Zack Furness
@punkademic.bsky.social
Professor | Noisemaker | Half-Steeler | Dad | Luddite | Books - One Less Car: Bicycling & the Politics of Automobility, Punkademics, The NFL: Critical & Cultural Perspectives | Views are mine alone | Pittsburgh, PA | https://linktr.ee/punkademic
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Zack Furness
@punkademic.bsky.social
· Nov 12
World Punk Atlas: A Map of DIY Punk Spaces - Google My Maps
Hey punks! This is a collective DIY project aimed at documenting past and present venues that host(ed) punk and hardcore shows around the world. If you're interested, please contribute as much info as...
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I started this DIY World Punk Atlas a while ago & have been happy to see it grow. Please feel free to contribute and share it with other folks who might be interested! Simple instructions for contributors are linked in my first reply below. www.google.com/mymaps/viewe...
Just beyond fucking parody
Warner: "Nothing would lead to the absolute destruction of NATO more than US aggressive action against a longtime ally like Denmark"
Schumer: "I asked for assurances that they were not planning operations in other countries like Colombia and Cuba, and I was very very disappointed in their answer"
Schumer: "I asked for assurances that they were not planning operations in other countries like Colombia and Cuba, and I was very very disappointed in their answer"
January 6, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Just beyond fucking parody
Found this in a drawer from a hundred years ago. Still works and still smells as strong as they always did (if you know you know)
January 6, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Found this in a drawer from a hundred years ago. Still works and still smells as strong as they always did (if you know you know)
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I’m afraid this is real and on the White House’s website www.whitehouse.gov/j6/
January 6, 2026 at 6:05 PM
I’m afraid this is real and on the White House’s website www.whitehouse.gov/j6/
Maybe it was a bad idea to let the world‘s biggest conman nazi have personal control over tens of thousands of satellites
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine accuses Elon Musk’s Starlink of cutting internet access in Uganda days before Jan. 15 elections, saying the shutdown helps President Museveni suppress dissent and free expression.
January 6, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Maybe it was a bad idea to let the world‘s biggest conman nazi have personal control over tens of thousands of satellites
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the ideology of optimization an underrated candidate for most destructive belief system of the 21st century
Realizing very quickly that the world I want to inhabit, versus the world as it is now crumbling, can be neatly divided between those seeking the beauty, mystery, pain, sexiness, humor, tragedy, surprises, and tangled messes of the human experience…and freaks seeking to “optimize” something or other
Betteridge’s Law applies, obviously, but (unfortunately) buried in the piece is how eugenics is foundational to these kinds of projects.
January 6, 2026 at 6:00 PM
the ideology of optimization an underrated candidate for most destructive belief system of the 21st century
I did a bunch of research about this for a book I wrote years ago and am excited to hear this episode
NEW EPISODE: "The Creation of America's Car Culture, Part 2." We examine the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 through the lens of two neighborhoods in New Orleans and Syracuse that were destroyed in the name of progress and the national defense.
LISTEN: podcasts.apple.com/lu/podcast/t...
LISTEN: podcasts.apple.com/lu/podcast/t...
January 6, 2026 at 5:42 PM
I did a bunch of research about this for a book I wrote years ago and am excited to hear this episode
Read these on vacation
January 6, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Read these on vacation
Realizing very quickly that the world I want to inhabit, versus the world as it is now crumbling, can be neatly divided between those seeking the beauty, mystery, pain, sexiness, humor, tragedy, surprises, and tangled messes of the human experience…and freaks seeking to “optimize” something or other
Betteridge’s Law applies, obviously, but (unfortunately) buried in the piece is how eugenics is foundational to these kinds of projects.
Can You Optimize Love?
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Realizing very quickly that the world I want to inhabit, versus the world as it is now crumbling, can be neatly divided between those seeking the beauty, mystery, pain, sexiness, humor, tragedy, surprises, and tangled messes of the human experience…and freaks seeking to “optimize” something or other
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Garbage eugenics draped in our obsession with finding “love” which we can only ever truly find and operationalize by accepting ourselves and each other as we are and collectively caring for another rather than whatever this nonsense is. Another day, another technofascist fantasy.
Betteridge’s Law applies, obviously, but (unfortunately) buried in the piece is how eugenics is foundational to these kinds of projects.
Can You Optimize Love?
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Garbage eugenics draped in our obsession with finding “love” which we can only ever truly find and operationalize by accepting ourselves and each other as we are and collectively caring for another rather than whatever this nonsense is. Another day, another technofascist fantasy.
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Interviewer: Ms. Rowling, is there a white Southerner in Harry Potter?
Rowling: Yes actually! And his name is
Rowling: Yes actually! And his name is
January 6, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Interviewer: Ms. Rowling, is there a white Southerner in Harry Potter?
Rowling: Yes actually! And his name is
Rowling: Yes actually! And his name is
PSA: if you give your dogs flea/tick meds and heartworm medication, you can order them without a prescription in Australia and the shipping plus stupid new US tariff is still less than half of what I pay for them anywhere here.
Pets Megastore
Pets meds and supplies...
www.pets-megastore.com.au
January 6, 2026 at 4:42 PM
PSA: if you give your dogs flea/tick meds and heartworm medication, you can order them without a prescription in Australia and the shipping plus stupid new US tariff is still less than half of what I pay for them anywhere here.
In the off chance you’ve never heard this song you should stop what you’re doing right now and listen
The Wailers - Chances Are
YouTube video by el Giron
youtube.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
In the off chance you’ve never heard this song you should stop what you’re doing right now and listen
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God level shit. techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/h...
Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference | TechCrunch
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacist websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
techcrunch.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:45 AM
God level shit. techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/h...
👍🏼
Trump in a single gaggle on Air Force One just threatened:
-- a second strike against Venezuela
-- Cuba
-- Mexico
-- Colombia
-- Iran
-- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)
-- a second strike against Venezuela
-- Cuba
-- Mexico
-- Colombia
-- Iran
-- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)
January 5, 2026 at 2:13 AM
👍🏼
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This brainrot is more responsible for the rise of authoritarianism in the US than any of the wokeness it will not shut up about
January 2, 2026 at 3:01 PM
This brainrot is more responsible for the rise of authoritarianism in the US than any of the wokeness it will not shut up about
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This represents the most radical anti-trans legislation ever passed by a chamber of Congress. Now it’s time for you and everyone you know to contact your Senators to demand opposition. Here is a letter with @resist.bot
January 2, 2026 at 8:48 PM
This represents the most radical anti-trans legislation ever passed by a chamber of Congress. Now it’s time for you and everyone you know to contact your Senators to demand opposition. Here is a letter with @resist.bot
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First in @semafor.com: NYT, WaPo learned of the secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin but held off publishing what they had at the administration's request to avoid endangering US troops www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
News organizations held off on reporting Venezuela raid
The American news organizations held their stories over concerns about endangering US troops.
www.semafor.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:03 AM
First in @semafor.com: NYT, WaPo learned of the secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin but held off publishing what they had at the administration's request to avoid endangering US troops www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
Bugonia was…decidedly not the dark comedy the trailer hinted at lol
January 4, 2026 at 3:28 AM
Bugonia was…decidedly not the dark comedy the trailer hinted at lol
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"I'm looking at 2026 as the year that dictators fall.”
Immediately references Mussolini.
Immediately references Mussolini.
Rep. Cory Mills: "I'm looking at 2026 as the year that dictators fall. This is the rise of the lion"
January 3, 2026 at 8:36 PM
"I'm looking at 2026 as the year that dictators fall.”
Immediately references Mussolini.
Immediately references Mussolini.
Every tech company needs to be seized and nationalized
January 3, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Every tech company needs to be seized and nationalized
Read the Parable of the Sower graphic novel because I apparently needed to spend some of my sunny vacation time activating the lowkey existential dread about The Collapse that I’m perpetually tamping down inside me. Should’ve reread Dawn instead.
January 3, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Read the Parable of the Sower graphic novel because I apparently needed to spend some of my sunny vacation time activating the lowkey existential dread about The Collapse that I’m perpetually tamping down inside me. Should’ve reread Dawn instead.
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There was a leak but not to the media
January 3, 2026 at 7:35 AM
There was a leak but not to the media
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The White House posting like an NFL wide receiver during contentious contract negotiations
January 2, 2026 at 8:00 PM
The White House posting like an NFL wide receiver during contentious contract negotiations
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As we all said, international law, such as it was, no longer exists. The United States, following Israel’s precedent, considers itself to have the explicit authority to blatantly violate sovereignty anywhere in the world and abduct even leaders of other states.
There are no guardrails whatsoever.
There are no guardrails whatsoever.
January 3, 2026 at 1:43 PM
As we all said, international law, such as it was, no longer exists. The United States, following Israel’s precedent, considers itself to have the explicit authority to blatantly violate sovereignty anywhere in the world and abduct even leaders of other states.
There are no guardrails whatsoever.
There are no guardrails whatsoever.
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the longer you wait the harder it will be
January 3, 2026 at 1:12 PM
the longer you wait the harder it will be