a man in glasses and a tank top, shorts, and sneakers takes a mirror selfie in the gym while holding the camera at chest height with his left hand and flexing his right bicep with the hand clenched into a fist
I’ve been going to the gym where I’m staying & thought ‘I have to take a #gay #selfie and say hi to the #humpday guys’ so, hi 👋
a selfie of guy wearing a winter coat with glasses, hat, and coat called in snow as a blizzard swirls behind
hello from this wet & sticky brooklyn blizzard here’s a #gay little #selfie for you
I wish there were a great dance remix of Natalia Lafourcade’s ‘Cocos en la playa’ ok goodnight
this intrigued me. i am a bit skeptical of its claims to “cultural omnipresence” in the age of the filter bubble, the echo chamber; is that kind of presence even possible anymore? i’m not so convinced. conceptually energetic, young, a great #gay read www.tank.tv/magazine/iss...
honestly tho the thing that struck me most about this profile was revealing that an actual full blown duke has acted as a significant patron of Goldsworthy’s for decades - which shifted some of the valences of his work to me from purpose to privilege in a subtle way…
“As soon as you put a petal or a flower in your mouth, the whole perception of it changes,” he explained, with undisguised glee. “It's bitter.
Is it going to kill me? You know? Until it goes in your mouth, it's pretty. When it goes in your mouth, it's 'Oh, shit!'I love that.”
… “For me, the landscape is not a place you go to for therapy and relaxation—it is to get challenged and have ideas, and to generate thoughts and feelings and emotions.”
… “Change is best understood by staying in the same place, and it takes a while before you really get to see and understand change.”
Andy Goldsworthy has been a lot more interesting to me since I got obsessed with dry stone walling so I was excited to read this profile. He say a number of insightful things …
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
good look at a tactic that used AI to astroturf public comment to prevent implementation of sound clean air policies in socal - www.latimes.com/environment/...
“The defining aspect of cinema is not just large-scale projection, not just seeing it in the dark with strangers. The defining aspect of the cinema is that you don't control the time at which it starts and stops.“ reading A. S. Hamrah makes me want to go to the movies
Daniel Lefferts with a great short story in the @yalereview.bsky.social serving up a dose of scathing gay horror — too real, too close !
yalereview.org/article/dani... #gay #fiction
here are some reads I’ve enjoyed lately starting with Jennifer Kabat’s essay about knotweed in @thebaffler.com
thebaffler.com/outbursts/th... #nature #naturewriting #recommendation
a smiling gay guy with a mustache takes a selfie from the ground up also capturing nearly the entire underside of the cap of an amanita mushroom on a warm and sunny day
and as a little treat here is me as a happy #gayguy taking a selfie with an amanita in the warmer times. what do you see ? #gay #selfie #lol #🍄
a cartoonishly plump brown bolete springs from the ground with a two tiny additional fruitings including one popping out seemingly from underneath the large main subject
i mean, this was probably the most perfect bolete i have ever seen. what are some good resources for identifying american boletaceae? i would love to learn more about ways to identify boletaceae if anyone has good resources for that. #🍄 🍄🟫 #bolete #mushrooms
a flush of three plump grey-green colored russula sprouting from soil near elka park, new york.
going through old photos - a grey-green russula from a few seasons ago - i know enough now to know russula can be a tough identification and there are definitely many species growing in the catskills. #🍄 #mushrooms #russula
up early after the party reading @mckenziewark.bsky.social
happy 2026 out there
great essay about #gaza and #art #nangoldin #berlin and the #artworld www.equator.org/articles/how...
i love reading what John Lanchester writes about economics in @lrb.co.uk & when he talks about good sam / bad sam in ^^ that essay it was making me think of the nice-to-troll spectrum Paul McAdory talks about in this essay:
enjoyed this combo review that sketches two quick multi-decade profiles of Jensen Huang at #nvidia and Sam Altman at #openai in @lrb.co.uk all about #ai #machinelearning #neuralnets #tech
this was good, i recommend listening to the audio, about #🍄 for anyone looking for an open-ended read about #ecology emergencemagazine.org/conversation...
yes - thank you ! the pair i got on sale.
i love spring steel frames from mykita. they’re durable, super light, smart shapes. great fitting in-store, and great customer service. yes, they are $$$ (although ive gotten frames half off on sale). i’ve had three pairs over three decades. a gay stole my first pair while i was working an event.
Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R
“human thinking is largely independent of human language — and we have little reason to believe ever more sophisticated modeling of language will create a form of intelligence that meets or surpasses our own.[…] We use language to think, but that does not make language the same as thought.” #ai #llm
watch where your recipes come from out there … thought in particular this observation was notable that "Because the content isn’t an exact copy, traditional takedown tools like DMCA aren’t straightforward, leaving creators with almost no remedy even when the imitation is obvious.” #ai #food
Literally zooming into a dark age somehow hastened by technology and innovation is weird to think about
