Brian Dusablon | Duce | Drifter Life

Don't ever, ever stop dreaming. This world can beat us down. Mean people can try to silence us, bully us, manipulate us into believing our dreams don't matter. But they do. www.drifterlife.com/your-dreams-...

How well do you know Chris? columbus.antiracismdaily.com

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. funded enhanced security for himself by taking funds from the department’s Office of Minority Health.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...

“These little patterns of worry and resolution -- empty tank, full tank -- make up daily life, and daily life can be taken for granted. But what if an empty gas tank were a real danger?” snyder.substack.com/p/a-meditati...

“What are your dreams? Where are your elemental waters? Are you moving toward them? Do you think it's too risky? Is it a bigger risk to stay where you are, only half in, and rot on the vine? As David puts it, ‘halfway will kill you.’” www.drifterlife.com/awkward-like...

A Wikipedia editor put it well: "You almost want to pat them on the head and say 'Yes, of course it will' in the same way you'd tell a small child that Santa Claus will be delivering their presents."

I love discovering random books. www.drifterlife.com/discovering-...

Had a little guest near our campfire last weekend. Amazing how good this phone camera is. #Nature #OlympicNP

Build an LGBTQ+-inclusive travel and mobility policy; assess risk by country and region; design safe, inclusive travel processes; prioritize trans and nonbinary inclusion; support relocation and long-term assignments. mygwork.com/news/lgbtq-t... #mygwork #protecttransfolk #inclusion

www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a62045 😁

daringfireball.net/linked/2026/... "My impression of consulting giants like Accenture (McKinsey, Bain, Deloitte, KPMG...) has always been that they are very good at looking smart but in fact very bad at actually being smart." Same.

anildash.com/2026/04/28/o... “If this small team of creators who aren't even a tech company can make an AI that does the right thing, how come the biggest companies in the world can't?"

"I suspect an Electron codebase is like sap, though — sticky, dirty, and harder to wash off the longer you wait." daringfireball.net/2026/07/clau...

So cool. milliontimes.vercel.app As are the physical editions: www.humanssince1982.com/en-us/collec... (via @kottke.org)

www.yahoo.com/news/weather... This is some Ministry for the Future level shit. Damn.

“People were willing to disable FileVault and System Integrity Protection to get consistent window corners.” mjtsai.com/blog/2026/06...

This is cool. And VERY difficult. My first squad had Kareem, Chris Paul, and Bernard King and went 41-41. I just went 68-14, think you can go 82-0? www.82-0.com/share?id=LHl...

daringfireball.net/linked/2026/... “Reframe the question and the absurdity of this proposition becomes even more clear.”

“JavaScript, as I have suggested many times, was a terrible mistake for the web. It’s absurd that a web page can access local storage space.” daringfireball.net/linked/2026/...

“up to 90 percent of ocean life remains a mystery.” www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/05/ocea...

This cool gold dragonfly let me get super close. Never seen anything like it! I was in Eugene at my folks’ house. He stayed there for a while. #Nature #Dragonfly

“move away from capitalism's sad notion of what constitutes abundance – lots of joyless stuff, not so much time for connection – to a vision in which maybe we have less material stuff but more immaterial wealth…” www.meditationsinanemergency.com/this-may-wel...

stringinamaze.net/p/rich-guy-q... “if you want to improve your media literacy, one simple way is to ask yourself whether you’re reading the news or just some rich guy’s opinion.”

I'm curious. I want to know what's in your soul, your being, your creative mind, what energizes you. www.drifterlife.com/on-thinking-...

Some late night deep thoughts: www.drifterlife.com/on-thinking-...

www.workchronicles.com/p/comic-i-fi... So true.

“We are living in Silicon Valley’s future now, and we are lonelier, more anxious, and more polarized than ever before. Are the mousetraps better? Safer? Who knows. But the mice inside are miserable.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo... “The fact that such people could be considered, let alone appointed, is a marker of superpower suicide.”

One party always spends money like a drunken sailor, the other always cleans up after them.

Yo fuck this ear plug in particular apparently lol

jeanettewinterson.substack.com/p/writing-ag... “I do not want to outsource my thinking. I do not need to outsource my language.” “Why would I want to outsource joy?”

Breakfast at Cafe du Sablon (had to). Good advice: “No computers over the weekend. Bring your friends instead.” #Brussels #DrifterLife

aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/wtf-is-goi... “Here’s some information about the current ruling on mifepristone, how people in red states can still access abortion medication, and some facts about the safety and efficacy of abortion drugs.”

Found a Malört sign at the Enid Tavern in London. Did some research. The more you know… @hodgman.bsky.social adopted the drink in his stage show…said Jeppson's Malört "tastes like pencil shavings and heartbreak." 😆 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeppson...

anglotopia.net/site-news/un... “The language surrounding pubs is equally rich and varied, reflecting centuries of brewing tradition, social customs, and regional variations that make each pub experience uniquely British.” #AlwaysLearning #DrifterLife #London

I'm obsessed with this! From the incomparable Bette Midler . . . 🤩 www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBj5...

“Engineers failed at crafting AI, but eventually succeeded in growing it.” Yikes ifanyonebuildsit.com

www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

“For them, the word failure has ceased to mean anything.” kottke.org/26/04/even-t...

How come they keep spelling “open” wrong? Does that street look closed to you? Only if you’re a car… and presumably that’s the real problem. #UrbanTruth

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We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!