the best part is when the highest-up boss says "oh, you know, I'm just not good at email!" like the rest of us didn't have to GET good at it at some point in our puny little lives

extremely happy to see there is another Eno screening in Portland next week, happy early birthday to me

every time I start writing a book review it's like I have never done this before in my life, I have no idea what I'm doing or where to start, how do words go??? why does this happen?? (okay this time it's because I've been so busy I haven't finished a book in weeks but it happens regardless!!!)

(if you're a spider hater just keep scrolling) conundrum: there has been a large spider in my bathroom since we moved two weeks ago. i worry about it. but is it better to put it outside (cold and wet, but maybe food?) or let it stay on the bathroom wall (warm and dry, but probably no food?).

my mind is a little bit blown by this. absolutely worth a read.

Anyway if you like that Andor energy in your tv shows might i suggest Mr robot

music venues should have Alamo Drafthouse rules where if your obnoxious talking is ruining other patrons' experience (not to mention disrespecting the band) then you get booted this thought brought to you by multiple men that just would not shut the fuck up at Belly last night in Seattle

just absolute cartoon villains except that it's real life and real people are suffering

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

how many open tabs is too many open tabs, asking for a friend

a little bit obsessed with the zipper upgrade, and also with the fact that YKK's founding principle is the "cycle of goodness." can I please live in a country where companies believe in the cycle of goodness

as a person who worked in a record store in the early 2000s I am constitutionally incapable of remembering that records now come out on fridays instead of tuesdays—but this means that I get to be blissfully surprised every time it's a friday that brings a record about which I am very excited!!!!!

getting up before 6 am does not always come with perks but HOLY CATS THE MOON, YOU GUYS

a petty thing I feel very strongly about is that it should be illegal for a company to email you just because you visited its website. stop that. stop that at once. no I did not buy your item and now I WILL NEVER BUY YOUR ITEM.

is it a weird book I bought for shits and giggles years ago or is it the NYT opinion section

I'm so mad that I have no idea when I'm going to get to see this

marco rubio and elon musk

[Spelled coupon wrong 4 times writing this (How?!?)] 25% off a bunch of our books from now until year end using code SBP25 smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journa... indiepubs.com/collections/...

still adjusting to the fact that I have become a person who absolutely must read a new-to-me author's entire back catalog. this is not an efficient use of time, sometimes? but it's so SATISFYING.

last week I took my crap back to Xfinity to cancel my account and guess what! ha ha! they did not ACTUALLY cancel my account so now I got another bill AND am on the phone with a robot to get this done. for some reason this takes 15 minutes and the robot wants to make small talk

what I wouldn't do for passenger rail that was not dependent on the fate of freight trains in order to run this message brought to you by the cancellation of my morning train (because a freight train is disabled on the same tracks)

:sobbing: BUT WHY DO THE EYES LOOK LIKE THAT AND ALSO THE MOUTH www.starwars.com/news/disney-...

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

this genuinely feels like a moment history books will look back on where the Democratic Party was forced to either fix its hearts or die

dude at the bus stop outside our window has a portable speaker and is just absolutely blasting the scorpions' "winds of change" which I am trying to take as a sign and not simply a great annoyance

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

the water balloon didn't hurt me but it did explode on impact. i could feel the wet

Teen Vogue has been doing incredible politics work for almost a decade. This is a terrible development.

Has anyone worked up the net worth of Cuomo’s parents vs Mamdani’s? Why does this weird narrative of a professor and a filmmaker as wealthy elites continue? Do they think Mira Nair made Marvel films or something?

Evil

for four years my small black chaos void regularly met us at the door, standing on the hall tree, sticking just her nose outside. our door at the old place went straight to the outside. our door at our new place opens onto a warm carpeted hallway and this cat fully believes that is part of HER house

I had no idea every single last one of you was a baseball fan

everybody has a right to eat and also food stamps are a taxpayer-funded subsidy for multibillion-dollar corporations who refuse to pay their workers a livable wage

don’t threaten me with a good time!!!!

When I am king, all LED streetlights and headlights will need to be amber.

when you're the kind of mess where seeing yet another local business offering free SNAP meals just sets you off, well, that's where I am right now the first one I saw was Heretic Coffee

USPS: you updated your address! have fun getting mail! UPS: you can pay $15 to have each package (contents unknown*) delivered to a new address. * sometimes they're review copies I need; sometimes they're random galleys I didn't ask for and may or may not want! I can't know!!!!

those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station

this is genuinely terrifying and I just ... the heartiest what the fuck to this nightmare sci-fi garbage torment nexus timeline

"We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: when the system fails us, it’s on everyday people to take care of each other. This, right here, is the proof." www.oregonlive.com/food/2025/10...

the internet reminded me that this was seven years ago. seven! and now it's two days until the exhibition A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin opens in Portland, and I curated a whole THING in there (about the editing of The Tombs of Atuan). some things change. some things are constant.

house in my neighborhood has two skeletons sitting in rockers on the porch holding hands which would be cute enough already BUT one is pink and and has a tiara and one is green and yes they are definitely Elphie and Glinda skeletons in love

CULOTTES

I don't think I would ever want to teleport my physical being but I would sure like to be able to teleport my stuff from one apartment to the next

you really really love to see it!!!!

New books, Rebecca Ferguson's inimitable charisma, and why fantasy RPGs got gold all wrong: @mollytempleton.com recommends some rabbit holes to get lost in this weekend! reactormag.com/what-to-watc...

honestly don't repost unsourced screenshots even if they sound great -- or if you want to repost it, go find the source and quote post imo (in general, we should all be waaaaaay more suspect of anything that does not have a source attached)

Fellow Calcuttan writer/editor Archita Mittra is in desperate need of financial help. She recently lost her father, her home was damaged in the recent rains, & her mother's in hospital. They don't have insurance, & she's a freelancer. I can vouch for her. Please share widely & donate:

For the first time in 60+ years, the Uncle Sam sign in Chehalis, Washington says something factual: "Native Land." www.facebook.com/thecentralia...