Matt Mills

Casey's Picnic at Shakespeare Garden

doing catch up on the blog, here's some photos from oct 2024 matt.pictures/post/casey%2...

I have a 105 1.4 that's insane. Just really good.

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”

Freedom, Safety, and Vengeance

Chicago wasn't built around cars or one industry, and hasn't shrunk like other Rust belt cities in the wake of *gestures broadly* whatever you call what happened to Detroit and South Bend etc. So, since this is either/or, just to be safe, duck

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go the fuck outside. find a goth club. go there on a kink / queer night. go even if you think “you won’t fit in” (cheat code: just wear black).

be friendly. give yourself time. repeat as necessary. you will make exceptional friends.

life is for the living. do it scared.

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ER frequent flyer here: this is some bullshit, everyone deserves medical care full stop. The reason wait times are long are policy failures stemming from life under capitalism, which allocates resources towards profits, and not towards the greater good.

This mf’er is a hugely unpopular lame duck and people and institutions with actual power are out here acting, for eight months straight, like he’s some goddam immortal emperor. Fuck that noise.

It's wild to think that we effectively solved the world's energy problems, but the thing we're supposed to herald as a life-changing innovation is a chatbot with less functionality than a graphing calculator

You can't legally censor consensual "porn" without simultaneously creating the mechanism for the censorship of books and movies and education and activism and mutual aid.

The access we have to resources today — repro rights, LGBTQ+, sex ed— is directly tied to the legalizing of 'porn'

why did I never think of printing film holders. Damn.

would own like 3 of these.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

Tried it a couple times, never did that much for me. Just not my style.

boat!

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Billionaires Destroyed American News Media On Purpose It's not a conspiracy, it's simply what happened.

yeah pretty much www.todayintabs.com/p/billionair...

Possession is 9/10ths of the law and majority rules.

I was just there a few weeks ago. Bought a bunch of poetry, as one does.

there was a food truck in oklahoma that did that, called waffle champion. they did slap

I've only read Philosophy and The Mirror of Nature, but he also wrote "Essays on Heidegger and Others"; his project seems to me to be taking all the grand theories down a peg, which may be useful perspective even if his conclusions don't suit you.

I feel like if you're casting that wide a net, you should throw in some Rorty

no, that's genuinely funny

Launch Coyote Media Collective A new alt-weekly-style publication is hitting the Bay Area

So wild that @coyotemedia.org hit our "can we actually try to do this?" fundraising goal in under a week. Now we're upping the goal to try and get a runway, fund more freelance, and just generally hit the ground running. Become a member today! Or just toss us a few $. givebutter.com/coyotemedia

Part of me still really wants one of these.

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

This.

Big Empty Hi, I’m Matt, a photographer. This is a newsletter about my travels. I post whenever I’m on a big trip, and also updates about output from those trips, so when I have an art show, put out a book of ph...

I'm re-activating my on the road newsletter, bigempty.photos, for my upcoming trip to Armenia, if anyone wants to follow along. I'm already going to be shooting and editing 8 hours a day, what's a couple hours of writing?