarded www.fedsocatuvalaw.org/chapter-awar...

“The public can now search internal affairs documents and other police-misconduct records from nearly 700 California law enforcement agencies through a database created by UC Berkeley and Stanford University.”

Context: he wrote "nature is healing" in response to someone saying they saw a cop crying in his car because Trump lost in 2020.

Copyright is a form of policing. It’s inherently rooted in censorship and surveillance. Historically, copyright accelerates consolidation of power and extracts creativity for profit. If we use copyright to fight AI, it consolidates power further. A future where everything is licensed? No thx

This AI lady just can’t get enough of that horrific leg lengthening surgery.

i havent seen a columbia with this little integrity since 2003

Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication. My latest. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

“antisemitism tsar” is an incredible phrase

THE STARS AT NIGHT TAKE AWAY YOUR RIGHTS DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS