my goodness

Rough Draft in Kingston NY has got a few copies of (most of—the Norman Keene is still on its way) the 1993 Eden Book Society novellas from @deadinkbooks.bsky.social and holy moly are they beautiful. I've got my kickstarter pledge still coming, but I don't know if I can wait to read these....

brb sending this to every self-professed moderate in my circles

45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...

you’d think they’d have had some time to think things over since Zephyr Teachout beat Cuomo in a whole bunch of *upstate* districts. or since Jay Jacobs humiliatingly lost us some popular election reforms by being asleep at the wheel. guys

will there ever be any reflection by NYS mainstream Dems about how decades of literally caucusing with Republicans and ratfucking the Working Families Party and such things lost them the respect of their own voters or is it just gonna be No, It’s The Children Who Are Wrong all the way down

Re-upping this thread in honor of THE LOCAL AUTHOR WHO CLAPPED BACK AT ME TODAY. Don't fucking do it, y'all. Just don't do it. Bookstores are here to have a relationship with authors, not an obligation to them.

Just finished ENGINES OF REASON, the (unexpected! to me!) ELDER RACE follow-up from @aptshadow.bsky.social, and I remain in awe of Tchaikovsky's sheer talents across genres and lengths and forms. One of the very best to ever play the game. (Also, I hope we get several or at least one more of these.)

Science news is often far from what the actual researchers find. Popular media outlets frequently distort these outcomes for clicks, as you know. *Ahem* THIS IS WHY ENGLISH COURSES ARE IMPORTANT. WE TEACH YOU HOW TO VERIFY SOURCES AND READ CAREFULLY.

i note that no mysterious benefactor has offered to fund my cabin dreams. what, i have to pay for my own cabin?

As unofficial town sorcerer, I'm sending out a mild, almost ineffective charm that will help you find something interesting in one of your pockets.

as someone from a country with multiple annual heat waves if you're mad at Mamdani for that super boilerplate statement on energy saving, you better get cracking on fixing climate change pronto, because you're really not going to enjoy the way advisories are phrased in hot places

David Lynch is once again proved right and the modern trend for filmmakers and studios to answer (or even pre-answer!) every bad faith question from every dweeb on a vlogging app is a scourge on present day cinema.

tell you what, I love this team though

I'm in shock over this red card. Absolutely unbelievable malpractice from the refs.

Are Alito and Thomas running the VAR?

that's un-fucking-believable

If they give him a red card

also honestly while I'm at it: VAR is ruining soccer. goddamn, seriously.

fuck this ref, dude

you know, I don't think it's coming home

I was doing a Zoom Shakespeare play on the day Little Richard died and I threw in a little "a-wop-bop-a-loo-bop" at one point and somebody in the comments was like "that's not Shakespeare" and left the stream. I wonder about that person a lot.

I can assure you that the entire LH staff was as shocked as you will be to learn... that there are still so many more books to come out this year. Like, so so many. (But truly I'm excited about so many of them! Even more that I couldn't squeeze into this list or that somebody else blurbed!!)

Some real "the night Macbeth killed Duncan"-ass weather last night here in the Catskills. The most insane heat-lightning I think I've ever seen, plus a few thunder rumbles for fun and some crazy wind and the barometric pressure was all over the place.

from the deadly explosions of gender reveal parties before your children are born to the required looks up their skirts that are coming to participate in school sports, the heterosexuals of this country are obsessed with your children’s genitals

I want to remind all of you not to post shit that's going to get you a visit from the Feds, but honestly? Hard-pressed to not vent all the fucking spleen I got today. I hope every single one of these ghouls suffers, agonizingly, for the entire remainder of their lives and then some.

Clarence Thomas is a piece of shit and so are every one of his colleagues who voted for this trans girls are girls, trans women are women, and they should be allowed to play sports with their friends no matter what the Supreme Court says

Big love to my trans friends, acquaintances, crushes, nemesises, aspirational figures, strangers, and family. You are perfect just as you are. Fuck the Supreme Court.

I mean, ALWAYS read Emily Hughes — but this one is particular salient even if you don't care about the novel in question. It's grappling with nothing short of how the novel can and should function in These Times, and stands as a model for modern criticism!

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

tired. tired tired tired.

Big week over at The Onion. — Thursday: InfoWars launches live at 8 p.m. ET on YouTube, Twitch and wherever you watch video. New handles and everything. Expect surprises. It is insane. — Friday: An entire history of the country, AMERICA: Birth of a Nation, airs at 8 p.m. ET on all Onion channels.

I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.

Don't be a shithead!!!!

we have to behave as though we can, or we never will

Maybe it's just nominative determinism rearing its head but to proudly be 'moderate' when people across the spectrum are clamoring for ambition is just embracing your own irrelevance. To put it kindly.

A friend of mine made a Vermin playlist and it slaps/fucks/owns/etc and you should check it out/listen/enjoy/etc www.mixcloud.com/fatalsoftnes...

Sharing one more time, for the weekend, a little secondary-world curiosity. Piratical publishing agents, strange bakers, and the sweet terror of reading a long-awaited final chapter...

this makes me so happy

If moderates are losing an ideological civil war it's because their ideology comes down to "I get to run this and you need to stop questioning me" and that's not a political philosophy and you need to learn to actually hide that shit if you're thinking it.

If you really want to get your blood pressure up, you should read Stephen Marche's review of the new Cory Doctorow in the NYT. If nothing else, it gives a sterling reminder of just how cooked the brains of AI stans are these days.

I know it's just yelling at clouds but GODS it makes me so mad to see all these "tea party of the left" "freedom caucus of the left" takes. My kingdom for journalists and media establishments that can produce an original thought.

There's been a lot of justified discontent with how romance bookstores are handling special editions and book boxes. I can't help but think that the bubble will burst soon. There IS such a thing as too many romance bookstores—especially if their proprietors aren't experienced small business owners.

Hey if you're going to self-publish your book PUT A SPINE ON IT. PUT A SPINE ON YOUR BOOK! I still can't guarantee a bookstore will stock it but they're almost definitely not going to stock it (unless they owe you a favor or are really really nice) if it doesn't have text on the spine!

I really love this piece by the brilliant Francisco Cantú about the USMNT goldengoal.world/2026/06/25/l...

As President, I will institute a nationwide posting limit. Might be a number of minutes, might be a number of words, there will be exceptions for public good (both practical and humorous) — we'll hammer out the details in January 2029.

“restoring faith that better is possible” is maybe the most important thing in politics right now outside of imposing consequences on the bad people (and imposing consequences would help restore faith) we have seen what cynical, “lol nothing matters” politics leads to and it leads to Donald Trump