Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 29/09/2026It’s been too hot for my long walks down Los Angeles streets, so I hung out at the mall insteadtar.land11 Hours at the MallNo third spaces anymore? 121
Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 28/09/2026On my deathbed: “At least I won‘t have to download any more apps.” 030
Reposted by Keith PlocekCole Nowicki @colenowicki.com · 23/09/2026The inaugural issue of SAUCE, "A DIY journal dedicated to the cultural, social, aesthetic, and athletic contributions of skateboarding," is now live. Stoked to work on this with such a talented, smart group of people. www.saucejournal.org/issues/issue...saucejournal.orgIssue 1: Magical, RealismWelcome to the inaugural issue of SAUCE, a journal for skate studies. Skate studies is a field of serious academic research that covers the activities, cultures, and institutions of skateboarding, av... 186
Reposted by Keith PlocekMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with. 8443461333
Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 18/09/2026"AI is rotting the bonds of trust that keep us working, playing, and being together." — Nathan Munn in @flaminghydra.comflaminghydra.comThinking partnerMetal machine thinking repudiated by Nathan Munn 093
Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 17/09/2026In The Hound of the Baskervilles, one of the characters describes himself as "a picker up of shells on the shores of the great unknown ocean," which seems like a wonderful way to engage with the world. (Then he asks Sherlock Holmes if he can run his fingers over his skull.) 020
Reposted by Keith PlocekVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Shout out to the student journalists at The Daily Iowan for reporting on the travesty that is Iowa's Center for Intellectual Freedom. With quotes from me dailyiowan.com/2026/09/15/u...dailyiowan.comUncertainty in leadership, curriculum surrounds UI Center for Intellectual FreedomIn the barren walls of his Calvin Hall office, where the Center for Intellectual Freedom resides, interim director and University of Iowa economics professor Luciano de Castro shuffles a stack of pape... 22663234
Reposted by Keith PlocekTar @tar.land · 15/09/2026Some people see the LA River and think of Grease or Terminator 2. Others are reminded of Jackass.tar.landThe Jackass Guide to LANothing shows the streets of Los Angeles as they really are quite like Jackass 032
Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 16/09/2026I'm sure this happens to you far more often than I, but I've gotten emails before where the artist asked me to issue a correction and basically change my review of their work back into artspeak, and all I could think was, I was doing you a favor, dude. And also, no. 110
Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 14/09/2026It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than a slight modification of capitalism 010
Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 14/09/2026I think about this guy all the time because, dangit, I am this guy sometimes 020
Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 12/09/2026Also, isn’t the analogy supposed to be about movement and not growth? Not to mention that some species are totally fine chilling on the ocean floor 1110
Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 09/09/2026It's the combination pizza hut and taco bell of civic meetings 011
Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 08/09/2026My dad died in November. He showed up in one sentence of an essay I published in March. And now he’s busted through the wall of an art review I published today.tar.landBig TaixSometimes grief will surprise you 020
Reposted by Keith PlocekSiddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The Assholocene. 39629
Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 03/09/2026Y’all love talking about quicksand, but I was also raised to believe there would be more limbo parties in my life 010
Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 01/09/2026Beep beep!tar.landHonking at WaymosThe future is not written, and don't let anyone hoping to profit tell you otherwise 021
Reposted by Keith PlocekJosh Caress @joshcaress.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Finally got around to reading this one, and damn: “The more we suspect that each other’s words and images have been generated by machines, the less we value each other’s humanity. And the more we dehumanize each other, well, you know where this is going, because in many ways we’re already there.” 021
Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 26/08/2026This year’s first-day-of-class walk-up song is…youtu.beYour Silent Face (2015 Remaster)YouTube video by New Order - Topic 010
Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 25/08/2026Many people seem to think AI can do everyone else's job but theirs 050
Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 25/08/2026I tracked down the guy who's been painting pigs along my morning commutetar.landTrump Pigs on the 10 FreewayLike many folks, I sank into a hole two Novembers ago. I’m not saying I was hiding in that hole, but I slid far enough down in there that I might as well have been. Eventually I began climbing back ou... 130
Reposted by Keith PlocekMatt Stromberg @mattstromberg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I'm thrilled to share "Series: One Thing After Another," the online exhibition I juried for Site: Brooklyn Gallery. I selected 35 artists who use seriality, repetition, and sequence in their work to explore formal, narrative, and conceptual themes. www.sitebrooklyn.com/series-one-t...sitebrooklyn.comSeries — Site:Brooklyn Gallery 051
Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 18/08/2026I wrote about my favorite script for @tar.landtar.landSanta Monica CursiveIt loops, because it’s cursive and that’s what cursive does, but it doesn’t stay between the lines, instead climbing up, up to the end of the word. It’s Santa Monica cursive, and you can see it on the... 130
Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 16/08/2026Not gonna lie, that first year or two, it felt pretty good to have all those randos wishing me happy birthday on Facebook 010
Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 11/08/2026Police officers typed the wrong license plate into the computer and smashed a guy's car window before pulling him out of the car and pepper-spraying him. When they realized it was a mistake, they charged him anyway. Those charges remained until he committed suicide.latimes.comA typo by San Francisco police led to a violent arrest of an innocent driver, officials sayA police watchdog found that San Francisco police officers threw a man to the ground and pepper-sprayed him after they entered the wrong license plate into their computer. 011
Reposted by Keith PlocekDr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Well worth a read, and an excellent example of critical reading and thinking. Why can't journalists do the same? 0126
Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 07/08/2026Hey reporters, if you load your notes or audio into an AI cloud service (ChatGPT, Claude, Otter, etc), there’s a good chance those companies will comply with a court order and hand that info over. “The rule is simple: Don’t share anything you wouldn’t the service provider or a court to see.” 021
Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 06/08/2026We use Brightspace, so they just drop the same link over and over again in the submission field for each assignment. But I also make them all use the same naming taxonomy, including course number and year, for the doc, so I can search for them all easily. OK, I'll stop typing now! 010
Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 06/08/2026For my writing classes, I have each student create one Google Doc for the whole semester and share it with me. Then they submit each assignment as a new tab. It works out well, because I can see how their writing has progressed over time (and if they are incorporating my feedack) 130
Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 04/08/2026Out of my walk videos so far, this one easily has the most views, with some people calling me a wuss for not walking further and others calling me crazy for walking what I didinstagram.comKeith Plocek on Instagram: "After walking to Santa Monica Airport for my previous video, I took a flight to Las Vegas. Upon landing at the JSX terminal at Harry Reid International, I could see the Veg...328 likes, 48 comments - keithplocek on July 25, 2026: "After walking to Santa Monica Airport for my previous video, I took a flight to Las Vegas. Upon landing at the JSX terminal at Harry Reid Intern... 110
Reposted by Keith PlocekJoel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026It’s pretty jarring we’ve just come to expect that the feds will lie to us and publicize false information and that there is virtually no consequence for it. 311833408
Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 28/07/2026I haven’t seen y’all this excited about a negative review since that takedown of Guy Fieri’s restaurant in Times Square 010
Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 26/07/2026I didn't say anything in that first scene but in the second one I definitely was the guy in my theater yelling, "OH!!!!!" 000
Reposted by Keith PlocekMallory Carra @mallorycarra.com · 24/07/2026One of my passions is helping people learn about the business of freelancing, so I was excited to help organize this event with AAJA-LA & @lapressclub.bsky.social Featuring UC Irvine Prof. Erika Hayasaki & Robert Lopez, McGraw fellow 🍕 & 🧋 provided. RSVP: lapressclub.wufoo.com/forms/zzspwh... 244
Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 22/07/2026Every independent coffeeshop in Colorado Springs is also a church 000
Reposted by Keith PlocekGingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians* 317255046965
Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 10/07/2026I was visiting Houston, a place I lived for almost 30 years, and I put a restaurant I knew very well into GPS, but I accidentally picked a different location of the same restaurant, and I drove the wrong way for at least 10 minutes, thinking all the while, What a weird route, but OK... 110