The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.

The only one who could ever reach me / Was the son of a…

"why did you become a writer" because no one gave a shit about my special interests growing up. now i make them everyone else's problem. next question

"Vibe was 100 percent scanned page by page, issue by issue on Google Books. & then I don't know what happened, but it just disappeared one day." defector.com/lost-recipes

Coming July 21, friend! Thanks for reading!!

We updated our record of people immigration agents have killed or caused to die since Trump took office in January 2025. As of today, agents have killed at least 28 people in the field and 48 people in custody.

Tina Weymouth and Grandmaster Flash by Laura Levine 1981 🖤

Escape From New York (1981) Director John Carpenter

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

The great music engineer and producer Bob Power has died. An absolute legend, producing records for Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, The Roots, D’Angelo, Erykah Badu, and on and on. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Bill Knott

tldr THANKS SUCKA

THERAPIST: and this one? ME: that looks like you kissing my mum. THERAPIST: what about this one? ME: also kissing my mum. and groping her a little. why are you showing me these? THERAPIST: I thought you'd be happy for us.

‘Cultural monstrosities!’ The thrilling visual legacy of punk and post-punk – in pictures

Well today in AI scams targeting authors. I received an email claiming to want to include my book in a book club. Not only do all the photos of authors they claim to work with look AI generated but look at @colsonwhitehead.com and @zadiesmith.bsky.social and then look at these photos

tough to come up with a better story about the ignorance and hubris of mankind than “b-list tv news host becomes Secretary of Defense,” but then we get the story “b-list tv news host becomes Secy. of Defense, plugs AI system directly into military systems, has it select targets”

D1548.0.1 Amulet has control over weather.

The thing you have to understand about the 80s is that the Harlem Globetrotters could show up in anything at any time and nobody would bat an eye.

The secret hero of Moore's Swamp Thing run.

Great piece. Will Hermes’s “Love Goes to Buildings on Fire” is a history of NYC popular music that includes the salsa movement, left out of other accounts because Spanish.

New York City used to have an iconic, elegant skyline. Now it's all jagged and lacks harmony. It looks like the sharp jagged teeth in some weird fish's mouth. Ugly and unwelcoming.

I was on Twitter for the writers and the book recommendations, the essays, the poetry, the community. I am here now for the same. I’m a nerd. Please reply with a favorite recent essay or poem or story or book recommendation, and thank you.

Hear me out: Clifford the Big Red Dog was almost certainly euthanized at a relatively young age due to hip dysplasia and honestly? Everyone in town was secretly relieved.

Helen Frankenthaler in her studio, photographed by David Parks for Life magazine in 1956.

Happy Pierre Boulle's birthday!

Strongly reminiscent of this infamous diagram of a slaver ship. We are repeating our evils.

@newyorker.com reveals their most anticipated books of 2026, including LONDON FALLING by @praddenkeefe.bsky.social and COOL MACHINE by @colsonwhitehead.com via www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Status report, "Period Food Research" dep't: Arrived today: a CD version of the Pennsylvania Railroad's dining car manual. 110 pp of instructions and recipes. The level of detail is amazing. A couple of entries on oysters here...

Oh, man. Tom Noonan died? His performance as Francis Dolarhyde in Manhunter is one of the most terrifying, mesmerizing I've ever seen in a film.

staring at the screen, no ideas, the empty prompt window confronting you with your own mediocrity -- welcome to the work, chump, you loser.

& always a team player, as seen in this Godfather outtake shot, where he's the cue card man for Marlon Brando

Popping up across Brooklyn... All of the people featured in the windows are Black people.

From Hamdan Ballal, co-director of last year’s Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” This is happening now.

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New @mojomagazine.bsky.social contains my ten page article looking at UK Punk 1976 through ten photos - by Ray Stevenson, Sheila Rock, Kate Simon, Jonh Ingham and others, inc an unseen shot of the Clash in October 1976 by John Tiberi

On the one hand, the more Noem wastes bc of her own incompetence, the less she'll have for goons and concentration camps. On the other hand, the GOP cut $273M in cancer cure research last year to pay for shit like this. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Why do people hate ai? It’s a mystery for the ages.

GOD BLESS US EVERY ONE

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick