i’m sure, as they were sitting in their living room watching their child be immolated in a fire in front of them, lots of people at grenfell tower were thinking “you know i’m so glad that both LABOUR under blair AND the tories agreed that public housing was not worth supporting fully. bipartisanship working at its…

the “stick to the side near the door zone” is terrible, deadly advice. two people have been killed within 2 blocks of me in manhattan in the past week following this advice.

yes, it’s a bus. but it’s worse: it’s a fucking charter school. like, you can improve a shared public good (buses) or you can add a private company into the mix, and take away from the public good, thus creating adverse selection for the public good by skimming the customers away. that in turn will lead to worse…

the modelling problem seems system-wide. humans are slow to react to risk (there are copious studies about how quickly we react to brake lights in front of us, for example), and have difficulty projecting past the next hunt/next year’s harvest (for obvious evolutionary reasons). now we’ve changed in a very short time…

and yet you will still cover this bullshit, still watch it, still support it by doing so, talk about it with friends etc.

the number of users of marijuana is fluctuating but approx 40 million. MDMA variants around 10 million. heroin around 2 to 3 million. so if it’s a fucking gateway, it’s not a very effective one, now is it? and of course, any zombie claim that can last for 40 years absent any evidence to confirm it but replete with…

as pope francis says: either live your beliefs or you are better off not being a christian. and he’s right. this guy believes some ridiculous insanity at his core as a human—he’s been called out on not living those insane beliefs, and now he’s getting screwed. i wish everyone in this story could lose, but sadly only…

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Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. it’s an amazing piece of alt history fiction.

this next generation of young men coming up seem really terrific. feminism isn’t necessary anymore, clearly the guys got the message and won’t behave like total fucking assholes anymore.

did you go to an “elite” school HamNo? i’m not asking to be snarky, just trying to see what your starting point is on this?

touchdowns are goals. FGs are corner kicks.

a thing i’ve found really effective in dealing with all of the bullshit of the NFL is not watching it at all. seems to be working wonders.

so, guy who plays for a team with a racist nickname (that you are now using? what the fuck?) makes an unconciously racist allusion to said nickname.

so i’ve had sex before, but i’ve never been FUCKED. how’s it feel? (i love you all and am sad about the theilnonsense of it all, btw)

i have neither, though a man bun is no longer offered on my hair’s menu :-(

fucking context, how does it work?

during the 2010 campaign, where i was doing some video and other work for the brown folk in CA, i was approached by fred davis, legendary right wing message guy (back to nixon, reagan, the willie horton ad, etc) to work for whitman.

one of the top joys of being father to a boy i’ve had thus far was to give my then 8 year old calvin and hobbes. i gave him the complete collection that’s now for sale on amazon. i think he’s read it 20 times. i hope that watterson’s ethos and humanity will permeate my son’s brain on some deep level, whether he…

go read “the hunting of the president” by joe conason and the great gene lyons and report back. you will find that all of those gates are horseshit. utter and total horseshit. and you’ll feel sad about yourself and how easily gulled you are by paid agents of richard mellon scaife and his ilk.