Devastating: Hampshire College is permanently closing following the Fall 2026 Semester. A beautiful institution & community that has done so much for so many. My child is a current Hampshire senior. Hampshire's approach to education is so unique, humane, & exciting—I've seen it first hand. Tragic

I interviewed the brilliant @stuhennigan.bsky.social about his debut #keshed @ortacpress.bsky.social. We chatted about his process, the complexities of writing class & addiction, blistering sentences, T.Harrison, Dylan Thomas, Pat Barker, punk poets & more. All thanks @minorliteratures.bsky.social.

In Feb. 1978, rains caused a landslide at Verdugo Hills Cemetery, unearthing 100+ caskets. Some broke open, flooding Tujunga with corpses, one lodged into the entrance of a Von's. Spielberg later shot "E.T." here, then created the story for 1982's "Poltergeist"... just sayin'!

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some Zen to the feed. #Photography

was once New Amsterdam.

A humble self-repost for the Friday crowd: #ShortStory #Fiction #Booksky

Just learned that the poet Marianne Moore, in 1968, at the age of 80, was so broadly famous that she threw out the first pitch at a Yankees game.

A heart-rending account from a one-of-a-kind writer of the cruel collision of literary intention and marketing demand. We can all brag what we'd do for the same reward, but should we have to? Should anyone?

Thrilled to have "Swings," a new short story, included in the just released Fall 2025 issue of New Square. This one's an oddball--a little reflective, a little surreal, a ton of love for Denmark, our most recent home-away-from-home. www.sanchopanzalit.com/issues #Booksky #Fiction

Any journalistic or critical address of LACMA's new building that fails to foreground that LACMA has contracted itself, that it now has less gallery space than it did before, is malpractice. (Has any US art museum ever done this, or is this a Govan table-of-one? I can't think of another.)

I recall all the circumstances

Depluralize a movie: Habitaciónblanca

Depluralize a movie: One Likes It Hot

Cemetery coyote and wild turkey. Their presence so near each other, I suspect, was not a coincidence. #Photography #Birds #Ohio

This may not be surprising, but it is utterly unconscionable.

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

"journalism, the television and film industry, too. The music business. Anywhere creativity lies is being borne down on by a hydraulic press, like in that disgusting commercial by Apple that reduces access to cultural fulfillment down to a goddamn iPad."

Comic book artist search post: Looking for a Black British artist, preferably from the West Midlands (not essential but would be a big plus), who has a naturalistic style and comfortable with slice of life drama/comedy. If they're familiar with the 1980s and 90s, that's a big plus, too.

shorebirds, flooded soy field #Photography #Birds #Ohio

from DTLA #nokings "your liberation is woven into mine"

Hell yeah, Moby Dick! Hell yeah, @hesterblum.bsky.social! This is a very easy collaboration to get excited about.

"In 1969, [Dr. Rodolfo F. Acuña] became the first professor in CSUN’s Mexican American studies department, now called the #Chicano and #Chicana Studies Department, which became an incubator for Latino activism in L.A. and beyond." www.latimes.com/obituaries/s... RIP Dr. Rodolfo F. Acuña!

attention #Photography #Birds #Spring

Friend, collaborator and early mentor, Eric Overmyer is too soon gone. Our shared love of New Orleans was the impetus to Treme and those years were the most fun you can have making TV. Indeed, he once playfully confided we had "stolen one back" from television. Graceful writer; warm, loving soul.

So sad to see this, what an extraordinary career. I’ll be thinking, especially, about TREME, truly singular, virtuoso TV worthy of much, much more attention.

Statement from Dolores Huerta "The farmworker movement has always been bigger and far more important than any one individual... We must continue to engage and support our community, which needs advocacy and activism now more than ever." medium.com/@dolores_hue...

I have an artificial intelligence joke, but it'd be better if we could agree what either of those words means.

where the wild things are #Photography #Birds #Ohio

All aboard! (Destination rude psychophysics.) What's My JND? 0.0032 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

I also *don't care* if LLMs can produce text that's indistinguishable from human writing. Offer me two identical pieces, and every time I'll prefer the one written by a person because I value its process, not just its outcome. You might be able to trick me, but don't pretend that they're the same.

This bonkers Vanity Fair promotional text ignores 10-15 years of top-notch reporting and analysis of the Govan-led LACMA disaster. It's an exercise in willful ignorance and boot-licking, 'reporting' that matches the Trumpist era with which it aligns itself.

[ catching up on the discourses after being outside all day ] it's time for us to consider if there's a futures price where we are obliged to considera barrel of oil conscious

John O'Groats (known to me as a restaurant in Los Angeles!)

Aesthetic objections to a work of art are substantive! It's art; where else is an aesthetic objection correctly made?

Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

@kjhealy.co has a new version of his data visualization book coming out and 1) you’d be a fool not to get it especially if you do R stuff 2) it’s gonna be even more beautiful than the first one, which is truly lovely book 3) he put the ENTIRE content on his website for free, you lucky so-and-so

As someone who grew up in Los Angeles and also had to move to Ohio for work, I have never sympathized with James Harden more

I first met this cardinal at a Ministry show in 1989. #Photography #Birds #Industrial

Love, love, loved The Secret Agent. Gorgeous, unsettling, immaculately written and performed, but never absent deep currents of messy, irrepressible humanity. I also cosign the instinct to consider it a kind of fellow traveler with One Battle after Another, which I also loved. #Filmsky

So sad to share that legendary colorist Tatjana Wood has passed away at the age of 99. Her pioneering painterly touch graced scores of DC & Vertigo series. She was truly one of a kind and a special friend. May her memory be a blessing.

I've not been on socials much these days. But I'm very proud of this little movie - in particular because of the utterly spectacular performances of Ian McKellen and Michael Coel. It was a small film, written and shot on spec. It opens in NY and LA April 10. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8eT...

lizards will continue until morale improves #Photography #Wildlife #Florida

same lizard, different day #Photography #Wildlife #Florida

good morning new followers here are some resources for humanities classrooms against-a-i.com

florida, man #Photography #Wildlife #Florida

Thrilled today to be able to join with the wondrous folk at @rarebirdlit.bsky.social and @unnamedpress.bsky.social to announce the reissue of my novels DESTINY EXPRESS and THE GREAT EASTERN, coming this May 19. DX: #fritzlang #theavonharbou TGE: #captainnemo #captainahab #isambardkingdombrunel

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Maria Bamford is a hilarious, irreplaceable treasure. Her Special Special Special! is an all-timer, and she's even better in person. Can't wait to see this.

red is the color of my true love's hair #Photography #Birds #Ohio