“The US state has essentially been captured by a business group that puts its own interests above those of the nation.” A dose of reality for The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

New asemic collage works by Jeanne Ranz in the 10th Anniversary of petrichor, out now! petrichormag.com/30-jeanne-ra...

Burn 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Don’t place two stars in one utterance and place the marginal next to the essential to complete the rising rapture. - Mahmoud Darwish, "To a Poet" trans. by Fady Joudah www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

we glided between two whales into the innermost heart of the shoal, as if from some mountain torrent we had slid into a serene valley lake

Data centers are trying to turn your children into zombies so that they can eat you. But yall dont wanna have that discussion

They don’t know how much they are hated.

Wow. I saw Sessa in Brooklyn last night - an absolute balm for the soul.

I put it to you that if you hired a human consultant to write a presentation, and they came back and said 'Job done, I pooed on your bed' you wouldn't go 'wow, people like you are the inevitable future'.

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social

At the end of all these cuts, will Linguistics actually be taught outside of a few 'elite' Universities? (and even at those institutions, the field will be much smaller than it once was) If you aren't seeing this as a Widening Participation issue, then you really don't get what's going on.

this is sitting outside Mitch McConnells house

I’ve got two readings in Santa Fe coming up this week: 4/30 at The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum www.okeeffemuseum.org/events/arts-... 5/1 at Phil Space www.ksfr.org/calendar/eve...

This press is so good: www.isolarii.com

“‘The ship! The hearse!—the second hearse!’ Cried Ahab from the boat; “its wood could only be American!’”

The cultural creations of the Empress of America's classical music, singing those St Louis Blues. Blues legend, Bessie Smith, born 132 years ago today

Well well well

In 9th Grade (Circa 1989) we were asked to write about the person we admired most in the world. I wrote about Tina because her playing always made me move. @chrisfrantz.bsky.social So! Happy Tina Tuesday to all who celebrate!

More people need to read Angela Carter’s “The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman”.

This Aadam Jacobs archive is SO DEE0 on Chicago music that he even has a set from my short-lived Chicago group Perfect Teeth - 25 years ago! WOW so grateful to revisits music I can’t remember writing - that was a helluva crack band apnews.com/article/aada...

When I imagined fighting the robots I didn’t imagine poems as part of that but that’s on me. www.euronews.com/next/2025/12...

Renowned Iranian composer, Ali Ghamsari and tar virtuoso, announced he will stay at the Damavand Combined Cycle Power Plant. His plan: Create music there as a symbolic effort to shield Iran's infrastructure from attack. @iranscreenshot

God this poem is haunting me again.

World is trash, but Ian Penman on the Beach Boys? Oh yes yes yes

POC Arts Nonprofits Face Severe Staffing Challenges, Survey Finds

“Climate change is going to result in these extreme events worsening,” said Frazier, a climatologist & assistant professor at Clark Univ, who added that compound events, where hazards overlap are on the rise -- greater fire danger." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

news to the enslaved!

This is an extremely important read for my colleagues in academia - the upshot is, get the f*ck off Canvas. After reading this article in December, I went back to paper for everything. They’ve been the best classes I’ve taught in years. Turns out I had been self-enshittifying. Anyway🖕tech bros.

Why then do you try to “enlarge” your mind? Subtilize it.

We have changed the trajectory of future warming over the course of my lifetime. The worst-case climate scenarios are no longer likely. That’s not due to modeling uncertainty; it’s because of activism. No one gets to erase that just because they find a perverse comfort in the certainty of defeat.

“An Essay on Re-entry” by Reginald Dwayne Betts, from ‘Felon’ A meditation on incarceration, memory, & resilience A past that never fully leaves you, release isn’t the same as freedom. To 're-enter' rather than 'return' no word exists for the years that we’ve lost to prison #poetry #poemoftheday

kind of seems like the people saying data center energy use is overstated were full of shit

They tore the statue down in 2020 Now for the 250th, it's being given a place of honor in Washington DC www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/c...

Eid Mubarak!

In honor of Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s birthday, a poem about keeping the faith in her music.

The great one! HBD Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Yesterday's (preliminary) global sea-surface temperature tied the all time daily record, set in 2024. Sometimes it all happens at once and you simply run out of metaphors. In other words, SSTs are the gobsmacking canaries in the uncharted coal mine's window of opportunity.

Perfect

Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

BOINK!

The seasonal anomalousness, as well sheer spatial extent, of upcoming record-shattering Western U.S. heatwave is genuinely startling. This will be associated with, by far, the strongest ridge ever observed during (at least) any Nov-Mar month. #CAwx #AZwx #NMwx #NVwx #UTwx #COwx

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... To think, how quickly we could solve SO MANY PROBLEMS in both our country and frankly the world at large if we just gave people enough money to cover their basic needs. The only thing stopping us is a few greedy fuckers and a massive disinformation campaign.

All signs continue to point to an exceptional, long-duration, and record-breaking to (in some cases) record-shattering March heatwave initially centered across U.S. Southwest but expanding to much broader region next week. This is effectively a full-on summer heatwave in March.

@rkokayokay.bsky.social hey! It was so lovely to Meet you a couple weeks ago! Can I purchase your broadside in the US?

It’s been a truly scary “winter” here.