The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them.

"You bought a kettle to boil water the Austrian way. A chopper to chop onions Austrianly." Three superlative new #poems from Lucas Wildner @wuucas.bsky.social -- the kind your editor sticks under the nose of everyone she adores | doesithavepockets.com/poetry/lucas...

Making out to Pussy Palace is wild.

if you are a Medvedev fan seeking comfort in this abysmal season I would prescribe you CHANGEOVER www.simonandschuster.com/books/Change...

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

things that thrill me when reading poetry: -"oh i didn't know you could do that in a poem" -an articulation of what it means... or what it is to be alive, an insight/mystery i didn't know i needed but i do -a music (a portal) i didn't know i needed, but i do, i do -gay stuff

Me and Judith Butler are both comforted by smack-back soundscape of tennis balls going back and forth again and again Kierkegaard is the game forever amen

wrote about how phoneworld is killing our political imaginary and making us profoundly miserable in this, a moment when we need to be stronger than ever www.late-review.com/p/the-eterna...

Why would you want to subjugate your fellow human beings when mangoes and Moonstruck exists? What made you so hostile toward your own pleasure? Honestly, don’t answer that, the response would probably be flavorless.

Sorry if it's cringe or virtue signaling or whatever but unqualified and unconditional love and support to every trans person on earth. You will win and I will help you.