Is there anything more emblematic of this economy than to appoint a CEO who just oversaw a massive layoff and restructuring as an advisor for "Productivity and Jobs"?

I do not care about right wing chuds. I don’t want to know what they’re angry about. I don’t want to hear about what they’re saying or thinking or even doing, honestly, unless it’s trying to hurt someone in my neighborhood. Stop telling me what they think about something. I don’t care!

Can I please go back to knowing absolutely nothing about Maine again? I don’t need to know what’s going on up there. That’s none of my business.

One of my favorite pieces I’ve read in a long time. Immediately took pictures of my copy of the magazine when I read it so I could share it with folks since it wasn’t online yet.

Curious if I have any followers who would know this kind of thing: How many of the consistent writers for Warhammer 40k's "Black Library" of novels aren't men? I did a cursory glance the other day and saw, I think, only one woman out of 45 or so authors.

every thought i've ever had about maine has been coerced

Honestly I try to not think about Maine very much at all, outside of Derry, which I think isn’t a real place and I don’t want anyone to correct me if it is.

If I bought a lemonade stand, said I expected the lemonade stand to make $1 billion in revenue, and then destroyed the lemonade stand after it only made $500 million, everyone would understand that I was a tremendous idiot who should not be trusted with any sort of leadership position.

Honestly if someone I thought was a close friend invited me to their wedding and it was in a stadium I wouldn’t go.

Wearing my “Butlerian Jihad Now!” shirt at the coffee shop next to the table of guys talking about how AI isn’t going away

The world moved on from Sufjan Stevens’ Javelin too fast.

"you're scaring the hoes" ENOUGH. do not project your own cowardice unto the hoes. I have heard their words and seen their deeds, and you besmirch both. die where you stand

We dance like beasts near the edge of light. I kiss the throne of you in gratitude, what love we might find in this small window we call home. —jason b. crawford in the June issue of POETRY. Read the full poem "Untitled Love Poem For ...:" https://bit.ly/4veqZKy

Okay here’s my Magic Hot Take: Saying that you believe the overarching narrative and worldbuilding of Magic should be fully accessible through card set releases alone and that they shouldn’t expect people to read the fiction is anti-intellectual. People can and should read things.

obsessed with this comment on a reel of an opossum eating live crawfish in a bathtub

Probably going to see Leviticus again today and I just want everyone who's on the fence to know the most important thing about this movie: It's 90 minutes long. Every scene does exactly what it needs to do and then moves on. It doesn't waste time or overstay its welcome. The perfect film length.

My perspective on this is informed by having worked as at a state psychiatric hospital for three or so years when I was young, and by having done my training at a couple more while studying toward board certification.

By the way, you can get the ebook for Notes From a Regicide by @isaac-fellman.bsky.social, one of my top books from last year, for $3 on Bookshop today, and it's DRM free so you can read it on any device.

Still thinking about this movie. It's not very often I see a movie in a theater and start checking showtimes to figure out when I can see it again. I might try for a second showing on Wednesday...

It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday The unholy thing shambles in He’s too big for the chair sitting next to me His white teeth make a musical din Sing us a song, you’re the piano man Your skin is a wooden facade You’ve brass pedals for hands And your hair’s copper strands Give unbearable insult to god

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

I understand people who hate the winter because of the long nights, I truly do, but it messes me up so much more when it’s still light outside at 9pm. I need it to be dark at 7:30pm and bright at 6:30am or else my body just doesn’t function correctly.

It’s real

I don’t like scary movies. I did, however, decide to see Leviticus because it’s Pride Month. I liked it! The horror elements serve the story well and the lead actors are great.

Calvin and Hobbes strip that says it quite well;

I will once again not be a featured creator at MagicCon Atlanta, but I will still be there as a lifelong resident and local. Ask me where to eat, where to see art, fun places to go outside of the convention center, etc.

Really didn’t take enough advantage of the one week of weather where it was nice to be outside before it became absolutely unbearable to live in Atlanta once again.

Devoured all of Avengers Academy (written by @meakoopa.bsky.social) in under a week and I don't know what to do now that i'm done. I need 50 more issues. 100. I never really cared much for superhero comics, but this one grabbed me and wouldn't let go. Justice for those characters who deserved more.

How much I value your opinion when you say something is bad is determined largely by how much you support your opinion when you say something is good. If you never show thoughtful appreciation for something, how am I to know if your criticisms are grounded in anything more than surface level?

I think the lowest stakes, highest reward feeling of relief you can have as an adult is remembering you ate beets yesterday.

New Death Cab for Cutie and new Modest Mouse albums in the same week. What year is it? 2006?

“Content” also insidiously shifts significance and validity to the platform, not the substance — content is contained, what defines content is the existence and form of the container

Make a conscious effort to stop calling anything "content" and start calling it what it actually is and you'll discover how much of it is genuinely just posts. Nothing wrong with being a poster, for sure, but you realize pretty quick who is doing creative work and who is just sending out posts.

I think a lot of people are going to underestimate how much work goes into making anything in print, especially a magazine, even if you have all the articles you're going to include. Something like this is such a genuine surprise, and shows a level of commitment that is inspiring.

This morning someone at the diner got really mad when they complained that they'd been waiting for their food for an hour and then was told the diner had only been open 30 minutes.

i genuinely hate how internet culture has become so normalized and widespread. i do not want a white house deputy chief of staff saying "it's white boy november" or a secretary of state tweeting that he's "locked in for this banger." grow up.

butlerian jihad when

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

i just told a friend on my couch, "shots fired at the White House" and they responded, in a tired voice, "ok"

Claude doesn’t know what makes a good sentence but it knows what makes a very common sentence. It can tell you how to make your writing sound like the writing of everyone else. If you think it’s better than what you’re writing, you’re believing that you shouldn’t be a writer at all.

This sums up a lot of my feelings about Destiny 2, a game where I put in over 1000 hours before not playing it all for over a year. It’s one of the greatest video games of all time, in so many different ways, and was absolutely kneecapped by executive leadership’s layoff culture.

"A thousand years ago is also right now, and in this infinite heartbeat, his loved ones are dead, and they are also alive. 'Time is not linear,' sing Louis's electrons. 'You will always be with your family on a patio in July.'" www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/thir...

“For all of our aspirations of centering our whole selves, our identities, around the beauty of the art, a lot of the time, we just end up centering the art around ourselves.” This is such an incredibly good read. Captures so much of my thoughts on modern fandom culture.

Feeling called out in a way that’s almost embarrassing (but I’m right, it could be darker)

This so rarely happens, but the New Yorker recently had a poem I like a lot. Morgan Parker; “Meanwhile It Rains for Two Weeks and the Heat Never Breaks”

Listening to an auto generated playlist and thinking about how incredible it is only to remember that it’s just a playlist of my most-listened to songs on Apple Music.

Looking at everything that happened after, I've searched my heart and realized that it was necessary to murder Hitchbot. We should've been more antagonistic towards robots pretending to be our friends. Philadelphia once again proves to be a city of prophets.

The real danger with Universes Beyond is I couldn’t actually tell you which MTG this was referencing until I clicked through to the original post.

Independent bookstores are farmers markets and Barnes & Noble is a chain grocery store and Amazon is only ever ordering food via Instacart and Doordash. I will not elaborate.

A Tragedy: I forgot to charge my wireless headphones and they died while I was working at the coffee shop, and I left my wired headphones at home. No one has ever suffered a hardship such as this before.