the cultural crisis is straightforward: there are no longer any formal consequences for blatantly anti-social behavior, and the rest of us are constantly just getting lectured that we have to put up with these assholes making our lives worse

Here I am with a super discount watercolor shopping list for beginners that costs less than some fast food meals these days. Prang is better but Blick Essentials is pretty good at half the price. The pen isn't essential but it will save your neck (adding outlines saves many beginner paintings)

A great creator's essay from the great Michael Chabon on one of the best books I've ever read (and one of the most fun books to work on I've yet worked on).

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

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Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week Reporter: [nods] Trump: so we must murder on the high seas Reporter: [nods] Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once Reporter: [nods] Trump: the cock on that bunny Reporter: [nods] Trump: bigger than you think Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

1901, photograph by Dr. Allan Warner of two 13 year old boys both infected with smallpox on the same day, one vaccinated as an infant and one not.

The sad fact is, if Tyler Robinson had used his gun to murder students at Utah Valley University instead of just fatally shooting Charlie Kirk Republicans wouldn't care this much.

We still don't really know what drove Tyler Robinson, or if he even holds a coherent worldview. The tone certainly shifted when he did not match the hoped-for demographic profile. The civil war was cancelled, at least for now, to be replaced by Young Male Mental Health Appreciation Week.

Heartfelt thanks again to @goldengateblond.bsky.social for her advice to turn off auto play many graphic videos ago.

Look at the person to your left. Look at the person to your right. In the near future, half of all three of you will be AI

If I were a Democrat in Congress I'd be introducing legislation to suspend the Supreme Court's upcoming term (it's happened before, in 1802). The suspension would be to give us time to figure out what to do with this dangerous, anti-democratic institution.

I had a dream that I had a huge hole in my floor but I live in a ranch house with no basement, I blame @cheriepriest.com. Loved the book though.

Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

A very consistent Trumpism is that he takes credit for the achievements of others and refuses responsibility for his own actions.

Why not name it The Murder Department to accurately reflect the new Trump/Hegseth mission?

It's good pet o'clock.

A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice

Don’t get my hopes up.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

seen in #DC 💯

Wrote a little something about having been in Canada this week and coming back to the U.S. www.pbump.net/o/returning-...

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Thursday mood

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. 📚

What people don't yet understand — what I am just coming to understand — is that Trump is not acting irrationally on climate & energy to "own the libs." Trump (and the GOP) are protecting the trillions of assets held by their fossil-fuel cronies, which would be utterly devalued if we decarbonized.

The entire GOP base mobilized over Cracker Barrel logo, but they won’t do anything about mass shootings of children in America. Trump has been banging on about crime for months, but apparently this doesn’t count.

When nothing happened after Sandy Hook I knew we’d never get gun control in this country.

This is how I want to die.

Weird. Everyone knows to leave me alone when I start streaming Tom Waits. 😱

To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

Tech oligarchs oppose the idea of any supposedly undeserving person getting financial help from the government in 2025. But they want you to believe they’ll give *everyone* free money in the future. It doesn’t make any sense, but it’s the techno-utopian lie they will keep selling.

Nichols: Even though these guys come across as clowns, they're clowns with flamethrowers.. They have the machinery of government behind them. These are people that normally would be struggling to hold on to middle management jobs in a department store somewhere

This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Finally, this child of Watergate is watching an elected politician do the thing that he promised voters he would do The politician is Trump The thing is fascism

🧵Here's a question I've been thinking about. I remember, starting in the 90s/early 2000s, when it seemed like we were in a tech golden age. We got mp3 players & digital cameras & cell phones, & then all of them combined! Order stuff online; reserve seats a movie theaters; bittorrent; Uber; etc.

I am late to this, but I just read James by Percival Everett and, guess what, slavery was bad.

As awful as it is for me to read the news and what is happening, imagine Biden’s anguish: he tried so hard to fix things.

I put in my own order for food, I scan and bag my own groceries, I scroll past 30 fake products on Amazon to find the one I actually searched for and when exactly is any of this doing any good for anyone who actually works for a living?

If I wasn't already following Clara, this would be a reason to start. Great thread.

So Putin gets a red carpet welcome, a ride in the presidential limo, speaks first at the presser, frames the meeting as a successful talk among equals, while making absolutely no concession on the conduct or outcome of the war.

This guy's a vet and a lawyer who threw a sandwich and offered to turn himself in, so they sent a paramilitary platoon with a camera crew. They have FBI and U.S. Marshal badges; apparently those agencies do no real work beyond camera stunts, harassing minorities, and filling concentration camps.

"The bill sets the stage for an entire class of speculative assets that have precisely zero underlying cash flows to be integrated into the financial system. All for the purposes of satisfying an industry whose main contribution to most Americans has been scamming them."