Will Kaufman

Holy shit. I can't think of many examples of an article going with the lede, "I'm about to commit journalistic malfeasance."

What editor signed off on this?

If you see this qrp a monster!

(A totally normal lobster friend)
#art #illustration

Honestly, I'm not remotely worried about 3D printed guns, I'm worried about the millions of assault rifles sold legally every year. But there's no massive 3D printer lobby, so I guess politicians will just regulate those and claim they did something about gun safety?

"Is there any technology the left likes" is just a reframing of the original Luddite slander, reframing societal support for disenfranchising workers as "progress," and amy demands that the labor that paid for the tech benefit from it as regressive, knee-jerk, anti-tech.

All I want is for the left to actually vote in the primaries. Don't let a few thousand boomer suburbanites decide the candidate this time, like in '16 and '20.

A skeletal death dressed as a medieval jester stands by an open grave with the handle of a shovel protruding and a church in the background. Death holds a smiling human mask and his marotte lies at his feet.

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #MardiGras Death as Jester, from Quarles Emblems, Charles Bennett, 1860
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A version of the 1995 song "Not an Addict" by K's Choice for philosophy and critical theory grad students that goes, "I'm not Socratic" instead.

That's something, right?

I think it's worse. Couple it with rich people building survival bunkers and the rise in PMCs? I think they're normalizing the rich being militarized entities and prepping for making the country a 3rd world oligarchy. Plenty of countries where anyone w/ money lives behind barbed wire & armed guards

What are the odds he watched Death Race 2000 and had to be talked down from "and you can run over spectators. Also, grenade hand."

Or, and I know this is crazy, abolish the agency being used for fascistic stochastic terrorism, investigate and indict all officers who committed baldly illegal acts, & everyone up the chain of command who ordered and/or enabled those acts, & permanently reassign those funds to actually help people.

We've built ourselves soulless masters who will dictate a narrower and narrower set of allowable words as they perpetuate a cycle of lexical decline. The reading level requirements for any commercialized writing just break my heart over and over.

"What about Kyle Rittenhouse taking a gun to a protest? Gotcha!"

No, you don't, because the difference between you with a gun and Kyle with a gun is that the folks who enact state-sanctioned violence see one as a person and the other as not deserving personhood. No one has been gotten.

Yeah, every time I see a lefty/liberal whatabouting some right wing statement, or calling it hypocritical... Like, the definition of privilege is "private law." These people all fucking know, but they also all assume they're one of the exemptions because they "deserve" privilege.

Add to the list of "things I'd like a responsible government to investigate"....

The circular grift that is the AI bubble, intentionally betting so big specifically to force the government to prop them up with my tax dollars.

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I actually switched the 5-pole for a Tamiya GT Tuned. It picked up the speed a tiny bit, and actually really reduced heat. The cheap AliExpress 5-pole was getting so hot I think it was starting to demagnetize itself! It's definitely a fun truck, sounds like a blast on brushless!

Fuck it, here's my joy today: finishing up a Vanquish VS4-10 build w/ kiddo (color schemes and stickering by him), and getting to see it crawl. Still gotta do lights and the driver figure.

#rccars #rccrawler

I protest, I call my reps, I give to pro-democracy orgs. That's real. But I still feel like I can't have this one, frivolous little space.

How do you escape the trap of "if I don't say everything, I can't say anything?"

There's so much that I'm so angry and scared about, and so many people who I'm weeping for, but how does filling this tiniest little nook help?

I want to post about shit like the RC crawler kit I finished with my kid today, and how we went and played with it and how cool that was, but my government is murdering people in the streets and kidnapping children.

Guys nothing personal but if you rub your a.i. generated anti-ICE, anti-Trump memes in my face I gotta unfollow and mute you and also you’re dead to me.

It’s the sewage that fascism both shits and eats, it’s like blowing smoke in my face to show me how evil the tobacco companies are.

More old 80’s activity book art helped out by my old buddy @binkysky.bsky.social

That compassion is a strength.

I just saw AI slop images described as "promptographs" by an AI bootlicker. Utterly unhinged. Real "maybe humanity doesn't deserve to exist anymore" energy.

So in the first month of 2026, the U.S. wrapped up its dacades-long project of comprehensively ceding global leadership to China for the foreseeable 21st century. A stunning success.

(I'm not making a value judgement here.)

Photo of the inside of a Lexan body shell with unnecessarily complicated masking tape arrangements

Me: I hate masking.

Also me: yeah, let me try for two-tone seats and interior on this crawler body.

(N.B. I also hate masking my neurodivergence, but I'm talking about the kind of masking with tape now)

#rccars #rccrawler

What if the proliferation of AI slop is part of the reptilian/alien/monster plot to take over the world. Now when they start operating out in the open, everyone will just think photo/video evidence is AI!

a brightly coloured collage of medieval figures cut out from various public domain illustrations, overlaid on a black and white background photo showing "Gallos", a statue at Tintagel, with an obscured face. the overlaid figures, clockwise from top left: a mysterious hooded figure holding a hand to its mouth, in yellow; a beheaded knight astride a horse, holding aloft his own head - but as a bundle of greenery; a sorceress in a leaf-patterned shawl with her face obscured, in red; a man with obscured face in a tunic and breeches (in green) astride a sun-themed horse (in pink). in the middle there is a woman brushing her long dark hair, in blue, above the words "Sir Gawain the Son of XXX, King of XXX", where the Xs represent inkblots.

*slaps cover of EVERY YEAR THE SUMMER* this one's got everything:

💞MFM triad romance
😢sad wet bi trans man MC
⛈️climate change=horror
😶‍🌫️the fae are invisible & unknowable
🦌weird AF deer
🌌hallucinatory time loop bullshit

GREEN KNIGHT x THE EVERLASTING, querying Feb 2026.

#bluepit📖 #A #F #W #TR #LGBT

I actually thought the first season with the Dominion was the roughest, but the first couple season overall were some peak 90s TV

Wait, you're telling me no rich motherfucker has gone to Rolls Royce and said, "have AI decorate my car"? They've all insisted on paying for human work?

Jesus, it's almost as if the rich recognize that human creativity and skill has actual value...