leo
@leoxcrowley.bsky.social
spooky stuff. cycling. photos. public art. staring into the maw of the beast and at other stuff too.
i may not be a billionaire, but i'm also not in a group chat with my bros comparing notes on sex crimes.
so i got two things going for me.
so i got two things going for me.
November 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
i may not be a billionaire, but i'm also not in a group chat with my bros comparing notes on sex crimes.
so i got two things going for me.
so i got two things going for me.
if you're old, 8:45pm is too late for coffee. if you're young, it's prob ok, but you should be out at bar drinking alcohol instead.
November 14, 2025 at 1:46 AM
if you're old, 8:45pm is too late for coffee. if you're young, it's prob ok, but you should be out at bar drinking alcohol instead.
you done good, @lukeoneil47.bsky.social.
November 9, 2025 at 4:27 AM
you done good, @lukeoneil47.bsky.social.
what time do trick or treaters stop coming to the door? over here trying to simultaneously ensure i have enough candy to make it through and no candy left over like i'm playing some survival type video game. 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 11:17 PM
what time do trick or treaters stop coming to the door? over here trying to simultaneously ensure i have enough candy to make it through and no candy left over like i'm playing some survival type video game. 🎃
i accidentally bought the roasted garlic flavored Triscuits. what a life.
October 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
i accidentally bought the roasted garlic flavored Triscuits. what a life.
2 posts on slate.com today:
He's the One Conservative That Liberals Love — claiming "staunch liberals" love Ross Douthat.
The Thing That Struck Me the Most About the Ezra Klein–Ta-Nehisi Coates Conversation — arguing the backlash against Klein "highlights a big problem for the Democrats."
🤔
He's the One Conservative That Liberals Love — claiming "staunch liberals" love Ross Douthat.
The Thing That Struck Me the Most About the Ezra Klein–Ta-Nehisi Coates Conversation — arguing the backlash against Klein "highlights a big problem for the Democrats."
🤔
October 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
2 posts on slate.com today:
He's the One Conservative That Liberals Love — claiming "staunch liberals" love Ross Douthat.
The Thing That Struck Me the Most About the Ezra Klein–Ta-Nehisi Coates Conversation — arguing the backlash against Klein "highlights a big problem for the Democrats."
🤔
He's the One Conservative That Liberals Love — claiming "staunch liberals" love Ross Douthat.
The Thing That Struck Me the Most About the Ezra Klein–Ta-Nehisi Coates Conversation — arguing the backlash against Klein "highlights a big problem for the Democrats."
🤔
flowers still gonna bloom.
September 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
flowers still gonna bloom.
my neighbor arriving home in his giant ass tricked out truck after picking up his daughter from softball.
September 2, 2025 at 12:03 AM
my neighbor arriving home in his giant ass tricked out truck after picking up his daughter from softball.
“For English settlers, this was…the end of their journey…Yet it was also a birth place for them, a ‘new’ England, a new “Israel’ that would provide ground in which to plant their fields and raise their sons. The problem…is that another people were already planting here…”
same story over & over.
same story over & over.
August 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
“For English settlers, this was…the end of their journey…Yet it was also a birth place for them, a ‘new’ England, a new “Israel’ that would provide ground in which to plant their fields and raise their sons. The problem…is that another people were already planting here…”
same story over & over.
same story over & over.
i'm sick of all these new-fangled e-transit devices. so many different kinds. it's like a Dr. Seuss book out there with everyone zipping about on their whosemabobs and gyromajigs. stick with the classics - bike, skateboard, feet.
August 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
i'm sick of all these new-fangled e-transit devices. so many different kinds. it's like a Dr. Seuss book out there with everyone zipping about on their whosemabobs and gyromajigs. stick with the classics - bike, skateboard, feet.
guy looks like a racist nana who just wants to drink her cold coffee and eat her fishamijig sandwich in peace.
August 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
guy looks like a racist nana who just wants to drink her cold coffee and eat her fishamijig sandwich in peace.
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pretty much everyone understands that a very wealthy person or corporation can subvert democracy by purchasing a politician or even a whole party, fewer people seem ready to accept that if they can do that, then they can just buy the opposition, too
"Invariant, the highest-paid lobbying firm for both Elon Musk’s SpaceX and the Peter Thiel co-founded Palantir, has now bundled nearly $4 million to the [Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee] since the beginning of the year."
readsludge.com/2025/03/20/d...
readsludge.com/2025/03/20/d...
Dems Double Down on Fundraising From SpaceX and Palantir Lobbyists
Senate Democrats have joined their House counterparts in fundraising from the top lobbying firm for the Trump and Musk-tied companies.
readsludge.com
August 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
pretty much everyone understands that a very wealthy person or corporation can subvert democracy by purchasing a politician or even a whole party, fewer people seem ready to accept that if they can do that, then they can just buy the opposition, too
“…and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.” —John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
August 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“…and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.” —John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek invests $500 million in AI military drone technology
“I’m sure people will criticize it and that’s OK. Personally, I’m not concerned about it," Ek said
Finally made the move to Tidal. One less shitty tech co in my life.
“I’m sure people will criticize it and that’s OK. Personally, I’m not concerned about it," Ek said
Finally made the move to Tidal. One less shitty tech co in my life.
August 14, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek invests $500 million in AI military drone technology
“I’m sure people will criticize it and that’s OK. Personally, I’m not concerned about it," Ek said
Finally made the move to Tidal. One less shitty tech co in my life.
“I’m sure people will criticize it and that’s OK. Personally, I’m not concerned about it," Ek said
Finally made the move to Tidal. One less shitty tech co in my life.
“…from the first letter to the last, nothing has been willed, written, or composed for the sake of a book, yet here is a book, tough and sure, both a weapon of liberation and a love poem. In this case I see no miracle except the miracle of truth itself, the naked truth revealed.” —Jean Genet
August 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
“…from the first letter to the last, nothing has been willed, written, or composed for the sake of a book, yet here is a book, tough and sure, both a weapon of liberation and a love poem. In this case I see no miracle except the miracle of truth itself, the naked truth revealed.” —Jean Genet
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To say both parties are the same is silly. But to say both parties are motivated by the same underlying ideology is a fact. They are both primarily concerned with "order" and the maintenance of empire. The rest is window dressing, which is very important to us but always second order for them.
August 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
To say both parties are the same is silly. But to say both parties are motivated by the same underlying ideology is a fact. They are both primarily concerned with "order" and the maintenance of empire. The rest is window dressing, which is very important to us but always second order for them.
bats. flowers. august. summers past.
August 10, 2025 at 3:28 AM
bats. flowers. august. summers past.
the bone white churches
steeped in old sin &
boarded up houses
lining the streets of
this haunted nation
are evils enough,
but it’s all the goddamn flags
littering the landscape
that really chap my ass.
steeped in old sin &
boarded up houses
lining the streets of
this haunted nation
are evils enough,
but it’s all the goddamn flags
littering the landscape
that really chap my ass.
August 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
the bone white churches
steeped in old sin &
boarded up houses
lining the streets of
this haunted nation
are evils enough,
but it’s all the goddamn flags
littering the landscape
that really chap my ass.
steeped in old sin &
boarded up houses
lining the streets of
this haunted nation
are evils enough,
but it’s all the goddamn flags
littering the landscape
that really chap my ass.
jalpeño & pineapple hummus is beyond excellent. zero notes.
July 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
jalpeño & pineapple hummus is beyond excellent. zero notes.
“If we understand facism only as a question of politics and politicians, we will forget that it did not magically disappear after the defeat of the European fascist regimes in the Second World War…but continued in the margins of the national democratic societies, in prisons, in ghettoes…”
July 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“If we understand facism only as a question of politics and politicians, we will forget that it did not magically disappear after the defeat of the European fascist regimes in the Second World War…but continued in the margins of the national democratic societies, in prisons, in ghettoes…”
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adding avocados to my life has been a real game changer. 🥑
July 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
adding avocados to my life has been a real game changer. 🥑
been reading a steady diet of philosophy, anti-capitalism political theory, spirituality guides, and poetry. just searching for a reason why it all has to be like this.
July 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
been reading a steady diet of philosophy, anti-capitalism political theory, spirituality guides, and poetry. just searching for a reason why it all has to be like this.
summer flowers, found love
July 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
summer flowers, found love