Regarding the question “Well, what can I do?“ Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, “Go into something that already exists, and do that work towards the end of helping to tip it away from reinforcing the system towards weakening the system. That’s infiltrating. Or innovate. If something doesn't exist, make it."

Open House New York weekend is so great and doubly so if you like infrastructure and/or are very nosey! Got to poke around the inside of Kings County Distillery and see both of their cats yesterday

Trump and his agenda *are* deeply unpopular. This doesn’t do anything on it’s own. It is a resource with which we can do things.

few ideas have damaged the average psyche more than ‘the customer is always right.’ it should be a little bit humiliating, being a customer. you should walk into any service transaction knowing that the other person, and not you, is in control over whether you get your treats

I've wanted one of these creepy little cat clocks for YEARS and one is finally in my possession, the shape and sound are so deeply pleasing to me. A real small victory of delight in the midst of the Horrors.

NYC/BK pals- come eat my food and drink fun drinks and talk to cuties this Friday!

Morning! I did a lil analysis and turns out that, when ED employees are illegally fired and contracts are canceled, ED is unable to fulfill its congressional mandate to publish national statistics on the condition of education. Why does that matter? Well... www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

a chicken in every pot and an all ages hardcore show in every neighborhood

Asking for help is good and normal and encouraged for everyone except for me in which case it's humiliating and potentially a war crime. Posting as self crit to remember how dumb this sounds, perhaps you too need to hear it.

And: data is not knowledge, knowledge requires a knower, which is only and ever a person or collection of persons.

When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Yep a good-faith critique of learning loss would lead to proposals for a massive, New Deal-scale investment in public education. The people pushing the narrative are doing precisely the opposite.

It’s official - I’m running to be the next representative for Georgia’s 57th District. What we need right now is a radical change in how our government serves its people. To do that, we need new leaders. With your support, that is the kind of representative I promise to be. #gapol

how to shed the yoke of near constant anxiety that everything good in your life will soon crumble to dust at your fingertips, turn to ash in your mouth, etc.

and a happy james dobson is dead day and congratulations to all who need it for outliving that fucker

Sitting on a train that is fully plastered in GLP-1 ads featuring women who look like all the women around me and thinking about how a culture of aspirational thinness is essential to both patriarchy and complacency in the face of fascism. You hate yourself and everyone around you, don’t you?

"AI is not that novel. It is not that potentially revolutionary. It is in a long continuum of technologies that promise to transform education, starting with the TV, the typewriter, VCRs, tablets [and] Chromebooks." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

Why pillow so big if not for Frank to share???

We figured out to *cure cancer* (ref: last year’s pancreatic cancer trials) and the Trump administration decided “nah.” That a society could reject a cure for cancer is astounding.

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

live action catbus looking pretty sweet

But we're going to touch the stove and we'll be touching it more than probably ever before. And we're not going to get burned. We're not going to get burned

POV you're drinking a beer on your stoop on a perfect summer night in Brooklyn

Critical point- Prager, and other fascist media products, have been insidiously effective at getting into schools. When you take away actually high quality, free resources from reputable sources, schools turn to free resources marketing their dangerous bullshit as high quality and reputable.

The antipathy for the Department of Education is the most enduring relic of the cause that birthed the modern GOP: not having to go to school with Black people.

There were a multitude of delicious things at @jaykaydee.bsky.social's & Jordan's & my BBQ yesterday, but this rotisseried dry-brined pork brisket interwoven with chunks of pork belly was Queen among them. So crispy, so juicy, and put off so much fat it confited the onions in the drip pan.

reporting that a mayoral candidate accurately filled out his college application as if he engaged in misconduct would reflect a low point for a publication that had any remaining dignity

I am feeling some political joy for the first time in a minute, but equally importantly I am feeling some delightful political spite! I hope Cuomo fades into miserable obscurity, nothing but my worst to Ramos and the many pundits who fundamentally don't believe a better world/NYC is possible.

so this is how it feels when my haters become my waiters at the table of success

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

God my absolute heart is with the people of Iran, who’ve fought so steadfastly for their own liberation, and are getting fucked half a dozen ways by a whole pantheon of geriatric war criminals while being told they should be grateful for it

It's deeply pathetic to be afraid of the train! In moving from ATL to NYC, one of the biggest quality of life upgrades I've had is no longer driving and instead being able to go pretty much anywhere I want, 24/7, for less than $3. It is right and good to live your life amongst your neighbors.

Putting your vanity before moral feeling or collective action: loser shit.

Look this is pathetic but instructive because it’s not just about this lame creep it’s about the Overton window continuing to be moved so quickly by Trump’s criminality and lawlessness that bad people have reassessed their previous actions against the metric of “you can get away with anything.”

Happy Pride

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

Just two sausages in the sun

coping with The Horrors by buying a rotisserie for my grill and friends it is absolutely working, 10/10, you can in fact buy some happiness via a rotating spit and a whole duck

As Congressional Republicans push for Medicaid work requirements, here’s how it’s going in Georgia: Deloitte Consulting is taking in tens of millions in tax dollars to manage the country’s only Medicaid work requirement program — and sell it to the public. Only 3% of those eligible have enrolled.

Reflecting on my dad's 87th birthday and among other things, it is truly wild that a man born fewer than ten years after the great depression now owns an iPhone and is trying to make me read books about AI

1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. *The Pentagon* loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier

By slashing teams that gather critical data, the Trump administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades: propub.li/3RZzqHP 📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social

Yes Sufjan Stevens

incredible that he can still talk with so many boots in his mouth

It's Teacher Appreciation Week. Here's how to appreciate teachers: pay them better.

The NYPD's institutionalized antipathy to NYers wanting to use their streets for anything other than driving huge metal boxes is one of the main things holding this city back.