Ray Bernoff

The year is 2027. McDonald's AI kiosk won't take my card until I decline a $1.99 protection plan on the happy meal toy. In a moment of weakness, I decide to pay for my 10 chicken nuggets over time with Klarna.

starting to do research on a subject you know nothing about is like
me: "okay. first question: how do lawyers work?"
source: "um... well, what kind of lawyer are we talking about"
me: *writing down enthusiastically* there are types of lawyers

Neuter your Ex this Valentines Day We are providing funding for a trap, neuter and release programme for a colony of feral cats in the Barnton area. For a donation of £10, we will name one of the cats after your ex and neuter them! The donation can be made through justgiving. https://www.justgiving.com/rspca-altrincham-cheshire

I absolutely burst out laughing

Ashley continues to organize for Minnesotans and this is one more way you can help, if you're a frequent flyer.

And: it's fucking bleak that we have to crowdfund flights for law-abiding people who have been abducted by ICE, taken to another state, released, and given NO help to get home.

Bibbe Hansen show at Hunchback Gallery felt like old-school Worcester Worcester has long had a history of amazing secrets hidden inside old warehouses: Hunchback Gallery is the latest in that tradition.

Worcester has long had a history of amazing secrets hidden inside old warehouses: Hunchback Gallery is the latest in that tradition.

New rule. Journalists aren't allowed to post puff pieces about impossible work and fitness schedules without asking stuff like "who does your laundry? Who cooks your steak and eggs? How does your dusting get done if you're out on a long run?"

Five jobs I've had:
- copywriter
- a startup's sole marketing employee
- freelance photographer
- illicit barber
- mall food court crepe restaurant cashier

If you see ICE in Massachusetts, call LUCE: 617-370-5023. They can get the info out to protect our vulnerable neighbors.

People so frequently say "get therapy" meaning "go become normal in a way I find acceptable" 🙃 Psychiatry writ large is about reifying and enforcing norms, but like...most of the time a therapist is going to coach you to accept yourself, not magically make you un-annoying to randos

from spinal stenosis and reluctantly living with my parents again as an adult. For Compulsion, I brought modular origami and disco objects together into one entity. It should be the ultimate comfort object, but it seems a bit too sharp for that. (end)

compulsively folding origami paper into Sonobe modules, making 12 to 120 of the same module to assemble into polyhedrons called kusudama.
Disco objects emerged from my desire to control and beautify my limited environment at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when I was convalescing (cont'd)

A stellated icosahedron covered in silver mirror tile

Disco Objects (Compulsion), 2025

Origami paper, papier-mache, acrylic, and mirror tile

Modular origami and ‘disco objects’ (unconventionally shaped objects with reflective finishes) have long been two of my less serious creative hobbies. Every winter since I was a child, I’ve found myself (cont'd)

A 1996 Got Milk ad featuring Dennis Rodman wearing a milk moustache, some jewelry, and nothing else. The photo ends just below his belly button piercing.

Regardless of how one feels about dairy I think we can all agree that we are further from God's light than we were in 1996 on this one:

I wrote the first draft of a near-future cyberpunk novel in 2024-2025 and it now feels like an utopian alternate universe instead of relatively sober speculative fiction 😬

I resent it so much. I always look away even though it feels silly

I need my cyberpunk back-alley surgeon called Stryker to have named herself after Susan

big, if true

Secretions smelled like the penguin exhibit at my local aquarium to me 😬 definitely unusual!

Statue of a man fighting babies

This is what I looked like in 2016. It was an angry time in my life, I don’t think I acted well all the time, but ultimately I’m proud of how I saw myself through it

He's out there...somewhere...

Hey there Delilah
What's it like in Roku City?

mrbeast should be a position like president rather than a specific guy, and we should be able to impeach — or otherwise overthrow — the current one and replace him with someone else. it’s time for us to install leftist mutual aid mrbeast. he will heal our broken nation

Oof, felt

Also, egg industry consolidation and monopolization

Ok fellow skeeters - this is how we take care of each other. I’ll match the next 1,000$ in donations. Reply below when you donate.

Don't let Zimbardo win

Dear artists, it's hard avoiding wondering if what we do is irrelevant or an insult when it's harsh, scary, dangerous & violent out there, but one thing is always true as stone: someone will need what you do, someone won't, & you won't know the difference. Err on the side of hope. Create if u can.

Post by Bluesky on X: "NEW FEATURE: This button allows you to opt out of having images you post on X turned into porn" Screenshot showing the Bluesky login screen, cursor hovering over "Create a new account"

A reply to the X post "@grok put a bikini on this butterfly". Grok complies. Image below shows the same screenshot from the original post, but with a bikini on the Bluesky logo.

Screenshot of the Bluesky X account, showing that we changed our avi to the bikini butterfly. New bio: "Proilfe picture created by Grok without our consent"

lol lmao even

As a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor

Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes

Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day

Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods

writing is so funny because you think wow I hope people read this thing I made but also oh no what if people read it