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PhD candidate, German & US modern architecture @ UCSB | religion, preservation, environment | he/him With jazz and conversation From the foot of Mount Belzoni
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The number of people killed by the police has risen every year since the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis officer in 2020. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

On sale at the I.M. Payless.

yeah i would wear these

These are actually two different shoes, the Frank Lloyd Wright and the Frank Lloyd Left.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

Wow I made it

It brings me no pleasure to announce that the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation New Balances go exceptionally hard

my 'I tell all my team we've got to follow the law every day' t-shirt ...

Great bag from the Aaron Parks/Little Big show last night

Call the Governor and your legislators - demand no rollbacks on healthcare. As East Bay assemblymember @asmlizortega.bsky.social puts it, doing so would set a dangerous precedent for California cutting off peoples' right to healthcare.

Great bag from the Aaron Parks/Little Big show last night

In its Summer 1996 timetable Austrian Airlines included a hub flight banks diagram. Don't think I've ever seen something like this before. #AvGeek

tired: people AI-generating rando images of themselves as anime WIRED: AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, new analysis has found

damn bluesky still hasnt got rid of the glitch where my posts are bad

NEW: “Former LA Deputy Mayor of Public Safety Plead Guilty to Threatening to Bomb City Hall Last Year” Sounds like the deputy mayor called in a fake bomb threat in an attempt to set up pro-Palestine organizers. Wonder what the city attorney's role is in all of this: www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr...

I wouldn't have been able to attend graduate school at the University of Michigan without student loans. When I think it can't get worse, MAGA never disappoints. Cruelty is the point. Stupidity is their calling card.

DJ play In A Silent Way/It’s About That Time

I can't say enough good things about University Keywords (ed @andyhines.bsky.social, featuring an impressive list of contributors, out soon with JHU Press) whose index I built. It should be required reading for everyone in US higher ed today. Here's a snippet of the index:

DJ play In A Silent Way/It’s About That Time

So yes, as currently written the House GOP budget will require half a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare. That’s T as in trillion and “care” as in Medicare on top of the cuts to Medicaid and Obamacare. So how did this happen? As near as I can tell House Republicans and the …

It's not really deportation if people are sent to countries where they never lived. It's a human trafficking ring. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Please join us Thurs May 22 + Fri 23 online! It’s been a dream to organize this symposium with such spectacular speakers @curryhackett.bsky.social @celinaabba.bsky.social @thefunambulist.bsky.social @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social

AI study aid chatbots are supposed to help kids with homework. Instead, they provide date rape-drug recipes and “pickup artistry” advice. KnowUnity’s ‘SchoolGPT’ chatbot was “helping 31,031 other students” when it produced a detailed how-to for synthesizing fentanyl www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

What is happening outside immigration courthouses in Phoenix is horrifying. These people are showing up for their court dates–doing exactly what is asked of them–and are being met with handcuffs. Mothers are being arrested in front of their children. It's sickening.