I was in Long Island City today, and spotted this lovely piece. 🎨

I have my blog archive arranged by month, selectable by year, via Manton’s archive months plugin. Works great so far! The page loads faster, and it’s so much easier to explore older posts.

Mickey 17, 2025 - ★★★★

You’re right @dreya, this movie is super cool.

Finished reading: The secret rules of the terminal by Julia Evans 📚

I’ve been using the terminal almost every day for around fifteen years. I’m curious and I read about CLI things. I learned a lot reading this zine. Stellar work as always.

It’s Julia Evans new zine day. 🎉💽

When Moderation Becomes Appeasement - by Toby Buckle

For almost two decades, our politicians have listened to anti-immigrant voices and prioritized their concerns—arguably over all others. To placate the anti-immigrant right, our leaders have stalled our economy, mangled our constitution, and diminished our standing in the world. And rather than recede in satisfaction, those voices have grown louder and angrier than ever. 🇺🇸

Had a great time playing A Night of Suite-Talk last night in Brooklyn with the Cat’s Cradle Ensemble. SuiteTooth hosted an awesome show. Thanks to them and Daddy Needs a Win, who also performed! 🎭

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Liv Veazey writes a must-read expose on the banality of ICE evil for Hellgate.

Two agents, the woman who had already achieved 3,000 steps and a man in a black gaiter, began looking at articles written about the arrests in immigration court on the man’s phone. “There we are!” the man said, pointing to photographs of them. “Look, we’re famous! We’re rock stars. This is everywhere across the country.” They both laughed, then the woman leaned her head on the man’s shoulder.

What ICE Agents Talk About When They Think Nobody Is Listening 🇺🇸

I’ve been out in the Twin Cities cycling with my dad and uncle. They’ve got great bike infrastructure, and I’ve gotten to take some scenic rides with lots of environmental diversity. Wish every US city were like this! 🚲

Flock, a surveillance system ostensibly for traffic enforcement, is in reality a back door goldmine for authoritarians, ICE, and criminalizing women.

From the EFF, with original reporting by 404 Media.

Flock’s insistence that what’s happening with abortion criminalization and immigration enforcement has nothing to do with them—that these are just red-state problems or the fault of rogue officers—is concerning. Flock designed the network that is being used, and the public should hold them accountable for failing to build in protections from abuse that cannot be easily circumvented.

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Finished reading: The History of Sketch Comedy by Keegan-Michael Key 📚

Stumbled across the obscure proto-metal band Sir Lord Baltimore in the Dopes to Infinity Wikipedia entry. Good stuff! I especially liked their first album. Loud Wire wrote a piece on their interesting story.

Since their inception, Sir Lord Baltimore were told they were five or 10 years ahead of their time. That’s great for establishing a legacy, but terrible for paying bills.

🎵 🤘

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Ivy goals.

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The unique charms of rusted metal in the heat.

Four music albums are displayed, including one vinyl titled Rick Wakeman The Journey to the Centre of the Earth and three CDs: Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, Meat Puppets: Too High to Die, and Monster Magnet: Dope’s to Infinity.

Just received these in the mail. Keeping my record collection unhinged. 🎵

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Had a great time playing Bird and Friend’s improv show last night with The Cat’s Cradle Ensemble at Otto’s Shrunken Head. If you don’t know what any of that means, forgive the absolute word salad. 🎭

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This glum, hatted stick figure giving a bizarre finger gun while taking an unergenomic shit on the street? Relate.

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This graffiti looks like what I always imagined the author of The Enchanted Broccoli Forrest looks like.

This tooth face really speaks to me in a way I can’t articulate.

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A mashup animal for our times.

Manhattan at night from the RFK bridge, two ways.

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The Hellgate bridge at night, taken from the RFK bridge a few nights ago.

Had a great time playing Brooklyn Comedy Collective’s Fun and Dumb Improv Fest last night. Ryan had to run to another show before we took our photo but please rest assured he was there too. 🎭

Five people smiling and posing in front of a fun and dumb branded background.

I don’t say it enough, but fuck the New York Times. 🇺🇸

There’s two guys sitting outside a pizza place eating a whole watermelon. This is how it should be.