blank. like yr depth reflection
I am seeing this for the first time--I was kinda busy in 2020- and I am struck anew by 1. how much we have always known and 2. how much press coverage and depth critique have suffered across the years of this decade
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/share/20a9885c-67ee-4f99-8751-db4940e2fb41
I got to see Sons of Detroit yesterday on the last night of True/False documentary film festival, and it was SO GOOD. No word on release, but if you care about Detroit, this is a great one.
I'm just so scared for all of our kids
by which I mean theirs
and yours
and mine
"Don't get me wrong; I still think it's an anti-pedestrian hellscape. But they are doing a good job with solar."
--teen1
We interrupt this Missouri content for a week of We Don't Understand Phoenix content 😅
As my mutuals know, I wasn't on the Doctorow bandwagon to start with.
That said.
If your tolerance for being in the orbit of another human and their thinking goes to zero the minute they're wrong about one thing, what you were engaged in probably wasn't learning, but idolatry.
People are complex. Sometimes unpredictable. Strangers in some ways, always, even if you're intimate. And learning, always, and capable of choice and change.
What is Cory trustworthy for, right now?
Trust him for that. 👍🏻🤷🏼♀️
i have just learned that the author of the world's longest palindrome (Georges Perec) wrote a love letter to place called Species of Spaces and i must read it immediately
I keep almost saying 'merci' in Mexican joints in the US, and it's wack because not only is this culturally wrong, it is a language I absolutely DO NOT SPEAK being brain-prioritized above two others that I do 😂😭
why are we being governed by an aged man with the mind and temperament of a three year old
I just called Terry Precision Cycling to say congrats and thanks (plaintiffs in today's S Ct case); they sadly aren't planning a responsive merchandising campaign re: having just been called [checks notes] sleaze-bags by the sitting president, but they ARE really hoping to finally be able to sell women's precision bike gear again and they welcome supportive orders. 😊
This is actually a good article about movement organizing that happens to have been paired with an irresponsibly stupid headline
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/20/whistles-trump-ice-protests
I cannot find a pen **anywhere in my dwelling space** and while in 2026 this doesn't incapacitate in any key way, it does leave me sorely vexed 😟
Podcasts must just *really* not work for my brain/body. Even when it's something I definitely want to have listened to. This morning I made it a couple of minutes into one that I have in my open tabs, paused it to make a note about Ella Baker and "spadework," ... and then apparently happily continued washing dishes in silence and that was that. 😂
lol I just accidentally learned how to hot key collapsible section headers for my daily note in Obsidian and now I shall be unstoppable
in clearly denoted sections
this is the coolest thing I've read in awhile. grab some tea and settle in.
I really steeled myself to read it, but I'm grateful for AAG's statement of conscience and priorities today. It is far from perfect- it's a statement committed to a principled line on institutional alignment, not a vision for using the institution to build the world we dream about. I am a person willing to give two thumbs up to the former, while allocating my attention and resources almost wholly to the latter.
We have moved from colleges emailing me all the time to GEAR UP and military recruiting TEXTING me all the time. I hate it.
I just (finally) downloaded Zotero and set it up to sync and while I probably should not have done that (let's be real 90% of that I am not touching again, especially as attachments), watching my library headings and refs fill in top to bottom in 60 seconds brought an actual tear to my eye
way to go dorks
now I am fully one of you
having an angel/devil shoulder convo about whether to mention Olympic curling to some very intense Newfoundlanders I know 😝
The church must be reminded that it is not the master or servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and critic of the state, and never its tool.
-Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr