Quinn Norton
@quinn
Journalist and essayist, usually tech/poli. accidentally leftish. LLM vegan. USian in the EU. One of the early terminally online. Long time internet punching bag. Background image from Occupy Oakland. In dark times one must carry a candle.
OMFG The British have the chance to do the funniest thing Please please please do it, I'll even forgive y'all for my first marriage and Brexit.
This is my cat, Cat. They used to belong to a neighbor but decided to take over ownership of us instead. Cat is French and judging by attitude, knows it. Cat is also wonderful beyond telling.
As a technologist for 30+ years nothing makes me feel more seen than this post
It should tell you something that everyone I know from early web is a goat herder or a farmer or something like that now. Anyway I'm retraining to be a potter. Check these out.
It's intermission and all the shorties are down on the stage doing their stuff
Breakdance got started with hip-hop in NYC in the 70/80s and popped up in LA quicky after. It was used to increase the peace; getting potential gangsters to dance fight instead of gun fight. It didn't work, but it also didn't completely fail, and it became an amazing part of culture
Where I live you're legally not allowed to build a parking lot without something like this