Beth Sullivan

This is beautiful.

And themselves. They hate themselves.

Is there a gentle and non-preachy way to tell a friend that using AI to design a poster in the style of Keith Haring is a bad idea? I sense people don't make the connection that these tools are based on stolen work, but saying hey this is uncool makes me feel like I'm being superior and finger-waggy

Ow

Bedouin Tent has been around for decades and is very solid

Hey, please call 911 and get yourself to a hospital. They aren't going to refuse to help you.

North by Northwest
Desperately Seeking Susan
The Bourne Identity
The Big Sleep
Back to the Future
Wayne's World

That one is ridiculous

U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate “authentic” and said there wasn’t reason to consider him an “illegal alien.”

U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia

Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate “authentic” and said there wasn’t reason to consider him an “illegal alien.”

www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

Person to Person: The Middle Ages Everyday we get a little bit older, and that's okay.

Some thoughts on getting older and trying not to succumb to the pressure to pretend to be younger: bethsullivan.substack.com/p/person-to-...

Trump loves tariffs because he feels like it’s a way to shake people down. Even better, shake FOREIGNERS down.

He thinks protectionism is more akin to a protection racket.

He clearly gets an almost sexual thrill from announcing them, and the more, and the higher, the better.

Everything is terrible but I'm happy that I get to listen to baseball games while I make dinner again

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

I respect you immensely and know you are fighting a good fight for us. But government no longer works the way it did a month ago; holding votes no longer has meaning. Extreme action is required now. Please, please do whatever you can to stop this coup.

Our leaders seem paralysed, unable to talk about the US in the same language they use for traditionally inimical countries, hoping that the bully’s eye passes them over.

Before you can act on a crisis you have to recognise you are in one - it is time for our leaders, and our media, to wake up. 7/9

Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything? Yes. And You Can Too.

Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.”

Lots of information and resources in this one.

open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Why these bars are sticking with old-school offline jukeboxes Plus, we made you a map of the analog jukeboxes you can still find across the city

For @nygroove.nyc I wrote about why we still love physical media jukeboxes in NYC bars (down with TouchTunes!) along with a map of all the ones I could find. nygroove.nyc/nyc-physical...

It's really disheartening that the tech media gets the urgency of the current moment and is reporting it like it is and our political media and big media institutions are just pretending like nothing is happening.

Microsoft is going to price gouge you by adding their genAI to your subscription without your consent, and they are not transparent about how to avoid this bullshit.

Here's how to change your subscription back to "Classic" for a lower charge without Copilot: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...

YouTube video by jesse parker Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers ~ New Years Eve 1978

I watch this every New Year's Eve because it is wholesome and energetic and I love Tom Petty.

A relief to many women across the Delaware Valley

In 2015 I stole my dad's atlas and put it in the trunk of my car. He found it there this year and said, "I have one just like this," and I said, feeling guilty, "I think this is actually yours," and he said no, his is in his office. He is wrong, my atlas is his atlas.

A drunk woman's foot in a loafer, resting on a denim-clad leg in a subway station.

Could be now, could be 1987 or thereabouts

THE Christmas Choice, whatever it's called

Back to the drawing board for A Christmas Choice, then!

Christmas movie idea: City girl has to go to a small Vermont town for some reason, meets a hot fireman AND a hot farmer who melt her hardened heart and can't decide between them. Then the fireman and farmer fall for each other and she goes back to her regular fine life. Title: The Christmas Choice

People in stock photos need to smile less. Stop smiling!

She knows

Perfect mix. Especially cool to see Shoes, 20/20, Scruffs, Dwight Twilley Band

Cover of TO THE NORTH by Elizabeth Bowen

A stunning work of art, rich with insight about human behavior and psychology. Single paragraphs hold more depth than some contemporary novels. I feel physically shaken by how good this is and also comforted by the knowledge that humans have it in them to portray life so vividly and accurately.