Academia should have more and better jobs, of course, but insofar as it currently doesn’t, nobody should be beating themselves up. Moreover, the outside is actually pretty nice for most people, and there are many places to use what you learned to do.
The spot silently defying your setup: your clean grip job, your well grooved trucks, your grippyslidey wheels, the basalt layers between your deck’s plies, your dope fit, your perfectly laced shoes, your years of experience and decades of secondhand knowledge, your insistent will and persistent hope
still can’t believe that given the choice between “bountiful, free, clean energy from the earth, wind, and sun” and “poisonous dead animal sludge price sensitive to global politics” we keep choosing the latter
44% of new uploads are AI-generated, and 85% of their subsequent streams are fraudulent. This is the new tech that all major stakeholders in music are scrambling to profit from
A little rabbit smashed a computer screen with a bay showing it’s teeth with the force of its impact. It reads Born to create AI is a fuck 人工智能 Kil Em All 2025 1 am art man 410,757,864,530 DEAD BOTS
❤️🔥
In this edition of “Doubles,” @knowngaslighter.bsky.social and I pick at, pull apart, and examine some of skateboarding's ritualistic sacraments and why they compel us so.
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some things about becoming a parent are radicalizing in ways I expected - e.g being reminded viscerally how screwed we'd all be if childcare and other care work disappeared. but other things are radicalizing in ways I didn't - like experiencing constant spontaneous solidarity in ways big and small
“It’s a list a child would make! “MY PHILOSOPHY: 1. You must be NICE to me. 2. My hunger for candy shows that I am SMART.” It’s embarrassing! Have some self respect, dude. You are a right wing billionaire weapons merchant. You are the human face of technological totalitarianism.”
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
Every AI commercial is like "Hey AI, what goes good on a sandwich?" and then the AI is like "Have you considered... cheese?" And then the narrator is like: THE FUTURE IS HERE.
I would love to place a moratorium on arguments about whether or not events are "unprecedented." A thing does not have to be *unprecedented* for us to be off the map of our experience, or for solutions that were applied in a different era to be ill-suited (or worth considering).
OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman reminding everyone that the damage AI use does to your brain is a feature, not a bug: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter".
Still waiting for Kyle’s skateboard novel
In his first appearance, Superman beat a domestic abuser so hard his sleeves disintegrated
Nightcrawlers
Be sure to read the whole thing.
Tours as the video deadline approaches
Deck’s lost its pop
The Adventures of Pete & Pete - Season 2, Episode 10: Farewell My Little Viking Part 1
8:38
Nominations Best New Poets 2026 Hannah Han Ars Non Poetica Kristin Lueke one billion flowers Glass: A Journal of Poetry
Congrats and good luck to our 2026 Best New Poets nominees!
Hannah Han "Ars Non Poetica"
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Kirstin Lueke "one billion flowers"
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Why, thou picture of what thou seemest, and idol of idiot-worshippers
Open the ledge or your entire civilization gets it
Weekday curb spots
The Adventures of Pete & Pete - Apocalypse Pete
Todd is a good follow
It’s a good question, let’s clear the air:
1) Disco is awesome, like 25 all-time classic tracks in a 4 year span,
2) Disco was hated because it was queer, brown, and black,
3) Disco was hated because it paired women and men in a different power dynamic.
4) “Disco Sucks” was a “ MAGA” test run.
Act One
I think maybe I could land a _______
Act Two (many tries later)
That last try was pretty close
Act Three (many many more tries later)
If I don’t land a ______ I’ll _______
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
A yellow sticker affixed to a metal utility box. It reads "Join ICE earn 30 pieces of silver."
Seen in Philadelphia
I never did see Mid-90s