He’s running

A wholesome story for nerds: On Saturday, I was signing books at a local bookstore for Independent Bookstore Day. The store had a signing-palooza with new authors every hour; toward the end of my hour, a woman came up and asked what my book was about. "Dictionaries," I said, and she lit up. 1/n

If I saw that Hercule Poirot or Benoit Blanc or one of these dudes was a guest at a dinner party I was at, I would immediately excuse myself to use the bathroom and get tf outta that cursed house

Meanwhile, French history:

The absence of influential nuns in his life is screamingly palpable.

Just going to revisit this as a prominent world leader feuds with the papacy and risks a major rift for his blasphemous language.

Not real but also perfection

New post on the #ArtHerstory blog! In "Women’s Depictions of Midwives in Early Modern Art," author, nurse & activist Jane Salvage discusses and interprets the role of midwives in birth scenes painted by early modern #womenartists. #ArtemisiaGentileschi #OrsolaMaddalenaCaccia #LaviniaFontana

Sarah Andersen, contemporary cartoonist and illustrator #womensart

"Luddites" is a good term for those who oppose AI because the Luddites weren't against *all* technology, just forms of technology that they knew would pay workers less and turn out a shittier product

Men should shave their arm pits

This is the kind of tree erotica that makes you believe in dryads. (Pic from Cathedral Hills in Southern Oregon from this last weekend.)

Wishing this fabulously competent—and joyful—crew a safe return to a planet that, frankly, doesn't deserve them.

GOALZ

Everybody pack up. Lock the doors and turn off the lights. No point trying to top this.

But who needs historians anymore, amirite?

I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine

Before playing Kamancheh, he says: 'Hello, I'm Mohammad-Reza Afarideh, the director of the ed. institute that has now been destroyed. I wanted the last sound coming from my institute not to be of missiles and war; (I want the) final sound to be of the instrument that I played in it. Thank you'.

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

Love this!

I shouldn't have. I really, really shouldn't have. It goes against the basic rules of librarianship. But I couldn't help it. There's a certain type of person who, when they ask if we have any books by Rush Limbaugh, makes me respond with, "Could you spell that? I'm not familiar with them."

Still shocking 😳🤯🤣

This applies to writing too. The struggle is where you learn the important stuff

A few days ago I found out that a local artist named Peace, who recently passed away, painted this after our library's first system closure in 2007. It was given to me to pass along to our main branch. It's especially touching since our library faces yet ANOTHER attack by far-right activists

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

TRUMP RUINED BAD TASTE John Waters at #NoKings in Provincetown (Pic via petermarietoto on X)

Red States: We're going to cut all the programs that don't support our theology Blue States: We're going to cut the same programs, but because they don't support the business school

This. Is. Murder. Even. If. No. One. Calls. It. That.

Was it a giant horse?

Candy is being crushed at heretofore unseen levels.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

Had such a wonderful time with Southern Oregon Willamette Writers!

No-one says ‘Fast food isn’t going away, so let’s work out how to incorporate it into your diet’, yet we are often treated to the same non sequitur when it comes to AI

These are the dim ghouls that hijacked my daughter's career. I am incensed.

Our wannabe mob-boss president.

Joe Neguse is just consistently better at this than anyone else, and it’s not really that close. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I’m going to need to cut this line I like from a piece about the Iran War you’ll read tomorrow, so I post it here to tell my darling I will see it in the gardens of heaven: “We will not get bored," Trump said on Monday, minutes before talking about how beautiful the White House drapes are.

STOP IMMANENTIZING THE ESCHATON

We've been fostering this Very Good Pup for a few weeks now. She got spayed on Friday, and it looks like we may have found a great family for her! Fingers and toes crossed

I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

I think the bigger security risk is the gestapo she runs that murders people for standing in the street and kidnaps children to put them in concentration camps. But sure, if the shoe thing gets her shitcanned, do what you gotta do.

Welcome to Hungary. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/w...

Remember when we were exhorted to "live, laugh, love" rather than "survive, sublimate, subsist"?

This is hilarious and very well done. “Estrogenia” is a brilliant name, although it does sound like a new brand of the pill! The whole short film is here: youtu.be/dxpjzOLVRR0 #history🗃️

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

the pope telling jd vance to fuck off must be a religion unto itself because i’m devout

May this be the picture everyone remembers