This is why we ALWAYS download the primary literature if we’re going to cite it, kids. Don’t trust that some jabroni cited it correctly.

Truth hits like an atom bomb.

Few are brave enough to acknowledge the truth.

It’s funny but I can spot the exact moment certain people in my life started using AI to write their emails for them. Three different people who had unique voices now sound exactly the same over email.

Irony was pronounced dead at 8:35am, surrounded by friends, family, and an army of attorneys.

“Both sides-ism” has destroyed public confidence in science and medicine. We need to stop platforming cranks, grifters, and the willfully ignorant.

Will be excited to see my work in print next month in @eightstonepress.bsky.social literary zine Beach Badge. Details here: www.instagram.com/p/DWWa9yMDiw...

Will be excited to see my work in print next month in @eightstonepress.bsky.social literary zine Beach Badge. Details here: www.instagram.com/p/DWWa9yMDiw...

Here’s the beauty in AI slop: as our feeds are overrun with artificial garbage, people will give up and retreat back into real spaces. I’m already doing it. The AI bots will harass each other online until the venture capitalists realize there is no money to be made. And then it will all crash.

I am also not angry at this performance by Flea from his new solo record on the Tonight Show

A poem for mothers and children and war by Mona Arshi from her Chatto collection Mouth.

Anyone else on Threads and noticing a ton of fake news, as in people posting nonsense “breaking” stuff with links to pay-walled articles that say nothing of the sort?

I believe!

When you run to the mailbox because your author’s proofs have arrived!

I shot this 15 yrs ago. One of my first with instagram. The people gave me the idea for how I could take a short story from 1995 and turn it into a book. What happens when you take friends from the old days, people for whom things didn’t turn out as planned, and let them try to rewrite history?

As seen outside Angelo’s pizza on 9th. Neighborhood crime watch in the style of Fahrenheit. Stay weird, Philly.

The reason I want students to have to struggle with difficult texts is because I want them to have the capacity to make meaning in and of the world on their own.

During a terrible time, one of the things that kept me going was a memory of this place. I drove 800 miles, stopping only for gas, to get there. It got me thinking about writing, reading, memory, and in a way, time travel. Check it out here: philipskiba.com/memory-time/

Rick Barot ♥️ A beautiful reminder of what poetry can do.

Had a lot of fun with the other finalists at the Asbury Book Co-Op event Saturday night. Read from my essay “Lobsternacht.”

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

Awaiting proofs of my debut novel, We Make You Feel Sane. I feel like a kid at Christmas. After publishing a ton in my field, this is unknown territory! Cover art from Jeffry Everett below. You know his work from @gaslightanthem.bsky.social posters, and a bunch of other cool bands.

Neon lights Nobel Prize When a leader speaks that leader dies You won't have to follow me Only you can set you free You gave me fortune you gave me fame You gave me power in your God's name I'm every person you need to be Oh I'm The Cult Of Personality

You still had 100 characters left to use after the text in this post. You could have included this sentence (69 characters). There is no evidence that ivermectin works as a treatment for cancer.

This week's cover @thelancet.com

I need an iPhone app where any scammer agent that says the word “credit” gets immediately disconnected. Whatcha got, people?

Tomatoes. Fruit that tastes like a vegetable. Underhanded.

Every academic, in particular, every academic who suddenly discovered that they were a token interviewee in a hiring process that had already been decided, should read Tobias Wolff’s short story “In the Garden of the North American Martyrs.” Just brilliant.

They can pay using NFT’s.

This is a very well written description of the mostly unexamined drive I feel to make and share my art. The more anti-culture gets pushed at me the more compelled I feel to make my own

Look at that reach for the line! Born competitor!

Not as thrilling as the dog on the downhill course, but extra style points for congeniality and being a good boy when met by the race marshal.

The thing management fails to realize as they replace workers with “cheap” AI is that once they fire everyone, and that talent pool loses its skillset, the AI companies are going to jack up the prices to cost even more than their workers do. That’s the scam. It’s not complex.

Yes. Before vaccines, too.

Fellow scientists, please help me share this to our colleagues on other platforms. www.science.org/content/arti...

Hot take of the day:

I’m not huge into horror, but this is a very cool story.

Best event at Milano-Cortina. Not even close.

Taking “extreme measures” is a very, very smart strategy for athletes.

Exactly. There is no such thing as AI writing.

I literally ran into him on the street in Greenwich Village because I wasn’t watching where I was going. I said, “Oh, it’s you!” Because I’m terrible with celebrity names, and was completely surprised. He laughed and said, “Yes, it’s me!” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/t...

Hell yes.

BASH: Is this measles outbreak a consequence of the administration undermining support for vaccines? DR OZ: I don't believe so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines BASH: Oh, come on

This is a different kind of doomer-ism. It’s not productive. Punk rock shows us the way forward. I grew up in this culture. Shows in basements. Hand drawn flyers. There is always a market for quality, for counterculture. (1/x) countercraft.substack.com/p/why-litera...

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Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “Don’t take this the wrong way, but I hope I never see you again.”

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

Amen

Apparently, this drink only works for your “inmune” system. If you want to strengthen your immune system to protect against the flu, you should get an actual flu vaccine. It is absolutely outrageous that this drink is allowed to be sold anywhere as “The Flu Shot,” let alone at a pharmacy.