I got a Reolink video doorbell and finally cancelled my Ring subscription — the last bit of cash I was giving directly to Amazon. 🎉🎉🎉

OMG I just learned about adding "-ai" to the end of Google searches. No more stupid AI summaries, and you save the world some water and energy!

I mean, I know none of it is actually funny, but the degree to which JD Vance is a total loser is pretty f***ing funny.

ARTAAAAX! PLEEEEEEEASE!!!

(Dude, why are you retraumatizing me on a Saturday morning?)

I think I'll just write PEDO, tho...

Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.

Per my post today Persephone Books's edition of "Two Cheers for Democracy! A Selection" by E.M. Forster is getting me through this time without ignoring the world as I comfort read.

(11/11) So, please: go throw a pot today or sing a song or write a poem. It doesn't have to be as frivolous as STARLIGHT EXPRESS, but it can be. Create the world they want to destroy.

[Originally posted to IG, where it is known that I saw STARLIGHT EXPRESS twice last week! Lol.]

(10/11) Is making art right now insufficient? Of course. We have civic and moral duties and responsibilities to pursue. But we don't have to do that in our art. We can but don't have to.

(9/11) Does it defeat them? No. But as we've learned from Internet comment sections, sometimes the best way to fight is to refuse to fight.

(8/11) It is the life they are trying so hard to destroy. It is the introspection that confuses them. It is the human intelligence that they cannot emulate artificially.

(7/11) Creation simply to create, to communicate, and to express humanity — not to innovate, progress, or profit (financially or in power accumulation) — is the cure to the world these profiteers, murderers, and tech lords are manifesting.

(6/11)Any well-informed artist/critic/historian could have told you that Futurism leads to fascism. That the tech bro valuing technology and innovation over humanity ends in concentration camps.

(5/11) I have absolutely felt like making art right now is a mistake. But, still, we should. Even if it's only because art and history are the ultimate records of human mistakes and how to avoid or overcome them.

(4/11)The essays are the collected musings of a queer artist/aesthete who is so clearly struggling with the fact that his very domestic work seems unimportant or ill-timed in a world falling to fascists and their enablers (in the WWII era).

(3/11) But indulge me as I reflect on celebrating at such a terrible moment in human history and the history of the United States. You have to. I AM FIFTY.

I have been getting immense comfort reading Persephone Book's "Two Cheers for Democracy! A Selection" by E.M Forster.

(2/11)Social media is limited in expressing a life, especially as I mostly use it as a photo album, especially in times where a large portion of our lives is so harrowing and violent that we wouldn't want to keep visual memories of it.

Old FilAm man sitting in Paddington Station having coffee with Paddington Bear (or a bronze statue of him, at least).

(1/11)I AM FIFTY!!! 50! (This pic by my husband, Ry, is actually from last week, when I was still 49. But an old homo happy to be chilling with Paddington is me in a nutshell, so...)

LOL do AI next.

There's no should or shouldn't; a feeling is a feeling, and you have it or you don't. Should only matters with things you actually do. You should be in relationships with people who are good. You should be good to yourself whether you're in a relationship or not. Hang in there.

I... I can't... I just... 😂

Omg, I'm coming to London next Thursday and will be seeing the 3/10 performance of TOTORO during that trip!

I support this.

This CAT is a checkpoint. Show me the most recent cat image on your phone.

Treasure your gay elders.

1. You will always need stamps. 2. Get pretty ones and keep them on your fridge with a magnet.

Wow.

I DELETED THE STARBUCKS APP #DeleteTheApp to show Starbucks that you stand with baristas, not billion-dollar companies.

When you delete the Starbucks mobile app off your phones, it sends a direct message: there is no business as usual while baristas are fighting for a fair union contract and end to union busting. Delete the app, then add your name below!

action.fightforaunion.org/a/starbucks-...

Omg... Want me to actually watch the Super Bowl? Program Green Day in the 2nd year of the 2nd administration of President Necro Stench.

KUYAS Boutique & Cafe A gathering place to celebrate Filipino-American culture, creativity, and community with curated goods, and delicious food & drinks!

These were the folks in the kitchen of K&M who are now opening a Cafe where K&M was. It was one of the few places that had a plant-based or vegetarian Filipino option (a.k.a. Filipino food I didn't have to cook myself). Join me in helping them get started!!! 🙏