another great This Old Ledge thrasher vid, this time exploring the history of Venice Beach and Santa Monica. check out the graffiti in the pit around the 3 minute mark 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fivO...

you people are useless. I found that there are some alternatives, Fossify and Quik, but they have advertisements or problems with not receiving texts without delays. lame

I'm at peace with humping the help desk for the next 30 years, but peace or not there's an obstacle blocking my progression along the natural career paths in my organization to desktop support or to subject matter expert teams: I don't want to learn anything new for the rest of my life (for a job).

skateboarders 🤝 urbanists check out this mini-docu on the recent (mid 90s+) history of Philadelpha's downtown and its most iconic skate spots: Love Plaza, City Hall, and the municipal services building youtu.be/pifV4m_70RE?...

This Day in Labor History: July 5, 1935. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act. This created real labor law and allowed unions to survive. Let's talk about the most important labor law in American history!

they told me that the classics never go out of style, but they do. … we do, too

The annual Southland Tales 4th of July viewing has begun

thrasher spitfire San Francisco. really good skating www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4hd...

they trained millennials how to use computers too good and napster basically flattened an entire industry. I think that's why they don't even want you to touch your phone's file system now, they can't let kids become that powerful again

better a wannabe than a poser

how's this for a wellness diet/lifestyle: - 5 to 9 servings of fruit and vegetables every day - heavy on whole grains, legumes, nuts/seeds - light on meat/dairy - almost no ultraprocessed junk (don't play dumb, you can't cheat your arteries) - 40 minutes of moderate/high cardio, 4 to 5 days/week

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

a nice feature of the ideology of machismo / toxic masc is that it includes a self-service option so the mark can cool himself out bsky.app/profile/carl...

I was already digging on this Billy Woods album ('History…'), and then he raps over one of my favorite Zep songs. sick

I rarely want to hang out with people. It seems to me that many things in the past 20 years—work, television and movies, shopping, phones, video games—are trying to simulate or imitate the experience of hanging out, but, owing to their nature, can never actually be hanging out. Sick, sad world.

Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below. “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ

I say it often but once again: By granting them borrowing privileges and protecting their privacy, public libraries afford children a form of civic standing and respect that has few parallels in our “free” society, which mostly treats children as chattel. Vociferously defend public libraries. 📚

who called them associates of La Cosa Nostra and not members of the Society of the Friends of Crime

odd day. my uber driver was a (I estimate) late 20s/early 30s woman named for the Hebrew word for faith, who was listening to Neil Young. two of my colleagues who have not once worked in the office, were working in the office today, despite us all receiving a message to work from home. hmm. Idk.

a lot of people have heard about the rooftop solar boom in Pakistan Looks like same thing is now unfolding in the Philippines www.reuters.com/business/ene...

a fun movie would be: a couple begins to have sex but à la 'Discreet Charm' keeps being interrupted—phone calls, kids, barking dogs, home deliveries, etc. at the end, after days or weeks, they finally do it, and the audience cheers. yay, kitchen sink screwball romcom ♫ I feel like makin' love ♫

I'm not a board game / tabletop guy, but with even a little youtubing I see that the hobby appears to be flourishing. "game night" could be a nice socialization activity for people who are lonely or at a loss for what to do with others.

let me take the excuse of this picture of arid wastes to recommend to you Craters of the Moon National Monument, home to landscapes almost certainly unlike those you have yet seen

The perspective conveyed by Christopher Robbins here is quite bad for the Left (read: classist + racist). Normally I wouldn't QP such pieces, but since his view reflects that of many (maybe most) white Leftists I know, and since I've 15 min to spare before my first thing today, let's get into it. 🧵

inutile toposes

check out pagemelt's worthy video essay about Americana in visual culture (and beyond) www.youtube.com/watch?v=45yn...

hang 10 on the human wave. surf's "up", dude

if I were a visual artist I might be a collagist, in particular a polyptychian (working in diptychs, triptychs, etc.). possibly mixed materials and multi-media, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.

helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

two thoughts: 1. I wasn't initially entirely sympathetic to Foucault's condemnatory tone (in the penultimate chapter, "The Birth of the Asylum") re: Tuke & Pinel's introduction of the medical personage to their facilities, thinking, "c'mon, how bad can a little guilt be?" bsky.app/profile/reve...

Sam Alito: It is the worst kind of discrimination to create majority-minority congressional districts and so we are going to kill the Voting Rights Act. Also Sam Alito: There is nothing we can do if the president cancels legal status because he thinks the United States is a white country.

Ballardian send-up of seasteading

the difference between quality and quantity: the latter presumes the existence of, and through no small measure of (justifiable) epistemological violence creates from the vortex of mere intensities, the Unit. commensurable identity be thy name. One, the loneliest number indeed

sometimes the long term demands the sacrifice of the short term. sometimes you have to execute your friends—I saw 'The Wind that Shakes the Barley', bro. I saw 'Pelle the Conqueror', man—sometimes you have to abandon Max von Sydow, y'know. for real, Artax don't make it out of the swamps of sadness.

Who is up greening their hill zone? #art #queerart #sketchbook

Technically, they’re Remains now.

not pro-dirtbagism, necessarily, but anti-anti-dirtbagism. that is to say, with notably rare exceptions*: the French Revolution was good. *Haiti

"bird-doggin' chicks and bangin' beaver"

“Abortion bans don’t stop abortions, but they do kill people. They kill women, in higher numbers, but in many of the same, preventable ways, that these women were dying before. All of which was completely and utterly predictable.” - @amylittlefield.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Wow. Prairieland defendants being handed sentences between 40 and 100 years. For background on this case: www.ms.now/news/antifa-...

this morbid Deep Thought courtesy of my having just finished 'When The Wind Blows'. tonight I might try 'The Grave of The Fireflies'. (my first year doing Cartoon June is shaping up to be a real sad lad summer—have no fear, I'm in great spirits) bsky.app/profile/reve...

pretty sweet that I'm just finishing up 'Madness and Civilization' today before seeing 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' for the first time on the big screen tomorrow

Piece by me this week - looking at the surging number of killings by police in the United States: www.economist.com/united-state...

the surety of death's permanence makes it easier to bear the shame of life. soon enough nobody will know we had to carry on like this. oblivion cures all

Finnegan's [sic]

does anyone on an Android phone have recommendations for a non–Google Messages text messaging app? thanks in advance

haven't seen a political compass in some time. huh

this should be mandatory reading for the entire country

critical support for DJT (?!) bsky.app/profile/eric...