I think Rodin speaks for all of us rn when he says:

i think everyone in a society should pay something in taxes but in exchange-- and this is important this is really the key-- they should get services

If you describe anything other than death as “inevitable,” you’re only proving that you are a stooge who lacks drive and vision. The things I’ve successfully avoided would make your head spin, bucko

sucker bet 💅

My daughter (23yo) sent me this Italian cover of Hall & Oates’ “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)”. Somebody raised that kid right youtu.be/EOJ35gsPL7U

...though we shouldn't really talk about Impressionism without acknowledging the monumental contributions of syphilis

Birth rate discourse is like “It turns out if you give women more choices, they’re less likely to make ones that make their lives harder.” Which is really helpful in figuring out how we can improve society somewhat. But instead people are like wow giving women more choices was a mistake

They “saw a glimmer of social-science possibility. Argentina…had publ’ed info on all of its mil officers’ grad ranks, promotions &retirements [since] 1800s, which meant that it was poss to identify &track…exactly which officers joined [BN 606], how long they stayed & what happened to their careers”🧪

Poet, compose thyself.

warren beatty has such an odd cinematic persona. his characters are often himbos who become self aware and it drives them insane

This is a very good one if you’ve ever had to put a slightly argumentative little girl to bed.

In the original version of the play that later became the book Peter Pan, there's no Captain Hook. He was invented later. A lot of us who watched the Disney movie or saw a theatre production forget how the book ends. Most adaptations hide its grim conclusion: Hook isn't the villain. Peter is.

ive encountered thousands of us not a single one has ever said "i identify as" anything. its a lie they put in our mouths

Wow, what a crazy day

Future Me: Chin-up kid, eventually this breakup will seem insignificant Past Me: In light of all the joy I experience? Future Me: Well it's been great chattin'

Es viernes y el cuerpo lo sabe. El cuerpo:

'Books are like cheese' Barnaby Rich, 1610

Good Austen variations, continued: EXPECTATIONS (2025) by Julie Cooper I need to make room in my top 5 for this one. Second-chance story with genuinely lovable kids who drive the plot. It works on all levels but my favorite part is the grown-up, wiser Lydia, a good friend to Lizzy but still Lydia

She didn’t do it. Innocent

oh and most of all, we want to see: 7) Elizabeth and Darcy snowbound in a remote cottage. How many beds there are I will leave as an exercise for the reader

imagine being cleft but NOT in twain lol. why even cleave me then bro

LET THEM FIGHT

watching a PBS documentary called Woodpeckers: The Hole Story, narrated by Paul Giamatti. heavenly

Roe V. Wade

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

MIKE: life gave me hard lemons

Loved this episode but as much as I loved Ava’s rant, I ADORED Deborah’s defense of the value of friction, grist and struggle to creative work at the end of the episode. Her point that failing is as important and necessary as success is 😘🤌🏽

If you’re using the creepy plagiarism machine to promote your book, I have to assume the creepy plagiarism machine wrote your book. Why wouldn’t I?

I am once again thinking of the French girl attempting to say "Burger".

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

Happy 100th to a real one.

Art of the ancient Americas may not be your thing, but you have to love this earthenware crab vessel. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. 🦀 This is going into our imaginary museum replica store, pronto. #LACMA Colombia, Calima style, Ilama period, ca. 1500 BCE-100 CE. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

this friday has monday characteristics.

I cannot share this enough times

A reminder that this is why we make fun of The Odyssey. The book would not exist if Odysseus was not such a complete chaos goblin who was busy causing problems for himself by arguing with Gods and being a shit navigator. There is no way to make an extremely serious movie out of this material.

It is a fact of my experience that no written instructions can teach undergrads how to go about developing a research paper. They need to be in a room with me talking to them and explaining how the entire process works while responding to their questions. It’s inefficient AF and that’s the point.

Today is Red Dress day, a time for us to reflect on the fact that: -3 in 4 Indigenous women experience violence in their life, and that although we make up 2% of the population -40% of trafficking victims are Indigenous women. -murder is the 3rd leading cause of death for Native ♀️ #MMIW #MMIWG

back in my day we delved greedily and deep, sure, but we also didn’t awaken anything

As someone who lost hearing in one ear for about a year and now has poor in that ear, I super appreciate anyone who uses a microphone.

Kevin knew the risks

Thanks for the lady pirate book recommendations, everyone. I’ll start with this one, which I already have and the plot sounds pretty wild 🏴‍☠️

At the risk of oversharing: I’m in the mood to read a novel about a lady pirate. Any suggestions?

That’s quite a chart www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Today I got to tell a native french speaker my favourite french linguistics fact, which she didn't already know and was delighted to learn!

Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds

Amazing to trust self reports, and then impugn the cognitive function of the people you asked to fill out the self report with no further questions Anyway it's not like this will be used to change policy, just imply that some people deserve cognitive impairment bc they couldn't afford vegetables