William T. Perkins

What if we could work with our public libraries to create + sustain convivial infrastructures for local news, local 🎶, digital equity, and more? I wrote abt lots of communities that are doing this work, bldg networks of solidarity + resistance, modeling alternatives to extractive commercial systems.

I did not have any of this on my bingo card, because a bingo card is typically just a grid with sets of numbers on it

Zebra Mussels' Takeover of the Great Lakes The exotic molluscs have pilfered the region's food supply, creating a vast aquatic desert

www.discovermagazine.com/zebra-mussel...

Substitute teaching a high school classroom today: “Mr. Perkins, I love your hair. It’s very 2000s!” 💀

The Power Fantasy of Superman is you still have a staff job on a newspaper.

“we’ve gutted our newspaper, chased off most of the talent, and turned our opinion page into a low rent WSJ clone

somehow this is not attracting new subscribers, better gut it some more”

what a disgrace

this is accurate along multiple dimensions

they’re getting dumber and more right wing but they are now smarter and more left wing in comparison to the people they see on twitter all day (stupid nazis) which also leads them to be even more prone to dismissing criticism from the left

Edited screenshots from No Country for Old Men. Anton Chigurh (with cow horns and cow ears) sits in a hotel chair and asks someone across from him, "If the tool you followed brought you to this, of what use was the tool?" In a zoomed out view, Anton sits silently behind a table with the 4 cow tools look8ng at his victim as if studying him.

No Country for Old Cows (2007)

the trust fund brunchlords in charge of modern media have absolutely no idea what they're doing, zero understanding of the modern information environment, and are completely, intractably oblivious to their own class/race/gender bias

Research and reference CAN be fun lol

Calder Gardens, a Light-Filled Museum and Prairie, Houses the Sculptor's Work in Philadelphia Calder Gardens is designed to bring art, architecture, and nature into a constant and ever-evolving conversation.

Calder Gardens, a Light-Filled Museum and Prairie, Houses the Sculptor’s Work in Philadelphia www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/cald...

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

YouTube video by ANTI- Records The Coup - "The Guillotine"

Please sir, may we have another portion?
We're children of the beast that dodged the abortion
Neck placed firm 'tween the floor and the Florsheim
We'll shut your shit down, don't call it extortion

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.

The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.

Somehow hit 50k today and so I thought I'd share some advice for growing a large social media following, which is to not do that

Bookshelves to Bylines: When Libraries and Journalists Join Forces In the quest for new ways to combat misinformation, partnerships between media organizations and libraries are on the rise.

"One example of this arrangement can be found in Boston Public Library’s central branch, which has a small studio operated by the local public radio station, GBH. The space opened in 2016 and includes a stage where radio staff host live shows."

www.libraryjournal.com/story/booksh...

I think that if you're a writer and you don't invent a word every now and then you're missing out on a solid chunk of the fun.

it would appear J.K. has never been to a modern library which is all the things he claims they need to be.

A homemade Hobbes stuffed animal from Calvin & Hobbes, made by Kat’s grandma

It’s Calvin & Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson’s birthday today. When I was a kid I was so obsessed with Calvin & Hobbes that I carried around a stuffed bear and called it Hobbes. There’s no official merch (which I love), so my grandma painstakingly crafted this for me. Pic of him from my mom today

Just a reminder in case you needed it: Mr Roger's look for the helpers was talking to children- you must be the helper now

“Resist much, obey little.
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.”

~Walt Whitman

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

Very interesting history.
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Professors writing story of blind, queer book collector whose legacy endures at OU (Michigan)
www.oakland.edu/oumagazine/n...

YouTube video by Car Seat Headrest - Topic Kimochi Warui (When? When? When? When? When? When? When?)

The verse of this song about Brian Wilson was very specifically running through my head this morning.

It might be somewhat sacrilegious posting a song he didn’t write in this moment, but it felt too poignant not to share.

MEDITATION The earth is a fire-escape whose grief supports the weight of one fireman.

Joe Rosenblatt

RINGING OF BELL Everything is extinct The wind passes singing And the trees shudder The animals are dead There is no more anyone Look The stars have stopped shining The earth no longer turns A head is bowed The hair sweeping the night The last steeple left upright Rings midnight

Pierre Reverdy, tr. Alice Notley