This image has influenced my aesthetic for at least 35 years

Linda Linda Linda is good good good: aftermath.site/linda-bae-doon...

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genderfluid siberian orchestra

Also check out this rock, how does this even happen

(I wrote about this camera last year, and about the fun of making yourself shoot black and white)

Winter’s back, time to get bleak with the monochrome Pentax

I just sent out an end-of-year newsletter, containing some holiday music from my wife and me, and this blog post (of a 2020 essay from The Literary Review) about my beloved late grandmother Mary Jane Stein. Give it a read, and sign up for more! I'll send out a bunch of little essays in the new year.

I've had a great time selecting some pieces to mark the solstice and year's end at @necessaryfiction.com, and am grateful to the writers who shared their work. Here is the first gathering of lights, with three more to follow in the days ahead.

I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

A YT channel posted this Kirsty MacColl live Toronto clip yesterday, for the 25th anniversary of her tragic death. She's about 34 here, and was 41 when she was killed saving her son from a speedboat in Mexico. Listen to this song - "Free World" - she was so brilliant. (Thanks, Shawn.)

Well I sure appreciated seeing Kyle Maclachlan enjoying a hot cup of coffee again. That's fan service I can get behind

Subs open for 73.2 on January 1!

Our Spring 2026 issue will be out in February! It's absolutely packed, and has a special section of translated poetry, prose poetry, and fiction.

...and assistant fiction editor Sijing Yang interviews poet and essayist Ishion Hutchinson. "There’s probably one corner of heaven where there's no distinction between writers and poets and dramatists and painters."

Today we have TWO new interviews with poets up on the blog. First, assistant poetry editor Gerardo Azpiri Iglesias interviews Richie Hofmann. "As a poet I am creating an aesthetic world."

Another post where I ran out of characters and couldn't fit a tag for the author. @jrobertlennon.com

This has been a really fun thread but basically every lawyer uses Office365, it's a huge portion of Microsoft's income, and so any linux future meaningfully has to offer alternatives to these specific rentier empires and not just gaming. Gaming is a good start, but LibreOffice does not cut it.

me, as a child: *walks into the kitchen covered in my own blood holding a rabbit I fought from a hawk* my mom, on the phone: *mouthing* I’m on the phone

I would prefer technology policy be made by legislators who know how to open terminal

Hey also here is our Christmas carol

I've still never seen a basic dumbass in the wild somehow. I've got the three-toed bozo, the ruby-throated fuckup, and the loser cousin jeff who sleeps in the garage

Found the best named law ever on Jane Austen's wiki

Basic dumbass. Looks like shit. Often mistaken for broken-ass garbage on the ground because it's too lazy to fly. Easily identifiable by central American passersby giving it the finger. Song is plagiarized. We almost forgot to put it ihere until Stacey was like "oh what about that little asshole"

There is no way you will remember all that shit. You have to watch the oxhorn recap youtu.be/G5etpIzchSo?...

Adobe haters, this free cross-platform Lightroom-alike is fast and powerful, doesn’t look like shit, and is developed by a single teenager

Have you tried Linux? Download Mint on your computer. It can literally run Puppy. It's literally on Guix. It can probably run MeeGo. Dude it works on MEPIS. You can run it on Pop. You can download Pop and run it. Log onto Pop right now. Dive into Pop. You can run it on Pop. Pop has it for you.

Check out my story, “Conflagration Kills Five” in the new issue of @smokelong.bsky.social ! Thank you, @kplumhoff.bsky.social for sharing your favorite line. Can’t wait to read your story (and the others in this issue) once I’m done grading!

I love to live in an all encompassing surveillance state that only manages to capture criminals when they turn themselves in a couple weeks after their heinous crimes

Five beautifully designed music making things: 5. Polyend Seq - Midi sequencer by Polyend 4. The Telecaster - Electric guitar by Fender 3. Original OP-1 Synth - by Teenage Engineering 2. HC-TT - Human Controlled Tape Transport by Landscape 1. Workshop System - by Music Thing Modular

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

Many disappointing names in this list of fucking turncoat pieces of shit who want to unperson my children

MISERY exists in WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. WHEN HARRY MET SALLY exists in MISERY. Welcome to the Reinerverse.

Yellow-Red-Blue, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1925 (detail, rotated), 📸 by @riogiancarlo.bsky.social

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my short film Homemade Gatorade is showing at Sundance 2026 😋 such a wonderful honor, I can’t believe it !! big big thanks to my friends that contributed to this film, and to all my patrons that helped fund it ✨ @sundance.org

Perhaps it goes without saying, but MY decades-long friendship with Jeffrey Epstein was quite different from the rest. I paid for my flights on his airplane despite his offers to fly me for free, as you can see in the emails I often called him "you rascal," and I always asked the girls for ID

Fck Christmas youtu.be/hdX3eRMXOD0

Part 226 of 200 in historically interesting things The oldest still existing menorah found in Judea estimated to be from 70 CE

Triptych

@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social how long do you think this has been on the back of the Life box? Twenty years? Thirty?

LAUSD is being sued for misusing $77 million in voter-approved funds meant to expand arts education. Now they're encouraging students to "save time & effort" by using text prompts to generate art using AI. lamag.com/news/lausd-a...

Driving my family insane by changing the lyrics to “fight the remora, it’s swimming towards our submarine / fight the remora, torpedo time is here” youtu.be/_nKJ1yspwt8?...

It’s so great that walk rhymes with talk and hips rhymes with lips, especially if you’re writing a song about why you like a particular lady