One Battle After Another was good, but it pales in comparison to how incredible Vineland is. It feels almost redundant to say that Pynchon can pack more meaning and character into a few lines that most writers do in an entire chapter, but I’ve been absolutely captivated by it in this book.
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A perennial problem with homelessness and addiction is that the people we are told we have to spend time listening to and treating with dignity, is a guy who’s the Male Fantasies version of RoboCop and wants to turn the homeless into biofuel.
Michael HobbesI agree that leftists on social media can be too glib about how upsetting it is to see people suffering on the streets. That is, however, roughly 198th on my list of priorities on this issue. "we can't address this until people stop annoying me on the internet" is fucking asinine and *everywhere*
About 10% of the money we make on @bloodwork.show is held hostage by Apple every month. If you want to be sure your money fully goes to the creators you support, changing your billing from iOS to the web version of Patreon ensure that happens.
docI'm begging you not to use apple products. This shit is devastating to creators like me
Wrapping up a few bits in work before going on holiday, and I have this on in the background. A really beautiful watch and listen www.youtube.com/watch?v=631f...
I know a few fellas in London who look like this.
Luke Knoxjust became aware of William Howard Taft’s 1908 campaign poster
They completely replaced the top and bottom plate, new focus ring mechanism, and fixed one other issue, IN A WEEK.
Thomas O’MahonyOf all the different cameras I’ve used over the years, Fujifilm has ranked miles above everyone in terms of their customer service. 1 week turnaround for a repair and clean covered under a 2 year warranty (for a camera I bought secondhand), any questions I had were answered quickly.
Jokes on him, I don’t owe him any more money until January.
Thomas O’MahonyA lot of people don’t know that HMRC stands for Hat Man Revenue Collections, and if you don’t pay by the 31st of July he shows up at night and beats the piss out of you.
Some kid with a Flipper Zero is gonna use these to attack their teacher like a swarm of bees.
Phil LewisSchools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters The plastic, non-lethal aircraft, which can smash windows and ram attackers will be at the ready at certain schools in Colorado, Florida and Georgia www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...