The absolute nerve of the AI to ask if I am human.

Still waiting on 99% of the Epstein Files.

It’s been 9 years, 9 months, and 7 days of refusing to believe that Prince is gone. I think he’d be happy to see all the posts about his city and the revolution. My cousin found an old concert program of mine from when I saw him on his Purple Rain tour. Come back to us you purple freak we miss you.

Some thoughts: 1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1. 2. History professors are qualified nominators. 3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence. 4. He would be so mad.

I’m in

Good morning 1861

If you actually call Black Studies an “activist subfield” you do not have an ideologically neutral commitment to diversity of any kind.

Yes that’s right. Viewpoint diversity. Let’s have it.

There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.

Yes where are these vaunted free speech warriors today?

God love them.

I really really hate reels and I wish people would stop sending them to me.

Go go Avi!

I’m starting a new business called Boomer Tech Help and you pay a subscription and then somebody who is more patient than you helps your parents and grandparents solve their tech questions. I will be gifting my son a free lifetime subscription as well.

My absolutely favorite album. The Luther Vandross backup!! Amazing.

The one damn song that can make me break down and cry

I’m joining Rep. @robinkelly.house.gov to introduce articles of impeachment against Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and will use every lever available to end the terror ICE has unleashed on our communities. Stay loud.

I can’t remember being angrier.

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

One year ago: Altadena. I miss you so so much, neighbors and friends and peacocks.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Hello it’s been 9 years, 8 months and 7 days of refusing to believe that Prince is gone. Come back, we miss you.

"It is not simply the "what" of what one eats that matters.... Most important, it is the many "whys" of eating the differing imperatives of hunger, necessity, pleasure, nostalgia, and protest-that most determine its meaning."

Also I blame everyone else for my self-censorship

Ghassan Zeineddine has a beautiful linked story collection titled Dearborn, which might offer you a better sense of the people in that place after so much destructive discourse. Plus it is wonderful. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/825467...

Trust Matt to say it. ✊

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

I really need a dragon

Between defending the honor of Mexico’s working-class bread culture to ranking the best tacos in L.A., these were L.A. TACO's most-read food features of the year. The full list: lataco.com/best-food-st...

To recover from 2025 I'm re-watching Game of Thrones for relaxation.

2026, yes please.

Christmas present from Elisabeth McQueen, reviewing Deviant Matter for the current issue of The Senses and Society:

New York, this moment belongs to you. Please join us for the Inauguration of a New Era on January 1, 2026.

I will never stop loving @scrivenerapp.bsky.social

okay so like ignoring the stupid data-less whiny whininess of the white guy who applied to a few jobs and never got one, the other issue that with unbelievably stupid article is that it misses something that really needs to be said:

I mean, this is the moment we are in, the aggrieved petulant revenge moment of whiny baby boys who were promised the world at birth and then met the exact same challenges that the rest of us were trying to survive for our whole lives. Yes, I read the lost generation article in Oracle lololol

And another thing: anyone willing to allow their grievances to be weaponized by the fascists in this of all moments is decidedly not someone to be taken at face value.

Call your representative. Protect our trans family.

The thing about Rob Reiner is the thing about Andrea Gibson is the thing about Prince is the thing about David Bowie is the thing about D'Angelo.

Please get me out of the Dodo algorithm

Have reached the slightly hysterical goofy with NyQuil era of this flu. Ask me anything.

What's ominous is all of the trusted women of color who know a lot about AI are saying that a crash is on the way and the white guys are pretending they are taking it to the moon. This means that a crash is definitely on its way.

Hello it's my birthday today! Each bday I raise and give money to the National Bail Out which raises bail and other funds to support Black women who have been separated from their families by the state. Would you consider giving a few bucks? Link below! @nationalbailout.bsky.social

You will be visited by three spirits: gin, Campari and vermouth

Actual bluesky challenge: post your favourite work of art from fifty years before you were born

Hello it's my birthday in 2 days! Each bday I raise and give money to the National Bail Out which raises bail and other funds to support Black women who have been separated from their families by the state. Would you consider giving a few bucks? Link below! @nationalbailout.bsky.social

Hello it's my birthday in 5 days! Each bday I raise and give money to the National Bail Out which raises bail and other funds to support Black women who have been separated from their families by the state. Would you consider giving a few bucks? @nationalbailout.bsky.social www.nationalbailout.org

Book chapter and two short pieces need to be done by December 31 and January 31 respectively. I will be writing with my group every day starting at 8am until then. #acadecawriteathon

It has been 9 years, 7 months and 4 days of refusing to believe that Prince is gone. I miss you every day and I will love you forever and ever you purple beauty.