taylor hatmaker

we all had our little cry during the bad bunny halftime show right

Fuck ICE

Roosevelt students too!

Final Fantasy Tactics quote: What purpose do laws serve when even those who would enforce them choose not to pay them heed?

final fantasy vs. fascism

DHS statement on the jan 24 DHS shooting of a man in MN: At 9:05 AM CT, as DHS law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted operation in Minneapolis against an illegal alien wanted for violent assault, an individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun, seen here. The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted. More details on the armed struggle are forthcoming. Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots. Medics on scene immediately delivered medical aid to the subject but was pronounced dead at the scene. The suspect also had 2 magazines and no ID—this looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement. About 200 rioters arrived at the scene and began to obstruct and assault law enforcement on the scene, crowd control measures were deployed for the safety of the public and law enforcement. This situation is evolving, and more information is forthcoming.

simply an incredible number of lies stuffed into 161 words

The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...

love this! gonna work on some pitches :)

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.

We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.

washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...

NEW: 2020 footage said to be in 2025. A neighbor who keeps reappearing in the same clip, said to be on different days & months. A broadcast from elsewhere suggested as Portland.

How Fox News misled its viewership -- which may have included the president.

www.propublica.org/article/port...

nothing about how AI products were developed was inevitable. unleashing mainstream AI that could make pretty words and fun pictures first for free was certainly a choice

never not thinking about the AI bros putting creatives on the chopping block first

right? or like… a really hard workout idk

QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal."

JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"

the decision to really just abandon moderation and let it rip suggests that this is what meta wants for its platform. this is the final, idealized form of the product

odds of me being a hardcore @wolfquest.bsky.social player by next week are 50/50

come for the bittersweet meditation on american "wilderness," stay for the discovery of a 20-year-old educational sim about wolves in yellowstone with an active roleplay community taylorhatmaker.ghost.io/bear-guys-an...

Bear guys and wolf guys Things I thought about on the first half of a solo road trip... I leave Portland on a Monday in late September with a plan to stop one night in Spokane on the way out to Glacier National Park. I’ve n...

I wrote about going to a national park as escapism in the year 2025 and how you can only ever run toward america, even when you try to run away. taylorhatmaker.ghost.io/bear-guys-an...

Bear guys and wolf guys Things I thought about on the first half of a solo road trip... I leave Portland on a Monday in late September with a plan to stop one night in Spokane on the way out to Glacier National Park. I’ve n...

i've got a new post about a road trip to and away from america and the two genders known to science, bears and wolves. taylorhatmaker.ghost.io/bear-guys-an...

rough hewn

i'm not on ~ social media ~ a lot these days but if you want to follow my writing + photography, check out my newsletter ! taylorhatmaker.ghost.io

Another explicit warning from Pritzker

balhalla on one!

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

oh no, what a perfect sweetie… that’s so hard. sending you and your fam ❤️

*grows enough beans for a single meal*

as an urban farmer, you really have to put the love in every day. it’s not a lifestyle for just anyone

*grows enough beans for a single meal*

as an urban farmer, you really have to put the love in every day. it’s not a lifestyle for just anyone

green bean harvest in a glass container

a pink zinnia pops with orange nasturtium behind

chocolate cherry tomatoes ready for harvest

basil really going for it

world bad garden wild, free

Every major publication in this country needs to have dedicated staffers or correspondents reporting on gaming, streamers, podcasts, and TikTok. Not as a once in a while thing. As standard beats. These are massive segments of American culture. No excuses for it anymore.

i wasn't even working and had it served to me... on threads (somehow worse?)