You can see Act 1 here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc3u... and here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ott2...; and get the book it's based on here: a.co/d/guE1RVq (all book sales proceeds are donated to Room to Read!)

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Trump’s comments are vile. I am just as angry at the media outlets that bothsided Jamal’s murder, wrote puff pieces for MBS (Atlantic). And, the Washington Post opinion page that dismantled the platform that Jamal wrote for, ended the fellowship in his name, and purged its human rights writers.

Amal’s audiobook for The River Has Roots, her novel about two sisters who make music together, has *actual music played and sung by her and her sister* and you should listen to it.

All joking aside, the heartbreaking thing about this story is seeing how a white “journalist” with poor prose & worst journalist ethics gets to repeatedly crash out & land plum jobs while so many poor, trans, Black, Native journalists never get in journalism’s door. Like…

Trump will not just be four years of bad management. The culture of these organizations will be fucked for a long time. The pressure to retaliate and clean house will be strong, and no-one wants to work in a war zone.

This moral radicalization happened at all levels in the Union army, very much including Ulysses S. Grant. A lot of Northerners needed to SEE it to become true believers in the cause. But they did. It’s all there if you listen to the lyrics to The Battle Hymn of the Republic.

If you're in the UK, tune in to @BBC Radio 3's #InTune programme today to hear pianist Samantha Ege talk about her forthcoming release of Avril Coleridge-Taylor's Piano Concerto. @leahbroad.bsky.social Pre-order the CD now👉https://bit.ly/4oQIvSa Pre-save the album👉https://orcd.co/brx5gxg

London morning skyscape. The thinnest little crescent moon. (Technically it is waning. So, decrescent moon?)

Recording quality audiodrama with @beyondshakes.bsky.social

This is easily one of the most beautiful things any human has ever made. Possibly my favorite art object on this earth. Simple and yet so compelling.

Yes to all of this.

@sfdirewolf.bsky.social just passed away. What a heartbreaking loss. And a reminder of how important Teen Vogue was.

Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.

- 🙏 are the 🐭 - uh what - 🙏 are the 🐭 - WTF does praise the mouse mean what kind of life advice is that - 😐 - what - BLESSED ARE THE MEEK LOL - LOL i was about to go start a whole rodent death cult in your name - oh oops lol - maybe rethink this method of communication my guy

65 Years Ago,,, History was made. #RubyBridges

For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.

C'est moi

years ago an emmy-winning comedy writer posted this in a DM group and I’ve thought about it literally every day since (anonymized and shared with permission)

Dana Terrace has always been the genuine article

Complete works of Chaucer and (Riverside Edn) and Uncanny X-Men @gailsimone.bsky.social

romans 🤝 spiders people think they're dangerous badasses but basically they spend most of their time hanging out in the bath

slightly obsessed about the end of this lady's effigy tomb with the voluminous folds of her dress and petite heeled shoes

Someone I know who teaches secretary hand insists that it correlates with the ability to do cryptic crosswords.

Amateurish little altar. Miss you every damn day

Please come and dictate what we do! Even £1/month gets you the chance to demand we do your favourite pre-1642 shebang. I voted for "Timon" - a source play for Timon of Athens and a rather silly comedy. The True Tragedie of Richard III is also a banger

The Sulzberger mentioned here might be this Sulz or it might be the dad, but either way, the conduct of the NYT is starting to make a lot more sense now

[The great Bahamian-American comedian Bert Williams was BOTD in 1874. In 1913, he filmed a feature length comedy, LIME KILN FIELD DAY, which was never completed or released, but, miraculously, survived and can be finally be seen.] www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Id...

And today I discover there is a fish named the Sarcastic Fringehead. I am finding this very funny; I’m not sure why. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcast...

Worth listening to.

damn maybe I have to make some rice pudding

With the aurora popping up again last night, I thought I'd repost this adventure from last year. I drew this when the great @nepeteaa.bsky.social wondered what night-migrating songbirds might make of it all. Part 1/2

Are you looking for an expression to deliver at the end of a truly cutting remark? A new clunchfist? The 1632 play "The Rival Friends" has you covered. Wrapping up a line of insults, one character concludes with this hammer stroke: "There's sauce for your eels!" Devastation. 🗃️🧪

Just in case this is useful for anybody in light of the sky being ridiculous again

This play was a lovely discovery, and tons of fun to do!

Aurora color guide! What creates the different shades? Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event

Zadie Smith.

Really nice investigative work from Monacelli of the Texas Observer. Note "courtroom observation": the reporter sat in on his trials, noted the times he appeared to be typing on his phone, and watched his tweets appear in real time.

I made mushroom soup

So moved and enraged by the replies to this and was thinking... maybe we should collect them and send them to Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Senate cowards. Form here, won't collect emails unless you provide them. forms.gle/YnhsgtKTWD9A...

cyrano write poem for girl. theme 'u r hot, fuck pls' no, too long no, still too long poem ok now but nose too long

back in the book cave following a wonderful long weekend and have the signature of Sake Dean Mohamed on my desk, known among other things for opening the 'Hindoostane Coffee House' in London, Britain's first Indian restaurant. which feels like a sign there is a curry with my name on it later

In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

The best thread on the Edmund Fitzgerald you'll read.

hey so this episode is on Youtube btw if you're like me and haven't watched Dirty Pair

Very sad news; but what a career: Ran, Yojimbo and The Seven Samurai alone would have been an astonishing legacy.

Seattle, please take note:

This matters, as anyone who knows journalistic ethics will tell you. It's worth monitoring how far, how fast the Post has fallen from the standard of a reputable newspaper. I'm very glad @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social is on this.

Whenever I wonder why I’m still doing this, this is what I go back to. Solti for preference. It’s so full of life and joy