Perfect human being

Tomorrow my mom will be eight years gone. I’m still not habituated to this anniversary, and its timing—the start of the holiday season—is fraught, to say the least. Anyway, she was so great, and I’ll miss her forever. Fuck cancer! My love and solidarity to all those who know similar heartaches.

Something truly glorious about Shaggy singing "It Wasn't Me" to the elementary schoolers at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2025.

Impossible not to feel depressed after hearing this much about people so devoid of human compassion or basic morality. Miserable people determined to fuck over the world, so that the rest of us suffer too.

People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.

CHATGPT WILL NOT SING WITH GOD’S CREATIONS! www.vulture.com/article/pope...

HUMANS WILL LITERALLY PROJECT THEIR DESIRES/INSECURITIES/YEARNING FOR INTERPERSONAL CONNECTION ONTO AN ENVIRONMENTALLY ANNIHILATING BOX OF BINARY CODE INSTEAD OF GOING TO THERAPY

Currently rereading the novel (stay tuned), and I think this poster suits both tone and scope pretty well. It's giving "these two people are obsessed with each other, and they've made it the entire world's problem."

What I PERSONALLY consider “golden” is when the aircraft reliably stays in the sky. That puts me in a good mood. But maybe I’m just a kook, who knows.

i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead

Imagine the loathsome, rizz-less jokers swarming Trump all day, everyday. Meeting Zohran Mamdani must have felt like a mother’s embrace on the first day of spring.

So many sentences I never expected to utter/type before becoming a parent, i.e. “Fuckkkkkkkk they’re out of Yoshi!!”

get 'em outta here!!

The other day, I played "Golden" from KPop Demon Hunters for my 4 year old. I haven't seen the movie, but I thought the song was a cute bop, and that he'd like it. He did, but his real lasting impression is that it is MY favorite song in the world. He thinks that I am listening to it constantly.

This should be a much bigger story, imho. Moreover, it’s dismaying that nobody defended this woman. Any person who takes themself seriously, especially right now, has got to accept the moral responsibility that accompanies moments of this kind of gravity.

Love to let my pals know that I’m catching up on their recent posts by sending a flurry of “likes” their way. I imagine them as lil smooches: like 😘 like 😘 like 😘

It is 6:10 p.m. and as black as the grave. This is a big fuckin problem for me.

Several years back I had the privilege of being on a panel with Alice. Her warmth and wisdom were palpable then, just as it was in every other context. Her loss is tremendous, and I send love to everyone who worked closely with her, and loved her.

Imagine being so depraved that you perv out to a Willa Cather novel.

Painful to fully absorb the fact that these evil, barely literate men have exerted all possible effort to accomplish two things: 1. Conceal and avoid any accountability for their depraved crimes and 2. Convince the electorate that the people we need to fear are immigrants and trans folks.

It is so shamefully dangerous to be a teenage girl in this country. It is so shamefully dangerous to be a child, period. I'm not sure there could be a vaster gulf between the right's worshipful posture towards the capital-C Child and their brutish disregard for actual, living children.

these epstein emails are pretty damning. i sure hope that we haven't spent the last couple years in a cultural backslide where men are seemingly allowed to openly and gleefully fantasize about dominating young women without any threat of reproach

Instagram, every hour: hey gurl ::shows me a photo of a neutral toned cardigan:: Me: ooh. ooooooh. ::bites lip, twirls hair::

This is the mindset one adopts when Judith Butler writes an eviscerating pan of your book.

Our queen knew the situation was dire!!! 😭 pitchfork.com/news/robyn-a...

Soon I won't even be able to drown my political sorrows in gnocchi I stg

Called my senators; please call yours.

I had a college English prof who used to explain the limits of interpretation as follows: “Beowulf is not about the plight of the Eskimo.” Everything is not potentially about everything else! TS, who I generally wish well, is not the millennial Plath. There’s simply no textual evidence for this.

Hello, mom in Montgomery County here. I appreciate raising my son in this area because the parents are mostly rad and lowkey and share my views regarding bigots. :)

Fellow writer/media types: I'm writing a Wuthering Heights essay pegged to the forthcoming Emerald Fennell adaptation and need a Warner Brothers contact so that I can either procure a screener or attend a press screening. Can someone help me? Signal boosts appreciated!

Fellow writer/media types: I'm writing a Wuthering Heights essay pegged to the forthcoming Emerald Fennell adaptation and need a Warner Brothers contact so that I can either procure a screener or attend a press screening. Can someone help me? Signal boosts appreciated!

I'm loling. Our main man Ross, just asking questions. Embarking on un petit inquiry. Pursuing knowledge.

Really appreciate this fortifying analysis from fellow Virginia Beach public schools graduate @jamellebouie.net, whose clarity has been helping me to retain my sanity. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...

Establishment Democrats are complicit in this country’s descent into hell. Primary them all. Get ‘em out of there.

Allston/Brighton are getting targeted by ICE. For anyone in the Boston area looking for ways to help, go here:

For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.

Parasocial relationship with NYC politics currently plateaued at obscene level of intensity

Brad Lander, please primary this loser.

I love this. The world is so beautiful.

Happy Halloween, my four-year-old is dressed as Shaun the Sheep today.

Zero adults in the room across the three branches of government right now. Completely unserious nation, wreaking havoc on scores of lives, both here and overseas.

Strains at the weed store

people are saying now is the time to donate to your local food bank, and that’s absolutely true, but in addition to that, now’s the time to, if you can afford it, find one or more people you know who rely on these benefits and simply cover their grocery bills

Awesome news. There's too much excellent children's literature being written and illustrated to deny it the rigorous consideration all great art deserves.

I am not smarter than Erin, but you SHOULD come to our event tonight. We’re going to have such a blast.

Okay. Okay. This is good. Can we get some major media coverage going in the chat?