Alex Wagner (34/100 substacks)

forming a tenants union that allows you to vote out habitual quiet hours violators in a survivor bonfire style ceremony at lease renewal

I’ve been thinking a lot about the fact we never see anyone do things imperfectly anymore - how only perfection is to be shown. I always love seeing things that aren’t perfect, that keep their human touch. It makes me feel more like I can be my flawed self as well

Right on, I hope you do—I would read it! :)

Found it here: web.archive.org/web/20051126...

I want to read this. Do you know if it lives anywhere online? Googling for that Guitar World story

statue of St. Lucy holding a tray with huge eyeballs on it. magically, St Lucy herself has her eyes in her head.

Painting of St. Lucy with a plate with eyeballs. Here she's also seeing, with eyes in her head.

traditional buns baked for St. Lucy's day: they're S-shaped, and in each curve of the S there are little black rasins, mimicing eyes

St. Lucy'd day today, this is a surprisingly big deal in scandinavia.

my favourite fact:

St. Lucy tore her eyes out to avoid marrying a pagan 🙄. so we serve buns that are ... referencing and mimicing torn out eyes.

bon appétit

Learned about J. Marion Sims yesterday and Musk’s approach seems… kinda similar

A store sign labeled “christmas bag of threats” probably meant to be treats

Got ur gifts here bitch

*whispering to myself while I put away the groceries*
“this mfer stocking beans”

Looking for code projects to work on for free and build my resume/networks.

I’m comfortable working with js, react, node.

Currently teaching myself mysql and typescript.

If you know of anything or want to recc any open source projects, I’d be grateful 🙏

Just published my weekly roundup of Five Cool Things.

If you like reading about technology, music, and culture, you'll dig Things That Should Exist.

This week: Bluesky, a smoggy NYC sky, and the "psychedelic age of AI"

https://thingsthatshouldexist.substack.com/p/five-cool-things-4

a post is a wish your heart makes

Should I buy a computer? 🤔

It’s got what cats crave!

I made this with my partner in one take, fully improvised.

It's called, "What this horse told me in heaven will melt your heart"

If you like: Stone Temple Pilots, Ween, silly songs about meeting a horse in heaven

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jFr6X6Uyc8

Ship dms as a feature

Ah the comics are arriving. Welcome 🤗

If I could award skeet of the day, well, this

What if you had to pay to post?

Would shitposters still exist?

https://open.substack.com/pub/joshuacitarella/p/platform-wars-part-2-twitter-and?r=mte6&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Would you rather have fake hugos…or real hugs?

you can gender-swap Palmer Luckey and put him in a Pottery Barn showroom, but it's still high noon in Dork City

Take the what to check out the what you say?

“Because thr truth remains/that no one wants to know”

World dom

“They dreamed the world so it always was the way it is now, little one. There never was a world of high cat-ladies and cat-lords. They changed the universe from the beginning of all things, until the end of time.”

https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Sandman_Vol_2_18

@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com

He got that dawg innem

Pod of Orcas underwater. Photographs by Paul Nicklen from National Geographic.

Me and the girls off to pay Jeff Bezos and his super yacht a visit