Day six of the micro.blog photo challenge on “contrast”. I think I nailed it. 📷

“Debutants and schoolboys.” This quote brought to you by a note I jotted down and forgot the entire context behind.

Great article on green dreamer kaméa about the importance of slowness in activism.

“Slowing down is not a function of speed. It’s not, ‘let’s take a break’, ‘let’s go on vacation’, ‘let’s leave it all behind.’ It’s none of that. Slowing down is a function of deepening awareness, noticing the others in the room.

I started listening to the article on 1.5x, then was like, “what am I doing?”

A little on the nose, but here’s my reflection for day 5 of the micro.blog photo challenge. 📷

I got a spider bite on my pointer finger last night. I’d point out that I don’t like spider bites, but that would be pointless. 🏴‍☠️

If this isn’t a big ‘ol nostalgia pile, I don’t know what is. Day 4 photo challenge. 📷

Been grooving to Animalize’s new album Verminator. They’re like if ‘80 glam and thrash metal got in a car crash in France. 🎵

Day 3 photo challenge. Shadow of the laundry chair. 📷

I snagged Head Of The Love Club, an EP by up and coming British pop singer Gretel Hänlyn, on the strength of Drive. Nothing else on the record comes close to that one for me, but there’s a lot of promise. She’s one to keep an eye on. 🎵

You know what I think? Me neither.

WTF with Marc Maron is ending. I’ve been listening since 2013, when I heard a clip of the Michael Keaton episode on WNYC while driving around Brooklyn. What a run. 🎙️

I’m convinced the primary motivation for the widespread AI push is for bosses to suppress wages and eliminate jobs. 💽

While in Penn State a few weekends ago, I got to have shoofly pie. You know what? Pretty damn good. 🥧

Spotlight (pun unfortunately intended) on an everyday industrial curve; who hasn’t benefited from the humble street lamp? 📸

I bought electronic music pioneer Susan Ciani’s 1982 album Seven Waves. Truly staggering atmospheric work. 🎵

Night trees are interesting trees 📸

There was blood. In lines and other shapes.

There was blood. In lines and other shapes.

I’ve listened to a lot of Jello Biafra & The Melvin’s side project collaboration Never Breathe What You Can’t See from 2006. It’s the angry, well wrought crush punk we need now. 🎵

Finished reading: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 📚

Fun read, but funny to think that back in 2011 a near future techno dystopian novel didn’t guess that the technology itself might suck shit.

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

I bought Fear - The Ultimate Anthology, by Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin. Cool re-recorded versions of a bunch of classic horror movies either Claudio or the original Goblin scored, and mostly Argento joints. Cool stuff! 🍿🎵

jwz quotes a research paper on superfund CEOs. CEOs born on future superfund sites are less risk tolerant and more likely to lead firms to bad results.

Our results suggest firms may systematically mistake luck for skill in promotion decisions

This practice is so rampant, it feels like it’s hardly worth mentioning. I’m glad they’re doing the science on it.

As a community member, I unabashedly love bald jokes. 🧅

MYTH: Baldness is caused by too much testosterone. FACT: Baldness is caused by too little hair.