Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. — W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939

Mood in minneapolis right now

If Aaron Sorkin were writing Minnesota rn Gov. Walz would simply respond to Pam Bondi with a "We Don't Negotiate With Terrorists".

The way you know We're Going to Win is that we've even got Boston out here admitting that another city is laudable

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

It's stunning to me that Gavin Newsom has been angling for the presidency for 25 years and still isn't actually good at this.

Posting this on its own since I forgot all about it til recently. It’s a splash from the series COYOTES by esteemed writer @seanlewis.bsky.social for #ImageComics. My first published comic 💕

“I have asked the clergy of the diocese to make sure their affairs are in order and they have written their wills.,not the time for statements. It is time to put our bodies between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable”. Rob Hirschfeld, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire

In Minneapolis

Candlelight vigil tomorrow night. 6-7 pm. Buffalo, NY. #AbolishICE

Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power - file impeachment articles every day in the House - withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee - be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable

What is nuanced about shooting an unarmed and innocent person in the face three times?

“That’s Holocaust shit. Come on.” 👑

Tiny Augsburg College (about $70 million endowment) doing more to combat fascism than powerful Ivy League schools (with endowments over 800x larger) www.startribune.com/augsburg-pre...

"I learned to live without hope as well as I could, almost happily, in the despoiled and radiant now." Stephen Dunn, A Postmortem Guide (to my Eulogist in Advance)

i rarely get sick because my immune system is fortified from me taking naps on the oldest grossest couch in the green room at my college's theatre department

If a bunch of people start stealing from grocery stores, some of you absolutely will vote for more cops as Mayors. I wish people would tell the truth...

@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social have you found a good reason to get out to P.Terrys this month for a John Green shake?

like a football you do spurn me thus?

Great stuff on actually -describing- institutional identity to be able to promote the institution.

Uh... I'm pretty sure there's no line in Othello that goes "I'll let loose the forces of Iago." Though it is iambic pentameter. (why I was googling that exact phrase is a longer story, but I was struck to see this laughably false answer pushed to me at the very top of the page)

Quietly, Mastodon has become a blogging platform! An example. A post on WordPress. daveverse.org/2025/07/09/e... And here it is on Mastodon. mastodon.social/@scripting@d... Is that a miracle?

Reader, I married her.

Wayfair really believes I am living a very different life than I seem to be experiencing.

Dave Parker waiting this long for HOF enshrinement and then missing his day by a month makes me sad.

If any theatre in Los Angeles would like to program Nick Gill's play Sand, Brant Russell and I can remount our 2019 production in virtually any space. I feel like a play about nuclear proliferation is important in this moment.

Anyway stop fucking killing people.

AI is a tool that highlights the software dev to normie user gap. Useful AI right now is basically natural language coding. If you think the way the code thinks you can leverage the code to be -very- powerful. But if you don't - and most end-users don't - it's like any other syntactical gap.

Shakespeare Poster of the Day: Hungary, 1983

If the Pacers win (and he doesn't play and contribute) Haliburton can never make the leap to superduperstar(tm) right? His narrative goes underwater until he basically flu-games right?

I've been a big @dannagal.bsky.social fan for a minute or two now and she is always good - but honestly never better then when putting a vulnerable human face on policy decisions. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...

Hey there up to date NBA nerds - my association with the modern association is very very casual - um... have modern analytic approaches completely devalued picks?

[Exit King.]

Met an active duty member of the military yesterday who filed conscientious objector paperwork in response to deployment of military on U.S. soil. Was told multiple Army have filed, unknown quantities in other branches.

Awards are awards and nothing happens in a vacuum... but we watched Audra and Nicole both on the same stage on the same night... one sang well - the other did emotional strong man stuff I'm going to have to think about for a minute. #tonyawards

For the record: Include the design awards and lifetime achievement award in the broadcast. #tonyawards

I really wish the broadcast had allowed folks to understand a word the Mincemeat folks were saying because the jokes per minute rate is SO high and... doesn't matter if they feed it through the mud modulator. #TonyAwards

The raw muscle of doing that without the ramp of the entire show is stupefying #tonyawards

The Tonys are where an Oscar winner performs their old ensemble track and a downtown darling wins over one of the biggest movie stars in the world and that is THEATRE, PEOPLE! 😘

Your reminder that Humboldt Fog cheese, Humboldt County, CA, the Humboldt penguin (Spheniscus humboldti),and the Humboldt Current that allows wine grapes to grow in Chile are all named for an 18th C gay scientist whose love letters were all burned and who left his entire estate to his “valet.” 🏳️‍🌈