Can someone please tell me the origin of this? I've been going crazy trying to find it. The screenshot is from bluesky if that helps narrow it down

> the quipucamayoc when you think you've completed your allotment of corvee labor and can return to your village

This kind of dense, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities

Now maybe people will read Mahmood's books— which helped me develop my politics in the first place

Did your faith ever waver, anon?

The dedication from Mahmood Mamdani's Neither Settler nor Native 🥹

everytime something good like this happens i think about the curtis yarvin crashout where he admitted that he's already looking into ways to leave the country bc he fears retribution when this is all over. which is just. lol

i like winning

On this beautiful morning in Astoria, I cast my ballot for our city and our future. I hope you will too.

It's really funny, in a sad way, how the mystical leftist shit inevitably degenerates into blood and soil herrenvolk shit with hippie aesthetics. As with RFK Jr. and the crunchy granolas, also with the 'ancestral trauma' mystic bullshit.

LLMs are a great tool for letting you kind of do something you don't know how to do. the problem is that knowledge of whether it is a good idea to half-ass something is highly correlated with knowledge of how to do the thing correctly.

I'm fine with states and polities but buddy I *hate* nations!

The dad in question: www.warscapes.com/conversation...

When a low-trustoid says something so antisocial you gotta hit them with the civic virtue stare

I'm running for Congress to defend San Francisco, our people, our values, and our Constitution. 💪 Let’s build the future our city and country deserve. Join me at the link in bio!

a hot take about academia: it is both too activist and not activist enough. the endless focus on problematizing critiquing, etc etc often degenerates into navel gazing, while there is often a lack of high-quality outcome oriented empirical work on "what could make social institution XYZ work better"

no kings in nyc

An auto repair shop turns into 39 homes in Redwood City, California. (2020➡️2024)

I did not like Everything for Everyone very much

The mist-shrouded morning at Point Reyes National Seashore, hiking with @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social, felt not just haunted or ethereal, but otherworldly. The zenith of that sensation came when a huge bull elk appeared out of the landscape as if a ghost from another land entirely.

#beanFiend #beanMode #bean

Idk, my position is kinda “it’s a useful tool that’s clearly here to stay but is also over hyped and has substantial negative externalities”

oh fuck yes now we are cooking

ive been on-and-off trying to write a story about AI for a couple of years, and I think i finally cracked it with WIRE MOTHER, which is out in @clarkesworldmagazine.com (tw in the post below). also hey, this issue is stacked?? clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/

@utopia-defer.red and @pius.dog

Love that bird... the chick of dee

How and where we won.

it's so cool how american democracy is backsliding and our political journalists are analyzing the blood quantum of our social democratic leaders

The NYT granted anonymity to a eugenicist (www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...) who obtained hacked college records in order to break the news that Zohran Mamdani, who was born in Uganda to Indian parents, checked both the "Asian" and "Black or African American" boxes on his college application.

I have the same hair texture as Lorde

A joy to march in NYC Pride with the people's champ Tish James 🏳️‍🌈

“My commitment is about delivering a city that is not only affordable to each and every New Yorker, but is one that each and every New Yorker feels proud of living in.”

That's not paint, it's beadwork

If you study the successful rebellions and resistance and civil rights movements of the past, you will note that “people who spend their time publicly bumming out everyone around them by emphasizing how totally fucked everything is” do not play a central role, or indeed, any role at all

The opiate crisis really hyped up opiates to me as the ultimate pleasure dome but I was on them after my surgery and it was a genuinely awful experience lol

i need to get these drains out im going loco

Hand sculpted in @monsterclayusa , cast in urethane , painted with acrylic, felt feathers with glow in the dark eyes on the fabric strips. Vision is through the reflective visor eyes. This finished version of my Gryphon mask has been themed with a tribute to the @compulsiongames.bsky.social ...

This is how you do patriotism from the left.

oh so he just wants Snowcrash irl. got it

If I'm reading this correctly, then Yarvin wants the role of führer to be awarded via a Wings of Voice-style competition www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Synth patch with some help from Piper

can she be any more comically evil lol