Weevil Under the Sun

I want universal basic income, universal health care, buses and trains and livable wages and affordable rent, and I want my tax dollars to go towards that instead of billionaire-hosted rape festivals. Everyone does. That's not radical. It's survival.
Americans want to survive. Fucking help us.

Screenshot from iMovie showing how the new MacOS Tahoe cursor completely occludes the percentage level label for an audio track. Thanks, I hate it.

In addition to adding Liquid Glass, which sucks, the MacOS Tahoe update solves that age-old problem of being able to see the volume level in a video project. Thanks, Apple!

This is a fantastic thread to help us new watchers get on board with how the Olympics choices work. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge.

David Lynch sitting in a naturally lit room and wearing sunglasses: “I’m wearing dark glasses today, because I’m seeing the future and the future is looking very bright.”

David Lynch passed a year ago today. I hope we all can absorb just a little bit of the energy he put out in his lifetime.

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

Here's the adult vaccination recommendations as of Nov 2024. Why did I save these? Because I knew someone was going to try to stomp on this, and not today, Satan. Not today. #CDC #vax #vaccines #getvaxxed

I really enjoy all the tiny map fragments you post on here. Thank you for sharing them!

Many soles lost at sea

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

GenAI allows these guys to do what they do when drunk and ganked up at office Christmas parties, at a mass scale.

We're *all* there cringing while they lean in and excitedly slur their messed up shit at us while we're uncomfortably unable to disengage.

GenAI being fundamentally based on a rejection of consent is obvious, but it's not as obvious that it destroys the inhibitions of the people who already reject consent.

It makes them act in public the way they used to only act when cornering their employees by the punch bowl or in their office

Zohran Mamdani explains that thousands and thousands of New Yorkers are already eligible for free and reduce public transportation, but because of the bureaucratic hurdles they never get enrolled in the program.

That's why he wants to just make the bus free.

People using transit deserve dignity and this isn't it.

John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”

lol. Shout-out to all y'all claiming you use this thing as a therapist.

Cities aren’t built for older people – our study shows many can’t walk fast enough to beat a pedestrian crossing Many older people with reduced mobility say they feel ‘hurried’, ‘rushed’ and ‘unsafe" when walking around their city.

"Only 1.5% of the older people with reduced mobility in our study – just 17 out of 1,110 participants who had an average age of 77 – could cross the road faster than the 1.2 metres per second walking speed that is programmed into many UK pedestrian crossings."

Charles Clyde Ebbets's "Lunch atop a Skyscraper"

We salute you, Charles Clyde Ebbets

Time person of the year cover for 2025

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

How did I not know there were books about goblins and cheese, two of my very real interests?

*heads over to link*

Accuracy is a big part of accessibility.

whomst amongst us

A magazine cover, with a single illustration covering the entire page, and no headlines over the top. A hand illustration -- perhaps watercolors -- shows a snowy day and an empty road heading towards the viewer. In the distance, a cozy christmas tree store surrounded by green trees, some cut and some still standing, with a cozy cabin behind. In the foreground, a jaunty woman with hat and sunglasses and scarf bicycles toward us, with a christmas tree horizontally held on the front rack of her bike and a black scotty dog running alongside. She and the shop and the cabin are all in pastels; pinks and purples and white. Her white scarf and hat match the white snow on the store and cabin. It is a cheerful, jaunty, undaunted tone, and evenly spaced big snowflakes float down over it all. At the top the magazine name, The New Yorker, the date Dec. 19, 1942, and the Price: 15 cents. At the bottom is the signature of the artist, Garrett Price https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Price

It's time once again for my annual #treebybike post. This is the 12/19/42 cover of @newyorker.com, so one full year after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This would be the first real Christmas alone, or without a family member, for millions in the US. Gas and tire rationing had begun earlier that year.🗃️

then dropkick him into the street on that bounce

Will continue to bang this drum: this is the system university admins are cramming into every aspect of education. This is the system we are told “isn’t going anywhere” so we all have to adjust to it.

BICYCLE VOLUMES | PEAK HOUR AVERAGE • 229% increase during AM peak period. • (highlighted text) 628% increase during PM peak period. There’s a little tearing up emoji face that I inserted, because I’m feeling 628% better about things rn

BTW, what happens when you install a protected bike lane (where no bike facilities existed) between some of your densest residential neighborhoods (Dupont Circle and north) and the bit of downtown that hosts a huge university and an alphabet-soup of international orgs?

People-Powered Bike Lane and Roadside Sweepers Our bike lane sweepers provide an economical, ecological, and practical way to clean bike lanes and roadsides.

This looks like it’s a

bikelanesweeper.com

New dream job just dropped

Rush hour traffic in Utrecht.

Sound on 🔊 if you want to experience that rush hour IS possible without the constant, deafening noise of cars overpowering people talking.

Mulled cranberry juice, mulled apple cider, a selection of hot teas (hi, it's winter in Vermont).

I continue to show up for your publication announcements because of the constancy of that last line.