DIDO: Remember me, but ah! forget my fate on this device

People don't explore art because they've been taught to dominate it vis-a-vis their relationship to it. They buy it or own it or beat it via critique or click like. It's all impositional. It's all imperial. Just a billion little empires.

"experts say" www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

CHOTINER: And when was that? MY CAT: I mean at least 14 hours ago CHOTINER: Well hold on. You're telling me you haven't been fed at all today but if I look in your bowl here I see a- MY CAT: An untouched serving, I know, but if you'd let me finish- CHOTINER: Yeah, of course.

Half-baked but: I keep thinking about shame, and how in the past people in government might have had a sort of built in firewall against doing the most egregious shit we’re seeing. But now the info environments are so separate that they get *positive* reinforcement for just absurd action.

chotiner: u always order "...and fries for the table" me: sometimes people's meals do not come with fries chotiner: does your meal always come with fries me: ...yes chotiner: is there anyone else at the table me: chotiner: we can revisit this later

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

i've been studying the right-wing for over a decade what is happening now in online right-wing spaces is fucking me up in ways that i'm currently unprepared for and don't know how to cope with

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

I just made a soup consisting only of green cabbage, potatoes, 1 tsp onion powder, and vegetable broth and it was the best goddamn soup I ever made

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

you can't force me out of my epistemic bubble. i have rent control

As I must therefore conclude that you are not serious in your rejection of me, I shall chuse to attribute it to your wish of increasing my love by suspense, according to the usual practice of elegant females. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

*inventing Bluetooth* Well, it works about 60% of the time. That’ll probably be good enough forever.

Good piece here; still feel like this should be refrain from Dems every single day. Literally no one would be honestly for it if they could be convinced its happening. [🎁]

Here is a nice mushroom

I was just there a few days ago! #denali

Told you so. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/s...

lots of stuff! but most notably,

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

this is the hot celeb couple everybody’s talking about, every man wants to be the bird and every woman wants to be the buffalo that’s got the pointy bird

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

this but for Dodgers birthdays in the last few days

Hey ABBA? Fun song. It’s a real bop. Uh, a lot of people died at Waterloo. Just thought you should know. Anyway enjoy your blood money

This was fun, as always, and it tickles me to be called a friend of the pod! Available where you get podcasts (and I don’t go the full 1 hr and 45 minutes without mentioning Miss Scarlet at the end lol)

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.

Trying this again, with a link this time! New episode out about Pride and Prejudice 2005! And it features the fabulous @barelytolerable.bsky.social firstimpressionspodcast.podbean.com/e/ep-79-pp-2... #janeausten #prideandprejudice #janite

Can I get a “hell yeah” from everyone on this website?

It's on! My new book, Wild for Austen, launches exactly one month from today from St. Martin's Press, then @ Manchester UP (UK), & Ultimo Press (Australia). I'll be on 16-city book tour! Details are over at devoney.substack.com. Thanks for supporting this book & celebrating #JaneAusten 's 250th.

People in the comments saying the play is that if there are no vaccines then chemo makes money and nope! The reason someone you know will die of an vaccine preventable disease is some academics with twitter followings felt they didn't get enough NIH respect in 2020 and came down w/ poster's madness.

[me on deathbed] My brand…

There are still good things in the world

No one should ever have the power to autonomously cancel hundreds of millions of dollars for scientific research based on some lies they saw on YouTube.

This is an early warning. Things won’t just go back to normal once Trump is gone. People will be unwilling to fill civil service jobs because they no longer trust the government. This was Vought’s goal.

I feel like every single day I need to post a reminder: if you ask an LLM about itself it DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ITS INNER WORKINGS and WILL NOT TELL YOU ANYTHING ACTUALLY ABOUT ITSELF. It just (as it always does) will make up some plausible sounding answer.

Labubu is what a French person calls a small injury

Well, PACER was hacked again, probably by a nation state: www.politico.com/news/2025/08... Luckily, our blog post from 2021 still holds up. If only we could have known this might happen. free.law/2021/10/05/p...

Dear Senator Cassidy, With your grotesque vote, you held the power of 100,000 doctors. With that power you were obligated to the Hippocratic oath 100,000x. With your willful weakness, you shattered that oath 100,000x. You are harming countless Americans & there’s a special place in hell for you.

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775. I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

Classic blunders -Getting involved in land wars in Asia -Going in against a Sicilian when death is on the line -Trying to contact researchers in Europe during August

Fuck the stock market reports, this is what real life is like

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

if anyone wants to my hero and possibly be the first with a potential all timer reaction video, i highly recommend grabbing a nice hi res vid of below deck s12e9 (latest one) around 38:30. the absolutely trashed lady yelling “you’re assholes, i hate you, they’re democrats, democrats!!”

Read the excerpt below the photo link. Then the whole piece at sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/laura-palm... Then buy her books if you haven't already. I wish millions more had her books and read them already.