I think I'm done watching the NY midnight countdown For the past couple of years, I've watched shows/displays from other cities and they're so much more beautiful + not plastered with ads

Google headlines page: 60% sports 30% politics 10% disasters & crime No science. No art. No culture. The slop bowl of the internet...

"Culture is always made, and never given"

There seems to be some serious misinformation happening here From everything I've been able to find: a) This announcement clarifies existing rules & doesn't change anything b) You can still get mail post-marked through a service counter c) Post-marking... www.reddit.com/r/tax/commen...

Get your freaking flu shots, people www.health.ny.gov/press/releas...

Word to the wise: now might be a good time to send in your stories/submissions to various journals... #writingCommunity #amWriting #fiction

Brilliant expression

My dog while I'm home: zzzzzz My dog while I'm gone for ONE HOUR: This is my ONE chance to fuck up EVERYTHING. Gotta make the most of it!

Except now, the critics are an anonymous mass. Can you trust any of them? Are they bots? Are they fair? We need a Renaissance of editors, critics, and taste-makers Or else, we'll drown in slop #writingCommunity #read #reader #amreading #book #booksky #fiction

What is the point of Amazon ratings? Goodreads reviews? Yelp stars? "Likes" on YouTube videos? It's the exact same as what Critics used to do: separate out the useful and interesting from the garbage Except in the past, if you thought a critic was no good, you could follow another... #bookSky

Tonight, I learned that Dnald Trp is the author of 97 books Who'd'a thunk #bookSky

I absolutely love that the NYTimes put this together: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/b... It can be intimidating to look at a poem and ask: what did poet mean by all those spaces & breaks & ...punctuation 😱 Hearing it read, you hear the lyricism the poetry #bookSky #poem #poetry #read #amReading

Great "churchofjesuschrist.org" is showing up in my google news feed I did not want this or ask for it and in no possible world is it "news"

Reading even ethically-produced AI fiction (if such a thing can be done) would amount to eating a diet of Froot Loops and Lucky Charms

You can go years without seeing much that changes scientific paradigms And then you see something like this and it casts doubt on entire branches of what seemed to be settled facts This is how science should work www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... #science #psychology #behavior

“We don’t realize that nearly one in every two people involved with the criminal justice system has had a brain injury—before they ever step foot into a cell.” - From "Sex with a Brain Injury" by D/Annie Liontas

All your good vibes help! I fixed the plumbing problem all by myself! Didn't flood the house!

For those following along at home - I have not flooded my house yet 🙏 keep the good vibes coming

It's amazing how fast "not bad" becomes "not good" in plumbing projects

I think I'm shit-canning Pluribus I find main character is loathsome & uninteresting And while watching it, I get the feeling of an "auteur" show that wants to see just how unlikable a program can be and still get praise

Every app seems to want to know my birthday Would they also like to know my shoe size and taste in hot sauces?

Apparently, I have a talent for filling out applications The most horrifying compliment I've ever received

Life advice: - be kind - tip well - read banned books - stay on the good side of the twig witch - never enter into a verbal agreement with a squirrel - dress like the Muppet you wish to be in the world

Day seven of #ArtAdventCalendar Her Constant Companion

Stories like this aren't heart-warming For every 1 person helped by an influencer, there are 100,000 who continue to struggle with poverty because of - poverty wages - ruinous healthcare costs - hostile government programs www.cnn.com/2025/12/06/u...

"An AI system might remix and recycle our knowledge in interesting ways. But that’s all it will be able to do. It will be forever trapped in the vocabulary we’ve encoded in our data and trained it upon — a dead-metaphor machine"

"Why do people focus so much on sadness in art, when happiness is just as inevitable?" - "Soul," Andrey Platonov #WritingCommunity #bookSky #literature #art

NPR Headline: "US Healthcare is broken. Here are 3 ways it's getting worse" Me: Any American could have told you US Healthcare is broken and any American could easily give you 10 ways in which it sucks Do better NPR @npr.org

Dissonant Archipelago

Success doesn't belong to the talented Only to the persistent

My BlueSky and LinkedIn experiences feel like they're on separate planets On LinkedIn, every second post seems to be about using AI BlueSky has every second post bashing it Just an observation #ai #technology #tech

My offering for #smallpoemsunday and @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

From ‘Correct Animal’ (2011) —Rebecca Farivar #poetry #poem #booksky

Stars, man giant, flaming balls of chaos held together by invisible cords of pure physics Pure awe 🤯 #science #astronomy

It's okay to be a lichen Some types grow less than 1mm per year in harsh conditions When you're facing harsh conditions, it's okay not to grow or thrive. It's enough to just be You're still amazing www.schlitzaudubon.org/2021/05/17/s... #biology #writingCommunity #science

"Every Man Dies Alone" by Hans Fallada You owe it to yourself to read this excellent book #literature #booksky #writingCommunity

Nearly every alligator shares the same dream

Maybe executives (Presidents, governors, etc.) should NOT have pardon privileges What if pardons could only be granted by legislative bodies or special "pardon juries?" I think we've all had enough of one dude just deciding these things on a whim

Birds do not wonder what they are for

Would your moral calculus change if you knew for certainty that one day, humans as a species would go extinct?

First saw this on Xtwtter 3 years ago. Best wishes to all foodies, cooks, & their loved ones this week.

"Your job as a writer isn’t to reproduce, but suggest, the world." - Ethan Rutheford, Author of North Sun: or, the voyage of the whaleship Esther

"Rome in Rome? We’re all leading afterlives of one sort or another, Wrapped in bird feathers, pecking away at our gathered seed, The form inside the form inside." - Charles Wright, "Roma 1" #poetry

Taking a few much needed days off from work...

UPS just charged me $30 on top of the $30 I already paid for shipping of a package... on a product that cost $80 I'm... not happy

It turns out painting mossy bricks is an absolute delight.

There is no universe in which this can be justified

THREAD. A collection of photographs of the best scarecrows I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

It's been a while since I've posted any photos. This was a "mini me" tree I spotted while parked in front of Hy-Vee in Rock Island.

A lucky seven hagstone kind of an afternoon 🌊✨️