This. We have to expect—nay, demand—better. We just have to.

You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?

Anyway like I said we get what we fucking get

thank goodness mitch isn't alive to see this

Boy I dunno.

Narrative matters.

I don’t know. Maybe the White House shouldn’t have put undue pressure and glaring spotlight on a young team by engaging in open and brazen corruption. 🤷

Even the bots are tired.

It's just maddening to me that after all this time! This man can still swan in and fuck everything up! And we're all just still living with this!! After all this time!!!

useful thread for people who read submissions & wish to think about way in which AI is beginning to creep into ms.

I am once again begging US fans to look at 2002 South Korea

Who would've predicted that the unregulated plagiarism machine could be used by bad actors to warp public opinion!

hell yeah let's have a good ol' fashioned shootout

whoa holy shit

I think @stephenking.bsky.social should do the Y2K installment of @deadinkbooks.bsky.social's Eden Book Society and finally finish THE PLANT under a pseudonym (hell, let it be Bachman even!) because wouldn't that just be cool?

I mean the question's gotta be whether or not you do then play him. Because not for nothing I think the team can do it without him tomorrow, so why not make it a statement while you're at it? Versus making it a little easier while also putting the asterisk there forever.

this is a thing of beauty (read Animal Spiral!)

a lot of us who are huge pains in the ass about Substack understand the logistical difficulties of leaving it, and don’t expect overnight change. it’s great to see an acknowledgement of the platform’s problems & transparency about a desire to leave it while explaining that it’s gonna take some time

if this is actually the case there isn’t anyone who would appreciate this ghoulish maneuver more than McConnell himself so you can’t say they aren’t honoring the man

Today, the day after Independence Day, I cranked up my favorite American history-themed catharsis album in the car. Join me, won't you? youtu.be/rTktLOHbWWU?...

The drum-machine on Sting's demo of "Tea in the Sahara" is hilarious to me because THAT'S what Sting thinks Stewart Copeland sounds like. It's an incredible diss but also so accurate, in a good way?? Very "I never realized John Wayne walked like that" energy.

You know, Osiris? Married his sister, father of the bird-guy, his own brother chopped him up and hid him all over Egypt?

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.