I love when Richard makes me a folk hero. You should read his books!

You must read this thread.

Hey did you know I have a book coming out in TWO MONTHS about grief, mourning, and the cultural conditions in the US that make grieving so much harder than it needs to be? Please preorder it! Tell a friend! Tell your library! Ask your bookstore to invite me for an event!

I did this last year. Dreamed that Pret sold a cookie called Hairy Man. He had a solid choc chest of hair and choc sprinkle body hair. Woke up, drew it, then baked it. Him.

"You know what AI can't do? It can't do what you do" I keep telling my students this repeatedly. In every flawed, broken, half-thought out word or line or drawing you produce, there is more thought, creativity, and joy than there ever could be in gAI output. Don't let them stop you.

I’m going to hold your hand while I say this. If a marginalized person asks you to do something differently, the response is not to blow up and ask them why they’re riding your back when those guys aren’t even trying to do better. They’re asking you because they think you’re somewhat open-minded.

Tooth and Claw, my World Fantasy Award winning fantasy of manners about dragons who eat each other is only $1.99 as an ebook today, probably just in the US www.amazon.com/Tooth-Claw-J...

"Generally speaking, I think it takes a special kind of gall to assume that what a desperate world needs is your particular spin on giving up." organizingmythoughts.org/declining-in...

Grateful for friendships that span the time period of checking in after dates & job interviews in our 20s & 30s to checking in after colonoscopies in our 50s. “Everyone good? Hope nothing too weird happened!”

Before most recent haircut: Sexy Anton Chigur After most recent haircut: Sexy Beethoven?

I DID IT. I DID THE THING I WAS AVOIDING. IT TOOK AN EMBARRASSINGLY SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME AND EVERYONE INVOLVED WAS EXTREMELY PLEASANT AND KIND.

I am delighted

Being an artist is so weird and scary because you have all these huge feelings to make art with but then you are supposed to be very cool and detached with how people might hate it but also constantly be a song and dance man shouting about how great it is and also you have to stay alive??

Every interview with a tech CEO youtube.com/shorts/ZseOJ...

It's Wrong Jacket Week in Chicago, we are celebrating the changing seasons by making sure that you are 100% always wearing the wrong jacket no matter what you do

Can't wait for this scene in the new movie

I have to call a new place & do intake to be matched with a therapist today and the fact that I’ve needed to do this for a solid year and finally have access is not somehow magically making me dial that number.

personally I think anyone should be able to change their name for any reason ever and society should just adapt for that. you will not change my mind

THE CITY WE BECAME is the NYPL's first "Big Summer Book Club" pick! All summer long, UNLIMITED borrows of the ebook or audiobook for any NYPL cardholder! And for a finale, a NEW STORY in the Great Cities world will be performed at the Delacorte Theater in Aug! www.nypl.org/summer/2026/...

You've probably seen the word #Landback somewhere and instantly had some feelings. It sounds blunt, which is part of why a lot of people tend to have an instant reaction or jump to some very problematic misconceptions about what it means. So, let's talk Landback, from my POV and work.

This is a cat checkpoint: show the most recent cat photo on your phone. *BOOP* you’re it

this is a masterpiece

"the R slur is coming back" not within slapping distance of me it's not

Taco & Taskmaster Tuesday

Chicago local grocery store (Tony’s, Cermak, HarvesTime, etc.) salsa…is there anything better

Shake it, baby! 🐢

The Clark Bus Chatauqua is in session.

Art class should never stop being a thing. Like if right after our lunch breaks we all got to go down to the basement, throw on a smock and make collages out of old magazines while somebody's slightly witchy aunt tells us how great we're doing, I feel like we'd all be in a better place

Editor: You get those photos of Steven Spielberg and E.T.? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. Editor: what

Enormous Monstera Son dropped a baby!

Pick a Bond from photos you already have on your phone

A “Bones” day is when I make it thru my shower without WXRT playing the Red Hot Chili Peppers on the ancient shower radio. Today I am victorious!

Every time I open Bluesky,

Widow's Bay coded

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

Ahoy, the sequel to my favorite read of the last several years is out. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Jonny Cash did not shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die only for you to settle for morgan wallen

american remake of The Red Shoes but it's about a rodeo cowboy

The enemy of my enemy is actually still very annoying

Oh boy. This whole thread 👍

Aw hell yeah, becoming my new favorite annual cinema tradition 🎞️

me sleeping seven hours vs. me sleeping six hours and 42 minutes

ok i got a lot of replies to this on tumblr but this is the best one ^^

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

the more I think about it, the more I feel like “Odysseus is from Boston” is true in a sort of ecstatic truth way

Jacques Pépin teaching the Sunny D generation how to make French omelettes

I am offended that 'italian hand' does not return the 🤌emoji