Amazon have universal power supplies with variable voltage, polarity and barrel tips. Handy for when you’ve lost or broken a power supply

War ravaged Portland.

Velvet art museum, of course. Sadly now shuttered

Link is feeling empirical

It’s the billionaire-class flavour of the “risk-aversion” model, where periods of prosperity and stability ironically fuel a turn toward ideologically conservative/reactionary positions - rooted less in survival anxiety & more in boredom, identity threats, and perceived/invented external dangers.

I gave up trying to reform it. We've gotta build something bigger and better. The propaganda, the copaganda, the immigrant panic is too thoroughly embedded in institutional journalism. It's part of why it's dying. I stopped mourning this and started seeing opportunity. We can build something better.

Five favourite black and white movies:

La Haine
Ice Cold in Alex
A Bout de Souffle
Night of the Hunter
Sweet Smell of Success