in talks with a24 about rebranding april 1st to be more about Elevated Pranks and Allegorical Humor

SUPERVILLAIN AFFIRMATIONS: -I prioritize achieving my goals. -I have a good sense of humor. -Armies obey me, men fear me, and I am working on reëstablishing a good relationship to women. -Whenever I meet another villain they smell bad. I smell fine. -I am fair to my goons.

I turned 35 yesterday, and I celebrated by having one (1) glass of wine and falling asleep on the couch. this age bracket rules.

SCOTUS dropping this on trans visibility day oof

SCOTUS has ruled that bans on conversion therapy "violate free speech." Happy Trans Day of Getting Notifications About Human Rights Violations On Your Phone! www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

achievement unlocked: my mother-in-law told me I am her favorite daughter-in-law (her son is an only child, but still)

okay, maybe I didn't miss the Pirates THAT much

i don't much like platner for the same reason i have rapidly come to dislike annie andrews and the same reason i don't like newsom — values matter, and throwing out homophobic or misogynistic or transphobic "jokes" display contempt for the values the overwhelming majority of party voters live by

hey gang: have any of you ever reissued an out-of-print chapbook, whether independently or through a press? tell me about it, please!

it's Mr. Rogers' birthday, and I would love to say I like you just the way you are, but some of you need to reconsider a few things real quick.

I'll never get to make a Walker, Texas Ranger joke about a centenarian Chuck Norris needing mobility aids :(((

Fetterman was the deciding vote on advancing Mullin’s DHS Secretary nomination. With the GOP committee chair Rand Paul voting no, Fetterman could have single-handedly thrown sand in the gears of the agency of ICE, mass deportation, rights violations, and concentration camps. He chose the opposite.

CITY PAPER LIVES www.wesa.fm/identity-com...

one of the few consensus opinions we've ever had across the entire political spectrum is that women's bodies are an acceptable sacrifice in the name of progress.

Just devastating. Absolutely devastating. And historical investigations matter, because what's hidden today -- or in plain sight but willfully ignored -- will be reckoned with in the future.

Impossible to overestimate the damage this guy caused. His book was based on a laughably false premise and the movement he inspired led immigration crackdowns and forcible sterilization campaigns. Glad the population got one Ehrlich smaller today.

Yeah, uhh, the ides of march is great if you're just getting into ides, I guess. I celebrate better, less commercialized ides, though. You've probably never heard of them.

Anyone else’s thermostat come with this “Wretched of the Earth” setting

There is no fixing an agency that's main focus is to disappear and murder people based on racism and xenophobia. ABOLISH ICE NOW!

anytime I see someone I haven't run into for six months or more, we have some version of the exact same moment ("congratulations on your wedding! sorry about your dad"), and I have yet to figure out how to arrange my face. considering the ol' :/ as a stopgap.

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

*taps internet microphone* After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ... We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ... lithub.com/what-was-los...

Truly a perfect news alert

a little treat I give myself sometimes is to pretend I don't know that Al Green the singer and Al Green the elected representative are different people. he sang "Love and Happiness" AND was escorted out of the 2026 State of the Union address? iconic.

can't lie, I'm mad that bitchy little air quotes have been coopted by the president. I love to "emphasize things"!!!

“As Ukrainians fight to defend their borders, many are also fighting to defend Ukraine’s language and culture.” Ukrainian literature to help understand the ongoing war.

just went to one of their in-person trainings last night and cannot recommend it enough.

It's a national holiday

forty days without my dad. vichnaya pamyat.

my executive director is the coolest. pghrev.com/a-poets-warn...

2026 basically

I need this therapist assessment to include a state of the world caveat

it makes me so happy that a column I once managed at Publishing Trends could be a source for such cool data.

my coworkers are beginning to realize that there is nothing I love more than a Little Task, preferably very tedious. alphabetizing the bookshelves? I'll volunteer. unifying the format in a contract? already did it. laboriously linking every past lecture to a program page? believe it or not,

three of my closest friends from high school and I get together and take a group photo for our moms whenever we're all in the same place. they are my heart, and I'm lucky.

my dad has been gone for one month today, and to mark the day I've been playing some of our favorite music and doing things he loved and feeling grateful I got him for as long as I did. in the midst of my grief, there is still so much joy.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

it's like our entire sense of morality has been filtered through the act of consumption, and the highest good we can imagine is feeling good and clean and pure as individuals, unpolluted by the obvious evil are around us meanwhile, real change requires the kind of work you need a drink after

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

Truly he is the Best Bunny.

That critique of the government extracting resources from PR. The power poles.

Simply on a live performance stagecraft-design-camerawork-logistics-direction level, this is ASTOUNDING.

I will be watching the normal halftime show 'cause I'm not a goofy ass snowflake and whatnot.

Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night

This sign is so fucking dumb. Hedgehogs can't drive and, even if they could, they wouldn't drive fast.

this is an objectively wild time to get back in the book business - but then, is it ever not?

Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post