Mr. Rogers or Mr. Hussein? Bird's eye or bionic eye? 90210 or 911? SimCity 3000 print advertisements, 1999.

Shocking: if you post a picture of a cool rock you found on this site you get rock cops in your replies telling you you can't keep it.

most romantic band in history

Maile Chapman is ridiculously good.

Great @unhappinesspod.bsky.social episode. Key takeaway: if I ever tell someone I’m proud of a joke I told and their answer is “oh, okay” I’m killing myself then and there.

A fun question. Probably worth remembering that men do want to kill the Father. Urges to despoil the Mother might have worse environmental consequences! But Fathers? We do kill those.

ok, here's a little something I made for bluesky users who are interested in exploring the newly launched cooperative music platform subvert.fm — it's the subvert.fm feed, featuring links from here that point to there. enjoy and please share! bsky.app/profile/did:...

My face when you decline to court my daughter but instead fall for one of your analysands, then ask me to analyse her, making me somewhat complicit, then eventually marry her newly-widowed mother.

I'm roughly as mad about this as I am about my kid having an elementary principal married to the portland cop who famously built a weird shrine to SS soldiers.

It's like inviting pharma reps to pitch cancer patients while they're in the chemo chairs. And they're kids. And your pharmaceutical plants take 40GW to run.

PS: per my kid, it was a school-wide assembly with the CEO of the AI company and the Superintendent of Portland Public Schools, giving away free stuff and telling them this would help "unlock their creativity." To a bunch of middle schoolers.

Feel like I could read forty books about the phenomenon of the Priss. @davidjroth.bsky.social please send over a syllabus when you can.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser dating sim

Archipelago offering 40% titles right now. Worth a peek. archipelagobooks.org

Looking through old posts to delete the more objectionable ones but mostly they're still too funny to me and I don't have the heart.

This rules

Iron age Danish diets included dozens of types of seed we'd now call weeds. dustinkurtz.substack.com/p/the-night-...

I want to think the best of PPS admin, even with the insane shit they're pulling this year and the hugely insulting comms, but in return I ask that they give us even a single week without a heinous lapse in judgement.

Wow really love to have my PPS 6th grader to come home excited that an AI company brought a DJ to his school and gave every kid free Nike backpacks and hats while they showed them their generative ai writing tool -- what in the actual fuck

I don’t really understand people who talk about ‘nature.’ What do they mean.

Btw if your literary org could benefit from a strong voice and absurd gifs in your comms, that's what I do. Get in touch.

Another, older, kind of slop. open.substack.com/pub/dustinku...

Gross. (From Publishers Lunch newsletter)

Open Access Publication! My essay. "Canonizing Paul's Epistle to the Laodiceans," won this year's DeGruyter-Brill Prize and, as of today, is available open access. I'm really proud of this one. You can download here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Portland DSA only makes a few to a handful of candidate endorsements each cycle because of the immense chapter resources we dedicate to DSA endorsed candidates, but we put out a voter guide to help you see which candidates are a better bet than others: PortlandDSA.org/the-thorn

This Monday at 6 pm, join Jacqueline Lazú, Lilia Fernández, Juan González, and Omar Lopez for a conversation on the history of the Young Lords in celebration of THE YOUNG LORDS SPEAK, out now from @haymarketbooks.org pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/50259

This looks fun as hell

I enjoy the Poetry Project newsletter archives www.poetryproject.org/media/pages/...

The Kin-der-Kids: Melancholy Loss of The Jim-jam "Relief-Expedition's" Balloon from The Chicago Sunday Tribune http://www.moma.org/collection/works/102094

Oh no the indoor playground birthday party staple in Portland is closing. Now what am I going to use as my personal image of Hell.

Tonight at @haymarketbooks.org!

The "the same tshirts" line is so funny.

oh i like this dumb joke

Might start believing in the idea of truth again, as a bit.

Everyone trying to be celan www.bbc.com/news/article...

I think Julia Silverman was attempting a hit piece on OEA & DSA with her article today but all this stuff is cool as hell.

It’s sweet that your boyfriend only listens to blowback for the intro music

More like 'Dork to Woo' am I right

I sometimes wonder if mineshaft gravity batteries are so inuitive and about Moving Heavy Shit that they could help do a cultural end run around these willful ignorance fuckers

wildly accurate

Same. Incredible book. Grab it from @libro.fm rather than audible, though, if you want it in audio. libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

We, the employees at Hachette Book Group, are proud to announce that we are unionizing with Washington-Baltimore NewsGuild-CWA Local 32035, of the AFL-CIO, in order to ensure better benefits, protections, and rights for workers as well as increased equity, transparency, and agency in the workplace.

HBD @davidnaimon.bsky.social! While like five eps come to mind, your interview with @katezambrano.bsky.social and Sofia Samatar for Tone is so fun and smart and just does so much for the idea of literature by reminding the listener how amazing good readers are milkweed.org/between-the-...

Fifty years ago today, Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" was published in the pages of @newyorker.com. What a poem!

It’s a good thing you can just pick visible mold spots off of bread, otherwise I’d be wasting a lot of this stuff.

THE Brad Neely!!!!

Come on dude I didn’t forget I was today. Of course I didn’t forget it was today! I simply forgot that after each sleep the things on the calendar draw nearer to you in a pattern every other living human seems capable of internalizing.

Cyberstuck in Oregon

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