As you can see, Cloud Dancer is the color of a MacBook charger in its waning days of service. The color of bad news delivered with bureaucratic indifference. The color of congressional insider trading. The color of a person’s thoughts while ignoring war. 💯 #pantone
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'Cloud Dancer': A Measured Response
Regarding Pantone's decision, and so on, and so forth
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December 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
As you can see, Cloud Dancer is the color of a MacBook charger in its waning days of service. The color of bad news delivered with bureaucratic indifference. The color of congressional insider trading. The color of a person’s thoughts while ignoring war. 💯 #pantone
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Imagine you gotta be really dedicated to the white community to want to meet with the third paragraph people
you rarely encounter a perfect intro..........but when you do
August 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Imagine you gotta be really dedicated to the white community to want to meet with the third paragraph people
Have been a Grady Hendrix fan for a long while and this book is no exception. It is a departure from the gripping horror of his other books because its purpose is to tell a story we never read - of the hidden homes for pregnant teen girls before Roe v. Wade. With a bit of magic thrown in.
August 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Have been a Grady Hendrix fan for a long while and this book is no exception. It is a departure from the gripping horror of his other books because its purpose is to tell a story we never read - of the hidden homes for pregnant teen girls before Roe v. Wade. With a bit of magic thrown in.
I feel both susceptible to this need for validation and endlessly exhausted by it, particularly in the world of work. Having to encourage people to solve problems that are theirs to solve as regular course of work and not as an over and above job function that will earn them praise is a drain.
Our Culture is Addicted to Validation
and the whole internet is Purdue Pharma
open.substack.com
August 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I feel both susceptible to this need for validation and endlessly exhausted by it, particularly in the world of work. Having to encourage people to solve problems that are theirs to solve as regular course of work and not as an over and above job function that will earn them praise is a drain.
I can't stop thinking about this book for a lot of reasons but even the epigraph is seared into me.
"The real hell of life is everyone has their reasons." - Jean Renoir
It's about the power of a life giving friendship and how we hurt the people we love to stay who we believe ourselves to be.
"The real hell of life is everyone has their reasons." - Jean Renoir
It's about the power of a life giving friendship and how we hurt the people we love to stay who we believe ourselves to be.
July 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I can't stop thinking about this book for a lot of reasons but even the epigraph is seared into me.
"The real hell of life is everyone has their reasons." - Jean Renoir
It's about the power of a life giving friendship and how we hurt the people we love to stay who we believe ourselves to be.
"The real hell of life is everyone has their reasons." - Jean Renoir
It's about the power of a life giving friendship and how we hurt the people we love to stay who we believe ourselves to be.
A fast-paced and fashionable heist that errs just enough towards dystopia that it's deceptively eerie. A Very Good Book ™️.
The Payback is out today, and you can buy it wherever books are sold. It comes highly recommended by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, The Boston Globe, Vanity Fair, the LA Times, the NYT, and dozens of people who hang out on this very website.
July 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
A fast-paced and fashionable heist that errs just enough towards dystopia that it's deceptively eerie. A Very Good Book ™️.
"Gone are the old colonial fig leaves of spreading democracy or God’s word – when Trump covetously scans the globe, he is stockpiling for civilizational collapse."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
"Gone are the old colonial fig leaves of spreading democracy or God’s word – when Trump covetously scans the globe, he is stockpiling for civilizational collapse."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
"This does not mean that we are in a hopeless situation. It does, however, mean that we must adjust our interpretation of the world, or be left behind. We must see things not for what we wish they were, or for what they used to be, but for what they are."
Political leaders drowning in delusion.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/seeing-thi...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/seeing-thi...
Seeing Things For What They Are
And not for what they used to be.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
March 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"This does not mean that we are in a hopeless situation. It does, however, mean that we must adjust our interpretation of the world, or be left behind. We must see things not for what we wish they were, or for what they used to be, but for what they are."
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“For all of the Chicken Littles out there, the economy in the congestion zone has been humming.”
🛍️ Retail sales south of 60th Street have been $900 million higher in January compared to last year.
🍔 Restaurant reservations are up 7% year over year.
nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/02/27/m...
🛍️ Retail sales south of 60th Street have been $900 million higher in January compared to last year.
🍔 Restaurant reservations are up 7% year over year.
nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/02/27/m...
Memo to the President: Manhattan Economy Improving, Thanks to Congestion Pricing - Streetsblog New York City
Lower Manhattan's economy has gotten an almost billion-dollar boost in just the first month of congestion pricing's existence, the MTA said on Wednesday.
nyc.streetsblog.org
February 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
“For all of the Chicken Littles out there, the economy in the congestion zone has been humming.”
🛍️ Retail sales south of 60th Street have been $900 million higher in January compared to last year.
🍔 Restaurant reservations are up 7% year over year.
nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/02/27/m...
🛍️ Retail sales south of 60th Street have been $900 million higher in January compared to last year.
🍔 Restaurant reservations are up 7% year over year.
nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/02/27/m...
"...if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable, & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass. I am not deceived. It is the hardest world to make real."
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas 🌥
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas 🌥
February 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"...if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable, & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass. I am not deceived. It is the hardest world to make real."
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas 🌥
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas 🌥
"I do not, in the end, fight fascists because I will win. I fight fascists because they are fascists."
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chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-cost-o...
Chris Hedges: The Cost of Resistance
This video is a recording of a talk given by Chris Hedges at the Kairos Club London on September 11, 2024.
chrishedges.substack.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
"I do not, in the end, fight fascists because I will win. I fight fascists because they are fascists."
chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-cost-o...
chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-cost-o...
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Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, & @astra.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on resisting the shock & awe politics of the far right & their billionaire enthusiasts
Monday, February 17 at 5:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Monday, February 17 at 5:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
February 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, & @astra.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on resisting the shock & awe politics of the far right & their billionaire enthusiasts
Monday, February 17 at 5:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Monday, February 17 at 5:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
#TomRobbins has died so here's every quote in Still Life with Woodpecker that, no hyperbole here at all, changed my life.
February 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
#TomRobbins has died so here's every quote in Still Life with Woodpecker that, no hyperbole here at all, changed my life.
Great campaign from the Association of Ontario Municipalities to connect not with a political party but with the pain points we hear most about in the news, in Facebook neighbourhood groups, and at municipal councils. www.voteonqualityoflife.ca
Billions of property tax dollars are diverted each year to pay for provincial programs, driving up your tax bill.
Billions of property tax dollars are diverted each year to pay for provincial programs, driving up your tax bill.
www.voteonqualityoflife.ca
February 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Great campaign from the Association of Ontario Municipalities to connect not with a political party but with the pain points we hear most about in the news, in Facebook neighbourhood groups, and at municipal councils. www.voteonqualityoflife.ca
New work on the walls by London, Ontario artist Jared Hendricks-Polak
February 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
New work on the walls by London, Ontario artist Jared Hendricks-Polak
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Daily Beast coming out swinging like this means something beautiful and real for this country's independent media.
www.thedailybeast.com/yes-its-a-co...
www.thedailybeast.com/yes-its-a-co...
Yes, It’s a Coup and Yes, It’s Targeting You
January 6 was nothing compared to the current mob of thugs intent on tearing apart our country’s very system of government.
www.thedailybeast.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Daily Beast coming out swinging like this means something beautiful and real for this country's independent media.
www.thedailybeast.com/yes-its-a-co...
www.thedailybeast.com/yes-its-a-co...
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When Putin invaded Ukraine I knew it would give Trump ideas about Canada. I don't think he's joking. I think this is how his brain works: What is the point of having more weapons and money than everyone else if you don't use them to get even more?
It's really about claiming the right to assert raw power at every single level: economically, militarily and inside the family. It's mass social engineering.
This brings us to the concept of chosenness, which is at the dead centre of this admin -from the tech oligarchs to the white nationalists.
This brings us to the concept of chosenness, which is at the dead centre of this admin -from the tech oligarchs to the white nationalists.
February 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
When Putin invaded Ukraine I knew it would give Trump ideas about Canada. I don't think he's joking. I think this is how his brain works: What is the point of having more weapons and money than everyone else if you don't use them to get even more?
The Canadian flag is about to go through a promising rebrand after the nonsense with the Freedom Convoy but it will be much harder to tell the difference from the normies and the unhinged again.
February 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The Canadian flag is about to go through a promising rebrand after the nonsense with the Freedom Convoy but it will be much harder to tell the difference from the normies and the unhinged again.
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are billionaires incapable of being cool or are cool people incapable of being billionaires ?
January 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
are billionaires incapable of being cool or are cool people incapable of being billionaires ?
"The sweet promise of abundance has long been the thing that soothed the public’s disgust with inequality."
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open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
Uninsurable Futures
Adapting to a constrained American dream.
open.substack.com
January 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
"The sweet promise of abundance has long been the thing that soothed the public’s disgust with inequality."
open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
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i wrote about this
www.patreon.com/posts/120399...
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January 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
i wrote about this
www.patreon.com/posts/120399...
www.patreon.com/posts/120399...
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i love how insane everyone is becomeing
January 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
i love how insane everyone is becomeing
#Reading Wellness by Nathan Hill - whose last book I haven't ever really stopped thinking about and can tell already this one will be the same
January 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
#Reading Wellness by Nathan Hill - whose last book I haven't ever really stopped thinking about and can tell already this one will be the same