My cartoon in the first issue of Now Voyager, a new print magazine dedicated to long form international reporting, photography and art. Plus cartoons!

the strait will stay closed for longer than our dear principals expect, then the idea of nuclear weapons will be floated, then the debate will be about how "surgical" or "targeted" an attack could be, then the Bomb will drop. and then I'll agree that neoliberalism is over.

maybe becoming convinced that we are likely teetering on the edge of our species' extinction could help people along the path to accepting their own deaths. and, therefore, help them enjoy in a deeper and more honest way the times they've had and have left. :)

here we are on a planet teeming with countless species of life and billions of dollars are being spent to get back to a lifeless rock, spewing toxic waste everywhere in the process. suicidal society

They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. #USForestService

why has the northeastern USA been relatively immune to sunbelt evangelicalism*, I wonder? does the heat make people more gullible? if I can ever afford to leave the upper midwest, philly/nyc seems hard to beat. *in another post someone referred to them as "mormonoids", which I hope catches on

finished the second season of 'Severance'. people have shared good thoughts (see Bady @ the Prospect) on s2 vs s1. as I see, it's leaning more into Lumon-as-cult than corporate critique, which is still interesting but less applicable, politically, to our current situation.

The more the Earth is made unlivable the more people will engage in space fantasies to avoid dealing with it.

thinking outloud, just came up with an argument against developing some forms of human excellence on Nietzschean perfectionist grounds. (Why I Am So Clever)

And we are live. If you have a Criterion Channel subscription you should be able to find the series that we programmed on their main page. I hope that everyone enjoys the series and finds a new favorite.

Geometry and geopolitics: as Israel expands its territory, it not only moves its borders but increases the length of those borders, thus expanding their zones of insecurity. Some day Uncle Sam won't return their phone calls, and they'll be in for a decade of October 7ths. bsky.app/profile/adam...

possible (likely?) April Fools, but either way: Black Mirror will be running into The Onion's problem soon enough bsky.app/profile/liza...

☝️ presenting to my yt subscriptions feed… a new Chubbyemu vid. it's a gnarly one, folks www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w8V...

not looking forward to 8 inches of snow (4 on Wed–Thurs, 4 on Fri–Sat). happy I didn't put away my boots and shovels yet

let us steer our incorrigible nihilists away from careerism and toward aestheticism (at the intersection of l'art pour l'art and harm reduction)

Please enjoy the two minute crucible that is this turtle trying to get on to a log that other turtles are on.

Only Justice Jackson had the courage to note that the First Amendment doesn't protect medical malpractice simply because it involves speech. Given she was the sole dissenter, this took tremendous courage and I greatly appreciate her. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

I don't believe in a "freedom of speech" because talking is acting. The slavers' constitution is evil; it provides no true justification and determines no real obligation. (Of course, it's fine to use as a shield or weapon against oppression and exploitation, when possible, as anything is.)

oh cool, SCOTUS has decided that torture is fine as long as it's religious free speech

I think it's actually essential to children's moral development to be exposed to short stories moderately beyond their reading level where a bunch of fucked up shit happens and then instead of offering a moral lesson or any sort of emotional or narrative resolution it just ends.

it's a fun whimsy to invent a guy to laugh at. consider the crackpot realist, whose wisdom consists in believing that if something hasn't happened before it can't happen at all, incredulous and bemused while reading his newspaper every morning, "How do impossible things keep happening?!"

articles that write about how "important" immigrant workers are to "the economy" without ever acknowledging that the reason they are important is that they can be treated worse for less pay

we all know that there are plenty of vanity small businesses—the dentist's wife's unprofitable candle shop, to invent a stereotype—but what I propose is that, in general, Small Business exists in the USA as a vanity project, essential not for strictly economic but ideological reasons.

I started covering this last year, and I can't overstate how important this is: the Trump administration officially labeled some of the most commonly-used forms of birth control as 'abortion' jessica.substack.com/i/173447780/...

here's a thread of the youtube videos I've watched and enjoyed since Saturday: GeoWizard – This 3 day solo winter hike may well have changed my life... www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEq5...

I don't think social movements (maybe more accurately: rhetorical gestures) of people who are opposed to most technological advancements we've "enjoyed" since the 1700s should be called anti-civilization or primitivist. Did Plato not live in a civilization? Was Shakespeare primitive? Get real.

I don't think people will develop more patience, or more compassion, or an appreciation for how something is done (as opposed to merely what is done) by having things work more quickly, efficiently, conveniently. I do hope for the former, so I do not hope for the latter. I want things to be slower.

if I never have to hear about coding again, it will be too soon. get a real job, people

RIP to the wonderful Glen Baxter

it's never ideal to have a two-day-long earworm, but I could do worse than waking from my fever dreams to The Cars' "Let's Go"

Gosford Park (2001) Gosford World (2015) Gosford World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

sick! haven't been ill since 2022, but now I am again. hate it!

Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities

Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

this idea is bad and dumb and unworkable for everybody but me. I should be provided a stipend to move to Stockholm, or maybe Oslo. I promise to never learn the local language, and I will still grumble about the winter (mostly to myself). bsky.app/profile/greg...

Mar 25th - Harry and Lloyd stop at a gas station on their way to Aspen to return Mary Swanson's briefcase. 📽️📅 Dumb and Dumber (1994)

This looks like a good read. Outside of footnote 15, though, it looks like they're arguing from within the neoliberal paradigm (no surprise, of course). All I want is government-built, government-owned, government-maintained housing. I want to vote on my building's super. bsky.app/profile/grou...

Thread. I'm begging people to realize how much we've already given in just the past 25 years. I'm old enough to remember when surveillance wasn't ubiquitous and before ICE or the TSA existed. There was even a time when the average cop wasn't kitted out for full on urban warfare.

I wanted to love it,, but I only liked it (with strong ambivalence). I do love its look and I definitely appreciate the idea of it, but Biller aimed at a witchy, post-Lynch meller and ended up with a Douglas Sirk Rob Zombie film, which is fine. women can be Rob Zombie, too.

who could forget the lyrics of the only hit song by the group One Pint Of Sperm The Richer ? ♫ Kiss me beneath the milky twilight ♫ bsky.app/profile/tiny...

Short, anecdotal but important thread. This is the 2nd-order impact of the war. The 3rd-order impact is the social uprisings that will soon follow this kind of disruption, keeping in mind that none of the drivers of 2019, 2022 or 2024's anti-incumbent wave have been addressed, let alone resolved.

I’m not supposed to bring these bad boys into an open plan office?! Sorry.

the lumpenbourgeoisie are revolting

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It’s the oldest-known preserved recording of whale song. It paints a picture of how the massive mammals communicated during an era when the ocean was much quieter than it is now and how the ever-changing underwater soundscape is impacting whales today. #Humpbacks www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

to look up: - is there an in-principle limit to the "size" (quantity of particles) of an entangled quantum system? (bounds on non-locality?) - is there anything conceptually/theoretically incoherent about the idea of an elementary particle that does not interact with gravity (i.e. not even weakly)?

the internet as we don't know it… yes, please

he should Mint The Platinum Coin worth trillions and pay off the national "deficit". (this idea is outrageous and stupid, but not actively evil and not wholly useless. it could happen, and it should happen.) bsky.app/profile/mari...

In 1840s Mexico, the Irish watched violence by US soldiers. So they defected. Hundreds joined the Mexican army. They were known as the Saint Patrick’s Brigade. As many as 800 people would join. They are still honored today across #Mexico. @therealnews.com #StPatricks therealnews.com/stories-of-r...

solving a whole discourse: performing and signalling are necessary but not sufficient. the words "mere" and "only" are often elided but implied. hope this helps