Warning: this is about to become a chickenposting account because these three tiny babbies just arrived.

Hey man, he's just Going to the People, he can't help it if the People's eyeballs make him millions of dollars.

actual lol

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Posting one detail a day from my new painting "Self Portrait (Appalachian Natives)" until it debuts at @artallnightpgh.bsky.social on Staurday. This is an oval ambersnail Novisuccinea ovalis

you cannot long run a stable society when the immoral ultra-elite are constantly rubbing everyone else’s noses in their total impunity all the goddamn time

I have three days to finish this painting in time for @artallnight.bsky.social but sure I'll set up everyone's phones in the "someone in the household got a new new phone, everyone else move on up" cascade because my job title has "technology" in it. This is why Grandma Moses waited til she was 78

Vizier as a Service

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"Do you mog me sir?" "I do not mog thee sir but I do mog."

So a brand new MOOC platform? In 2026? Okay, well, have fun with that.

Are a bunch of people just now realizing that a core tenant of US-style Fundamentalism is that the Pope is the Anti-Christ and the Catholic Church is the Whore of Babylon?

Speaking of this mystical place known as "Outside" did you know that I created a game called Touch Grass that uses the Seek and Merlin apps to gamify being outside and finding cool little guys with your friends? Download the game sheet free: magaro.net/tles/2026/02...

Yeah, that's what I'm saying! Abundant free third places never existed, we did not once have them and lose them. But if we add "must be free" that to the definition and then pretend this once existed but has been lost, we can carry on with our lost golden age populism rhetoric but leftistly.

See also the claim that "third spaces" must never include buying anything or any sort of financial transaction, lest its purity be sullied. That was never included as a trait of third places in all of the original work on the topic, you just added it in there so you can claim no third places exist.

since i started writing for liberal currents, one of the most consistent themes of my work--maybe the most consistent--has been power. how to get it, how to exercise it, how our enemies' power works. but equally i think that, to use that hoary old phrase, with power comes responsibility.

Right? I've mentioned before my youth being brought up in 80's style libertarianism/movement conservatism and George Soros was the Republicans' favorite millionaire. Why? Because he was anti-communist (I almost typed "anti-authoritarian" but as we've seen the problem is commies not dictators).

absolutely no possible way I can narrow this down to "a" song gonna have to just do a thread I can add to whenever I think of more starting with Ballerina by Van Morrison, off Astral Weeks (an album I adore but feel completely ambivalent about everything else he's ever done) at 2:55 - 3:16

I keep forgetting to post this but we spotted this witchcraft at a swanky restaurant in NYC and @techconnectify.bsky.social please file this away for No Effort November because I'd be fascinated to see a teardown

Suck it, Eurofash. And furthermore, eat shit and get fucked.

bzzmlem bzzmlem bzzmlem bzzmlem (Found this honeybee in my kitchen looking tired and hungry. Sent on her way with some corn syrup because she can't help that she's an invasive species.)

Random idle thought 🧵: Back in high school, I did a lot of Amnesty International letter writing and volunteering. If you're a Young (in which case what are you doing on bsky?), Amnesty was big in the 80s and 90s bc of apartheid, iron curtain still being up, and US-backed regimes in Central and S. Am

This is why I say that extreme wealth inequality creates deficits in empathy *from both ends*. We talk a lot about wealth's impact on empathy, but by a similar token, when you see no legitimate way survive and thrive, removing your own empathy and scamming ppl is gonna be a choice some make

Tell me you're a boring, tedious dweeb without telling me etc Please stay in your all-white suburb, we don't need your noxious vibes shitting up the neighborhood.

Sister in law (cradle Catholic, single) met a guy who is a convert and me and her brother both made this face 😬 until she explained that he had converted for a previous marriage and he seems normal. We were like, okay but still, proceed with caution.

T-minus 7 days until Art All Night! April 18 4pm-19 2pm in Point Breeze! Be there or be the squarest square that ever squared. www.artallnight.org

Apparently the douchelord who inspired most of the songs on Wet Leg's first album outed himself in order to complain about how he had been maligned. Idk but you could not have waterboarded out of me the fact that I inspired the lyric "when I think about what you've become, I feel sorry for your mum"

Picture of the century. 😍 📷 credit: Science Tube

Okay so yes I am fully aware that Zohran Mamdani is, like, just some guy, you know*, but this is some of the most perfect local politics I've ever witnessed. youtu.be/oohRn36CWhs?... *And it's hilarious that we have to do this on the left every single time we mention any politician

🤔 magaro.net/tles/2025/03...

There is no McTry.

lol and also lmao

An old Asian Studies professor referred to the West's relationship with creators as a "cult of the original". We place much more importance on originality and doing something brand new, and by extension revering artists who do something brand new more than those who perfect something old.

I was not really an Ancient Rome Enthusiast growing up (my dad is a scholar of ancient Greek philosophy, so my loyalties were established early) but from all the learning I've done as an adult I have concluded the Imperial Roman culture was *exactly* this vapid and dorky.

They're pushing so hard for AI because (when hypothetically fully functional) it allows wealthy access to skill while restricting those with skill from accruing wealth. It uses theft of the past to steal the future from humanity and give its riches to the already rich

Pittsburgh's City Council voted unanimously this week to formally codify its refusal to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. This is bigger than a symbolic gesture, here's what it actually does and why it matters. 🧵

Y'all, I thought they were joking when I heard someone on the subway talking about Jack Black as SNL host with musical guest Jack White. Completely tickled to see they were not joking! youtu.be/LFtIxTYLMj0?...

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

Very interesting investigative journalism but when I got to this part I shriveled up, turned to dust and blew away in the breeze

I've recently been blowing the minds of colleagues by showing them how AI can totally do all of their "AI-resistant" assignments. I'm sorry, but there is no such thing. The quicker we can all just accept that, the better.

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Though uh I am listening to Handlebars a lot for no particular reason (other than that I'm old and 2007 is still "recent music" to me) 👀

Want to take your mind off of [gestures]? I wrote a thing. I hope you enjoy it, or at least enjoy the music. magaro.net/tles/2026/04...

Go see The Jellicle Ball on Broadway!

Been trying to express where I'm at right now and honestly where I'm at is "yeah, fucking duh." I have somehow achieved that rare state of News Wuwei where I notice the horrors as they float by as if leaves in a stream, I say to myself "yeah, fucking duh" and then that leaf floats by and is gone.

New favorite: mumble rap Zoomers listening to Eminem for the first time. This one kid is like, did he just dis Elvis?! Child. Chuck D already covered that ground in what, 1989?

YO COME SEE THIS PAINTING ONCE IT'S FINISHED AT ART ALL NIGHT!!! AND EVEN BUY IT MAYBE??? BUT DEFINITELY HAVE A REALLY GREAT TIME!!!

Sir, a second bird is at the feeder