While babysititng/hanging out with the neighbor's 13 y/o grandkid, I told him that "Social Studies is extremely boring until you become an adult and then it's the most interesting thing in the world"
fascists are always the dumbest fuckers b/c they're completely incurious about anything save the delusional mythologies they imagine, they never react out of an accurate assessment, it's all just fear and hatred
I think of the housing shortage as a giant, billion-dollar, industrial scale machine that produces homeless faster than the people trying to help can get people out of homelessness
Every day I imagine an alternate world where the powerful don’t spend every waking moment doing whatever they can to defend their power.
I imagine the sheer enormity of the resources that would be available to us without that systemic defensiveness.
We can all imagine such a world, then build it.
Trump’s new homelessness executive order isn’t about care—it’s about control. Cloaked in fake compassion, it opens the door to mass institutionalization, criminalization, and forced confinement of unhoused people. We’ve seen this before. It doesn’t work. 🧵
One of the stupidest, most ridiculous, yet incredibly impactful things about this era is how many people’s politics is little more than “I don’t like some replies I see on social media.”
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once the major wave of unemployment hits, right as it gets warm - I predict much larger protests
Look at my music industry dawg we ain’t never getting the benefits of seeking out an aristocratic patron class of generations past that in the very least understood the need to fund education and the arts bc they cared about seeming like they were cultured individuals themselves 😮💨
A lot of the ads also seem to imply that people have no one in their lives they can just ask for basic advice.
The Chiefs can still win if Mike Pence has enough courage
Tragic team
really starting to feel like that trevor martin skit is getting to be a risky post
goddamn love cilantro all cilantro haters go to hell and die
This is the second reference I’ve seen to it today, what’s going on?
I got the same dude.
Very cool that Spotify, Netflix et al have transformed the vast cosmos of art into “slop that people keep paying for while they’re asleep”
browser extensions can help with this
I bet you could solve a lot of problems with a really good hammer
Might fuck around and grossly underestimate or wildly overestimate how long anything will take me to do, for the rest of my life
Is the passage of time supposed to feel like getting dragged through gravel
Happy New Year or else
Latest episode from the podcast: David Rowell, Washington Post music journalist, talking about his new book "The Endless Refrain: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music."
One weird trick to avoid giving unsolicited advice is to not know anything about anything at all, for your entire life
Ask me how I know
you have to do some punk shit once in a while. for your mental health
Hell yeah brother
do you ever drink water out of a mug for that particular kind of thrill
asking my auto mechanic in a leading way if he is familiar with the Japanese art of kintsugi
What if there was an NYPD/FBI operation that would stop at nothing to catch the culprit whenever a poor person one mile north of midtown was left waiting to die by a bogus insurance claim denial