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I smile whenever this guy pops up in my feed: www.youtube.com/shorts/aehsJ... - the definition of joyful enjoyment.

Fedbook reminds me today of Our Return to Sender exhibition which opened 3 years ago tomorrow. I had a terrific experience working with others to make this exhibition. You can see what it looked like here: www.projectspace-efanyc.org/return-to-se...

The one reason why you should make me your Senator for all 50 states:

I am being told my attitude towards potatoes makes me unelectable in Idaho

And not forgetting: Happy Mae Questel's birthday!

Happy Reta Shaw's birthday!

Happy Claudette Colbert's birthday!

"... comparisons between the expensive, decades-long campaign for same-sex marriage rights and the underfunded, subjugated campaign for transgender rights have a certain appeal for liberal pundits." @gbbranstetter.bsky.social on movements and strategic liberal misremembering:

We were practicing recalls with Virga in the house (me and my husband about 30 feet away from each other, calling him back and forth between us). Katya was watching. Now, Katya is a smart cat, and she was like, "I get it, when someone says 'come' if you go there you get a bunch of yummy treats!"

today's not really random theater photo: Melville Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, and Doris Lloyd in birthday boy J. B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls (NYC, 1947)

Today I will write 8000 words because I like pain

“Store in a cool, dry, dark, deep, secret, place where dwell the old ones. Do not stare. Do not shake.”

Packing a carry on after buying too much stuff: the worst kind of puzzle.

So man’s insanity is heaven’s sense

It’s genuinely shocking to me that Schmitz, a guy who built his entire career at a viciously antisemitic New York tradcath magazine, is invited to write so often.

So ESPN has basically given up all pretense of being a sports channel that covers sports or what is going on, why is every single morning show just loudmouths yelling at each other over some idiot topic that has nothing to do with actual analysis of sports

this is a rare cover & an interesting one. Warwick at the time was big into astrology & legend runs that she added the "e" on her name on the advice of her astrologist. She also reportedly didn't love sharing billing with the Spinners which accounts or the order of appearance here

This is such a good essay and an interesting incidental refutation of the claim that only people with humanities educations think deeply about thinking, which I’m very tired of seeing.

Art historians are obsessed with “why is this girl smiling like that”

opened an email I thought was about the German far-right party but it’s actually a PR warning me that my Wikipedia page has been nominated for deletion bc I’m not notable enough which, lol, but also, fair

sports is important because thats how the average lad who was busy saying "thats a penis" in anatomy class learns about the existence of about 75% of the parts of the human body

Terrified of spending Thanksgiving with my American family because of the Cranberry Sauce Scam

larry kramer has entered the chat

my parents did it with 3 words "are you satisfied?" and the moment I learnt to start saying "totally", life became awesome

explain American foreign policy in 2026

sometimes, ever so rarely, I miss my MAGA neighbour because winding him up was always the easiest score in the nation, but otoh I no longer get scolded by my wife for doing it so lets call it a wash

I can't believe I did this and I dunno if I'll keep it, but I was feeling edgy and now there is a rice lorry in the WIP

Just saw someone once again bring up Nancy Pelosi’s kente cloth while being dismissive of Black politics and I just blocked them instead of arguing, please clap.

tmw you dad calls while you're trying to hit a deadline at 6 am and reminds you it's your anniversary better buy your wife a gift son so you thank him for being a great dad who has your back then he calls back like 10 minute later and is like "its not actually your anniversary lol cooked you sucker"

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They’re doing white primitivism amid the resegregation push

as opposed to everyone else who wakes up everyday and tries to fail, like the fact this sort of idiot sentence isn't met with immediate fruit pelting is why we are here

it's the reply that sums it up for me

Cannot emphasize enough how this is the plot of Saturday morning cartoon villains and absolutely, 100%, what the world’s richest people aspire to do

Busta Rhymes popping an entire bubble with one line has to be added to his resume

about 50% of Bluesky is the 5% of people who are about 3000% more engaged with politics than the average person having daily slapfights over the future behaviour of ppl who decide who theyre going to vote for depending on the last colour they saw and won't remember who they chose 5 min later

Yeah and to be clear it’s not that he’s an irredeemable bad guy or anything like that, he made the decisions politicians make, it’ll happen, people forcing him to make the right decision is good.

Madness! To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.

What are you talking about, it was his budget and once he got public pressure he changed it.

"boxer who was never knocked down in 93 fights" sounds like something they made up for a movie, like the whole Khabib has never bled in a fight thing, a factoid that literally has no business existing. RIP, legend.

But don’t worry they’ll make sure the rubble is only staffed and attended by white professors and students.

Also have to point out Musk said he was saving humanity he meant he was buying Twitter to promote race science to slow a popular movement for racial justice.

This is circulating again—note that it’s from January, and it teases a conventional police procedural. The only real similarity to The Pitt that is cited is that … it will be an annual show with a season on the longer side. It is not, in any way, “a police version of The Pitt.”

speaking of my admiration for the Birds media push...

Yeah what’s happening now is essentially just campism for different politicians people perceive as their person.

Whoever is doing social media for the Birds gets it.🦅

all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain

It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx’s in the desert. “Speak, thou vast and venerable head,” muttered Ahab

the extent to which trans people are being told that they should hold their noses and support candidates who are saying they don’t exist (as Talarico said about nonbinary people earlier this week, for ex) or that their identity and HEALTHCARE are up for debate is shameful

Oh wow the Pacific Northwesterner who lives in Montana prefers reactionary racial politics, shocker.

There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty forlornness.

Went to Coyote v Acme and it was great. It’s both the movie we deserved and the movie we need right now

While packing for my flight tomorrow, I just discovered one of my bras has completely fallen apart, which means one less thing I need to bring back to Toronto.

the sight of that dead body reminded him that Moby Dick was yet to be slain

My friend the artist Scott Eagle is having perhaps too much fun distressing lighthouse photos for the Southern Reach coffee table book. Scott also always gets my novel drafts so he often has art inspired by my fiction before it's even published. And his art already inspires the novels.

My team won baby, I’m up

Bro tried to buy a pardon from the wrong people but we all know Trump is selling pardons.

Don’t really need racism speculative fiction amidst our current push for resegregation.

*when you want to make Redemption Era history sound reasonable.*

Re LRP I can’t speak for the OP on that thread but people took to the idea that MAGA was the hegemonic future with verve. People were giddily giggling about the idea of ending any form of “identity politics” in their minds.

It was 20-3 when we came home from having lunch and going to Costco and has been nothing but good for Texas since then so I think we did this

College football having a lot of trouble with the passage of linear time as a concept so far this season

You’re telling me, a Georgia fan, that Ohio State shanked one wide left? That’s wild

It comforts me that about a half dozen people of my acquaintance will always know what I mean by “The Hand Thing.”

embracing one half of the level horizon, a continuous chain of whale-jets were up-playing and sparkling in the noon-day air

Your lineman knocking you back over the first down line when you’ve juked yourself out of it is beautiful

the good news is that if you progress to the organized end of the board you can upgrade from a pawn that can only attack what's next to it to a piece that can cover way more spaces

I’m aware this is an grumpy old man in a rocking chair chewing on a corncob pipe kind of opinion, but the teenagers don’t form terrible garage bands like they used to. And it’s because of those damn phones.

It's positively breathtaking how much "A Country House" doesn't belong in Follies.

Collective Resource Hub in Brooklyn is seeking clothing donations: www.instagram.com/p/DdKJ1gxlA9... "Please make sure the clothes are clean and in good condition. We are open Tuesday through Saturday from 10am to 5pm." collectivefocus.org

You do not have to engage with these interlocutors. Stick to your point and keep it moving. I notice that Trump gets ZERO followup questions most of the time and just ignores what he wants to. Maybe these people should take lessons from him.

I hadn't seen that response from El-Sayed. Interesting that other Democrats who refuse to stand 10 toes down on trans human rights aren't just following his template.

noteworthy that there's a song called "sixteen year old doom" which if you've listened to a lot of 70s rock your natural suspicion is "this is gonna be that creepy shit" but it's actually just a bizarre little story about an alienated teen like the boomtown rats' "rat trap" but way weirder

Annihilation is at #20 on the fiction bestseller list at Powell's Burnside and in their Into the Woods display! I signed the into the woods copies and all Southern Reach, Borne, City of Saints, Dead Astros under V in the SF/F section. Nice to talk to a few fans + personalize copies while there, too!

this album has aged really well to my ears also the staginess of Moorcock's delivery will probably put you if you don't love e.g. Tim Curry's "Fearless"

I live in Washington DC but have seen flyers for a gala commemorating the Black Panther Party to take place in Oakland California. the website referenced is this one, which advertising tickets ranging from $300 to the 4 figures. I have questions. anybody know about this? www.bpp60.com

I see white men like Alex V and Alec K tangling with these people in the social media streets and tip my cap.

Personally I think that if someone is going to represent the “socialist” perspective on policing and incarceration in an ostensibly left magazine, it should be someone who does some kind of left organizing, not… uh… a Harvard sociologist who thinks we need 500k more cops

Come in thy lowest form of love, and I will kneel and kiss thee

in the service of mass politics, of course.

Prepare for "Carceral Immigration Minimalism"

I think my favorite thing right now in politics is hearing my 84 year old dad call Trump “the bastard”

who/what is anybody, literally even one of the people in this picture, looking at

I bored with all of these people. They are unoriginal.

And these losers are talking about "carceral minimism" - I just CANNOT.

Imagine publishing these fucking articles at a time when the Feds are rapidly EXPANDING actual concentration camps and FLOODING the streets with their thuggish cops. I mean.... and some are taking these jokers seriously??? What world are you living in?

I read Moorcock intently when I wasn't really old enough to be doing so, I remember how hard I had to work to follow his prose. Two things made me wanna put in the work: the respect he had in the sf world, and all that badass cover art I also copped this album used back then youtu.be/carRGEbPfAY

brb going to michigan to canvas

I guess this is common knowledge among real heads but today I learned that Coxsone Dodd passed on Satta Massaganna and for my money the only possible bigger miss in pop music history is Dick Rowe telling Brian Epstein guitar groups were on their way out in 1962

He and AOC clearly hired the worst consultants in all the land in the last month

Hosted my parents for dinner, I doubled a recipe I had never made before, wound up with a truly enormous amount of food. Texted our next door neighbors to ask if they wanted some. They’d just gotten home from a road trip and hadn’t started dinner yet. Serendipity!

Either we beat the no. 1 team or Sark gets fired 🤷🏾‍♂️

I found off-season peppermint stick ice cream AS IS MY RIGHT!!!

it was one of those moments that changes your perspective when i heard someone call stromboli an italian burrito

Rocked up to a bar in Kona and found ourselves watching Cy-Hawk next to a Georgia fan who grew up off Ponce. Dawgs are everywhere

These are people who don't see themselves as potential victims of the deathmaking institutions. It's always theoretical to them.

One of the problems with satire on this site is that you write it and think "ha ha my followers will know it's a joke because they know me" and then it goes viral and it's a lost cause.

I'll just say that "carceral minimalism" is not even warmed over "reformism."

I deleted because I promised a good friend that I would steadfastly ignore the white male reactionary academics who can't organize out of a paper bag and the white male dude bros who bleat on and on about "mass politics" but are deeply repellent to actual people...