Zack Furness
@punkademic.bsky.social
Professor | Noisemaker | Half-Steeler | Dad | Luddite | Books - One Less Car: Bicycling & the Politics of Automobility, Punkademics, The NFL: Critical & Cultural Perspectives | Views are mine alone | Pittsburgh, PA | https://linktr.ee/punkademic
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Zack Furness
@punkademic.bsky.social
· Nov 12
World Punk Atlas: A Map of DIY Punk Spaces - Google My Maps
Hey punks! This is a collective DIY project aimed at documenting past and present venues that host(ed) punk and hardcore shows around the world. If you're interested, please contribute as much info as...
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I started this DIY World Punk Atlas a while ago & have been happy to see it grow. Please feel free to contribute and share it with other folks who might be interested! Simple instructions for contributors are linked in my first reply below. www.google.com/mymaps/viewe...
My family looks like they’re about to drop a sick ass new track
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
My family looks like they’re about to drop a sick ass new track
The Laundry Helper
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The Laundry Helper
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The Dallasification of the American Dream, Part Two:
Paranoia merchants of the endless exurbs sit in gleaming new homes, fingering their weapons, aiming at enemies that exist in their minds.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/america-is...
Paranoia merchants of the endless exurbs sit in gleaming new homes, fingering their weapons, aiming at enemies that exist in their minds.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/america-is...
America Is Becoming Dallas
Part Two: Sprawling to Freedom
www.hamiltonnolan.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The Dallasification of the American Dream, Part Two:
Paranoia merchants of the endless exurbs sit in gleaming new homes, fingering their weapons, aiming at enemies that exist in their minds.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/america-is...
Paranoia merchants of the endless exurbs sit in gleaming new homes, fingering their weapons, aiming at enemies that exist in their minds.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/america-is...
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Part of my clinical exam for my dental hygienist license is a full cleaning tomorrow. I’m confident, but I’ll be working with a 12yo patient. I want to make her as comfortable as possible. Any advice on connecting with a 12yo girl would be appreciated! Parents? Older sibs? Boost far and wide plz.
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Part of my clinical exam for my dental hygienist license is a full cleaning tomorrow. I’m confident, but I’ll be working with a 12yo patient. I want to make her as comfortable as possible. Any advice on connecting with a 12yo girl would be appreciated! Parents? Older sibs? Boost far and wide plz.
The line between Us vs. Them that will define future struggles for human dignity & survival has been clearly drawn by the tech industry. We’re worth less than mulch to these fucking psychopaths. Start strategizing accordingly.
What AI is costing you now.
“The number one issue was affordability,” he says. “But a very close second was data centers and the concern around them just sucking up the water, the electricity, the land—and not really paying any taxes.”
www.wired.com/story/the-da...
“The number one issue was affordability,” he says. “But a very close second was data centers and the concern around them just sucking up the water, the electricity, the land—and not really paying any taxes.”
www.wired.com/story/the-da...
The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived
A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The line between Us vs. Them that will define future struggles for human dignity & survival has been clearly drawn by the tech industry. We’re worth less than mulch to these fucking psychopaths. Start strategizing accordingly.
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Where is Gen Z? They're at WORK motherfuckers. They're broke
Opinion | The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Where is Gen Z? They're at WORK motherfuckers. They're broke
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"Our guy has the leather jacket. The comparison is preposterous and quite frankly offensive."
it's happening dot gif
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
"Our guy has the leather jacket. The comparison is preposterous and quite frankly offensive."
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Had a good chat with @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for the @404media.co podcast. Got a chance to talk about how tech companies main pitch changed from “you exchange some surveillance for services” to “we get to spy on you all the time and it’s good, actually.”
Luxury Surveillance (With Chris Gilliard)
Podcast Episode · The 404 Media Podcast · 11/24/2025 · 1h 3m
podcasts.apple.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Had a good chat with @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for the @404media.co podcast. Got a chance to talk about how tech companies main pitch changed from “you exchange some surveillance for services” to “we get to spy on you all the time and it’s good, actually.”
All it takes is $60 million to bribe the government into letting a handful of millionaires give potentially millions of innocent people cancer
The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
All it takes is $60 million to bribe the government into letting a handful of millionaires give potentially millions of innocent people cancer
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Jamil Al Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown has passed. Jamil was a political prisoner, an Imam & leader in the Islamic community, chairman of SNCC, Minster of Justice in the Black Panther Party. A revolutionary & a target of COINTELPRO and U.S. police agencies. Rest in Power
November 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Jamil Al Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown has passed. Jamil was a political prisoner, an Imam & leader in the Islamic community, chairman of SNCC, Minster of Justice in the Black Panther Party. A revolutionary & a target of COINTELPRO and U.S. police agencies. Rest in Power
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NEW: After Donald Trump was elected again, I started talking to trans, leftist, and anarchist gun enthusiasts and YouTubers. I wanted to know how they felt about community defense when it feels like rights, particularly for trans folks, are being stripped away: www.wired.com/story/the-ha...
The Hard-Left Shooters Leading a Gun Culture Revolution
Earlier this year, I attended a shooting competition for queer, often trans, very online misfits. Then Charlie Kirk was killed.
www.wired.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
NEW: After Donald Trump was elected again, I started talking to trans, leftist, and anarchist gun enthusiasts and YouTubers. I wanted to know how they felt about community defense when it feels like rights, particularly for trans folks, are being stripped away: www.wired.com/story/the-ha...
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After years of us enduring the most entitled honey baked hogs waltzing around in the crudest most vulgar maga attire, this washed up MTV prick now wants you to dress up in order to wait 6 hours in the security line before boarding a plane where the door will fall off mid flight. Fuck off bitch
Sean Duffy: "Dressing with respect -- whether it's a pair of jeans and a decent shirt, I would encourage people to maybe dress a little better which encourages us to maybe behave a little better. Let's try not to wear slippers and pajamas as we come to the airport."
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
After years of us enduring the most entitled honey baked hogs waltzing around in the crudest most vulgar maga attire, this washed up MTV prick now wants you to dress up in order to wait 6 hours in the security line before boarding a plane where the door will fall off mid flight. Fuck off bitch
Every story about this repulsive company’s back channels is like “Meta kills internal study showing irrefutable links between its teen users and depression, leprosy, halitosis, schizophrenia, and Dunning-Kruger syndrome”
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Every story about this repulsive company’s back channels is like “Meta kills internal study showing irrefutable links between its teen users and depression, leprosy, halitosis, schizophrenia, and Dunning-Kruger syndrome”
Free tattoo idea with that patent number
they hate Drag Queen Storytime, but they don’t even know what librarians keep in their desk drawers
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Free tattoo idea with that patent number
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one of my uncles is banned from thanksgiving after he brought a giant spread of artisanal cheese, engaged in a planned confrontation with my cousins who were hosting and called them assholes, and then left and TOOK THE CHEESE AWAY
the Murray's Confrontation has never been forgiven
the Murray's Confrontation has never been forgiven
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
one of my uncles is banned from thanksgiving after he brought a giant spread of artisanal cheese, engaged in a planned confrontation with my cousins who were hosting and called them assholes, and then left and TOOK THE CHEESE AWAY
the Murray's Confrontation has never been forgiven
the Murray's Confrontation has never been forgiven
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if you're a human on the internet and you work at an organization without any strategy for dealing with Infinite Gamergate (which is basically all of them), you should read this:
Two months after firing over Charlie Kirk comments, Ghost of Yotei dev blames harassment campaign, not 'bad joke'
aftermath.site/sucker-punch-c...
aftermath.site/sucker-punch-c...
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
if you're a human on the internet and you work at an organization without any strategy for dealing with Infinite Gamergate (which is basically all of them), you should read this:
Anyone who doesn’t already realize this guy is racist should get right with god
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Anyone who doesn’t already realize this guy is racist should get right with god
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1/5 My 2020 interview with Alice Wong is now out and ready to be shared! You can download it here: tinyurl.com/2wke8tk6 (Note that you may not be able to view it online if you’re not signed into Google, but anyone can download it.)
November 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
1/5 My 2020 interview with Alice Wong is now out and ready to be shared! You can download it here: tinyurl.com/2wke8tk6 (Note that you may not be able to view it online if you’re not signed into Google, but anyone can download it.)
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Gaza children are digging through dumpsters for spoiled chicken as starvation deepens under Israel’s blockade. Prices are impossible. Meanwhile, PA VP Hussein al-Sheikh praised Trump, mediators & partners, in a new statement today for “consolidating the ceasefire” & facilitating aid...
Vid below ⬇️
Vid below ⬇️
November 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Gaza children are digging through dumpsters for spoiled chicken as starvation deepens under Israel’s blockade. Prices are impossible. Meanwhile, PA VP Hussein al-Sheikh praised Trump, mediators & partners, in a new statement today for “consolidating the ceasefire” & facilitating aid...
Vid below ⬇️
Vid below ⬇️
Can think of at least three famous sci-fi films that show how great life would be if we block out the sun.
For years, geoengineering—artificially lowering global temperatures through technological means—has been met with skepticism. But the progression of climate change has pushed many scientists to seriously consider the strategy, Alexander C. Kaufman writes:
Who’s Ready to Think About Blocking Out the Sun?
The idea of artificially lowering the planet’s temperature is gaining supporters and hitting political opposition.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Can think of at least three famous sci-fi films that show how great life would be if we block out the sun.
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"Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun" C. Montgomery Burns
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun" C. Montgomery Burns
It’s cool that we all had to get flooded with supposedly centrist ‘abundance’ discourse, pitched by people who used to intern for Grover Norquist and worked with the Manhattan Institute and are generally smug assholes
November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It’s cool that we all had to get flooded with supposedly centrist ‘abundance’ discourse, pitched by people who used to intern for Grover Norquist and worked with the Manhattan Institute and are generally smug assholes