wizard interview

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

One of my least favorite kinds of internet exchange is when someone says “hey things should be good” and someone replies “ugh how naive can you be don’t you even know things are bad?”

How many times in your life have you heard a member of Congress or someone on TV say “we can’t afford it” when talking about something small but very important? It’s been happening my entire life. We can’t afford it? They’re putting seven times the annual budget of the EPA into immigrant detention.

Part of why the common complaints about names in Dune ring false to me, some names stick around (and others go away and come back) and the fact that you have all these weird space names and also Paul’s and Duncans feels totally reasonable

Ruby-crowned kinglet—always such charming li'l guys and once in a rare while one stays still long enough to get a good photo #birds #birding #birdphotography #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography

This is not a gotcha or even a criticism, but I did see a lot of people yesterday, when the judge issued the order, who were *very* confident they would not actually be released. Things are harder to predict than that!

I don't care how common they are, always happy to see a red-winged blackbird #birds #birding #birdphotography #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography

Absolutely surreal to continue to hear about drawdowns and lowered temperatures and things calming down in Minneapolis when, as far as I can tell, literally nothing has changed on the ground

ICE is camped out at a free clinic/food shelf on the Northside if you'd like to see how de-escalation and targeted enforcement is going.

There's an irony to how easily they've been able to distract us from the evil shit they're doing right now with the very thing the big-brain 4D-chess types keep trying to tell us the evil stuff they're doing right now is a distraction from

forget old jobs and old college classes, let's share five... [sweating, huddled over my phone, heaving for seven minutes, desperately trying to come up with a viral engagement skeet] five...uh... things you've... seen

Confession: As someone of an age that I knew of The Arsenio Hall Show by name from commercials and stuff but was not old enough to be staying up for late night TV when it was originally on, it was not until years later that I learned Arsenio Hall was the host and not the venue

It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

Everyone who's ever said "it's not really fair to call Aranofsky a plagiarist it's just homage" owes the rest of us an apology, we're waiting...

This machine yub nubs fascists.

As a voter, you can make demands without gaming out the politics. Do people know this?

This series has been so worth the wait, might be my favorite narrative comedy audio thing on the go right now

Don't let anyone tell you it's not possible.

Why do recipe-photo food stylists think this looks sumptuous and bountiful it just looks fucking sticky

This is a speech designed by someone who thinks you are stupid. He’s explicitly promising to keep the *recently tripled* budget of the DHS gestapo if there are “reforms” that, behind closed doors, their lawyers admit are unenforceable, irrelevant, and even harmful.

None of this would have prevented any of the killings from the last month.

Tired: "Trio of dipping sauces" Wired: "Three potential dunking mediums" www.cell.com/current-biol...

I'm constantly disgusted with people who claim everything wrong with the world is down to human nature, attempting to naturalize what ultimately is down to culture and structures. It's only because colonialism has so thoroughly sucked all the air out of the room that anyone can make those claims.

It’s funny how incensed people will get about something like 6-7, then a sentence later talk about a haircut being a vibe. All slang is stupid, which is what makes it fun. “But it’s annoying when my kid says it!” Friend, you say “adulting.”

Democrats may think they are softening the message when they say things like "Abolish Trump's ICE" but this is a mistake. The qualifier of "Trump's" shows a deflection of Dem responsibility for perpetuating this agency and funding it.

There does not exist a violin small enough

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If the people who lied yesterday about what happened are on the news today when you knew they would lie again then you’re simply not the news

unlike all the strident leftists who were correct too early, i am correct at exactly the right time

I'm so glad there's more attention on the violence, trauma and lives lost due to this federal occupation. AND we also need more attention on the less visible but INTENSE impact on our neighbors who haven't been able to leave home for weeks, are hungry, scared & at risk of eviction. 2/3

It has never been more clear that community and solidarity are what keep people safe, and ICE as an institution is an obstacle to public safety.

Genuinely the only thing keeping me going—but it really is keeping me going—is how good it is to see people link arms and push for this to end. I cannot stop thinking about how much love people can have for their neighbors, and how much work and money is poured into breaking that love apart.

BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

the "and you're surprised by this?" guys have never been less vital than they are right now

Look, I believe in casts, but if a parent has strongly-held anti-cast beliefs, they should be allowed to let their kid’s broken arm grow back all floppy and fucked up, even to the point of lifelong, debilitating pain. And that’s not child abuse because a kid’s bones are their parents’ property

Today is the day. Right now hundreds of Minnesota businesses and institutions are shut down. Thousands of people are refusing to work. There’s a massive picket at the airport. Minnesota’s resistance to ICE today is changing the tenor our fight against fascism. www.jphilll.com/p/the-first-...

It's come to my attention that all the nominees for "best PICTURE" are actually hundreds of thousands of pictures shown in quick succession, PLUS some sound to boot. Is anyone looking in to this, seems like cheating

podcasting's pivot to video can be explained by podcast platform's instagram reel i just saw that asked three producers what excited them about video podcasting and all three said "advertising money"

All I have ever heard about every news story from Bill Clinton to drag shows is “it’s awful, parents have to explain this to their children, why can’t we just let kids be kids?” Now an entire classroom is going to go home to parents trying to explain why their five year friend was taken by the govt

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage

People who don’t know how to make a PDF: “AI is inevitable.”

Hey fellow USAmericans? When folks abroad say "fuck the US" you do not need jump in to demand acknowledgement that we don't all like the guy in charge. When people refer to a foreign state as an actor on the world stage it is taken as read that means the political entity exercising power.

I guess I just don't take what people living in other countries say about the U.S. personally. I live in the heart of empire. There's a lot to be pissed off at the U.S. about. I understand their anger.

the perennial "is this a good replacement for twitter / can it become as big as twitter" discussion is so confused. hominids became bipedal about 7 million years ago. for most of the time since we did not have microblogging. it's not a necessity it's a habit, if it all goes away that's fine

Working to suppress your emotional reactions to everything to perform an affected "rationality" is sicko anti-human shit. Emotions are part of being human, and it's no coincidence that everyone who does this is doing so to call evil good.