Mardi Gras Hot Wheels, Joan of Arc, and cocktail shrimp costumes; the Wit's End Bad Puppy parade; and a bumper sticker follow-up appeared in our Close Encounters this month antigravitymagazine.com/column/close...
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
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How many of you receive 2x/week trash pickup?
We are still on that "temporary" post Ida 1x/week schedule.
So, technically our rates already went up...
had to call in the big guns (mom) to help me get my new apartment in manageable order
Emmanuel Damas, a Boston resident and asylum seeker from Haiti who entered the United States legally, was killed by ICE. He leaves behind two sons.
I never want to move ever again
Sitting on the floor in silence in my new apartment surrounded by boxes and boxes and boxes of my things trying to remind myself that all this stuff went inside of other stuff and will return there soon enough
Duck
Tweet that reads Leo Xander @STALLEON Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V - it is bigger than the car
I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head
(I’m moving this week)
my stress dreams seem to default to missing deadlines because last night I dreamt that I missed the deadline of moving apartments ?
back in the house of my nemesis, the sewerage and water board
living in kafka world thelensnola.org/2026/02/18/l...
Happy Mardi Gras ❤️
Mardi gras:-)
they should pass a law that says ICE has to follow the law
I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time
Perhaps the most annoying facet of strength is that the only way to acquire it is through consistency, writes Senior Editor @marginalmarisa.bsky.social We just have to continue to do difficult things until they’re easier. And they do get easier. antigravitymagazine.com/column/lette...
If you haven’t been able to get to a Union Migrante training yet, get thee to the @neworleansbookfair.bsky.social right at 11 for their workshop on solidarity in the face of ICE
Had a horrible run recently of people talking, in some cases nearly screaming, during almost every single movie I’ve seen in theaters recently. I dunno if people have just completely forgotten how to act or what but it’s made me apprehensive about going! Which sucks! Because I love movie theaters!
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the chokehold that the coffee Blue Bell ice cream has on me…
I want people to displace the imaginary depictions of *revolutions* that they have come to create in their heads with the actual small revolutionary acts that happen daily. We might get closer to revolution that way.
can’t and also shouldn’t IMO! I never want my work out in the world without someone besides me having spent time with it
I think about this all the time both as someone who edits regularly and gets edited regularly
Had a wretched birthday weekend but this email from Quest might be what tips it all over the edge
What I do know is that AI is not your fucking game and it's not mine. You see your slop-gobbling VP going one way, you go the other way. You hear me? The LLM-lubbers go one way, you go the other way. Hell, the hard part's done: you already know you don't want to live an AI-inflected life. A whole lot of people out there don't realize that yet, and for some of them the knowledge will only come after a great deal of pain, but you know what you must do. Write a novel, write a poem, scribble them on printer paper when your VP isn't looking if you have to. Get flowers for your desk and frames for your photos, write longhand in a diary every day. Buy a secondhand DVD player and secondhand DVDs. Smell a library, pull faces at a baby, splash cold water on your face. Call your friends on the phone even though it sucks and everyone hates it because texts and DMs suck more, just nobody realizes it yet. Pay for more things with cash and drop the change in a desperate man's paper cup. Cook enough of every meal to share with your neighbors, especially the unhoused ones. Sing Biz Markie's "Just a Friend" at karaoke because it's fun and everybody loves it. Live a life out in the real, palpable world that you can be a little proud of; refuse assaults on its dignity. You can only do what you can do, and life will feel wonderful again once you truly get that—fuck, I'm tearing up, believe me, it will shock you how wonderful life still feels. And the rest, again, is not your game.
‘dear rax, the VP at my day job is an AI true believer and it fills me with despair — is hope lost?’
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Calvin Duncan wins Orleans clerk of court race
Duncan, a political newcomer and former prisoner, defeated incumbent Darren Lombard by a wide margin in Saturday's runoff.
we used to build things etc
