coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 17/09/2026not the dogs of war, these dogs of Ukraine just want to be warm and dry… 030
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 11/09/2026Found the Metal venue in Bratislava, always good to see the politics up front… especially now. 020
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 09/09/2026After The Long Room in Dublin, and The Strahov Halls of Theology & Philosophy in Prague, the Prunksaal in Vienna was the last in the top three libraries in my nerd travel list. 0101
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 27/08/2026This Natik Awayez is in heavy rotation: natikawayez.bandcamp.com/album/manbar... 010
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 11/05/2026Trying to find the first couple of Sadies' albums on vinyl, only to be reminded AGAIN there was time when bands only made CDs. Dear Travis (and Bloodshot Records), what do we need to do to get Precious Moments pressed into a limited run? www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvL6... 000
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 20/04/2026I’m a fan of the neighborhood FU TEL public telephones around town futel.net/about/ 050
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 19/04/2026every time I read de Beauvoir, even the little things, I feel like I should read more de Beauvoir… 000
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 03/04/2026This person is starting to bum me out. Thankfully I have another Godzilla to replace the last… 120
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 17/03/2026Today, marks 27 years. Despite so many things being terrible in the world, I am always grateful that our little corner is doing so well. Looking forward to more adventures and rooftop beers! [Tunisa, 2024] 060
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 14/03/2026Portland Pals, if you protest you should do this. If you don’t protest, you should do this. shorturl.at/Pr7Gb If you want more information let me know. 020
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 04/03/2026thinking about my friends in Kurdistan, and grinding my teeth as I think about the assholes who have dragged us all into this mess. 040
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 23/02/2026The imperialist ideology of force, from whatever side it may come, must be shattered for all time —The White Rose 030
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 14/02/2026Willy Vlautin’s The Horse is in my top 2025 reads, and lines like this still bounce around my head on Friday nights… 030
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 06/02/2026The Spartan9 newsletter is the only one that I *actually* read every time it hits my inbox. The mix of travel/security/technology/politics keeps me interested, and I especially look forward to the monthly reading list: www.spartan9.com/newsletters 030
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 06/02/2026if you're interested in Arabic/SWANA music... I've rebuilt one of my favorite modern-intro playlists: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn8w... 010
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 06/02/2026not related to Lebanon, but it was surprising to see the Kiosko Morisco (Neo-Mudejar) - it felt like a little Morocco (via Spanish colonialism) in Mexico. 001
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 28/01/2026despite this sad character, Museo Nacional de Antropología is pretty amazing. 020
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 17/01/2026Hey, @calyxworks.com… looks like The Knock Back needs some support. 241
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 16/01/202650 days. Many thanks to everyone who sent messages, magnolia tree, lasagna, groceries, bottles of rye, donations, and gift certificates for food & drink... and continue to ask... you folks are the best. 030
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 15/01/2026PDX Action Medics need your help covering the cost of StB kits. If you can, please do: rosehipmedicspdx.org/donate/ Thanks, Pals. Look out for each other. 121
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 13/01/2026a black metal grocery tote was not a thing I thought I would own #devout 030
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 06/01/2026Jill Krementz's cover photo has always been a favorite, but I've been enjoying the inside nearly as much. One Man's Meat (is Another Man's Poison). 010
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 14/12/2025‘This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog’ —Muntadhar al-Zaidi December 14, 2008 01812
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 02/12/2025one week without the old man. unpacking seventeen years of patterns, ritual, and coexistence. 2100
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 25/11/2025This morning, just before 10am, we said goodbye to Grimm. After more than 17 years, there are no words to describe what we're feeling as we stand over a Grimm shaped abyss. [September 10, 2008 - November 25, 2025] 6140
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 01/11/2025Elder Beast dressed as 2025, and 2025 after the Elder Beast abandoned ship… 1110
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 29/10/2025I feel like it’s been awhile since I really enjoyed a horror movie… 110
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 20/10/2025I left Seattle at 11pm last night and arrived in Portland around 2:30am. I spent much of the trip awake, watching the rain on the windows, looping Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto's Vrioon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prx6... 020
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 03/10/2025If I can’t sleep, I’ll rewatch Scavengers Reign… www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWQH... 220
![What is most striking to me, and most discouraging, is that [the students] are so apathetic while being neither blind nor unconscious. They know and deplore the oppression of thirteen million blacks, the terrible poverty of the South, the almost equally desperate poverty that pollutes the big cities. They witness the rise, more ominous every day, of racism and reactionary attitudes—the birth of a kind of fascism. They know that their country is responsible for the world’s future. But they themselves don’t feel responsible for anything, because they don’t think they can do anything in this world. At the age of twenty, they are convinced that their thought is futile, their good intentions ineffective: “America is too vast and heavy a body for one individual to move it.” And this evening I formulate what I’ve been thinking for days. In America, the individual is nothing. He is made into an abstract object of worship; by persuading him of his individual value, one stifles the awakening of a collective spirit in him. But reduced to himself in this way, he is robbed of any concrete power. Without collective hope or personal audacity, what can the individual do? Submit or, if by some rare chance this submission is too odious, leave the country.
Simone de Beauvoir, in America Day by Day](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ztxohsr2l7sceyvqm73xgxfp/bafkreidaiobbjodurkzbhpqbb3iwa6tf4wagayzeuy5qpyqlpeyqzauxyy)
![What is most striking to me, and most discouraging, is that [the students] are so apathetic while being neither blind nor unconscious. They know and deplore the oppression of thirteen million blacks, the terrible poverty of the South, the almost equally desperate poverty that pollutes the big cities. They witness the rise, more ominous every day, of racism and reactionary attitudes—the birth of a kind of fascism. They know that their country is responsible for the world’s future. But they themselves don’t feel responsible for anything, because they don’t think they can do anything in this world. At the age of twenty, they are convinced that their thought is futile, their good intentions ineffective: “America is too vast and heavy a body for one individual to move it.” And this evening I formulate what I’ve been thinking for days. In America, the individual is nothing. He is made into an abstract object of worship; by persuading him of his individual value, one stifles the awakening of a collective spirit in him. But reduced to himself in this way, he is robbed of any concrete power. Without collective hope or personal audacity, what can the individual do? Submit or, if by some rare chance this submission is too odious, leave the country.
Simone de Beauvoir, in America Day by Day](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ztxohsr2l7sceyvqm73xgxfp/bafkreignpgygjcwzpzn6inmjf45zfe3qurnbdohgw6xdfzokxxjyxbaeuy)
