Miike Snow - Genghis Khan

How Volodymr Zelenskyy manages to survive in a literal war without a ballroom to keep him safe is just shocking to me.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.

Many faculty at places like Yale, especially ones who like to pontificate about the state of higher ed, have never stepped foot on a non-fancy small liberal arts campus, a state school, or a community college. Which is the majority of higher ed.

Several folks in my mentions said they quit watching the new Count of Monte Cristo on PBS because it features Black actors. My friend, you are going to be shocked when you learn the ethnicity of Alexandre Dumas.

Well put. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE TAGGING ME IN ON THE VATICAN / PENTAGON BEEF HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

One day, "It" will happen, by which I mean sudden and unexpected news that you want to celebrate. In such cases, you will want the right outfit. 🧵

Chag Sameach to all those celebrating!

I will never shut up about trans rights and I genuinely don’t give a fuck what you think about that.

Bruce Springsteen at No Kings III in St. Paul Minnesota.

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

Look I know it’s fashionable to hate on this, but he’s a progressive Catholic humanist who understands *why* LOTR works. That’s the best possible type of person to adapt the Tom Bombadil section of Fellowship for today. There’s no downside to giving this man’s dream a chance

I can't imagine a better home for my poem than @strangehorizons.bsky.social . I'm so grateful for their support and care, and overwhelmed by this note from @ajodasso.bsky.social -- thank you!

i just saved a bunch on gas by being a loser with nowhere else to go

Today I heard about an interesting book on a public radio station show, then when I got home I went to the website for my local public library and requested it. I'll have it tomorrow for free. This is precious. We must protect this.

Boston University’s removal of Pride flags is not a minor policy issue. When a university that claims to support free speech polices what faculty, students, & staff can express in their own spaces, it undermines the open exchange of ideas. Sign now: alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/te...

Why, yes, I am a recovering goth elder millennial, why do you ask?

What better way to greet Friday than to admire this bearded, crested, three-headed beast of hell. It’s a beauty. It’s a 3rd century BC fresco from the delightfully named Tomb of the Infernal Chariot (which sounds like a Hammer movie). 🏛️📷 Museum of Sarteano #FrescoFriday

This good boy was born when Charles Dickens was 20. And 22 years before Oscar Wilde was born! 💙📚

128th anniversary today of this rather important story appearing in the Lawrence Daily Journal, Kansas

One-third of the Oscar categories this year were won by horror movies. That would have been UNTHINKABLE for most of the last century. That’s cool as hell.

Hello everyone!! please go check out this kickstarter!! It is an Interview with the Vampire themed Tarot Deck, with Artworks and Writings that me and a lot of creatives worked very hard on together! #IwtV #InterviewWithTheVampire www.kickstarter.com/projects/iwt...

Good morning with the unexpected Surrealist love poem by artist Frida Kahlo Now he comes (Tr. Mary Ann Caws) Now he comes, my hand, my red vision. larger. more yours. martyr of glass. The great unreason.

Ban Armed Federal ‘Agents’ anywhere near the ballot boxes It should be unnecessary to say

I can’t with this lady. There’s a part in here where she suggests reclassifying “late”-dx kids (a heavily female group) separately as “hypersensitive” instead of autistic. This would be treated as an issue of anxiety & “resilience.” 1/3

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

EVERY MAN OR WOMAN WHO WANTS HIM I'LL HAVE FOR BREAKFAST #iwtv #devilsminion #maisiepeters #myregards #danielmolloy #armand

feels cruel for Bluesky to have a Popular With Friends tab, if any of us were popular with friends we wouldn't be on Bluesky

This is the perfect writers' retreat! - haunted, DEFINITELY haunted - survive the death stairs and you get to go down the slide! - ominous single cleaver - duct-taped fridge = eldritch horror inside? - nostalgic dead restaurant furniture www.parkcompany.com/property/133...

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

My respect for this dude keeps climbing.

There were enough reasons to never, ever use generative AI from day one—environmental damage and plagiarism-on-demand alone; stop treating it like it’s your assistant, your confidante, your plaything, seriously, STOP—but if you need a political reason to help you quit, a compelling one just dropped:

Bruce Springsteen in Minneapolis earlier today. Please share and let this ring out from sea to shining sea. ICE out now!

Happy Birthday, Dolly! open.substack.com/pub/steady/p... A much needed timeline cleanse from Dan Rather #HappyBirthdayDolly #BlueCrew #SundayVibes

The nurses are pissed

I just thought everyone should see this

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

Thimbleweed June 27th 2024

Look, just because the US government looks like Nazis, quotes Nazis, endorses Nazis, and acts like Nazis, doesn’t mean they’re Nazis *holds hand to earpiece* I’m being told it does in fact mean they’re Nazis

…AND “The Borgias” 💙

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

Submissions remain open. You don’t need a new poem. You need the right one. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #SpineEdicts #PoetryCommunity #SubmissionWindow #OpenCall #Poetry

Some nights, Ember (3yrs old; long-haired dilute tortie), cries until I get up, carry her around the darkened house to rub her face on the frames of our artwork, and then tuck her into her blankie atop the cat tree. She’s precious; she comforts big brother Nicky when I’m watching Sad People On TV.