Zack

My account activity probably means that I’ll be flagged as a 99-year-old man.

Mechanical battery? Great idea! Like a watch or typewriter.

If he brings up Deep Space 9 all of you have to go to church at least once

“For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob, however unruly or boisterous, is entitled to defy a court of law.”

— President John F. Kennedy, September 1962

Currently running? Heart of the City by @oheysteenz.bsky.social

“Stranger, pause and look;
From the dust of ages
Lift this little book,
Turn the tattered pages,
Read me, do not let me die!
Search the fading letters finding
Steadfast in the broken binding
All that once was I!”
Edna St. Vincent Millay, born OTD in 1892

Update: I’m pretty dang close to buying a used Ioniq 5. Found a reputable dealer, frequent inventory, totally workable financially. Just kinda… getting myself there.

When I was 23 I bought a new car no problem. Now I’m 35 with tenure but it’s way harder somehow.

"Here indeed was a formidable sentence – one that was on intimate terms with the comma, and that held the period in healthy disregard."
—Amor Towles, A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW

That’s the dream

Movies of the decade so far:

2020 - Palm Springs
2021 - Dune
2022 - Nope
2023 - Barbie
2024 - Conclave
2025 - Frankenstein

I haven’t seen so many of the decade’s best movies so far! Looking at other lists like dang I missed so much.

the Vatican starting with Francis has been consistently good about AI; Antiqua et Nova is a better and clearer position than 99% of what’s out there

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

YOU CAN GET EVERY DISCWORLD TOME ON EBOOK FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF A SUBWAY FOOTLONG COMBO.

USUALLY GETTING EVERY SINGLE BOOK LEGALLY IS LIKE 400+

NOT.

A.

DRILL.

www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...

this is very inspiring and awesome to a dad with two kids in school I'll tell you what

From SNL in 1984: Reverend Jesse Jackson in THE QUESTION IS MOOT.
Listen to him and tell me how comes that it feels in 42 years nothing has really changed?

If I’ve understood legal history, from 1790 to 1921, all a white dude needed to do was show up to a judge and prove he wasn’t an asshole, then show up and say the same a few years later. But only one branch of my ancestry was subject to that law; the rest just arrived here early enough.

You had to be there, kids.

Did you know that Benjamin Harrison, after his presidency ended and he returned to his home in Indianapolis, had a brief career as a crime stopper? Check out this article from the January 15, 1899, "New York Times." #PresidentsDay

What we see here is the natural consonance between Judaism and the Black church. A Jew can preach from the Hebrew Bible and Black churchgoers get it because they understand how the Bible speaks to present conditions, not just history in the Near East. Full version: youtu.be/y9h2fiQ7_eE?...

YouTube video by Nightloop Jesse Jackson’s - Wattstax Music Festival Opening Speech (1972)

I. AM. SOMEBODY. ✊🏽

Rest in Power, Reverend Jesse Jackson.

youtu.be/NTVwT3j_zqY?...

Soap and water for the outside, being sure to dry. Then Mineral spirits for the hammers and guts. It’s a fun hobby!

35mm B&W image of Jesse Jackson speaking at a lectern at Yale University, one hand raised towards us.

Rest in peace and thank you, Jesse Jackson.

Saw him in person once - took this photo at Yale in 1988.

Canon New F-1, Canon FD 135mm f2.5, Kodak Tri-X.

#BelieveInFilm #35mmLoveLetter

Great machines! Nothing to do about that rust — though I do know a guy who repaints typewriters — but if the internals are intact it’ll come back well.

Family lore: my fifth great grandpa grew a third set of teeth. George Fruits. His grave claims that he was the last living Revolutionary War vet, but his claim has been disputed.

two frames from A Dinner With Andre (1981), with both containing Wallace Shawn in the subway and two captions: - When I was young, all I thought about was art and music. - Now I'm 38, and all I think about is posting. The words "38" and "posting" have been clearly edited in.

Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding:

Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.

samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...

True classic beauty for your Sunday night: Ernest Bachrach's celebrated portrait of Bebe Daniels as an RKO star, 1930.

Harold Stassen agrees!

Incredible

Wait… the leader of Hungary’s center right opposition party is Peter Magyar? Wouldn’t that be like a candidate in the UK being named Johnny English?