The Washington Post is getting rid of its Books section. We’re losing the institutions—journalism, middle-class artistic and intellectual culture—that once made life bearable. Those things were a threat to the super-rich who increasingly govern us. Democracy dies in illiteracy.

Through everything, I kept my Washington Post subscription because I loved its books section, especially the Book Club newsletter from Ron Charles every Friday. Congrats @washingtonpost.com, today you've made me cancel.

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Love today's Google Doodle.

Gig got cancelled which isn't great, but making the best of a free night by drinking bourbon and reading the new Don Winslow story collection The Final Score. Great read so far.

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

There are many serious governments in the world. The US is not one of them. (There are no penguins in Greenland.)

Here's your reminder that @jordanharper.bsky.social has a new book coming this year and believe me this is a book that you will NEED in your collection. A tour de force of LA excess and existential malaise Simply put He is one of the best doing it today

Bravo!

This was a needed thread for me today.

So you can't use your phone while driving but an ICE agent can use his while shooting????

Thread.

NFL Network is covering all aspects of the league this morning, from the Draft Kings bets of the week to the contract bonuses some of the players are aiming for. Just a complete celebration of the game. Sports at its purest.

Next week, huh?

We all have our holy book rankings

E.B. White, The New Yorker, 1934.

On the next season of The Bear....

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains

Lemme guess: This year they’re removing stuff

At a Christmas gathering, and the TV has motion smoothing on. Fingernails on a chalkboard level of irritation.

Driving home from a Christmas party last night, I decided to take the long way home just so I could listen to more Big Sonic Heaven while driving. Thank you @wdet.bsky.social for having this show!

You start to get cynical & bitter & then you find out one of your state's snow plows this year is named Clearopathra & you remember there is no limit to human brilliance

When you absolutely, positively, have to get your holiday party guests the HELL out of your house

This is the music that plays when you're buying electric money out the back of a car. youtu.be/_LJ8ZKquAYU?...

I want to drive a dump truck of cow manure to the Microsoft headquarters and drop it off in the lobby as a thank you. They didn't ask for it, they didn't want it, but maybe they can figure out how to get rid of it.

And I assume the entire High Republic -- characters and a world we spent years developing and caring about. All just...slop fodder now.

This is such an issue, one I got conned by recently (the "animal shelter lets dogs choose" video) and I'm not sure how useful their guidelines are for identifying the fakes.

This is one of the many reasons I hate AI: It diminishes our emotional reactions to the REAL interesting/beautiful/horrifying/amusing things all around us. The real world is an amazing place and AI is the opposite of amazing.

Since you limit your comments/replies, I'm threading here because mis-information *needs* to be corrected. You're going to utterly bankrupt your public library doing what you suggested in your message. If your library is limiting hoopla, respect it. bookriot.com/library-hoop...

Day off work, it's snowy outside, and I was reminded this came out today. Great watch this afternoon. Congratulations @markstryker.bsky.social - I loved it.

#LibFaves25 Day 2: THE GALES OF NOVEMBER: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD by John U. Bacon Fantastic book that covers SO much more than the shipwreck itself. Details the lives of the crew, how important Great Lakes shipping is, and the danger involved (worse than ocean sailing).

oh cripes, THREAD. (hides eyes) 🤨

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

no different to a U boat sinking a ship then surfacing to machine gun survivors in the water no different

Sorry not sorry to cross post. Yesterday, my friend @edrabinski.bsky.social and I donated platelets. Giving blood is relatively easy, and it's so so so so necessary. This may seem like virtue signaling, but I'm just trying to raise awareness and encourage others to share fluids! 🩸

Man Getting High And Eating Taco Bell Thousands Of Miles Away From Family Having Best Thanksgiving Of Life https://theonion.com/man-getting-high-and-eating-taco-bell-thousands-of-mile-1845721340/

This is exactly right

Rain in Los Angeles: a whitenoise symphony and a scrubbing of the world, gorgeous, refreshing. Let's open a window. Rain in St. Louis: The cold of a fished-out corpse, all is dim, a darkening of the world akin to a final glaucoma across the eye of god. Let's find out what a gun barrel tastes like.

Can't wait!

This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says: “The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

Shocked, I tell you. Shocked! FFS

Heritage is just cartoonishly evil. Just the worst scum on the face of the planet.

Well, that sucked. Hell of a game, though. Hell of a series.

A rare Saturday off, so spent the morning the best way I know how: shopping at Eastern Market, having a drink at Detroit City Distillery, and now home putting things away while listening to @wdet.bsky.social and Ann Delisi.b

betamax is back - as a laser disc

Great interview with JV Jones. Been a fan of hers since the Book of Words days, and really hope to be able to read Endlords soon.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

Help me share to 100 (big number!) You know you want to 😀 #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth youtu.be/G71MZynajjQ?...