gregorg @greg.org · 1moh hey i'm sad all over about it right now, too! AND about that vintage photo of it that got away 000
gregorg @greg.org · 2mthis all made me rethink my dislike for the Expo '74 Book of Mormon Pavilion in Spokane, and now I think everything in Utah from nuclear data centers to dirty soda drivethrus should be built in the style of the Golden Plates Pavilion greg.org/archive/2026... 010
gregorg @greg.org · 5mit predates Calder, but shoutout to Edward Wadsworth's 1919 masterpiece, Dazzleships in Drydock in Liverpool greg.org/archive/2024... 120
Reposted by gregorgElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 16mNothing in the Bible outlaws it either, couchfucker. Aside from the fact that no 6 year old is on hormones for anything and this is a wild lie, you’re not gonna make Talafreako stick to a guy whose vibe is ambulatory Dockers and he did better in debate club than you 4729
Reposted by gregorgJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 4hNew: USPS is to put cameras in its trucks that continuously record. This is to gather data on roads, signage, and to improve "community safety," the agency tells me. The cameras are marketed to capture passing license plates too, but don't run ALPR software www.404media.co/usps-to-put-...404media.coUSPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more. 30262116
Reposted by gregorgSarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 5hAnd I think he's right. People are repulsed by the regime. I'll also note that white evangelicals are some of the biggest supporters of Trump's anti-immigrant crackdown, so I get Talarico's strategy here. See: talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/homan-s...talkingpointsmemo.comHoman Stumps for Georgia GOPers by Promoting ICE Brutality in Speech to EvangelicalsIn Church, Merch, and State, Sarah Posner writes about the intersection of religion and... 07616
Reposted by gregorgLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 4h“When Meta files its taxes, it… claims that its AI data centers are a giant experiment that could fail… It does this so it can tap into a tax credit intended for research and experimentation… [to enable Meta] to claim billions of dollars in tax credits for data center expansion.”nytimes.comHow Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky. 14936
gregorg @greg.org · 5htaxpayers bought her a sex jet for her grifting sidepiece and msnow blames the husband? 030
Reposted by gregorgdarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 5hi think this is a fealty test trump daring republicans to show disloyalty 2440636
Reposted by gregorg404 Media @404media.co · 5hBREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned404media.coHow Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance ProgramHow the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program. 34736586
Reposted by gregorgMB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 7hWe don’t trust him. He met with Jared. Jeffries also doesn’t want to impeach. 041
Reposted by gregorgLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 7hYesterday, Trump’s America dot gov site answered factual questions like “who won the 2020 election” accurately. Today, it no longer does. 10233117
Reposted by gregorgScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7hA reminder: The Atlantic is the only US publication edited by a veteran of the Israeli armed forces. bsky.app/profile/thea... 11711
Reposted by gregorgFT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 8hIn 2013, the Daily Princetonian revealed that in 2008, Princeton University had paid to conduct a survey of students about sexual assault - then buried the results when *one in six* female undergrads reported unwanted vaginal penetration within the past year. That’s just under 17%.dailyprincetonian.comSurvey quantifies sexual assaultMore than 15 percent of female undergraduates reported experiencing non-consensual vaginal penetration during their time at the University, according to an unpublished survey conducted in 2008 by seve... 24824
gregorg @greg.org · 8hright this waystatic.klipy.comThe Simpsons: Mr Burns says 'I Bring You Love'ALT: The Simpsons: Mr Burns says 'I Bring You Love' 140
gregorg @greg.org · 8hadding data centers to make better climate models is the new adding freeway lanes to cut traffic 020
gregorg @greg.org · 9hProject Beehive and the test nuclear reactor was called Ward 250, they wrap this is Mormon language to blunt any public pushback 291
Reposted by gregorgPeter Huestis @peterhuestis.bsky.social · 11hBroccoli hair isn't a new thing! The Limbourg Brothers, c. 1412-1416: 0338
Reposted by gregorgKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18hA truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system 11966901267
Reposted by gregorgRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17hTime for this classic again. 125129404387
gregorg @greg.org · 17hBelgians really did just fill up their bougie little houses with the severest conceptual art around ig? These three Sol LeWitt works of torn orange paper are from a show in Amsterdam of torn and cut works in 1975. MoMA has one, but now someone should get three greg.org/archive/2026... 190
Reposted by gregorgSpokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026Also, please do not forget that the origins of Miller's policies lie with the Obama administration. Watch this @frontlinepbs.bsky.social documentary from 2011:pbs.orgFRONTLINE | Lost in Detention | Season 2011 | Episode 17FRONTLINE investigates the Obama administration's get-tough immigration policy. 1358180
Reposted by gregorgSpokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026Send Stephen Miller to The Hague. 21074442425
Reposted by gregorgPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 19hEarlier today, @zeteo.com revealed that Israel has kidnapped an American teenager and has kept him in detention for three months, with no charges. And then hours later, only one Republican voted to even somewhat hold Israel accountable for acts like this. 011339
Reposted by gregorgJosh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 20hi remember talking to my dad my towards the end of my senior year about all the time i had spent at the sun over the years and he said "well, that was really your fraternity for your time there." never been prouder to be a small part of this brother/sister/siblinghood 🫡🫡🫡nytimes.comStudents at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two YearsThe student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case. 248142
gregorg @greg.org · 20hEach one is somehow worse than the last it’s kind of incredible. There was a video of the Whitney installing one on a terrace with a crane, and I was like, could we just not? 040
gregorg @greg.org · 23himagine how psyched the hirshhorn folks must have been to have that thing off their porch for a while 140
gregorg @greg.org · 23halmost all the rest of the art at the reach was a loan, so it's definitely an anomaly 030
gregorg @greg.org · 23hthe lichtenstein sculpture of trump's hair, otoh, was ned rifkin's most lasting accomplishment as director of the hirshhorn 130
Reposted by gregorgOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The database they use in the show is here. If you search for ‘British slave traders website’ or ‘register of British slave traders’, you might find yourself on the History Reclaimed website, which opposes ‘woke’ history… 13714
gregorg @greg.org · 23hsurely kehinde wiley asking to buy back the painting commissioned by the state department will not have any follow-on consequences of political purging or liquidation of govt-owned artworks, just this one. and the joel shapiro, and hyperallergic.com/kehinde-wile...hyperallergic.comKehinde Wiley Requests to Buy Back Painting Removed by State DepartmentTrump officials removed the work from an embassy in the Dominican Republic in August, labeling it "woke." 3190
gregorg @greg.org · 29/09/2026ooh which watch was he wearing swisswatches-magazine.com/mark-zuckerb...swisswatches-magazine.comMark Zuckerberg's Watch Collection: A Closer Look at The Tech Billionaire's Timepieces - Swisswatches MagazineIn this article, we take a look at Mark Zuckerberg's watch collection, which includes both rare and intricate timepieces. 020
Reposted by gregorgJoe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇 883261508950
Reposted by gregorgkottke.org @kottke.org · 29/09/2026The death of web development education. “The income from my book sales went from being enough for me to live off (2024) to zero (2026).” [molily.de]molily.deThe death of web development education – Rescuing a field from disappearingRescuing a field from disappearing 23112
Reposted by gregorgAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The validity of laws like this have been debated for decades. Now, we’re going to finally see whether they withstand federal court challenges. 7615130
Reposted by gregorgBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I do think they probably ran his texts through an LLM and it hallucinated crimes. That’s scary and bad and it’s funny they got caught, but imagine how many other times this happens on a day to day basis against people with no rights, let alone the ability to publicly humiliate the AI prosecutor. 522097331
Reposted by gregorgMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026renaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid 1333666477
Reposted by gregorgsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Making fundamental due process rights a nullity with the emergency docket (again) 13748196
gregorg @greg.org · 29/09/2026i'm a bit ambivalent, because i think da corte does seem to have some awareness of the empty futility of his gestures, but does them anyway. so getting called out on it is to be expected to some degree. ofc that's not how the discourse around him operates at all, so, by all means, air him out 010
gregorg @greg.org · 29/09/2026"Confusing intimacy with equivalence: to reconstruct a great work is not to have made one." 161
Reposted by gregorgLiving well @thebestrevenge.info · 29/09/2026Really excellent cutting off at the knees of alex da corte, a perpetually naked emperor due for someone—anyone—to say “hey?” asapjournal.com/review/a-fal...asapjournal.comA False Brother: On Da Corte's Reconstruction of Paul Thek's Tomb - ASAP/ReviewGene Swenson: What happened to you in the 1960s?Paul Thek: I was beaten to death. Paul Thek’s legacy is undergoing a major revival, with recent exhibitions at Pace Gallery and Galerie Buchholz, a dual... 2101
Reposted by gregorgGabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 29/09/202611th Cir. rejects Trump administration's attempt to block an order holding that Trump's IRS lawsuit and purported settlement were in bad faith, resulting in sanctions for Trump's lawyers and an ethics referral for AG Blanche. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 117457
Reposted by gregorgAblokeimet @ablokeimet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is where the anti-trans panic is leading society. From Britain. #TransRightsAreHumanRights 023
Reposted by gregorgGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe. 5550322