Gilly

@gillyarcht.bsky.social

Architect+Art, SF in both its incarnations. Life embracer. Founder @art_slope. Climate eyer. BC survivor. Shaper of spaces, carver of light & air. Local radio http://radio.garden/visit/san-francisco-ca/LbmJqSyY 🦋Feed https://shorturl.at/6XVt3

Wikipedia remains one of the most useful things online. No subscription fees, no ads, no stupid pursuit of AI, all curated by relentless nerds. Maybe remember to throw them a few bucks every now and again.

East Asia is baking in ‘cruelly hot’ summer A deadly heat wave is gripping large parts of East Asia, bringing the hottest temperature on record in South Korea and complicating earthquake recovery efforts in Japan. Source link

East Asia is baking in ‘cruelly hot’ summer

A deadly heat wave is gripping large parts of East Asia, bringing the hottest temperature on record in South Korea and complicating earthquake recovery efforts in Japan. Source link

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‘In the kitchen the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh and ejected from its warm interior eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunny side up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two cool glasses of milk. "Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling’

Post by Troggie on mastodon, Today is ‘there will come soft rains day’. A short story by Ray Bradbury, 1950…A lone automated house still functions after its owners and presumable the rest of humanity were wiped out by a nuclear blastIn the kitchen the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh and ejected from its warm interior eight pieces
of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunny side up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two
cool glasses of milk.
"Today is August 4, 2026,
" said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling,
"in the city of
Allendale, California.
" It repeated the date three times for memory's sake.

Link to Full text: https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf

launching a substack in 2026 sends several messages, none of them good 1. you're not politically attentive enough to know the company is run by white supremacist coddling assholes 2. you know the company is run by white supremacist coddling assholes and don't care 3. you're getting paid, see #2.

Substack Still Has A Nazi Problem (And Doesn't Care)

For several years Substack has been accused of coddling white supremacy and fascist ideology for cash. And despite several major scandals and a mass defection of ethical authors, there's little seriou...

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What if instead of starting substacks in twenty-fucking-twenty-six people learned to give one iota of a fuck about whether they want to associate themselves with nazis.

Here's the thing: I (and millions of other New Yorkers) know that RFK is lying. I remember when the ambulance sirens started, and then again when they became so frequent that they didn't stop at night, so you had to play music to drown them out. I remember the morgue trailers six blocks away, too.

Jonathon Booth@jboothhistory.bsky.social · 3d ago

A good friend of mine was a pulmonary ICU nurse in Brooklyn and the thing that made me realize how bad things were gonna get were her instagram stories that went from "wash your hands guys!" to "I saw three people die today" in like a week.

Back in 2020, as a pediatric hematologist married to a physician, we signed up to volunteer in a field hospital for patients with COVID. We wrote our wills and worried about getting our kids sick. I posted about terrifying outcomes in kids and received death threats. Fauci is a goddamn hero.