Boy this is weather that they talk about you being under

the final run-up piece in the ranks of the freaks: a thoughtful essay on licorice pizza by tyler malone that i am, yes, thrilled to share! thisisanewsletter.substack.com/p/a-valentin...

At my last Finnish lesson my tutor asked me the best movie I’d seen this year and I couldn’t answer not because I don’t know how to say mun lempielokuva oli… but because I couldn’t think of the name of a single movie

My bf once told me he doesn’t have a microwave in his home for the same reason he doesn’t have a crack pipe

Seasonally, it’s all diminishing

“It always jarred me to see joy like that in prison, as if part of our punishment was that we weren’t allowed to feel it.” Prison journalist John J. Lennon on exploitative entertainment and life in Sing Sing.

The local Walgreens gets bleaker every day. Today I noticed there are pee pads (like for dogs) under the milk and eggs. Also the milk is fantastic four branded

Toivon, että suomenkieli olisi helpompi… Ei edes helppo, vain helpompi

every time the phd homie posts

update from Equus Press ... equuspress.wordpress.com/2025/09/20/a...

Ok so what is going on with archway editions?

*trying to make conversation* wow i love your books. they all have such nice covers *not wanting to seem shallow* which of course means jack shit

This morning in East Somerville, MA masked agents who told bystanders they were from Homeland Security abducted a man who lives in the neighborhood while he was on his way to do laundry. Video shared directly with me of the moments after he was detained and put in an unmarked vehicle:

I think I have to give up on the sisters… I made it a good 350 pages. This far and no further

as a society we are barreling headlong toward the $10 Coffee

I’m going to my neighbor‘s to watch a movie and I asked if I should bring anything and he said no need, his mom made applesauce and we can have that. I’m sure it will be nice but just picture two adults eating applesauce in front of the TV

What are you reading?

@tobiasvryan.bsky.social overlooked again

man your latest is astonishingly deft

Perfect thanks

it's fucking funny to me when someone is german like grow up

5 PM. Time to end this little charade

Me and the BA chatbot are in a similar place right now

My crank opinion is that sleep tracking is so obviously bad for the average person I can’t believe it gets taken seriously

My neighbor has absolutely come to the right place

My air conditioner got recalled and I registered it for recall June 6. Today, September 2, I got the notification my refund request has been approved and I can fucking finally get rid of it

Friendly reminder

I was in Finland a couple years ago when there was a school shooting. One child was killed & two were severely injured, it was horrible. The next day there was a national day of mourning & every single flag in the country was lowered to half-mast. We would never be able to raise our flags here

if we wanted to fix book blurbing we would demand authors share what they texted friends while reading it, then slap "lmao this is pretty good actually" on the cover

very excited to announce a new series from this is a newsletter industries: thisisanewsletter.substack.com/p/coming-soo...

People have complicated feelings about sherpas, and that's understandable. But to be fair I hire a local guide everywhere I go. I once visited Dayton, Ohio, and let "Josh", lead my party. He seemed to be continuously a little hungover, and was on his phone a lot. But such wisdom.

Indie comics publisher @fantagraphics.bsky.social is being robbed of millions of dollars' worth of merchandise by the distributor Diamond to pay for the latter's bankruptcy. Fantagraphics is running a sale to help cover these costs - 30% off everything on their website through Mon: Fantagraphics.com

My friends husband just said (without irony) that his buying of Pokémon cards is akin to buying stocks

You can’t ship anything to the US from the Nordics anymore, not even a postcard. The airlines refuse to take them 👍🏻

Actually something horrible happened. I had my hair in a side braid and a lot of my hair on the other side kinda fell out of the braid, due to my beautiful layers, and one of my sisters asked why I was wearing my hair like that, like she thought I actively wanted one braid and one loose pigtail

two weeks left to send us your fiction, essays and experimental texts ... details here: oleada.io/publication/...

I’m going to meet two new half-siblings tomorrow for the first time. New to me not to earth

"I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man." These are the last words of Che Guevara, what he meant was you can't kill the idea or spirit of revolution. Sharks, I am looking for partial investment in a weapon that can destroy a man's ideas

Yea prob it can be taken apart into two pieces. Thanks for asking!

An entire team of journalists, outside a hospital in a tent for journalists, killed by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Look at the gorgeous birch bookshelf/cabinet my brother in law custom made for me!

When the world seems cruel, absurd, bereft of meaning or direction, we must remember the true source of value in our lives: reading PDFs. We have an existential duty to fill our lives with more meaning by downloading more PDFs.

I spent much of last weekend catching up on recent letters from fans. Kathleen included a link to a video she created that shows the joy of travel (from my often-goofy POV), and I just had to share it with all of you. It reminds me how much we travelers have to be thankful for. Happy travels!

air conditioning makes a house a home

I would never correct someone who calls Finland Scandinavian. I know what they mean, who cares. But why is the New York Times doing it on the regular?? Did they decide in their style guide “Scandinavian” and “Nordic” are the same

These notebooks contain every important event but mostly non-important events of my life from the last five and a half years

That’s a lot more than I usually get through in a day frankly

i'm not from a place with guns so forgive me if there's some cultural reason i'm ignorant of but if someone pointed one at you, why wouldn't you just bend the barrel around so it shoots them instead?