Wait, what?

I unfollow if you talk crap about the American South, fyi.

the penne opticon

The search for my missing PhD hood has progressed to the "maybe I didn't get to keep it after graduation" phase. Did anyone's institutions let them keep the tam but not the hood if you rented regalia?

Does that part in "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" in which Will Smith assures you that he only "bites" the Cuban, he doesn't actually light it, but he needs it "for the look" pop into your head, or does that only happen to me?

I'm getting half a dozen texts and multiple fliers in the mail EVERY DAY with misinformation. I'm desperate to know how much is being spent on this race.

this interview with one of the folks who broke the Swalwell story is fascinating.

Today's #FridayFling prompt is whisper. I can assure you that Cal is correct here, and in YOU, ME, & THE CONSPIRACY, treasure does turn out to be forever.

My kid volunteered me to accompany him (me on piano, him on violin) for his spring recital. I...just cannot do this.

if today has proven anything, it's that vibe coding is as bad as you imagine it being.

The Justin Fairfax news is just too awful. Consider muting, friends, if domestic violence is a trigger for yuo. I wish I hadn't seen the details. xo

A podcast I love did a riff on Walter Benjamin, and it's taking everything in me not to email the hosts and say, "but he's **celebrating** the destruction of the aura." Please clap.

Celebrate wins more than you morn losses. That is the rule.

"A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess." A. Philip Randolph, born on this day in 1889

I'm not sure I can finish watching the Merrily We Roll Along pro shot. Damn this show is sad.

Blue Cheese Writes Smut

a beautiful essay about one of my favorite novellas.

When one random priest said he'd deny John Kerry communion, that was treated as a **major** story in 2003. I can't wait to read the very serious coverage when a sitting president openly insults the pope as if he's on a Comedy Central roast.

*Darth Vader blows up Death Star* Darth Vader: Good luck blowing it up now!

The way I rolled up here to check the results out of Hungary and then got excited about turnout numbers from the first days of early voting in the VA gerrymandering referendum, lol.

Peace talks failing while the POTUS and the Secretary of State/Acting NSA attended a UFC fight is just too on the nose. What ever happened to narrative subtlety?

there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes

Y'all, I can't check in with my space friends this morning. The bad feeling is back.

Six minutes of LOS is...a lot.

What about manateetasy? Give a manatee a sword.

The way the current administration is proving that diplomacy is best left to experts would be hilarious if it weren't so tragic.

Come on then, and remove him.

taps the sign again

Please, just let a bitch be in awe of the universe and explore her emotional depths.

$1.99 ✦ Time For You by Elizabeth Davis An ER doctor accidentally rides her bike into a Scotsman from 1885 when he appears out of thin air in front of her. Time Travel Romance (MF) amzn.to/3PVjCYM

They're just all getting completely Mad Men-wasted at whatever ad agency currently has the Nutella account right now

I AM SO EXCITED www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-j1...

"Who can be serene in a country where both the rulers and the ruled are without principle? The remembrance of my country spoils my walk" - Henry David Thoreau

O, it is excellent To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

Twenty-fifth amendment or impeachment now. Every day, of course, but that stuff from this morning is just war crimes top to bottom. This could all end today.

How I spent my morning editing: The original line reads, "the nature of things." I delete "of things" I stare at the line. I stare at the line some more. I restore "of things" I stare some more. I read the line aloud ten times both ways. I delete "of things" again.

hey hey hey, I wrote one of these books.

When you get your page proofs, the first thing you need to check--obviously--is whether passage with the long s (aka this thing ſ) survived into the final version. Everyone can rest easy: it did.

my next book is a suspense with some mystery/conspiracy elements. all of that stuff got layered in during edits.

NPR, why isn't the news quiz up yet???? It's the only thing getting me through the week.

A tragedy in three acts: First email: wait, is this meeting still on? Second email: no, it's canceled! Third email: never mind, the meeting is back on.

what's the opposite of an ad for your product?

Heck yeah, space!!!!

I cannot believe that this case is being heard by SCOTUS. Even if the decision ends up being not heinous, there are arguments that deserve no oxygen, and this is so clearly one of them.

If you're in North America, you can get the eBook of Bad Reputation for just $1.99 this month on the 'zon!!

Hey all, we still have a limited number of these charming stickers left over from our last Romancing the Vote. In honor of SCOTUS fuckery on today, the Trans Day of Visibility, we'd like to offer you the chance to get one. (Thread continues.)

if they kill Krypto, I'm going to lose it. not in 2026, mfers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1-p...

Wow, the horrors are **especially** horrifying today.

I really, really enjoyed Project Hail Mary. Gosling is great in it, but Sandra Huller and that alien steal the show.