Party time in “war-torn Portland” tonight!

If I didn't live in California I'd move to Illinois.

A.O. Scott has a great scene breakdown from one of Mick Herron’s Slow Horses books. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Thinking that the work ethic of Susans (“Lazy Susan”) has been unfairly maligned. Proposed modern alternatives: - Feckless Felix - Useless Ursula - Ne’er-do-well Niven

Narrator: The White House is full of shit

“We knit at dawn”

The “they’re eating the cats” guy is invading another U.S. city. My city.

Nothing is certain except death and taxes … and if someone asks “Is this still available?” On Facebook marketplace, they’re never gonna buy it.

Fantasy vs. reality

Two great bits about this: 1) If you’re gonna die on a hill, don’t half-ass it (narrator: he doesn’t half-ass it) 2) If you don’t want to keep reading after that lede, you are dead inside www.theringer.com/2025/08/20/p...

I never saw this, but I’m four weeks into a major remodel, and I now know it’s a horror movie.

You know what works great? Mail-in ballots.

Drummers would tell you this is a word.

Oh man this Atlantic piece! Travel writing about Corfu and a meditation on my favorite Le Carré novel, The Perfect Spy. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

#NoKings Portland, Oregon

Omg

I can't access the Toronto Public Library. Got this on two different browsers. Wonder if it's because my IP address is in the USA 🤔

Los Angeles, 1937. Photo from the UCLA library

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

Robert Francis Prevost took name Leo XIV. Holy pointy hat ... what a missed opportunity. The name "Prevo I" was just *sitting right there*

Anyone know how I can audition to get into the reality show “So You Want to Be Next Pope”?

HandsOff protest, Portland

I follow Billy Bragg on a different social, where he posted this. I've never Benn's principles before, but they're a great rule of thumb (e.g., apply them to Musk)

This NYT story is painfully accurate. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Found this great gig online. Write romance novels! You only have to write 2,400-3,000 words a day (M-F), and you get paid the princely sum of 1 cent a word. But at least you don't get benefits.

When I’ve mentioned Trump’s annexation threats to my US family & friends recently, they’ve shrugged it off, dismissing it as a bad joke, but still a joke. That’s likely because US media hasn’t covered it seriously—until now. Trudeau voiced what many here have feared since Trump took office. 1/

I was reading about Senator Joseph McCarthy (remember the red scare?) and came across this astonishing detail:

This is a joint in Vancouver, B.C. #iykyk

Sorry to hear about David Lodge passing way. His campus novels were a lot of fun, and master-classes in technical accomplishment. His book The Art of Fiction is a good, accessible guide to technique. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/b...

Donny Hathaway distribution by date: Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., May, June, July, Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec. 1-20: 0.5 Donnie Hathaways Dec. 21-26: Eleventy jillion playings of Donnie Hathaway's "This Christmas"

CNN can go straight to hell.

I used to work in a restaurant where the top-selling wine was a white Zinfandel that tasted like Kool-Aid.

Taylor Swift just put her official tour book, and bypassed a publisher to do it (she did a deal to distribute through Target). I'd love to see HER start a streaming service that actually paid artists.

Here's my action move cliché contribution: Hero runs through crowd like a polite person. Villain rudely pushes people out of the way.

This is a really good thread. 👇

Was doing a little research on YouTube and found this little gem.

I'm a little jaded on the whole Christmas spirit thing, and can endure Christmas songs for about two days a year, but I always *always* look forward to the yeoman's work Shawn does every year in chronicling all the Toronto holiday trees.

I spent a blissful half hour on a dopey home decor site last night (think: statuary!) and they flashed this warning pop-up as a bonus.

To demonstrate my game-changing, cutting-edge, state-of-the-art commitment to world-class, breakthrough professional careerism, I just added a disruptive background image to my paradigm-shifting LinkedIn profile.

The reason there’s no December version of NaNoWriMo is the only half hour you have to write on a Saturday somehow gets swallowed up by figuring out what to buy for Aunt Eunice.

The cilice must be cranked up to 11 on him

And And AND! you should not use their regurgitated data summary of their spying as content on your feed to promote them

Just received an email with this subject line: "Your subscription to [REDACTED] has been canceled, and you are apologized for the inconvenience."

FFS. I have a variant of this in my WIP, and almost changed it because it seemed too far-fetched.

This is the best take on AI I have read.

Watching pro football (because father in law). I’d forgotten how when there’s carnage on the field, they cut to a commercial … and the worse the carnage, the longer the break.

Please invent the Big Pharma product that can keep me titrated at the perfect caffeine level (i.e., "see things with godlike clarity" and not its immediate aftermath, "debilitating headache")

Currently n% of the way through this behemoth (est. words = 397,420) of a book. Darned good, though.

Hey, white nationalists, could I interest you in a little Molly? getpocket.com/explore/item...