"My Mayor Muslim, My Bagel Jewish": Sewer Socialism, The Knicks Championship, and Ordinary Multiculturalism in Mamdani's New York

Seattle elects a socialist mayor, wins the Super Bowl NYC elects a socialist mayor, wins the NBA finals Win your city a major sports title with this one neat trick

Posted this on fb at one point with no context and someone in my literary theory seminar messaged me asking if I was okay

Toronto needs a Muslim socialist mayor to break the Leafs curse

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Director: Michel Gondry

“World Cup team guide explainer,” or, the last remaining legal way for Americans to learn about post-colonialism

"Free as a Hawk: On T.H. White, Queer Misanthropic Joy, and Interspecies Connection" by @reluctantmicroblog.bsky.social is the latest post in our Succession IV: Queering the Environment – “Queer Joy” series. niche-canada.org/2026/06/12/f... #envhist #envhum #queerecology #morethanhuman

Book sort of falls off after Rostam but you do get the amazing retcon that Alexander the Great was actually Persian

For @nichecanada.bsky.social I wrote about T.H. White's The Goshawk, queer misanthropic joy, and the difficulty of love: niche-canada.org/2026/06/12/f... Thank you to @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social and everyone involved with NiCHE and the queer joy series!

The Vanderbilt report and Trump’s attack on the NIH and NSF are part of the same right-wing effort to attack the authority of all peer-reviewed knowledge so that they can police what researchers write, say, publish, and think to ensure it complies with corporate-friendly aims.

To be short, then, a whale is a spouting fish with a horizontal tail. There you have him.

This is excellent. When I was reading The Goshawk, I'd been volunteering with the wildlife clinic at the Guelph vet school, and people were talking with awe about an austringer/falconer in the western US who was so good with his gos that he could rub their stomachs and they seemed to like it!

If you’re wondering why Brötchen blew up seemingly out of nowhere, guess what: he’s a nepo baby. His mom is literally a pygmy hippo *at the same fucking zoo*

Autism questionnaire: do you like fiction? Obviously, autistic people don't like fiction. Me: every single autistic kid I knew in high school loved DnD and books called things like "Rise of the Dragon Empire."

For @nichecanada.bsky.social I wrote about T.H. White's The Goshawk, queer misanthropic joy, and the difficulty of love: niche-canada.org/2026/06/12/f... Thank you to @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social and everyone involved with NiCHE and the queer joy series!

wow, just…wow This reminds me of that scene in The Big Short when Steve Eisman asks, “Why are they confessing?” and Vinny Daniel says, “They’re not. They’re bragging.”

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In all prior generations a 10 year old would have greeted you with tears of wonder if you made them listen to In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

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Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life...

i am starting to believe i must have been cursed by the zero success witch who doesn’t want anything permanent and good to happen to me repost if you are also starting to believe you must have been cursed by the zero success witch who doesn’t want anything permanent and good to happen to you

But they came, and when they finally made it here It was the least that we could do to make our welcome clear

Men would rather have the single most successful directorial career in Hollywood history than go to therapy

everyone, I have produced a report on how to remedy the decline of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. here it is: Executive Summary: Fund the Humanities and Social Sciences. Body: Fund the Humanities and Social Sciences a hell of a lot more. Please cite this as the Carroll report.

You find shelter somewhere in me I find great comfort in you And I keep you safe from harm You hold me in your arms

I am calling for the complete and total shutdown of the Chronicle of Higher Education

More young men were lost to aids than the Vietnam War, many of them creatives at the peak of their careers. Howard Ashman, Derek Jarman, Keith Haring and Freddie Mercury are some of the most famous but there are so many unknown writers/actors/artists/filmakers cut down before they even started.

"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

Looks like the translators went a bit too hard on the Jazz Fest website

Toronto, “Hold my beer.”

false, as a fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs

Diverse Bertie Wooster can still happen if people want it bad enough

New pub day! My latest in Canada and Beyond. I wrote about the beaver as a fetishized sign of Canadian nation-state, one shaped by histories and presents of settler colonialism revistas.usal.es/dos/index.ph...

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1/ Palantir is deeply embedded in the scariest activities of the Trump regime – enabling everything from mass deportations and lawless assassinations in international waters to ethnic cleansing, genocide, and war crimes.

New pub day! My latest in Canada and Beyond. I wrote about the beaver as a fetishized sign of Canadian nation-state, one shaped by histories and presents of settler colonialism revistas.usal.es/dos/index.ph...

What an unfair and unprovoked insult. What did rent boys do to you, for you to compare them to Nigel Farage?

Underrated film anchored by two amazing performances and Sachs’ direction Really hard to make two people talking look compelling but they succeed and then some here

Richard Siken's work keeps getting more self-referential

Mr Beast has Crohn’s disease and one time in an interview he said “I can make all the money in the world but I’ll still have crohn’s” and I thought wow that’s so true Mr Beast

The political takeaway from 2020 was that there was no sustained willpower to tackle the question of civilian control of the police, and nothing is going to happen on that front until that changes.

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Now is the time to make your thing. Stop motion with LEGO, webcomic, walking sim game, weird Halloween costume, backyard water feature, container garden. This is your sign. Make your thing. Stop waiting. Do it.

All the social-chauvinists are now “Marxists” (don’t laugh!)

There's only one way through No matter what you do