Mark Orbiter

St Louis Park I think. I drove by it a lot & thought I was hallucinating every time.

Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...

Documents reveal a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they help regulate:

ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees who declined to identify former clients.

Megawarehouses are what the powerful build to kill off the last dredges of the human spirit. The preeminent architectural form for their imagined end of the world. Containment units for proliferating human suffering.

After I moved to MN & got a fairly lucrative job I had to change all my CD hooks to treble hooks from fishing lures. I eventually had to wear a beekeeper's suit to get to the Japanese Psych section.

It's true, I once poked an eye out walking through a friend's CD Hookroom. (That's what we called them.)

Dreamers of the Golden Dream (Vol. 1), by Two Dark Birds 9 track album

Y'all this record is fucking great. I love Steve Koester so much. A great dude, & his first band Punchdrunk is one of my faves of all time.

I could have walked like 4 blocks from my house & taken almost this exact same photo this morning, then walked another 8 or so blocks in another direction & taken another one. Do these people ever go outside?

Yeah we're going to need lots of trials

genocidal govt: “you don’t exist”

liberals: “maybe there’s a middle ground here”

trans people: “no there isn’t”

liberals: “aaron sorkin doesn’t have a code book for this”

I'm a high school kid who just took shrooms for the first time. Please subscribe to my Substack.

Brother, if we started assigning sentience in inverse proportion to how much YOU understand something, every female orgasm would spawn a new singularity

The obvious wisdom and effectiveness of Housing First is obscured by the fact we've made "a tiny, no-frills apartment" an expensive status symbol in huge swathes of the country by creating an artificial housing shortage

Debunking Transphobia YouTube video by JasperDasper

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiOc...
Anyway posting this video again, in which a Brit managed to autism special interest his way into creating one of the most thorough primers on how bullshit transphobia is that I have ever seen. Like, this dude went to the MAT

We live in a world in which its entirely possible that Iran negotiations failed because people involved bet the under.

I am reminded that a startling number of people believe that if you’re a member of the military and you don’t like something your government did, you can just throw up your hands and quit the next day like any other job.

It Does Not Work That Way

I'm going to write a sci-fi novel set in a dystopia where corporations control the government, artificial intelligence is draining the world's water supply, extreme climate change is wreaking havoc on ecosystems, and the world's elite make money off of gambling on when the next war will be started.

Is it customary for Energy & Treasury to be in the sit room for something like this?

“Epic Fury” sounds like retaliation for a catastrophic attack, not like the response to the break down of sham negotiations to restore a treaty we broke.

RacketCast, Ep. 28: No War With Iran Feat. Rep. Ilhan Omar - Racket In this special bonus episode, the congresswoman suggests our 'dumb' and 'fragile' president might not have a plan.

Reposting from last summer...

How to tell the bar for AK's "courage" is below the floor. Would love to see a strong DFL primary opponent in the governor's race. I just don't know who that might be.

Spotify unveiling a Bluetooth-enabled urn (a collaboration with Liquid Death) after killing the musician middle class through the devaluation of music via streaming is…… a little on the nose

I was still a little young at the time to understand what was really happening toward the end of apartheid. Molly's podcast is great in general & this was a particularly enlightening series.

I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.

The DIY Cosmic Cover Art of Sun Ra In case his musical legacy wasn’t enough, free and spiritual jazz pioneer Sun Ra was also a visual artist, which is the subject of the new book 'Sun Ra: Art on Saturn: The Album Cover Art of Sun Ra’s ...

There ‘s a PBS documentary on Sun Ra debuting tonight. Checkout this piece I wrote for Publishers Weekly a book of Sun Ra album cover art:

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

John Cale's Paris 1919 John Cale's enigmatic masterpiece, Paris 1919, appeared at a time when the artist and his world were changing forever. It was 1973, the year of the Watergate he…

Sorry, I know I bang on about this thing a lot, but my Paris 1919 book is currently 40% off (as part of a massive Bloomsbury sale), if you think you might be interested. www.bloomsbury.com/us/john-cale...

Ordered!