Lutha Mahtin

the articles i have read about this thing do not do a great job of explaining it

books have no tech tree, no fog of war

how in the world did all those various bits of text get so misaligned. trying to stare at the different angles makes me feel like im about to have a migraine

i got inspired

the minnesota zoo has some indoor exhibit zones with no barriers between birds and people. sometimes a bird will come perch on a (human) hand rail to check you out. it's cool, some of the ducks and perching birds are curious enough where you get to really see them up close

What is going on with those Apple and Ford logos? Is this drawing an AI slop thing?

i also enjoy watching some goofballs get into hijinks once a week. see: abbott elementary

Wesley Willis American, 1963-2003, The Dan Ryan Expressway, A work made of blue ballpoint pen and colored felt-tipped markers, on ivory illustration board.

The Dan Ryan Expressway, by Wesley Willis
American, 1963-2003
1986

More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/204579

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough. VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing. https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

the airboat from HL2

I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don’t like the vehicle.

the mini pancakes sound vaguely familiar to me, but not the happy face potatoes

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

sarah jeong explains everything (again)

lava lamp samus

These guys are so vulnerable to defecting to Chicago

does los angeles only have 500 bus shelters?

The year is 2025. There are three social networks remaining. They are run by Dweeb Lowtax, Tweaker Lowtax, and Girlboss Lowtax. You have to pick at least one.

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight “Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

Trenchant must-read

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight
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"not owned by anybody"

but you publish on Substack, a pro-nazi website...

claiming that a URL and a collection of open source code projects (hosted elsewhere) are equivalent lmao. the laziest disinformation push. do you realize you posted this in public, dude? at the very least you should apologize for insulting the intelligence of your colleagues with this post

i didn't know there was a '060! cool

i had to explain to my dad who charlie kirk was and reassure him that it was ok to not be familiar with every far-right astroturf podcaster. he also said that trump ordering the flags to half staff told him all he needed to know... i think few normies are being swayed here

a lot of people (mainly his supporters, but still) are also saying like "good faith debater" to describe the guy. partisan propaganda outfits are never debating 100% in good faith. imo even the "rapid response" social media accounts of moderate pols sort neatly into this bin. eyeroll stuff

studying japanese while i have the US/JP MNT match on and listening to the commentators mispronounce every single japanese player's name

If you’ve ever compared unvaccinated kids to vaccinated kids, you’ve seen the former are more likely to die.

rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides

it's a competition category that you can enter your seed art into at the minnesota state fair

picture of a package of sliced mushrooms. the label has a drawing of the outline of pennsylvania on it, and it says "grown in the mushroom state, pennsylvania"

did u know that pennsylvania is the mushroom state? wrap it up, ohio-ailures. pack it in, new dorkers