a man in glasses and a tank top, shorts, and sneakers takes a mirror selfie in the gym while holding the camera at chest height with his left hand and flexing his right bicep with the hand clenched into a fist

I’ve been going to the gym where I’m staying & thought ‘I have to take a #gay #selfie and say hi to the #humpday guys’ so, hi 👋

a selfie of guy wearing a winter coat with glasses, hat, and coat called in snow as a blizzard swirls behind

hello from this wet & sticky brooklyn blizzard here’s a #gay little #selfie for you

I wish there were a great dance remix of Natalia Lafourcade’s ‘Cocos en la playa’ ok goodnight

this intrigued me. i am a bit skeptical of its claims to “cultural omnipresence” in the age of the filter bubble, the echo chamber; is that kind of presence even possible anymore? i’m not so convinced. conceptually energetic, young, a great #gay read www.tank.tv/magazine/iss...

honestly tho the thing that struck me most about this profile was revealing that an actual full blown duke has acted as a significant patron of Goldsworthy’s for decades - which shifted some of the valences of his work to me from purpose to privilege in a subtle way…

“As soon as you put a petal or a flower in your mouth, the whole perception of it changes,” he explained, with undisguised glee. “It's bitter.
Is it going to kill me? You know? Until it goes in your mouth, it's pretty. When it goes in your mouth, it's 'Oh, shit!'I love that.”

… “For me, the landscape is not a place you go to for therapy and relaxation—it is to get challenged and have ideas, and to generate thoughts and feelings and emotions.”

… “Change is best understood by staying in the same place, and it takes a while before you really get to see and understand change.”

A Landscape Artist in Winter In rural Scotland, Andy Goldsworthy, the sculptor famed for his use of natural materials, contemplates his own decay.

Andy Goldsworthy has been a lot more interesting to me since I got obsessed with dry stone walling so I was excited to read this profile. He say a number of insightful things …
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

good look at a tactic that used AI to astroturf public comment to prevent implementation of sound clean air policies in socal - www.latimes.com/environment/...

Where Is Cinema?: An Interview With A.S. Hamrah | Defector As you may have heard, the twinned industries that produce art and criticism in this country are embattled. On every side, there is steady conglomeration, privatization, and the rapid uptake of labor-...

“The defining aspect of cinema is not just large-scale projection, not just seeing it in the dark with strangers. The defining aspect of the cinema is that you don't control the time at which it starts and stops.“ reading A. S. Hamrah makes me want to go to the movies

Daniel Lefferts: “Terms and Conditions” A short story by Daniel Lefferts: “Last summer my friend Andrew and I spent a few days in Fort Lauderdale.”

Daniel Lefferts with a great short story in the @yalereview.bsky.social serving up a dose of scathing gay horror — too real, too close !

yalereview.org/article/dani... #gay #fiction

The Knotweed Factor | Jennifer Kabat If we’ll never be able to undo the worst of our actions, can we can appreciate nature’s adaptations?

here are some reads I’ve enjoyed lately starting with Jennifer Kabat’s essay about knotweed in @thebaffler.com
thebaffler.com/outbursts/th... #nature #naturewriting #recommendation

a smiling gay guy with a mustache takes a selfie from the ground up also capturing nearly the entire underside of the cap of an amanita mushroom on a warm and sunny day

and as a little treat here is me as a happy #gayguy taking a selfie with an amanita in the warmer times. what do you see ? #gay #selfie #lol #🍄

a cartoonishly plump brown bolete springs from the ground with a two tiny additional fruitings including one popping out seemingly from underneath the large main subject

i mean, this was probably the most perfect bolete i have ever seen. what are some good resources for identifying american boletaceae? i would love to learn more about ways to identify boletaceae if anyone has good resources for that. #🍄 🍄‍🟫 #bolete #mushrooms

a flush of three plump grey-green colored russula sprouting from soil near elka park, new york.

going through old photos - a grey-green russula from a few seasons ago - i know enough now to know russula can be a tough identification and there are definitely many species growing in the catskills. #🍄 #mushrooms #russula

Veronika The Cow's Record Scratch | Defector Veronika was 4 years old when she picked up her first tool: a tree branch, found in her pasture in the town of Nötsch im Gailtal in the Austrian alps. Veronika lives with Witgar Wiegele, an organic fa...

chronicled the cow of the moment
defector.com/veronika-the...

Femmunist Intimations - Journal #159 McKenzie Wark describes four types of masculinity and how to overcome them.

up early after the party reading @mckenziewark.bsky.social

happy 2026 out there

How Gaza Broke the Art World • EQUATOR The former editor of Artforum, fired in the wake of 7 October, reckons with two years of division, fear and silence

great essay about #gaza and #art #nangoldin #berlin and the #artworld www.equator.org/articles/how...

Why Are Gays So Mean to Each Other Online? On the Gay Internet, everyone is a content creator. Some are Main Characters.

i love reading what John Lanchester writes about economics in @lrb.co.uk & when he talks about good sam / bad sam in ^^ that essay it was making me think of the nice-to-troll spectrum Paul McAdory talks about in this essay:

John Lanchester · King of Cannibal Island: Will the AI bubble burst? Nvidia shares are the purest bet you can make on the impact of AI. The leading firms are lending money to one another in...

enjoyed this combo review that sketches two quick multi-decade profiles of Jensen Huang at #nvidia and Sam Altman at #openai in @lrb.co.uk all about #ai #machinelearning #neuralnets #tech

The Substrate of Mystery – with Merlin Sheldrake How can we learn to build flexible ecological, social, or structural systems of exchange? In this conversation, acclaimed mycologist Merlin Sheldrake says a wild world of possibility opens when we beg...

this was good, i recommend listening to the audio, about #🍄 for anyone looking for an open-ended read about #ecology emergencemagazine.org/conversation...

Cruising for Normal | Eric Dean Wilson “Plainclothes” reinforces many of the tired and moralizing claims about cruising that queer artists and activists have worked hard to counter.

great essay about #cruising and #plainclothes

yes - thank you ! the pair i got on sale.

i love spring steel frames from mykita. they’re durable, super light, smart shapes. great fitting in-store, and great customer service. yes, they are $$$ (although ive gotten frames half off on sale). i’ve had three pairs over three decades. a gay stole my first pair while i was working an event.

ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.

Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R

Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.

“human thinking is largely independent of human language — and we have little reason to believe ever more sophisticated modeling of language will create a form of intelligence that meets or surpasses our own.[…] We use language to think, but that does not make language the same as thought.” #ai #llm

Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives.

i see mental images, non-linguistic thoughts. how about you?

AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures

watch where your recipes come from out there … thought in particular this observation was notable that "Because the content isn’t an exact copy, traditional takedown tools like DMCA aren’t straightforward, leaving creators with almost no remedy even when the imitation is obvious.” #ai #food

Literally zooming into a dark age somehow hastened by technology and innovation is weird to think about