Oh! the metempsychosis! Oh! Pythagoras, that in bright Greece, two thousand years ago, did die, so good, so wise, so mild

Continuing a small series of posts about my last days in NYC, today’s post is a love letter to my favorite place in all of New York: the Cloisters. I spent so many hours there over the years and I’m going to miss it.

NEW: On Friday the Trump admin announced a proposed work permit regulation that could make it dramatically more difficult for many immigrants in the US to work to support themselves and their families, including DACA recipients, asylum seekers, and the spouses of skilled workers.

Caitlin Flanagan 100% voted for Trump

Other countries have to boycott this event. There is simply no other way to respond to this kind of thing except to make the USA an international pariah.

I had about 1/8th of a fuck left when I got on a plane in New York and I spent it going through the TSA line. Now I’m plumb out.

Do you really have to though? You could just stop wasting time on morons and stick to talking to normal humans.

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Subscriptions to my Patreon run as low as $2 a month. But even if you don’t want to be a paying subscriber, it 100% helps if you sign up for a *free* subscription. If you have a Patreon and don’t mind subscribing at the free tier I would greatly appreciate it!

Now that I’m gone and can’t come back I don’t mind exposing my favorite spots in public 🙃

It’s honestly nuts that this event is still happening and other countries aren’t boycotting.

Continuing a small series of posts about my last days in NYC, today’s post is a love letter to my favorite place in all of New York: the Cloisters. I spent so many hours there over the years and I’m going to miss it.

Let’s please not follow in the UK’s footsteps on this one. Fight for INCREASED public library funding where you are. And fight for that funding to be used for hiring and fairly compensating library workers. magazine.unison.org.uk/2026/04/22/l...

7 months old. He was in his mum’s arms when the Israelis shot him dead. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

You lost me at “concept store.”

hear the thunder

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The second post in a small series about my last couple of days in New York is now live! Today I review MoMA’s current Marcel Duchamp retrospective, which was the main reason I decided to go to MoMA.

As an EU citizen I agree that we need to police our borders more carefully. Then maybe we won’t have shit-brained American losers giving idiot speeches here.

I’m just a girl, standing in front of an AI data center, running for Congress to ban them: archive.is/PtGlO

These Queens organizers are putting on a monthly potluck series to bring new immigrants together with U.S. citizens.

He literally announced this week that he’s adding 500 cops.

My first Patreon post in exile is now online! On my second-to-last day in New York I went to MoMA for the first time in a decade, only to learn that the basement has now become a grotesque, obnoxious toy store for people who think “culture” is a $30 keychain. Read all about it!

I sure have

When we stop wasting energy on things that are useless or unethical or both, a relatively small amount of energy will be required to sustain basic human comforts, hospitals, and other infrastructure. The biggest energy consumers on earth are not individual homes. They are militaries and factories.

New: we've obtained a DHS document outlining ICE's plan to give potentially more than a thousand local law enforcement agencies a facial recognition app that would query a database of hundreds of millions of images to verify someone’s immigration status www.404media.co/ices-plan-to...

"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is ending a policy that required the agency to report the deaths of former detainees that occurred within 30 days of their release from federal custody." https://bit.ly/4enK1Iu

Can we raise the whole amount Rachel needs?

Love 2 refresh my bank account every 5 minutes to see if maybe I got paid so I can buy food

My first Patreon post in exile is now online! On my second-to-last day in New York I went to MoMA for the first time in a decade, only to learn that the basement has now become a grotesque, obnoxious toy store for people who think “culture” is a $30 keychain. Read all about it!

It’s very fascinating to experience anti-American sentiment at a takeaway coffee place blasting hip-hop at 9 am.

Bari Weiss was elevated and promoted by the NEW YORK TIMES. Tucker Carlson made his name in network news before going to Fox. The level of denial about the actual political orientation of “mainstream” US institutions is mind-boggling.

With roughly 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the U.S. today, this means over 12% of all law enforcement agencies in the country will be partnering with ICE by the end of the year. We're already at 9%, with 1,618 active agencies today.

The consulate is like “Do you know under which naturalization category you received your citizenship?” and I’m like uh idk the one where you sent my grandfather to Auschwitz in a cattle car and now you have to atone for the rest of human history

Moving through any city other than New York immediately makes me appreciate what a complex and sophisticated ballet New Yorkers perform every day. I can move through the Times Square subway at rush hour and not be touched by a single person.

Every month Patreon plays a game with me called “One of these days you’ll get your money.” Is there a reason why they can’t reliably deliver my money on the same day of the month every month? AFAIK there is not. Late capitalism just makes anxiety and instability into habits.

This conversation will never be meaningful or honest until US intellectuals admit that a significant proportion of American students have been functionally illiterate for decades now, since long before AI. Was that also Sam Altman’s fault?

In one of the craziest hacks recently, here's how hackers tricked Meta's AI into giving them access to a wave of Instagram accounts. They simply asked. Watch more and subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsAt...

I sallied out for a stroll.Ere this, you must have plainly seen the truth of what I started with

Sign up to testify about the need for INCREASED funding for our public libraries at the 6/10 City Council budget hearing. Details are here: bit.ly/June10Testify You can testify in person, on Zoom and/or submit written remarks.

This is just the best one-line summary you can give of the US in 2026.

ships, barques, brigs, schooners, and what not

I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"

Handyman offered to reduce his price significantly if I gave him a pack of my American Spirit menthols bc they don’t sell menthols in Europe. Extreme GI-in-a-displaced-person-camp vibe but I agreed. That said I am never again telling anyone else I brought a carton bc I’m not giving away any more.

I guess I should have realized this but turns out having a balcony commits you to a forever war with pigeons. How do they shit so much so fast.

I mean if AI destroys the consulting industry there will finally be a strong use-case for AI. Consulting is basically just low-fi AI anyway: for an outrageous premium with a high fossil fuel cost some incoherent shmuck that thinks they know everything gives you bad advice.

If I can just get to the end of this week without losing my mind everything will be ok

If you want to see a bunch of grown men playing with balls the Eagle’s cover is only $25

Trans rights means trans healthcare. When you’re done putting up posters will you also make NYC hospitals resume care for trans people?

I mean you should be ashamed 12 months of the year, let’s be real heterosexuality is always kind of embarrassing