here's maybe the most embarrassing sentence i've ever typed: i got so furious with hotels dot com this morning that i had to take a walk and cool off

i’d never grown roselle before, which is in the hibiscus family and reminds me of an okra plant. it’s thrived all summer long with no attention from me whatsoever, and now it’s putting in these lovely blooms. can’t wait to see how it closes out the season.

oh my god holy shit take my money

Vince Pellegri@vpellegri.bsky.social · 23h ago

hey atlanta, Vinny’s is doing a collab with Smiley’s for the month of August!

here's what the Georgia DOR just charged me to renew my vehicle registration: $1 mailing fee (???) $6 convenience fee (because credit card? because online?) $20 registration fee (nbd) $238.59 alternative fuel vehicle fee (because i drive an EV) just a very special ~fuck you~ from the peach state 🤗

is the AI “success” in the room with us right now?

Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · 2d ago

Do you use Instagram or Gmail? You could be helping to train AI. Big Tech has turned what all of us helped create into a trillion-dollar industry. It’s time to tax AI so you can share in its success.

don’t worry atlanta only 58 days until october

the only thing that upsets american car drivers more than a fellow driver who stops them from breaking the speed limit is the increasingly effective infrastructure being built that damages their vehicle—and saves a cyclist's life—if they recklessly drive into it

turn your yard into garden. do it now! you don't need anything special! do it a chunk at a time. do it next to your existing garden if you want. this patch was de-yarded but bare for a few weeks. then the garden store set out a ton of free plants. they live here now 🌱

"I love being an artist. Guess who are also artists? Paul McCartney; Jean-Michel Basquiat; Lynda Barry; Miranda July; Octavia Butler; Gilda Radner; whoever drew Lilo and Stitch on a vending machine in the backyard of the tiki bar I used to go to in Brooklyn." halmail.substack.com/p/to-be-or-n...

To be or not to be an artist

a reprint of my 2017 essay on how we title ourselves

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happy first day of school to all who celebrate

as a friend, i just wanna say that y’all spend too much time thinking about james carville

finally got some sunflowers joining the giant cosmos at the Vannoy jungle

look at god

one of the times our house was burglarized years ago, the alarm went off, and then the alarm people called me and the police, and then i drove 15 minutes home from work to survey the damage, and eventually a cop showed up and pointed a gun in my face

Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 4d ago

It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.

sticker meter’s gettin pretty full

Happy Friday to you guys

New sticker design... inspired by linkedin? jesus christ, what a world.

hell yeah, saw Mopar Stars at South Bend Commons a few months back and have had this record on repeat all morning. they’re gonna be huge.

Niko Stratis@nikostratis.com · 5d ago

just had this beautiful moment of scrolling idly through the new this week tab on Apple music, intrigued enough by the title of a record by a band i had never heard of, and immediately getting hooked by the first random song. Like if Westerberg was from Philly? music.apple.com/ca/album/onl...

There's too much fucking shit on me. I can't breathe.

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“AOC must run for president. If she doesn’t, she is leaving significant gains on the table. Not gains for her; gains for the movement, for the working class, for progress, and for the world.” open.substack.com/pub/howthing...

AOC Must Run For President

History is calling. Sorry!

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thank god it’s friday amirite you guys

chat, is this good?

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 7d ago

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

"There has never been a better time in human history to be stupid," @garethwatkins.bsky.social writes. "Today even the stock market is for dumb guys. There’s quantum physics for idiots." www.welcometohellworld.com/there-has-ne...

There has never been a better time in human history to be stupid

Alright that's enough Odyssey. Let's skip ahead to the next fucking thing. Unless you didn't read this piece yet then fine go do that but afterwards we're done. Today Gareth Watkins returns to write ...

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i’ve written longform journalism read by thousands and marketing stuff read by millions and essays and humor and dumb viral posts, etcetera, but i think my favorite things to write are little delightful bags and shirts and other merch that 100 people see before they disappear into the ether forever

look, i know every business out there is struggling but asking an artist to paint a mural for free on your storefront PLUS selling AI slop anniversary t shirts is wild

got to spend a quality evening just me and the little dude

trying to go for a walk in the shade on a truly nasty ATL summer day

Alice In Wonderland: Navigating the Hedge Maze

ALT: Alice In Wonderland: Navigating the Hedge Maze

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