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a year since I left my old job and it’s crazy how much more time and energy I have now… in the last month I’ve started doing Spanish audio lessons, finished the Neapolitan Novels, started selling my old clothes on depop, and wrote my first substack post 🫣

flew to LAX for the first time this weekend (i usually fly to Long Beach). there are airlines at LAX I have never heard of before. what the hell is BREEZE?!

Congrats to the BDS.

FREE PALESTINE.

my music taste at 14 is still the same as my music taste now... pavement pixies and garbage still fuck. and i still dgaf about dinosaur jr

Burmese restaurants that appeal to the palates of people who are used to eating at Thai restaurants that then appeal to the palates of people who are used to eating at Chinese restaurants that appeal to an American palate…

Sorry to Malcolm Harris but Stanford is a goated music venue

don draper is always like I need to get some pussy about this

i never say “no pun intended.” who cares

The Dirt on Pig-Pen | Elif Batuman Pig-Pen was dirty — visibly so... That’s who and how he was. And yet — what was that dirtiness? Was it essential or incidental? How did it work?

Elif Batuman- The Dirt on Pig-Pen: "Pig-Pen here conjures the dark side of the system of class. Pig-Pen is the one whose function is to be lower than the others, ensuring the smooth running of society." astra-mag.com/articles/the...

What happens to the people who survive the end of the world? I can tell you if you want.

Meg Conley- What happens to the people who survive the end of the world?
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Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis Varoufuckice This is a disgusting country, I thought, irredeemable visually, psychically, morally, and ethically, and whatever is likable about our people’s warm patter does not in any way forgive what we have don...

Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE: "A White House rooftop sniper said that she had had “amazing experiences in foreign countries” and that the camaraderie of her sniper team reminded her of her college volleyball team."
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Asialatina Películas/cortos sobre: La comunidad asiática en Latinoamérica. Directores latinos de ascendencia asiática. Directores nativos, asiáticos, que hayan rodado en Latinoamérica. NO ESTA EN LETTERBOXD: HAL...

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Listening to the audiobook on 1.5 speed while I do chores

(it’s the invisible life of addie larue)

reading a book im not fucking with for book club 😐 the price i pay for community

bored. gonna confuse a behavior that is simply annoying with a behavior that is antisocial at best and morally depraved at worst

I am very excited to chase down your questions -- send us on some fun reporting rabbit holes please!

Does Taste Matter? - Unwinnable Living human beings, unlike works of art, don’t have easily definable endings to encapsulate what they represent.

New writing from me! For @unwinnable.com, I wrote about our obsession with using taste/media consumption to completely define ourselves and others, and how taste in art doesn't give us a full picture of a person no matter how much we want it to unwinnable.com/2025/07/17/d...

I hope to never be so proudly wrong about something

may my essence never be as fundamentally misunderstood as LA and SF are

a man is smiling and looking at the camera while another man is standing behind him . ALT: a man is smiling and looking at the camera while another man is standing behind him .

going to a ”writer’s cafe” today

I'm a historian, and I studied the fall of Rome. Here's what life is like in a dying empire. It's the little things.

Patrick Wyman- How Do You Know if You’re Living Through the Death of an Empire? www.motherjones.com/media/2020/0...

when I log on to twitter it feels like walking into some coworker drama I don’t want to be part of

If you’re in the Bay Area there’s a lot of cool new stuff building, just FYI

The Approach
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(print only!)

Bay Area Current
@bayareacurrent.bsky.social

COYOTE Media
@coyotemedia.org

ORB @oaklandreviewofbooks.org

This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.

the way i finally understand why my teachers used to be fucking up their average looking lunches like i needed this 4);$&;&;&;&

master's degree in community and regional development i need u right now...

research as leisure activity my favorite form of entertainment is downloading PDFs ✦ plus favorite Fluxus artists and early programs

Celine Nguyen - Research as Leisure Activity open.substack.com/pub/personal...

On Furries and the Limits of Trustlessness Furries have traded unique digital artworks for years, without relying on blockchains. Crypto communities can learn from their emphasis on trust and mutual care.

Ruby Justice Thelot - On Furries and the Limits of Trustlessness www.fwb.help/editorial/on...