New term of endearment just dropped. NONPAREIL nonpareil [ ˌnɒnpəˈreɪl ] Noun * an unrivalled or matchless person or thing * a flat round confection made of chocolate covered with white sugar sprinkles.

Carquinez Strait, Glen Cove side. About 40% of California’s surface water drains through these eight miles of narrows.

Rudbeckia in muddy sunset, rust-and-gold. Apropos end-of-summer.

What do ‘strong borders’ actually do for ordinary people? Our latest newsletter explores how borders are weaponised to scapegoat migrants, and why systems built to ‘protect’ by excluding others ultimately leave everyone more vulnerable.

Political violence.

Distribute Aid@distributeaid.org · 6d ago

3 weeks after a powerful storm caused widespread flooding and destruction in Indiana, recovery efforts are far from over. Residents in the Black-majority community of Gary were left without power for almost 2 weeks, forcing businesses to close and preventing reliable access to food and water.

Introduce yourself with 10 acts or bands you’ve seen live. 1. Venetian Snares 2. Daedelus 3. Evol Intent 4. Björk 5. Explosions in the Sky 6. The Decemberists 7. Of Montreal 8. Cat Power 9. Phantogram 10. Nine Inch Nails

Alan Baxter@alanbaxter.bsky.social · 2w ago

Introduce yourself with 10 acts or bands you’ve seen live. 1. Pink Floyd 2. Dire Straits 3. Stray Cats 4. Devin Townsend 5. Motörhead 6. Status Quo 7. L7 8. Bolt Thrower 9. Faith No More 10. Ozric Tentacles Fun fact: This list is all bands I've seen live more than once.

Lone tree. Vallejo, California [A wide expanse of blue sky filled with soft white and gray clouds over a dry, golden hillside. Along the ridgeline, dark green shrubs and rocky outcrops break up the bare slope, and a single small tree stands alone on the skyline near the left.]

this is so good

Patrick Cosmos@veryimportant.lawyer · 3w ago

[drunk as hell trying to remember joanna newsom's name] natalie harp

One of my favorite fun albums: LP by Discovery, the 2009 synth-pop side project of Wes Miles (Ra Ra Riot) and Rostam Batmanglij (Vampire Weekend). 2009 electropop / synth-pop blending indie electronic, R&B, electro-funk, and hip-hop influences.

Discovery - LP (Deluxe Edition) (Full Album) - YouTube

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I wish people understood how much more impactful for networking small, value-oriented, authentic spaces are than big high “status” spaces where you’re one of many.

If you are up at midnight (in the US) then please jam that new mountain goats record. If you are elsewhere in the world you can probably rock those jams rn. Thank you

"one of the surest strategies for amassing autocratic power is what I call deliberate deliteracy: the destruction, restriction, and monopolization of the infrastructures that make mass literacy possible." www.theamericanvandal.com/p/neuroplast...

Neuroplasticity As A Praxis

We Can Read Our Way Out Of Autocracy

theamericanvandal.com

YES.

inthefade@ihavethatonvinyl.com · last mo.

great music for 3am: of montreal

bonobo - drift

Distance in Static, by Bonobo

14 track album

bonobomusic.bandcamp.com

We’ve now been running our HRT harm reduction kits project for 1.5 years - let's take a look at the stats so far ⬇️

chelsea wolfe - death is not the end

The Dark, by CHELSEA WOLFE

10 track album

chelseawolfe.bandcamp.com

The color of the sky in Seattle is outer space #464f54

🖤 Black Trans Lives Matter 🖤 Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP) x Omni Commons x Food Not Bombs East Bay North Oakland

This radio station out here out of San Francisco isn't half bad. www.kexp.org/bayarea/

*extends neck at you*

Rest in peace Alice Notley 🖤 This is a good read: www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

all my life since i was 10 i’ve been waiting to be in this hell here with you; all i’ve ever wanted and still do — Alice Notley Mashup of a photo of the poem from a book store in Piedmont + a photo of Lake Merritt in Oakland. https://www.instagram.com/nicholeelizabethdemere/

One of the greatest SF films of all time

buy my book@nmamatas.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Ooh ooh LIQUID SKY is also online and streaming for free! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyIh...

Community-based support networks are more important now than ever. A total of 773 bills that would negatively harm trans and gender non-conforming people are under consideration this year across the US. 48 have already been passed. Why not find and join a mutual aid group near you? 🫂

🏳️‍⚧️ Our friends in Fort Worth TX were busy assembling 150 3-month HRT harm reduction kits a few weeks ago! 🙌🏻 They’ll now be distributed to trans folks in Texas by Austin Mutual Aid and partners.

whimsical Berkeley

picotee-patterned roses // Berkeley, California

Classic California wild garden.

Venmo: @/JKNotSoBad Cashapp $/JKNotsobad PP: @/comfortingmoo Nothing pressing but if im back to not knowing when the next check is coming gonna keep these out there. Every tip gets a Mox pic.