I’m watching a documentary (Haskell Wexler, et al) called Underground with members of the Weather Underground. Cathy Wilkerson explains she was first arrested protesting segregated schools in Chester, PA. The title mayor of my new book, The Mayor, is the mayor of Chester.

Just saw a typo in someone's bio, "Gis" for "His", and my first thought was that I hadn't seen anyone using that pronoun before.

The great @jrobertlennon.com brings the fire and the fury in this piece about discovering that a story his lit mag published was plagiarized with the assistance of generative AI www.epochliterary.com/blog/on-ai-i...

Some absolutely A+ names here. Omar McNulty Liberto Löchel Jeffrey Aarini Denison Aobhin Cranly Lisa-Marie Kevane-McCallion Zak Mangel Sidónia Veterník-Caldwell Cosimo Doody

Want to see a crazy roundup of current fake accounts on Bluesky, some of which have probably just followed you? Okay then do this search:

I was lucky enough to spend a few days at the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics recently, observing an interdisciplinary group of scientists as they grappled with the limits of language in the face of biological complexity. My scene report: clairelevans.substack.com/p/report-fro...

Attempting to finish up this book on Charcot and came across this doozy of an IQ question 😳 Yikes!

*eats an apple instead of getting the usual slice of pizza* I am probably the healthiest man in New York.

I made this thirteen years ago when Sears was going through a rebranding phase. I mean, if you’re one of the most comfortingly normal brands ever, just remind people to go to your store.

Against us, tyranny's blood-stained standard has been raised

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Donald Trump is our ChatGPT President. He just generates answers on the spot, token by token, devoid of any actual thoughts or principles, based solely on the immediate context that prompted him. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/t...

me, pitching to a studio executive: now, close your eyes & imagine…{gestures with my hands as if unfurling a giant banner}…sears: the movie.

I'm afraid I'm going to Actually this joke, sorry, but The Big Store: Inside the Crisis at Sears, one of my fave business books, could be made into a great movie/series. (Weirdly, because people who write books tend not to be otherwise competent or successful, the author went on to found Audible.)

Morpheus: I have two pills, one red, one Yes Morpheus: Let me finish Yes. I’ll take them. Morpheus: In a minute, I’ve worked on my line delivery for Both. Now.

Thanked your last assistant.

Howard, You may want to check out Sandra Newman's The Heavens (2019) It follows Kate, a woman in New York around 2000 who falls in love with Ben — but each night when she sleeps, she becomes Emilia, a woman in Elizabethan England entangled with Shakespeare. Fascinating premise, brilliant writer.

Impossible to know which article the photo corresponds to

Can shame be a brief and sudden illness?

ᛒᛚᛅᚼᛁᛘᛁᚾ᛬ᛁᚦᚱᚬᛏᛅᚼᚢᚴᛒᚢᚾᛅᚦᛦᛁᚾ (Bluesky: the sports app)

Of course I got my penile implant to impress other men in the locker room. If it was meant for women, it wouldn't have the spoiler and the gull-wing doors.

"Being a grown up sucks,' said Ramona just before taking a large swig of Malört straight from the bottle. — an excerpt from 𝘙𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢 𝘘𝘶𝘪𝘮𝘣𝘺, 𝘈𝘨𝘦 45

About time somebody with the courage to say it stepped up.

The latest innovation from lululemon: normal, comfortable clothing.

Damn, I'm getting Feliz Navidad stuck in my head earlier every year.

My therapist wants me to keep a journal of things I'm grateful for. I'm trying to negotiate him down to just things I've resigned myself to.

"a quiet day for a loud book..." in today's newsletter I talk about the various kinds of launch days I've had over 23 novels, and what the real launch is open.substack.com/pub/jeffabbo...

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A real patriot would throw the game so everyone could move on.

This is where "freedom" gets you

Who hasn't thought "What we need is a fine dessert hummus!" Now on your grocer's shelves. From the people that brought you sliced and unsliced meats.

Looking back, there were ways I could have avoided becoming known as "that weird old guy on stilts."

Interaction setting to allow quote posts, but only with royalties.

Naked as the day you were arrested

These fucking people.

Somebody should ask him, live, during a press conference, "Do you think you would make as good a messiah as Jesus?"

Norway’s jerseys have a rune-inspired font with numbers that take design cues from runes (like Haaland’s angular “9”). In real runes in the Viking Age & earlier, there were no special symbols to write numbers like we have (e.g. “9” or “IX”). Numbers were fully written out (e.g. ᚦᚱᛁᛃᛟᛉ=þrijōz=three).

No, my grandmother wouldn't have recognized that food, but she wouldn't have recognized me, either.

New York City, hotbed of Bird Communism

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

Luxury shoes. Delicious cuisine. Provocative art. Throbbing music. The destruction of the nuclear family

Emergency Entrance

maybe the best American painting

President To Celebrate 250 Years Of A Nation By Speaking The Exact Number Of Minutes Don Jr Wagered On Polymarket

Solitaire, but for pie-eating contests.

Kid: Hey look- it's the guy who's terrible at comebacks Me: Why don't you go cook a hot dog

I'm starting to think some of you might be homosexuals.

Happy 4th of July. Keep dreaming.

No, I wasn't AT the Wedding, I was in my apartment, but I wasn't in the Twin Towers on 9/11 either. Doesn't mean I'm not going to casually mention I was in New York that day when I'm introduced to someone.

Of course I don't notice until the next day that my invitation to The Wedding went straight to spam.

[to the tune of Coat of Many Colors] The first of many showers that I'm gonna take today