If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars," "Star Trek," "Doctor Who," or "Transformers."

For those who live elsewhere, this is the heart of downtown #LosAngeles. My friends are here. My union is here (sup @wgawest.bsky.social). My teenager is here. People are passing out pastries & singing & praying. All we want is for our neighbors not to be kidnapped off the streets.

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

It's hard to adequately describe how scary it is to watch mainstream political journalists barely push back against a sitting U.S. president accepting a $400M plane from a foreign government that would literally be designated as an emergency command-and-control center during a nuclear war.

“Many still consider”— bullshit!! It is a slur! This is not a real argument you have to give both sides to!

“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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Today's unsolicited music recommendation is "Stake a Claim" by dan le sac vs. Scroobius Pip
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYlV...

Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.

Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name.

It is blatantly unconstitutional.

People say Microsoft Excel is unintuitive, but I disagree. Excel does what I expect at least 4-Mar of the time.

Tonight's unsolicited music recommendation is Kishi Bashi's Kantos. I lost track of his work after Lighght, and that was clearly a mistake. I am going to bathe in "Chiba Funk" and "Colorful State" for a few more days, and then catch up on the decade I missed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt5j...

Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

It's been a couple of weeks, and I'm still turning over in my mind how clipping's Splendor & Misery fits in (or doesn't) with Chris Campbell's concept of Afro-Cosmicism. ICFA is beautiful magic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpXi...