Kafka understood that an even greater indignity than being turned into a giant insect was still being required to go to work afterward.

I just worry my mutuals don't think enough about Marisa Tomei

Curtis Faville

Vicki Rivard

Paul Éluard, tr. Gilbert Bowen

Looks like I won't be able to join everyone for the pairs free because GQ Japan shared this picture of Kaori Sakamoto and I am dead now goodbye 🪦

“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups… “Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to post small poems you wrote, or ones you like by other poets :) here’s a little one I love by Laura Riding~

Roses are red, These times are quite trying

tired: the esptein files wired: the epstein TRIALS

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

tfw

takes me 10+ phone calls to get a preauthorization for an MRI but the ultra-wealthy can pick up the phone and order trafficked children and women like pizza

on the Epstein files & language: it is not "sex with children" or "sex with trafficked women" or a "sex scandal." Sexual abuse and rape are to sex what hitting someone over the head with a frying pan is to cooking. Call it what it is.

For those of you into Heated Rivalry, might I suggest THIS sizzling slow burn?

why aren't the epstein files all over the front of @nytimes.com, why haven't they been all week, why is Walmart's market cap increasing a bigger story than multiple credible claims of "auctioning" girls and women, of murdering girls and women and their babies

“There is no conceivable degree of institutional incompetence sufficient to explain the scale, consistency, and persistence of the failures that occurred —particularly where the sole task ordered by the Court and repeatedly emphasized by DOJ was simple: redact known victim names before publication,”

if you want to know what working for a nobel-prize winning scientist is like, my phone now corrects "mean" to "mRNA"

Not pictured: Haruki Murakami’s wife, or indeed whoever is cooking, cleaning, paying bills, running errands, doing the laundry, answering emails, etc like yea his routine is goals, but let’s not lie to ourselves about all the invisible work others are doing to enable him to have that routine

oh you mean paying for a home, education, childcare, or being able to retire? not just the price of eggs? i mean yes www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...

A few favorite signs from today's protest in Minneapolis

Book: Wuthering Heights Review: Two bad people fall in love, act like jerks, and then make everyone miserable. Am I supposed to root for them? Or feel sorry for Heathcliff? Status: DNF at like 75% :/

Issa

YES THAT'S WHAT MANY OF US HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS AND THATS WHY WE DON'T USE IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Brett Banditelli, part time amateur pelican photographer. 🪶

Three today from Meghan Harrison! love this one, after one of my fave movies of last year! https://www.havehashad.com/ropfz

"Gays & Lesbians Against Nazis!" Germany! 1989

The increasingly common habit of screenshotting the AI summary of a Google search and presenting it as evidence must be nipped in the bud immediately. That is nothing. That is not anything, it is not a thing.

update: i read the first one and i think the show is probably gonna be better than the books tbqh

l e s b i a n s www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vev...

@hoopladigital.bsky.social has ebooks and audiobooks of the #HeatedRivalry series btw, you don’t have to wait for your library/libby ⛸️♥️

Every new tech product is a wiretap that may also tell you to self harm. The only distinction is form factor.

#smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

some Linda Pastan for #smallpoemsunday

alanis morisette referencing great expectations in the first track on jagged little pill was a power move

For 2026 let’s remind ourselves what really matters: weird fiction

Sunrise, 1916 By Georgia O'Keeffe #WomensArt #NewYearsDay2026

Farhad Moshiri (Iranian | 1963 - 2024). Space Station (2006, embroidery on canvas).

I want to stay in bed, Robert Kinsley

An analysis of the expansion of cracks in the Thwaites Glacier over the past 20 years suggests that a total collapse could be only a matter of time. www.wired.com/story/the-do...

I am actually in society, I just wear a mask instead of breathing raw grocery store air but ok !!

I’ve had the privilege of working and studying at lots of fancy places, but Brown is the most special. Nowhere else have I encountered such a depth of broad intellectual curiosity, joy in learning, so many dedicated teachers, or so many dear friends. Nowhere else is as treasured in my memory.

my alma mater 💔

Big week for people maintaining the distinction between font and typeface

everything* is beautiful *some exceptions apply

Crosswalks. NYC. A couple of autumns ago. 6”x6” oil

i serve at the pleasure of the queen

Philip Surrey (Canadian, 1910 - 1990). Winter Street Scene (oil on canvas).

The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.