shout out to The Strand bookstore staffer who did this

is there a pulitzer for photo captions because if so @theguardian.com just won it

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👹 The Lamb investigates murders

Yes! Also, I immediately read this bit in the book and thought of Ahab and Ishmael as Rake and Yoke, Annelid & Leveret, Vidyucchika & Lambajihva, etc. 👹🐋

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How about a jet-lagged live posting while I read? Trying to read this because I keep getting tagged in posts about it, but the first paragraph already contains synthetic text (a quote from Claude). I will skip that bit and persevere... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

😭 I wish I could love it with you guys. Im just missing that bit somehow.

Our society detests children, and by extension pregnant women and new parents. We build it into our rhetoric and processes about what it means to be a professional and have a career. I wrote a whole autobiographical article about it! www.routledge.com/Mothering-an...

Unpopular opinion: kids are actually fully people, just like you and me

Weekend baking: whole grain challah buns (used for some banging fried fish sandwiches) and a whole wheat sourdough loaf.

Collectively, we really hate kids. Seems like every day someone is confidently declaring they don’t belong in Yet Another Place. Earlier this week it was some douchenozzle saying they don’t belong in the grocery store; yesterday a mom saying they mostly don’t belong in her presence. Pls self-reflect

Excessive LOLOLOLOL AI isn't like moving from horse + cart to a Ferrari It's moving into a palanquin: inefficient, a sign of conspicuous consumption from pretentious asshats, movement at the expense of and carried upon the pained backs of stolen/uncompensated labour mostly in the global South

👹 🧵 This is horrible. Rakesfall reader friends: this sounds an awful like the Torturer.

no it wasn’t and no it didn’t

I'm seeing a lot of people responding to this by trying to demonstrate that college graduates actually do earn more money, and that's fine, but it also seems beside the point. The point is that in a society as wealthy as ours, interested students should simply be able to learn. It is a social good.

This marketer deserves a promotion.

👹 catching up on my memes today

👹 ONES and OTHERS, For Sunday July 19, we’re reading Chapter 19: the Desolation. Minor CW: murder investigations

low joy tasks like,, all of it ???

I hate this woman with a burning fucking passion. Holy shit. Oh my god

do you want levels of psychological fuckup found only in the british aristocracy? because this is how you get evels of psychological fuckup found only in the british aristocracy

KEVIN IS STILL GOING IN THIS ABSOLUTELY S-TIER THREAD OF STEPHEN MILLER DISSES

I hope their kids realize that taking care of them in their old age is also a low joy task

hey we could use an assist here with public comment. its at eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home... you have to hit "PARTICIPATE NOW" near the top of the page. im gonna drop some links about this in a thread too

"CEO parenting" Please, if the meteor is nearby, please just end it now

hi this is a really big deal. Chaco Canyon is one of the most important historical sites in North America. the area tribes are extremely opposed to this. please please please comment on this with the BLM. it takes two minutes.

Found out this week that this dumpling has cancer. Dunno how long we’ve got with her, but it is gonna be as fun as we can make it. (Relatedly, I am PISSED at the cancer fairy who has visited my family WAY TOO MANY FUCKING TIMES in the past years while skipping folks who really NEED some cancer)

My god. This is moral vacuum behavior: treating being a parent as a recreational activity. Honestly, having been through it three times over, the “low-joy tasks” are what build trust. Want your kid to know you’re there for them? Be there & be reliable for the hard, unfun, dirty parts.

Sir a second exwife statement has hit the newscycle

Free KN95 masks will continue to be available at hundreds of locations citywide: on.nyc.gov/freemask. For air quality guidance, visit on.nyc.gov/firesmoke.

👹 spent a few hours walking thru the forest in Seattle’s Ravenna park today (on a small tour of city forests)—named after the Italian city, but I was absolutely thinking of Rakesfall & Ravana

OOP

Added a seventh university sticker (for oldest kid’s grad school!) to the back of my minivan ❤️❤️❤️

🎯 on critique and whether it needs to be cruel (it does not, obvs)

Oh Captain My Captain Our fearful trip is done The lettuce gave us anal leaks The parasite has won. The Bell is near, The Bell I hear, the people are a-pooping While Taylor Farms the Facist fucks, the lettuce full of poison

Forever fuck Carville, but damned if “loonier than a tune” isn’t great

Our built world is not designed for these changing temperatures and sprawling catastrophes, and there is no plan or budget in place to address this. To make what's ahead more bearable and survivable, we will need transformative change and radical redistribution—not fucking data centers.

The billionaires have a vision of the future, and in it, many of us are dead. Not because they all want to kill us (some of them want to kill some of us), but because we are simply surplus and expendable in their eyes.

👹 Fellow dead kids, No reading for tomorrow; enjoy your Saturday! We’ll pick up with Chapter 19 on Sunday the 19 (!!) ❤️

New cryptid

One of the most impressively creative collections of disses I’ve ever seen.

Dang they really got a category for everything

The story from the perspective of Mrs Gardiner is so funny. “I took one of my nieces on vacation, and she is too slow to get with the exact right man, and then we had to track down my other niece who is too eager to get with the exact wrong man.”

literally do not speak to me about ANYTHING else

so apparently there is a fully finished movie about OpenAI that no distributors want to touch??

Me and another nerd are going to The Odyssey this weekend at a theater that also serves booze. It’s the wine dork see.

👹 the Lamb is here to regreen earth but actually she needs to revert (hur hur)

It's the Taylor Farms lettuce. The Taylor Farms outbreak. Earthbound Organics is Taylor Farms.

It is the era of referring to a plate of salad as a "shart tootery board."