druthers would not necessarily involve my being 23 again I’d be happy squiggling into a decades later me and some really good ambient lighting

Louisiana German-style spicy Andouille, horseradish mustard; boiled red fingerlings, w/butter/parsley/garden marjoram; golden grape and red cocktail tomatoes, slowly pan-roasted w/Cretan oil/unpeeled garlic/dried wild Sicilian oregano, garden bush basil pairing: Mountain Valley Spring Water (AK)

art in the Z lot, aka the Belt the Z-Garage and Belt Alley, Detroit

Nez Perce ponies Friday afternoon

swordfish, butter/olive oil-sautéed/basted, w/zest/garlic/habanada, garden bronze fennel; boiled Yukon, w/butter/parsley; grape tomatoes heated slowly in Cretan oil w/squashed juicy garlic/Calabrian peperoncino, garden oregano garnish; flat beans, parboiled/heated in oil, zest/garden mint garnish

[Depeche Mode voyce]: 🎶 REACHE OUT TOUCHE GRASS 🎶

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

Always good to get feedback that our Puglia Guys website works as a practical guide to planning the perfect vacation in Puglia. Find us at PugliaGuys.com.

Ah yes, the MAGA stack

Depression is so time-consuming. Like, GIRL, I actually have so much to do!!!

In a city of world-class artists and production crew hunting for the next gig, Andrew Cuomo made a TV ad the same way he wrote his housing policy: with AI. Then again, maybe a fake Cuomo is better than the real one?

Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.

What's next? Playing badminton with Skelator?

Quick reminder: my book will be out in just about a month. You can pre order it here, and use the code E25MSTDS for a 30 percent discount: My Studio Is a Dungeon Is the Studio: Writings and Interviews, 1983–2024 share.google/kMhpOdrNyGpz...

Hey fediverse, I’m on the look out for my next project, I’m an experienced Elixir dev (> 8 years commercially, and > 10 years of Ruby before that + I'm still the maintainer of RSpec), very familiar with Phoenix and LiveView, and have enough CSS / JS knowledge to approach projects from a full […]

im not gettin in no sub whatsoever. james cameron cooked his brain in the pressures of the deep and lost the ability to make cool movies

"Wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?"

If you ever wonder if society has made any sort of progress, my son was just very confused about why the bar in Star Trek was smoky inside

INTERVIEWER: As you know, we are a nation beset by myriad horrors. What are you doing to fight back? SCHUMER: I have been reaching out to the horrors, many of which are friends, in hopes of working together on this for all Americans. You demand we descend into hell? Well ok, but let's do it right.

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”

I'm ready to announce my next thing: POSSE Party! 🎉 It's a new service to reach your people—regardless of which social network they use—by crossposting your content from any RSS/Atom feed. Read the announcement to learn more and RSVP to be among the first to try it at launch: posseparty.com

Simi just wrote up an announcement that he’s done cooperating RubyCentral and it’s another very important read in this whole situation. Notably, he confirms everything in Joel Drapper’s write-up that’s already been circulating and really puts Ruby Central on blast.

How embarrassing for those other countries

United Nations construction site, photographed by Walker Evans, 1952:

this is the most chotinered a chotiner interview has ever chotinered

After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know about the RubyGems takeover.

Italy’s grassroots unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of people ranging from schoolteachers to metalworkers, called for a 24-hour general strike in both public and private sectors, including public transportation, trains, schools and ports.

I grew up in Detroit in the 40’s-50’s; then one of the most prosperous cities in the world left for college in 1958; a few years later my immediate family had themselves all left but Detroit is no Heimat: each parent’s enormous Stamm was based in eastern Wisconsin - snd had been for over 100 years

Saving this list for the next time I have a student ask why I say that Watergate was small potatoes compared to what goes on in an average week with this administration.

H-1B visas now cost two Homans. (I also think @marisakabas.bsky.social could help here)

I’m worried it can still get stupider

If you would like for me to come to your conference or convening and give a 45-minute rant about what makes good digital privacy trainings and guides, particularly for high-risk populations, hit me up.

if you would like something very calming to fall asleep reading:

pictured is gavin newsom ransacking someone's shit. in the upper left corner, in a white shirt, is a former war correspondent who is now the governor's "director of photography", for which the state of california pays $200,000 per year.

I enjoy how sometimes you see left of center people talk about "the excesses of peak woke" like they're talking about the Great Terror or Stalin's Purges

The FBI told the Trump transition team Homan had taken a bribe from undercover agents. They appointed him anyway.

The United States will have control over TikTok’s algorithm in the acquisition of the social media platform’s US operations, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

David Rose, the police officer and Afghanistan veteran with a wife and 2 small children, was murdered by a white, right wing extremist man a month ago over antivaccine conspiracies pushed by RFK Jr. and this administration. He did not get recognition from political leaders or even much news coverage

AT THE ENDE OF AN ART FILME MADE BY SHARKES: "FIN"

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

The list of countries that are confirmed to be set to recognize the State of Palestine on Sunday and Monday, September 21st and 22nd. The United Kingdom France Canada (conditional, gradual) Australia Belgium (gradual) Portugal Luxembourg Malta Andorra San Marino

I knew I had seen this picture before

when I was maybe 12 or 13, my parents and I saw Phillip Seymour Hoffman in an off-bway play, afterwards he was walking the same route to get on the same subway as us and we ended up chatting until our stop, he was extremely chill and incredibly, vividly kind

She was a hero to me and @jamesarthurwagner.bsky.social. We met her briefly a few times at art benefits, even for rather small organizations. We also know her filmmaker daughter Catherine via ACT UP.

Democrats need their own security service. In a time of dramatic political polarization, assassinations and federal lawlessness, it's no longer enough to depend on certain local law enforcement organizations or standard rent-a-cop security guards. Dems need trusted and vetted security.

Would you just LOOk at all this "masculine energy"