Walker Art Gallery Lobby (1927) 1710 Lyndale Ave. S (Walker Art Center) Source: Hennepin County Library An early view of the lobby of the Walker Art Gallery

oh my god Book of the New Sun had Amano covers in Japan and they're fucking crazy

I've thought up a cool bit where I publish an unreadably verbose substack, and then whine endlessly that everyone else who covers the same topic ripped off my work. How would anyone know for sure?

Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

This is absolutely awful. This was one of the best resources for climate indicators data, and my go-to share for help answering public questions. Luckily I captured some of them on my new U.S. climate page a few months ago: zacklabe.com/united-state...

the warriors beating the bulls by 32 with starting lineup is really something

And now … it's time for lunch. #LAFCA

Pitchfork on Soul Coughing’s Ruby Vroom pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

HHH wrote this as the liner note for a Tommy James & The Shondells album

there are a bunch of democratic politicians out there that I have a good amount of respect for, and one thing they all have in common is they spend more of the time talking about their vision of what the government should do than they do about the characteristics of democratic voters

Matthew Lillard is great, do not besmirch his legacy

there is only one political party in the US that constantly says that their own voters are weird and unreasonable

good god

There are many material reasons why Netflix owning WB/HBO sucks but the pettiest one I have is they suck at distributing their own work or building up any enthusiasm. They have failed their way to the top with a strategy that doesn’t benefit the work.

when I read a good post

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has stopped receiving any coal-fired power. Mayor Karen Bass calls it a defining moment for the city in transitioning to clean energy. @hayleysmith.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991. From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...

The Secretary of Defense taking extrajudicial killing requests from podcast hosts

get the absolute fuck out of here with this lol www.theguardian.com/football/ng-...

At the beginning of the drone war in the early 2000s, people fretted that the fact it was on the screen, you weren’t looking at a human being through a rifle sight, would end up making troops completely desensitized to the fact that they were killing people. Anyways, they watched them for 41 min.

Somebody's playing Total War: Warhammer III again

uh oh www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW: Your "end-to-end encrypted" poop pictures taken by this $599 (+ subscription) smart toilet camera are actually not end-to-end encrypted. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/e...

the ceos of ford and stellantis are standing right there in the room right behind him here

That strange feeling when you can't remember if you've already recommended "There Is No Antimemetics Division" to someone before, or even possibly more than once

Honestly disgusting behavior from Democratic leadership

I mean this seriously and literally. We live under a gerontocracy, our leaders now were leaders then. We saw how they acted. The equally long-tenured legacy media apparatuses are also held over from those times.

Sorry but I came of age in the ‘00s, unless you have explicit proof otherwise, the safest course of action is to assume that every serious adult in the Democratic Party orbit feels pretty good about going to war in Venezuela.

Why it matters

RIP to the legend. I probably made 50+ trips to the cal academy between my two kids when they were small, and we spent a LOT of time looking at Claude.

A friend’s jellyfin instance is serving me elite recs

The way Parker laid this timeline out—it’s so clear what has been ramping up, even if some of these appeared to be isolated events at the time.

this review from @scaachi.bsky.social is great slate.com/culture/2025...

HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right

Pastor Jorge Bautista was telling a Border Patrol agent "we come in peace" when the agent fired toxic powder at him, leaving him struggling to breathe. “No one should be assaulted for being out there protesting,” he says. With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

history will call this one rusty’s magnum o-piss www.todayintabs.com/p/let-s-see-...

The Z in dragon ball Z stands for the integers

wake up dead man is playing on a strangely small number of screens in SF. artier places only, lots of one-screen venues. not even alamo. sort of odd.

my tom stoppard story: the worst production i've been in was Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead at Rice University in spring 2007, as Guildenstern. Execrable. A worse experience than the 2005 community theater production in which a performer was arrested for child abuse mid-rehearsal

Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments. 🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...

I’ve been dragging this same edition (my high school copy) around for 30 years. It completely cooked my brain the first time I read it. RIP

They're calling them the most U.S. soccer paragraphs ever written

Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day

It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card). There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well. The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial www.usni.org/magazines/na...

this is the best film adaptation of anything by gibson, and I don’t really expect that to change any time soon. I am… very tempted by this.

Whatever the truth of it is, Lizza is also proving he’s not a journalist either

San Francisco! Come hang with @coyotemedia.org worker-owners and @bff.fm DJs on Tues December 2nd at Casements in the Mission. Drinks, swag, the satisfaction of knowing you're supporting indie media instead of outlets funded by shady billionaires, what more could you want luma.com/f2jy4dho?tk=...

2/ Here’s our new story about how the vacuum left after the U.S. abandoned its humanitarian commitments has destabilized some of the most fragile locations in the world: