Iran didn't invent weird slopaganda (but they're beating the USA at it)

they made a Lego Malcolm X

they even censored the n-word.

getting mentioned in the same thread as @404media.co and @theverge.com podcasts is an honor! big appreciation

some scenes from getting teargassed over the weekend at the MDC.

Tuesday 2:15pm ET: I'm talking with @mjgault.bsky.social about the weird AI lego videos out of Iran. See you there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=daqt...

so Eid and Nowruz happen about the same time this year, which means Shunbun no Hi does too Shunbun no Hi is a Japanese holiday tied to spring equinox. The official purpose, per the 1948 law (re-)establishing it: "To honor nature, and care for all living things."（自然をたたえ、生物をいつくしむ）You get the day off.

75% right now. go get em.

yoo thank you!!

i swear the DJ Shadow reference is relevant!!

just grabbed it, did a ctrl+f and saw 'jill of the jungle' multiple times. hell yeah. reading later, and i gotta play that game again

and that's my voice off to the side of the camera, having to (again) quote the penal code to LAPD. This keeps happening: getting threatened with arrest; officers claiming that they don't have to comply with the law for some reason. @shoton35mm.bsky.social and I were clearly displaying press badges.

genuinely curious to see how lil b responds to this

Bagpipe Guy and a quick conversation, with some scenes of the protest. 24th January 2026, behind the Metro Detention Center in Los Angeles.

scenes from last night at a protest in LA. Several groups were here: on the other side of the Detention Center building was a vigil. This was slightly after that. January 24, 2025. 300 Alameda St Los Angeles CA

This report from @dexdigi.bsky.social IS incredible.

Another day, another outage — instead of rehashing why our reliance on a handful of big tech companies for our access to literately EvErYThINg is bad — I’m going to point you to the last three times I had to do that over the past 4 weeks, which led to a great convo with @dexdigi.bsky.social

NEW for the Ten Four: The Adelanto ICE Processing Center and its conditions inside are the subject of dozens of concerning stories, but rarely is there an opportunity to actually talk to those inside the facility. I was able to get inside (kind of). latenfour.com/2025/11/06/i...

very proud of this title right here lol (also, the conversation is good. @ccs.bsky.social was brilliant on this one. I will never call DNS a 'phonebook' again)

shout out @johnfugelsang.bsky.social , this was fun

gotta be one of my favorite recent conversations. i recommend it (not because i'm in it, but because @micahflee.com broke this down so anyone could understand both the 'technical' side and the political side of why this means so much to people.)

actual champion right here. salute 🫡

Yeah I cant think of a good reason for this

Jimmy Bonner. A black pitcher who played in Japan, for Dai Tokyo, in 1936 (eleven years before Jackie Robinson broke the color line). I wrote about him a while back: www.npr.org/sections/cod...

ayyo, kill switch just got another award. thank you everyone who listens to us every week! www.signalaward.com/winners/deta...

Big appreciation to @rossminor.bsky.social for being on the show! Even if you've already read the article, this is a whole different experience (because you hear his voice!)

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

the 'disability tax' applies to videogames, of course. more good work from @supercrip1994.bsky.social

My union—the LA Times Guild—has authorized a strike with the support of 85% of our membership. This comes after years of brutal layoffs and no cost-of-living raises since 2021. Next up: we bargain. But if we have to strike, we will 🪧 laist.com/news/la-time...

'...a Black bystander in the viral video of the feds placing a Black man in a chokehold in Chicago’s East Garfield Park neighborhood: “Y’all supposed to be out here choking Mexicans,” he said.' thetriibe.com/2025/10/sout...

Rod Johnson, a 67-year-old military vet, said he never thought the presence of federal agents in Chicago would impact him. When asked why, he said, “Because I’m a Black man.” thetriibe.com/2025/10/sout...

bless all of us

'I'm drinking Minute Maid, watching Al Jazeera / debit card choppin up the grams in the mirror' hall of fame verse opener right here www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaKE...

I've really been enjoying the kill switch podcast with @dexdigi.bsky.social It's about tech, but not full of VC inside baseball, press release hype, or featurespeak. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

Hi, just a note— The local ICE/ERO agent directing his team to fire at reporters' faces in Chicago this morning has been threatening press since we showed up at immigration court in June. His agents shot us both at close range last week, too. None of this started today!

shout out non-substack newsletters.

truly an honor to be mentioned next to names like this!!

may it ever be so

pull up

Charlie Kirk Sept 27 2024: "Just so we're clear, the Haitians that are in Huntsville that are raping your women and hunting you down at night - it's only gonna get worse - unless Donald Trump wins There will be hundreds of thousands of Haitians brought into Alabama and they will become your masters"

this is absolutely worth following!

in case you are wondering how capitalism is going, i tried to write the word 'centibillionaire' and my autocorrect did not think it was a real word i am teaching the computer how to talk about people with 100,000,000,000 or more dollars

that Golgo 13 is better by basically every measure. - he's a better shot - has no state backing; gets his own gadgets - no nationalistic allegiance to any Imperial forces - instead, he fought colonizers in Mozambique (and won) - fought the KKK (and won) - saved Nelson Mandela once lol

read this post yesterday and then today two people asked me for advice on what computer to buy, and realized that I am a Guy as well. also I transferred some VHS tapes for a friend. wow i am multiple kinds of Guy, I contain multitudes god bless all the Guys (gender-neutral) out there

they have finally done it. AI has come for jungle

Greetings all! I absolutely hate doing this, but I’ve been unable to successfully work or process invoices for the majority of the last several weeks due to a fractured rib sustained during a protest on August 8th. I could use some help. www.gofundme.com/f/help-sean-...