Read the new research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

I want to see that meat fall off the bone in twenty thousand different languages

I want them to make me a dumpling full of so many different things that even the Creator in Heaven is like “shit bro I never even thought of that one”

I want more American immigrants because I want them to show me how they prepare poultry over grain and season meat on a stick

Optimism of the heart, cosmopolitanism of the tummy:

Weekend projects: rain barrels under chicken coop roof (one done, one to finish before rain tomorrow), muck out the coop, pruning, gardening, & grilling!

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I understand that it sucks to have to read a book you didn't choose as a kid but when people are like 40 and still going, "well assigned reading turned me off from reading" it's like, ok but you're 40. No one has assigned you a book in like 20 years.

> Schools and workplaces don’t have the same protections that the safest buildings and most privileged members of society do. The phrase “Davos safe” exists to show the protections that the wealthiest in the world get, when they meet yearly at the World Economic Forum (WEF).

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Chicago's air quality is once again among the worst in the world as smoke from Canadian wildfires returns to the city. blockclubchicago.org/2026/07/19/c...

My pre-write turned out to be 70% a. CDC's comms have been wildly irresponsible; b. If I couldn't prove lettuce is not from Taylor Farms, I wouldn't eat it; c. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

Whenever this topic comes up, I’m reminded of when the “Home Alone” house went on the market back in 2024 and we got direct “then vs now” comparisons off the zillow ad. Shit used to be so vibrant and pretty. Now we’re lucky to get anything other than landlord grey.

“we must simplify” okay, cool “by removing the right click” go directly to jail

the iMac G3 remains Peak Computer Design to this day

Want to avoid explosive diarrhea? Pass it on

Shout out to my new best friend (one of several iterations of CR box filters we've had running in our basement since about 2021... the old fan died and the filters were grody, but I rebuilt a new one yesterday). Meet BIGBOI, aka the main reason I'm spending all my free time doing basement projects.

The Air Quality Alert in Chicago has now been extended through Saturday. Active children, adults and those with pulmonary or respiratory disease such as asthma should continue to limit prolonged outdoor activity.

omg Claire Willet's post about Stephen Miller & the sea creatures in "The Littlest Mermaid" just reminded me of this, possibly one of the greatest shitposts of all time

It just shouldn't be this…sh-hard…

Stephen Miller confidently declaring other people weird-looking without a trace of irony is like in “The Little Mermaid” when the sea creatures are like “what the fuck are LEGS, these guys are just walking around LAND on STICKS instead of SWIMMING LIKE A NORMAL PERSON it’s a freak show up there”

really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours

just mind boggling that as we suffer through this the trump admin is paying off energy companies to kill wind farms, the US EV market has imploded because of lack of subsidies, congress wants to pass a transport bill that would reduce funds for transit, & national dems have no climate strategy

This is like when I had a breakup in early 2020 and vowed to get out more and meet new people

your baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought

Broken glass and nails? But those are prizes! (alt caption: "Hey free fèves!)

The devastating floods... The raging wildfires... The orange skies and unhealthy air... These are not JUST HAPPENING. Rather, they are BEING DONE TO US...by companies who know the ramifications of their actions and do it anyway...just like someone assaulting you in the street.

shocking. who might have called this at every step of the way

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

This is massively important and they are obviously hoping we won't notice.

There needs to be a Department of Finished Software that tells people when their software doesn't need any more features and warns them to stop touching it

"your baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought" Stepping up to the mound, It's Columbus Brocade! (Legally, James Brocade, bc the midwife who delivered him wrote his name backwards on his birth certificate & he didn't know until very late in life!)

every time trump is president you gotta wash your groceries

I am not a climate scientist but when I was a kid the number of times we couldn’t go outside because of Canadian wildfire smoke was zero times

90% of "today's a scorcher, innit" and 10% of "fire tornado" (of course the 90% is then spent recovering from the 10% events, each of which gets more severe)

I said this to someone here the other day, but it's A PROBLEM that most folks think climate change means shifting but familiar biomes instead of absolute chaos.

Armchair pundits: ah if the planet gets warmer we will simply move north into previously uninhabitable regions Siberia & Canada: ok but instead of arable soil we just have this extremely flammable peat so you can't grow food and will deal with massive fires. also help can only arrive by aircraft

This is a wonderful book about Ona Judge, who escaped slavery while living at the President’s House in Philadelphia. Washington never stopped hunting for her until he died. She later taught herself to read & write & when it was safe, she told her story. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_C...

Good morning, Michiganders. Today it will be unsafe to breathe outside without a mask, eat salad, be outside for too long in the heat, be away from a toilet, and count on the electric grid to hold up under peak demand. Also, our additional escape route to Canada is still closed. Have a pleasant day.

The AQI in Toronto this morning is 170-180, solidly in the Red “Unhealthy” range.

Oh hey, canned Pedigree is being recalled. Check your cans, people.

Meanwhile the actual Tolkien considered airplanes in the sky to be an offensive intrusion that he had not consented to endure.

Also, did I accidentally post cropped images for my #portfolioday post? Yes, yes I did 😅

Ah, summer, aka, my eyes and throat are burning almost as much as the forests up north (or somewhere). If you need me, I'll be in the basement until approximately September? (I have errands to run and projects outside I need to do but the air and the sky demon are both trying to kill me) ☀️🔥🫠

Is Taco Bell growing their own lettuce? No. They get their lettuce from companies like Taylor Farms (that has 1/3 of the market *including hospitals*). This is deflection on the part of the federal government, which specifically cut funding for food safety screening/testing.

I'm going to become the Joker

launching a substack in 2026 sends several messages, none of them good 1. you're not politically attentive enough to know the company is run by white supremacist coddling assholes 2. you know the company is run by white supremacist coddling assholes and don't care 3. you're getting paid, see #2.