My mom texted to let me know she's watch a documentary about the Mafia today as a protest gesture lol

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: nice Delta-Epsilon Proof, texture to a rotting body, add up to beans, live to your 30s, some Elektra, antiseptically, nice legal capitalism, boats down the Danube, weather I longed, polytheistic, fake gamer girl, less ambiguous

Wild ironies 

To be clear: they do not get along lol

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Wild ironies 

I know a cousin of Curtis Yarvin's and their entire career has been about community owned network infrastructure for climate resilience and emergency response

"AI boyfriends undermine the political project of solidarity" I scream as Sam Altman's security team drag me out of the hotel ballroom

listening to the audiobook of Catching the Big Fish and it's renewing my will to live

Today in labor History January 17, 1961: Patrice Lumumba, anti-colonial fighter and former premier of the newly independent Republic of the Congo, was assassinated with the complicity of the CIA. President Eisenhower authorized an assassination in 1960, because of Lumumba’s ties with the Soviet Union. CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb planned to kill him with poisoned toothpaste. Gottlieb was the main scientist behind the CIA’s MKUltra program, which did illegal human mind control experiments using drugs, like LSD, without the victim’s knowledge or consent. He was also involved in numerous assassinations.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #imperialism #africa #colonialism #cia #assassination #soviet #coldwar #PatriceLumumba #congo #lsd #mkultra

But it's nice to be reminded of how many people and dogs were fond of her--not this person's dog, Billy the dog resolutely ignored Kitty which made her try even harder to get his attention (she had a real "I can fix him" tendency) but his person liked her a lot

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Ran into a dog park friend on the street and it really hasn't gotten easier to break the news that Kitty's gone, wow

Going to eat an entire pie this evening, for David Lynch

Just want to plug how absolutely terrific the latest RIP Corp podcast episode is about the Wing’s downfall, along with some really timely thoughts about the end of the girlboss era in light of the next administration. Thanks for this great listen, @ingrid!! https://overcast.fm/+AAkUvoeJL1I

Useless Projection #6: The Asymmetric Monstrosity. A combination of the sinusoidal, Mollweide, Equal Earth, and cylindrical equal-area projections. It's all equal-area, so it's suitable for the classroom.

(I now have a goal for this year: make an elaborate wall map in this projection).

Had a moment of who the fuck did Wilkinson lose the Oscar to and oh, ok it was Javier Bardem for No Country For Old Men. Tough year

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Might watch Michael Clayton tonight I apologize in advance for any live posting through it

ripcorp.biz/episodes/a-wing-an we wrapped this episode of RIP Corp way back in late Nov/early Dec but for various reasons it's dropping now—can't decide if reflecting on the legacy and limits of resistance grift is timely or just sad, but still think we did a mostly good job

I felt weird sharing this amidst posts about LA fires so: 50% of sales made this week will go to the ARC Firefighter Fund (for prisoners firefighters)

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Just added a collection of small-ish (8inx8in) plotter drawings to my store: wares.lifewinning.com/collecti if you have seen these "buy my drawings" posts but found them a little out of budget these ones are all $20-25! And pretty cute IMO.

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.