hate hate fucking hate that in order to get comprehensive coverage of current events, i am still reliant on twitter. just about every journalist, academic, and otherwise thoughtful and engaged human being still uses it as their primary means of reaching a large audience. path dependency is a bitch

Good Evening Motherfuckers it’s Friday

there's part of me that wonders at what point discovering new non-hallucinatory, useful online resources is going to become a largely word-of-mouth phenomenon. in this regard we are somehow behind where we were circa y2k. it feels like we are experiencing the collapse of the information age

google search results for even the most basic queries are so thoroughly flooded with ai slop summary sites that i'm starting to wonder whether i need to start preparing lists of every useful *real* site i know in like a spreadsheet on my desktop so i don't run the risk of getting cut off forever

genuinely bring back when every website looked and acted like dino’s tomato pie dinostomatopie.com

from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee

colleges are a lot like beers, in that it doesn’t really matter which one you pick. they’re all equally good and indistinguishable from one another

The trick 'r treaters are getting something special this year.

Stoner Architect Drafts All-Foyer Mansion

Stoner Architect Drafts All-Foyer Mansion theonion.com/stoner-architect-drafts-...

i've been using my iPhone 6s since 2016, so 9 years. i'd happily continue to use it but most apps don't work on it anymore because planned obsolescence, so i'm about to switch to a Samsung S10e (i refuse to compromise on the headphone jack)

reminder that Kanopy (free with a library card!!!) and the Criterion Channel are far and away the best streaming platforms available and it's not even close. to spend your spare dollars on Netflix/Crave/Prime/Hulu et al. is to set up camp in Plato's cave

IDF soldiers spoke to Haaretz about the military directive to shoot Palestinians seeking food. The on-the-ground soldiers say they are murdering Gazans for no reason and that the Israeli govt and military are hiding behind the idea of a "threat" that doesn't exist." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

in a hurry? too tired to make fresh coffee? you should consider Yesterday Coffee™️. it is still in the pot and it probably won't hurt you. Yesterday Coffee: It's From Yesterday

people don't use the word "metastasize" to describe expanding corporate chains/conglomerates enough

if this vehicle cut me off i wouldn’t even be mad

A blue Tesla Model 3 has been crushed by an Olmec statue. A man with long black braids leans against the hood of the car with his arms crossed, staring down the camera.

Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue
By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social

Every em dash a load bearing beam

When France proposed raising the legal smoking age to 9

My latest piece for @teenvogue.com delves into the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A.

Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

One million likes. Are you people fucking brain dead

canadian winters are pretty but one of their biggest drawbacks is the lack of wandering neighbourhood cats to befriend. still have four more months to wait until they're in season again 💔

if you're a tech journalist in the present climate, it's incumbent upon you to ask why big tech is pursuing dead ends like AI when they could just start using the number 2. ones and zeroes have taken us as far as they can. either chuck a few 2s in there or cede the future of tech to those who will

not to be controversial but piaffe (ann oren, 2022) might be the only worthwhile film produced in the past 300 years

the 50s–70s is interesting. also i want a fuckoff-huge aubrey beardsley print in my room now

saw the phrase 'greenery-yallery' in the introduction to a virginia woolf book, wondered what the fuck that meant, googled it and landed here. i think the parallel between the datedness with which we view fin de siècle use of chartreuse (e.g. art deco, absinthe) and the pistachio appliance phase of

not to be a pick-me but if dragons were real i would smoke weed with dragons almost exclusively