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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Nine is kind of limiting but as a Gen Xer my tastes were formed in a time of scarcity which is part of why these are all pre-streaming

Grid of nine albums: Another Green World by Eno, Rembrandt Pussyhorse by Butthole Surfers, Gravity by Fred Frith, LC by the Durutti Column, Plight & Premonition by Czukay/Sylvian, Iaora Tahiti by Mouse On Mars, Queen of All Ears by Lounge Lizards, The Screens by Philip Glass & Foday Musa Suso, Triptych by Demdike Stare

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I choose to believe that this fine establishment is named after my namesake Mozi 墨子.

Night shot of the illuminated sign for the MOZ Grill and Chill restaurant

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Print technicians, walk me through this gallery, but avoid using the terms: - Color management - dry offset - PKD (Packing Date) Semioticians, do the same, but the terms you must avoid are: - authenticity - mescaline - PKD (Philip K Dick) Nutritionists, do the […] [Original post on mas.to]

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

With all this shit, this arch, The Kennedy Center, the East Wing, I’m just like: good. I hope the ruins are still visible when the aliens finally discover our dead planet in some age to come. And in the meantime: don’t let anybody pretend we should have official […] [Original post on mas.to]

Screenshot of Washington post headline:
“Trump's arch will harm historic sites but must proceed, federal officials say”, subhead: “While acknowledging the project's "adverse effects" on dozens of sites, the administration is asking local preservationists to sign on to an agreement by Monday.”

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

How many missiles is it worth to ya?

Screenshot of brief news item from Bloomberg dated today headlined “Trump Urges Zelenskyy to Stop Hitting Russia's Diesel Refineries”

President Donald Trump says Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has to stop striking Russia's diesel fuel refineries because it's "hurting the world."
• Trump speaks to reporters at a golf course in Ireland
• Trump says the US has spoken to Zelenskyy about the targets

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Damn, The Poetry Foundation seems to have abandoned their highbrow magazine design for something more commercial

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Halide even makes my usual workday photo needs fun.

iPhone photo shot down on a Supermicro X9SAE-V server motherboard moodily sidelit by a little flashlight beam.

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Marx on Ai, quoted by Marshall Berman: “All our invention and progress seem to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and stultifying human life into a material force.” From: Speech at the Anniversary of The People’s Paper.

Snapshot of part of a page of a book:

“On the other hand, there exist symptoms of decay, far surpassing the horrors of the latter times of the Roman Empire. In our days everything seems pregnant with its contrary. Machinery, gifted with the wonderful power of shortening and fructifying human labor, we behold starving and overworking it. The new-fangled sources of wealth, by some weird spell, are turned into sources of want. The victories of art seem bought by the loss of character. At the same pace that mankind masters nature, man seems to become enslaved to other men or to his own infamy. Even the pure light of science seems unable to shine but on the dark background of ignorance. All our invention and progress seem to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and stultifying human life into a material force.

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Walking the aisles of this #usedbookstore at lunch the other day, I came across a paperback by Scott Bradfield. He made a big splash with his first novel, which I was very taken with for a minute, thirty five years ago. The cover was probably by Chip Kidd. On the […] [Original post on mas.to]

Original Picador paperback edition of Scott Bradfield’s GREETINGS FROM EARTH, short stories. Sitting face out on a crude bookshelf. Some titles on the spines visible behind the book include ONION by somebody named Kate Braestrup, and a pair of fascist survivalist fantasies entitled FOREIGN ENEMIES AND TRAITORS and DOMESTIC ENEMEIES.

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Can’t be an organic movement

Screenshot of article headline: “How left-wing US media is powering progressive candidates” of August 6, 2026. Thumbnail photo of Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed speaking at a a campaign rally.

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Love it when Bloomberg takes a side - gift article […] [Original post on mas.to]

Screenshot of a businessweek article headline: Trump Slams Exxon, Chevron for Profits Amid War He Launched - photo of the sign outside the The ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. Baytown refinery in Texas

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Anodyne ambient music with the sounds of san francisco emergency services shortwave playing over it. Always appropriate for working at the computer though I do recommend doing a little EQ to dial back the voices somafm.com/sf1033

Screen grab of an equalizer settings window, the curve dips in the vocal range and is raised towards the bottom end and at the top.

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

I don't think they had already specified that the club was in London before they got to the end of the headline

CNN headline: Singer Chris Brown pleads guilty to affray over altercation at London nightclub

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

just clicked the "cool" button

Screenshot of a dialog box "Nice one! You're all signed up. Moby Dick by Herman Melville will be sent every MTWTHF at 7:15 AM, starting on Friday..." with the single confirmatory button: "cool."

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

I'm getting closer to putting together my book-length set of photos taken inside the large design firm where I worked for twenty years, until it crash landed and got bought and reduced to a logo and a handful of employees working from home. This will probably just be […] [Original post on mas.to]

Four presentation slides of More cigarette packaging from the early eighties, presented on llittle alligator clip stands and lined up on the ledge of an office window.

Photograph of a modern bent-wood chair behind a grey desk, empty except for one post-it note. Light streams through an interior window in the background. The glass of the window is patterned with horizontal stripes to obscure the view for privacy reasons. The strips of light cast through the window fall across a somewhat dingy wall where brackets from a shelf remain, but no shelf.

Photograph of a two orange modern upholstered chairs sitting in an open office space. Each has a piece of blue painter's tape stuck to an arm to mark them for some purpose.

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

New tenant moving in to this fancy old building, apparently it’s called Fidelity Hotel. Presumably they do not rent by the hour.

Square photo of a glass and sandstone building front, with a green awning reading FIDELITY HOTEL.

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

I got Ed Zitron? I guess I’ve heard of him. Also I don’t understand what the Davos - Dubai axis is

Screenshot from that new political axis quiz going around right now. I got: 69 percent woke vs child, 64 percent Neo Luddite vs techbro, 67 percent sooner vs hope pilled, and 69 percent Davos vs Dubai

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

Hey Siri, directions to banana whereas argue?

Screenshot of notification on phone screen: “what3words now in Apple CarPlay. Connect what3words to your vehicle for precise navigation. Tap to learn more.”

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

u/GameDuchess wants to know where this place is

A 4x6 snapshot of a woman in a grey t shirt sitting on a roadside barrier. Behind her a hill slopes down to a broad grey river across which lies a pale mint colored double suspension bridge. The thumb of the hand that holds the photo intrudes to press a torn scrap of cardboard over woman’s face, rendering her anonymous. The far shore is treed in green and the sky is grey.

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

windows security reassuringly tells me "You're up to date" and then in small text informs me that this is as of over one year ago.

screenshot of the Windows Update window, which says "You're up to date" in large type followed by in much smaller grey type, "Last checked 4/16/2025..." more than a year ago....

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

I like this Bristol Stool Scale poster but I was looking for a larger size, it needs to hang over the fireplace.

Screenshot of an Amazon listing for “Bristol Stool Chart Digestive System Poster (9) Canvas Painting Wall Art Poster for Bedroom Living Room Decor 16x24inch(40x60cm) Unframe-style” showing an image of the standard scale (showing poop of various consistency) as it would look hanging as a poster in a modern living room

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026

What a find for ten bucks and of course it’s a W.A. Dwiggins design.

Photo of the fourth edition of The American Language by H.L. Mencken standing on the shelves of a used bookstore.

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

…in the Metaverse. With NFTs.

Screenshot of news article from Seeking Alpha: Coinbase CEO: Stablecoins will become the default currency for Al agents

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

Hey u/TravelStateGov, what’s our own travel advisory level?

Screenshot of a promoted post from the US State Department: “WCGW traveling to a country with a Level 4 travel advisory? More than you can imagine. Wrongful detention. Kidnapping. Death. It could all be on the table when you travel to a country with a Level 4 travel advisory. So just don't. Because, while the…”

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2026

Please note that I am hereby trademarking all three names for lines of luxury trash couture. Logo like the below

Words "Elite Panic" set in a gothic Helvetica-like typeface, black type on white background.

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2026

I mean I joined r/noisemusic because I’m a fan, I’m just saying if you wanted someone to make fun of you for your taste in music you could just leave this up on your computer screen.

Screenshot from Reddit’s r/noisemusic subreddit of a post headline. “Can a flute be “Noise”? My avant-garde approach.

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026

The purpose of a system is what it does: funnel money away from poor people, towards liberals www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/findin…

Screenshot of a local news article : “FINDING
SOLUTIONS: Hackathon encourages use of artificial intelligence to prevent homelessness in
Cincinnati The week-long project challenge is related to Cincinnati's Impact Award, which challenged organizations to collaborate on the city's eviction crisis.”

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026

Hey guys no worries about the AI bubble, I found the next thing with which to race to burn up computing power

Screenshot from BUSINESS INSIDER:

A Wall Street analyst warns that quantum computing could eventually crack the cryptography of bitcoin
By Jennifer Sor
Updated Jan 17, 2026

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

Democrats 2028 platform leaked

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025

Weird shit. AI to spy on texts between you and your partner to interject when you’re spiraling into mental illness. chatwren.com/early-access-ads?rdt_c…

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025

Called it, he demolished the East Wing without an actual plan lol apple.news/APJaafuwhQSaPnEfR2hjLzA

Article from WaPo: ‘Plans for the addition as of Tuesday had not been submitted to the National Capital Planning Commission, a 12-member board charged by Congress with overseeing federal construction projects and now led by Trump allies. A preliminary agenda for the commission’s next meeting, scheduled for Dec. 4, does not include the ballroom project under projects expected to be covered at the meeting or reviewed by the body in the next six months. White House officials say that the administration still plans to submit its ballroom plans to the commission at “the appropriate time.”’

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/11/2025

What’s the term, in critical theory, for when a text takes a position *diametrically* opposed to the conditions which it actually implies?

Screenshot of an ad from meta on Reddit, image is of the meta vr glasses seen from an angle as if you have taken the glasses off and are holding them in front of you. There is an image of some kind of screen in the lens. The text reads “meta ray ban display : stay in the moment with in-lens messaging”

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025

From Reddit. Joe Biden overseeing the nomination of Clarence Thomas.

Straight on photo of a young Joe Biden behind a table covered in a green felt-like table covering, mic, glass of water, and name plate in front of him. Miscellaneous congresscritters around him. In the foreground, back of Clarence Thomas’s young head

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

Headline: “AI-driven ATMs target sceptical Russians to cash in their gold” If gold is good enough for citizens of kleptocracy A, it’s probably good enough for citizens of kleptocracy B. stocks.apple.com/AknwoF8_cTDqZbKSU6…

Excerpt from article:

“And sales have continued to rise, with Russia's Finance Ministry advising investors to keep long-term savings in gold.
"I bought gold not with the aim of making a profit in the near future, but with the aim of creating a safety cushion for myself in case of hyperinflation," said Dmitry Semenov, a private gold investor.
MGKL Group, which owns a network of pawnshops across Russia, said demand for gold jew ellery, which it either resells or holds as collateral, doubled in the first nine months of 2025.”

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2025

I love it when a small business owner discovers a good pun related to their line of work, so out on the road I stopped for coffee at “He Brews,” only to discover this enlightening message

Plaque reading: “C.O.F.F.E.E. : Christ Offers Forgiveness For Everyone Everywhere.”

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2025

Browser error message: “This page can’t be displayed.” Ok so just what am I looking at then?

Hastily snapped photo of a computer screen displaying a web browser window with a white background and the headline “This page can't be displayed.” In smaller text below this:
• Make sure the web address http://aas.gov is correct.
• Look for the page with your search engine.
• Refresh the page in a few minutes.

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2025

This is apparently a real brand of mineral water — Icelandic Glacial. Well I guess if it’s melting already…

Packshot of an Icelandic Glacial bottle of mineral water and a carton pack of 24x 500ml bottles behind it. Design features an outline of the island. Bottle is designed with uneven surfaces to look like ice.

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2025

I dig the down arrow in the Ascend logo.

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2025

Of course Obama gave this message to… a group of private donors. “Now is exactly the time that you get in there and do something” he said — i.e., don’t put away that checkbook. And look at this email.

Fundraising email with a picture of Obama: DEMOCRATS NEED TO TOUGHEN UP —YES. Exactly!
At Fight the Right, we're not playing nice with fascists. We're not compromising with insurrectionists. We're not politely asking MAGA extremists to maybe tone it down. We are on a mission to punch holes in Trump's agenda, flip the Senate, rip the gavel out of MAGA hands, and restore Democrats to power. But here's the truth: we're still behind on our July fundraising goal. And if we're serious about toughening up - we need grassroots muscle to back it up. Show Obama you're ready to fight back and PROVE we're stronger than Trump's entire cult. Pitch in today…

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2025

A tiny tomato plant growing in leaf litter in a riverfront park, presumably from seeds dripped out of some other worker’s lunch .

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Kool Mo Zi @kmck.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2025

As it turns out, Tacitus lies buried in Cincinnati.

On a bright day, looking down at a small, weathered headstone that simply reads TACITUS. Brown earth and green grass around it.

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