i think if a director wants to make a movie longer than 120 min they should have to get permission via national referendum

Having my annual viewing of the best* version of A Christmas Carol (1951) with my mom and partner. *My copyediting idol @bcdreyer.social agrees, and it makes me feel very smug.

One of my roomies in Philly was an old school Piney and he once said "Living in the Pine Barrens is like, 'meet me at the haunted abandoned plane fuselage. No, not that one the other haunted abandoned plane fuselage'

My friend Steve's awesome project! I got to take a little tour of the space when I was out in Denver, and I'm hyped.

Scariest scene!

Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why. Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.

I wrote a note to Bruce Coville about how much I appreciated his books as a kid and how I was giving them to my friends' children, and he wrote me back a tremendously gracious note that I'll treasure forever.

whenever the sun sets at 4:45 pm i open a window, lean out and yell "WRONG" as loud as i can. that usually buys me another hour or two of sunlight

Tried to sneak a photo of a cute doggo and accidentally had long exposure on and I believe I have created man’s greatest expression of art

This is bonkers.

Worth a read if you have a uterus. Or have friends with a uterus. You don't always plan to get pregnant, and it can be extremely overwhelming (especially right now) when so much is stressful and you don't know how to trust. We keep us safe.

I just proofread this and can confirm that it's great and made me want to punch Nazis.

Meanwhile in #Portland

There are many contenders, but for me it's John K Samson of the Weakerthans. You are a radio, you are an open door I am a faulty string of blue Christmas lights You swim through frequencies, you let that stranger in As I'm blinking off and on and off again

Since it's spooky season, here's a playlist I made many years ago*: tidal.com/playlist/66b...

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

Alexa play “Something Just Broke” from “Assassins” backwards

Don’t threaten me with a good time

While riding the B or Q trains between Dekalb Ave station and the Manhattan Bridge, you may catch a glimpse of "Masstransiscope," a public art installation by Bill Brand. It was added to the #NYCsubway system in 1980.

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

A very happy 30th birthday to bisexuality, born this day in 1995 🎂

Andrew Cuomo trying to smile

Ah yes, INDEPENDENCE Day Eve, where for many centuries people would shop at INDEPENDENT Bookstores in preparation for their big celebrations. What? You're saying that's not a thing? Huh, well, it's a thing if we make it a thing.

everybody good news! i fixed it! the album cover is okay now! we can all like it, it's something everyone can agree on now

at least toby keith is dead this time

If we're sharing cultural artifacts from the Iraq war era with the youths, I am generationally required to share this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCpj...

nah think i will continue to do my writing and thinking in-house and not atrophy my brain to send faster emails

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

“What are your hobbies?” is a terrible first date question ask me who my emotional support youtubers are

there’s a really consistent Eric Adams thing where he fucks up whatever he’s trying to do, but also what he’s trying to do is very stupid

Thank you for standing up for the sluts, @notalawyer.bsky.social

”Miyazaki said, 'I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.' He also said, 'I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.'"

I'm depressed at how many people, including people I know and love and admire...cheerfully use AI to do their thinking. To write the silly email that would take 30 seconds. To write the outline. To do the thinking. I get life sucks right now. But damn, there's FREEDOM in thinking.

“Boyz II Stronger Men: Achieving a Better Masculinity Through Slow Jams” (Simon and Schuster, 2026)

How much of these tech hype cycles we go through are made possible only because our tech journalists are really, really gullible?

The Moby Dick fandom is dying. Retweet if you're a true Dickhead

Excellent thread from Imani

Can’t believe the knives are already out in the stores. The Ides of March gets more commercialized every year.

This inspired me to imagine myself as a cow in a field, and I gotta say it was pretty great.

I don’t know if you guys know this but Carly Rae Jepsen has made some fucking masterpieces of albums, multiple times, without breaking a sweat

Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books. bookshop.org/ebooks