exciting news: there’s a profile of me out in The Needle by @marleywrites.bsky.social if you want to find out why I’m like this theneedlenews.com/2026/05/nove...

my eternal Last Jedi problem “no, I don’t like that movie. wait, shit! not like that, those dipshits are wrong, I have other reasons”

Me, reading #100-2 on the Guardian's list of the best novels: "This is just stupid clickbait." Me, seeing Middlemarch at #1: "Well, even clickbait can be correct."

We've normalized working people living out of their cars because we can't normalize taxing billionaires.

If we can—through some Trojan-horse trickery, perhaps—get Elon to read his 1897 theory that Homer was a woman, Samuel Butler may be able to cause a total meltdown from beyond the grave.

I'm kinda fascinated by the cover stories, here, both individually and together, like some guy is picking this up off the stands and thinking, "Ah, the two greatest issues weighing heavy on my mind."

When a trans person so much as jaywalks there's a month of calls for all of us to die screaming and I need people to bring that energy to holding every transphobic monster that helped make this murder happen accountable for it. Juniper's death is the intended outcome of transphobic propaganda.

also tough to see trump happening if obama didn’t do the same for the bush admin

read the article making this argument and it just reinforced the 3d printing analogy. the industry hype with AI is 100x larger, but the pattern was a similar "this is going to change humanity" to "this is going to revolutionize specific industries" to "this will be a fun hobby for eccentrics"

So excited to see a minimum of five identical bachelors named Ryan from Tewksbury.

Sulking, c.1870 by Edgar Degas

Weeping at the burning of the library of Alexandria

We need to just stop defining college as a training ground for corporate employment. Cut the corporate welfare and force the fucking corporations to train their own workers. A democracy’s interest in higher education is in creating thoughtful and informed citizens, not corporate drones.

‘Sports Illustrated’ Removes Distracting Models From Swimsuit Edition https://theonion.com/sports-illustrated-removes-distracting-models-from-swimsuit-edition/

We desperately need to get away from arguments for the humanities that elevate them because of what they do for technology. The humanities should not be understood as service disciplines. They are an extension of us, and that is enough.

I was watching videos from the late 90s / early 2000s and I don't think we talk enough about how the current standard for male beauty is men using steroids or how much that dynamic is for the male gaze.

Donald Trump picked whoever for his reflecting pool because John Roberts ruled he's above the law and its really that simple

I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing

A friend just sent me this perfect piece by Karel Čapek, trans. Dora Round, ‘From the Point of View of a Cat’.

Whenever a big discourse comes up about Bluesky I maintain my long standing view that this is the only perspective to have on posting here

i looked up the plot for this book and every couple of words is a new punch to the head, i need to read this. Books are so cool.

If you see this, post a STAR TREK.

A year later, under the Hayes Code, it was not allowable to be this sexy in the vicinity of a movie camera.

Not a true case of "The Simpsons predicted it" because the original context was an unrealistic appeal to voters, but damned if they didn't hit on the private motto of our current Congress.

There’s something so chilling about being a former politician on one’s death bed, having a clear portal to an existential, cosmic perspective on the meaning of life, and counseling everyone to ask for less. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...

I hate it when people talk to me, and I also hate it when people don’t talk to me, but here’s what I like: Complaining

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

The thing about old JRPGs is that they’d let anything be a party member, you’d have a damn cat in there, you’d have a big frying pan, you’d have a horny skeleton, you’d have a sentient beaver powered by the ghost of the emperor, now everything has to be “good”

Last night I dreamed that I had a stand-up routine where I did an impression of Garrison Keillor talking about how nobody likes him in Lake Wobegon ever since they found out he's a sex pest. Might need to workshop that in case they ever have an open mic at Tanglewood.

Good morning

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

I don't often read journal articles first thing on Monday morning, but I recommend this one.

one of the absolute worst parts about presumptive free market politics — and i’m not even necessarily opposed in principle — is that it is not treated as a political decision. the structure of the market is politics! it is politically structured! we just kinda act like it’s not based on our priors!

Happy Mother’s Day!

The Kennedy family is like a speedrun of the Habsburgs compressed into three generations.

at a fundraiser all day so, dont have time for normal ✨ Shameless Self Promotion Saturday ✨silliness so, hi, please buy art, or tell someone to buy art. it's a very slow month for us. or find some rich guy to give us $10,000 choose your own adventure, really

that the virginia supreme court allowed the referendum to go forward - they could have stopped it - and then ruled this way really gives up the game the only difference between now and then is that the we know the result and they didn't like it

Portrait II https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/portrait-ii

Me and the stupidest guys I know are looking at rereleased grainy ufo pics that the government is letting us look at and honking like geese, a few of us are mad we’re not allowed to take the photos into the bathroom to jerk our dicks on/about

This is wonderful. www.havehashad.com/hadposts/i-a... (Thanks to A Newsletter of Humorous Readings for putting this in front of my eyeballs.)

Not true. There are many reasons why we got here. People not voting is one of them. Not even the most important one. This pedestrian analysis needs to stop. The number one reason we got here, above all, is racism. Until we contend with that we won’t even understand voter disenfranchisement.

I fully endorse this cover. We need fewer news bulletins and more Gilligan's Island.

Fuck it, Zordon Mamdani

CROW ON MST3K: He makes Ted Danson look like Gavin MacLeod! ME AT 13 YEARS OLD: haha

Oh, hey, I wrote a thing about a guy who sucks.

The only reasonable response is to hold these people upside-down by the ankles and shake them until their ill-gotten gains fall out of their pockets.

Orson Welles to Jim Henson, 1979

A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.