A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying “ART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds “THEIR HUMANITY.”
Make Art (1/4)
It takes 3-5 business days and the soul of your first born child to cancel your cable subscription but the Epstein Class can pay the equivalent of less than a minute’s wages for the privilege of permanently poisoning us all.
i overall enjoy nyt a lot more but living in the dmv, all the local stuff was important to me. also, i found random articles here and there funny and charming. there was an article last week dunking on gamers who only play fifa and cod. i thought it was a riot
there are better, less self-centered takes but i started reading physical newspapers last year, and started adding wapo to it shortly afterwards, and i was just starting to feel like it wasn’t the runt of the litter
* clears throat * let him cook
New merch item just dropped
I love a good graph.
Lots of regular degular, never-done-an-activism folks have been activated in recent months and are working alongside a bunch of seasoned, die-hard, been-tired-for-ten-years-or-more organizers, and you don't know all of those stories bc most people are moving with a bit of discretion in these times.
starting to do research on a subject you know nothing about is like
me: "okay. first question: how do lawyers work?"
source: "um... well, what kind of lawyer are we talking about"
me: *writing down enthusiastically* there are types of lawyers
Add DRAMA to all of your writing, and the EM-DASH will FLOURISH! LLMs’ INSISTENCE on the APPEARANCE of OBJECTIVITY would NEVER ALLOW such FLAIR!
REJOICE! In your ABILITY—nay, your HUMANITY—to use ANY and ALL punctuation in a way LLMs could NEVER!!!
Set your WRITING STYLE free!
Image of two panels from Action Comics #1, the debut of Superman. Panel 1 shows a man running alongside a speeding train, with the text: “… RUN FASTER THAN A STREAMLINE TRAIN—“ Panel 2 shows a doctor holding a shirtless patient’s arm. The caption reads “… AND NOTHING LESS THAN A BURSTING SHELL COULD PENETRATE HIS SKIN!” The doctor says “What th’—? This is the sixth hypodermic needle I’ve broken on your skin!” And the patient responds “Try again, doc!”
Friends! Here—an ANNOUNCEMENT!
Since ChatGPT invaded, our beloved em-dash has become a grammatical PARIAH—mistrusted, misunderstood, and damn near cast out of polite society! But today, I have found her SALVATION!!!
The SHIBBOLETH we seek is COMIC BOOK WRITING!!!
the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
Regime dissident Don Lemon
crazy how you can just... do politics this way
a dish i’d normally prefer to have at home! or at least, at my mother’s house lol
i dont always feel super in tune with my culture but i did today when my friend and i went to a new restaurant and i realized he’s reading to see what’s good, while i’m reading to confirm what i know i want and they wouldn’t dare not have (patty, coco bread, ginger beer)
Mom wants to know if, should her reps (Suozzi, Schumer, Gillibrand) do anything stupid while she's on a cruise if I can call for her and say my mother is literally out of the country and cannot call but would still like to express her displeasure.
you can play the melody swung if you want, that’s fine!
if i wanna be slightly less of a pedant than i’ll allow that this mix of swung and straight is more accurately called “swung” because the mix of rhythms exacerbates the asymmetry of groove rather than leveling it out
will not accept the tune being called straight just because the melody is
the music pedantry hill i’ll die on is that Main Theme from Super Mario 64 (aka Bob-omb Battlefield) isn’t swung 16ths, and it’s not straight 16ths—exactly half of the instruments are one or the other (drums, bass; horns, bob-omb thing; guitar never plays 16ths)
🚨 public musicology alert 🚨
People who think we should wait until we win everything think we should win forever. Celebrate interim victories, partial victories, imperfect victories, small victories, because celebrating strengthens the resolve to keep on, reminds us of our power, and also is fun.
Our opponent has a lot of money and power at its disposal, it's easy to feel hopeless.
Hopeless people don't fight.
Victories, even small ones, show that the enemy is not invulnerable.
They show that we SHOULD fight, because we CAN win.
i will forever die on the hill that music programs should be modeled after language arts!! or at least, such curricula should be way more common, understood, and valued. Thank you for saying this
Milwaukee! This Wednesday, January 28th, I’ll be on the panel Making Zines, Making Change: A Conversation about Collaborating, Publishing, Selling, and Archiving DIY Art, with scholar-teacher Jason Luther, head of the Factsheet Five Archive Project and Kirsten Leenaars, Liz Mason and Milo Miller. The panel is at 5 PM at the Haggerty Museum at Marquette University. This panel is the first (of three) opening events for Artifact, the 8th annual Writing Innovation Symposium. This event is inspired by the symposium as well as the Spring ‘26 Haggerty Museum of Art exhibitions Declaration of _____ and Let the Real World In. Making Zines, Making Change is made possible by the Haggerty Museum of Art and Marquette English/FAME as well as the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Lemonis Center for Student Success along with long-time WIS partners Raynor Library and Macmillan Learning. While in Milwaukee I'll be dropping off a big restock to Lion's Tooth so go there after the event to find lots of publications from Half Letter Press, Temporary Services, and Public Collectors.
Milwaukee! This Wednesday, January 28th, at 5PM, I’ll be on the panel "Making Zines, Making Change: A Conversation about Collaborating, Publishing, Selling, and Archiving DIY Art." Lots more info in the Alt text. Hope to see you!
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Who cares about kids when adult collectors are willing to pay top dollar? www.wired.com/story/legos-...
beautiful women named severe weather alert keep messaging me
I spent the last year writing a book about the ridiculous demands of what it means to be masculine. But a guy who takes care of people who served our country, asks a woman “are you ok?” When she is in distress and looks out for his vulnerable neighbors seems like a pretty good role model for a man.