I like a good grip; I like to feel something in this slippery world that can hold, man.

Re-upping this for Indie Bookstore Day!

Something I love about baseball season is that baseball is just constantly going on, filling time, distracting us. You can just turn it on and be like, wow, Logan Gilbert just caught that line drive through the buttons in his jersey, and it’s at least one wild thing that’s not a world on fire.

Gallows humor🤝 incredulous laughter

"Tell me what it's like to live without curiosity, without awe." Letter to the Person who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America by Matthew Olzmann via @mayacpopa.bsky.social

These guys are so intense!

if you find yourself appalled that RFK Jr is able to make this claim but you don’t wear a mask in, at the very least, public indoor spaces, you are acting in precisely the way that allows him to say that covid is gone.

You could make a pretty difficult NBA quiz show that's just "What channel or streaming service do you think this future playoff game is airing on?"

A ________ of ________, a new fantasy and/or romantasy novel by [insert vaguely sensual pen name].

every day is earth day because we are on earth

I want to live forever so I can read all the books.

the thing is, to make art, to fall in love, to do anything really worth doing, you have to risk embarrassment, humiliation, heartbreak. to do anything you have to risk being. and that's being in front of—or more scary, with—others.

There's something very 2026 about the fact that Bluesky, a social media app where most of the user base hates AI, increasingly does not function because the development team apparently writes all their code with AI.

Far as I can tell the differences between this thing and a car or an electric bike or any other machine that can move faster than a human are 1) it is still slower and less efficient than those things, and 2) it facilitates tech bro fantasies about owning slaves.

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Because I haven’t had enough strangers being weirdly hostile over things that should be settled issues for people who claim to be on the left today: If you use a disease or a symptom of a disease or really any involuntary trait as an insult, you’re being a piece of shit.

Great news, we’re putting all the money in all the banks into “What if the phone tree could argue with you?”

Eric Collins should announce every NBA playoff game, imo.

The game Terra Invicta portrays a fantastical scenario in which a grave, existential threat (alien invasion) comes to Earth. The most fantastical part is that no less than seven different international organizations actually try to do something about it, and only one actually helps the invaders.

A funny thing about watching baseball in 2026 is how every AI ad portrays the innovative power of AI as, in essence, adding up numbers and dividing them by each other.

let the old man alone; never speak to him, whatever he says

Evergreen

Tower of Power knew what was up in 1974. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GORz...

It turns out that the consequences of building a society where attaining structural power is incompatible with having a functioning moral compass are pretty dire.

A reflection on certain current events from the incomparable Chumbawamba www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW68...

I for one am immeasurably happier with having 300 followers here than having a couple thousand on Twitter (even before it was sold and the algorithm went fully kaput). Social media is much better in smaller circles. I'd rather get 1 or 2 likes from cool people I know than 50+ from random strangers.

A good little thoughtful thread from Laura.

Just stumbled across this 5-year-old screenshot from an episode of the Great British Baking Show while I was cleaning up my desktop. It remains unfortunately relevant.

Post four records that represent the diversity of your taste.

I just love Eurasian Tree Sparrows. What perfect little birbs.

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Big Burrito

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

Never a bad time to listen to Keith Jarrett's recording of The Well-Tempered Clavier.

just a reminder that alt text has a purpose, to describe/explain the photo, not “inside joke for the people who can already *see* this contextless photo”

Wrote "pre-meditated" in Firefox and its claims it is misspelled, suggesting the following edits: per-meditated ore-meditated pee-meditated pr-meditated re-meditated Can you please stop shoehorning useless LLM crap into your browser @firefox.com?

If your theory of why people do evil things is that they are insane, mad, psychotic, demented, etc. you need a better theory. Most mentally ill people are not evil and most evil people are not mentally ill. Seeing and talking about them as interchangeable is part of why we are where we are.

I loved "Hello Sunshine" and want to see a sequel! So I went ahead and dropped this line. You should, too, if you've read and liked the graphic novel even half as much as I did.

Reposting this incredible image with alt-text. Melissa and I are in constant awe and despair over how many people regularly spray their (mono-culture, ecologically inappropriate and invasive grass) lawns with pesticides and herbicides in our neighborhood. This illustrates why.

The variety of German bees before the Industrial Revolution (187, top) vs after the introduction of pesticides (43, bottom), DHM

There's little you can do in life that makes you feel simultaneously as powerful and as powerless at the same time as: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade

Also, a great essay about a poem (or any other kind of art) is made immeasurably better if you have encountered and wrestled with the subject yourself, first. That way the essay becomes a dialogue instead of a lecture.

mary ruefle was right when she said that people would rather read an essay about poetry than read a poem. it reminds me of when people in a museum read the explanatory caption before having their own experience of the art. you fear not "getting it" when you should fear not living

Today we celebrate that time when a rabbit laid an egg and then Jesus hatched out of it three days later.

I haven't been playing too many games recently so I only just realized that 4 indy games I'd had my eye on all reached V1.0 in the past month. So, I guess I'll be trying to find time for Timberborn, Stellar Tactics, Heroes of Science and Fiction, and Heart of the Machine in the near future.

Exactly. Not only do I want C19 to be over, I have repeatedly given instructions on how to make it go away.

The whole history of Ed Tech is just a bunch of (mostly) dudes who know nothing about cognition, psychology, or learning saying "What if, instead of teacher, Skinner Box?"

The ghost of BF Skinner must be thrilled that we're still trying to get his completely useless bullshit to work, despite literal decades of research demonstrating that it can't and won't because learning is situated, social, and emotional.