can it be closed down sooner

Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside

Speak for yourself, NYT. Miss me with your presumptuous "our."

men showing genuine affection for each other, celebrating something they did together, as a collective. let this be a model for masculinity, not the fake hardo military bullshit

this is the first time i have ever had a feeling about st patrick’s day

Interesting how much of the criticism of both Sinners and OBAA is identical. "Politically muddled without a clear and simple message, and more fun and interesting to watch than groundbreaking." I dunno, maybe you guys are going to movies for the wrong thing?

Rereading this gem on a whim. It’s perfect.

The Paris Review has unlocked Denis Johnson’s novella, Train Dreams, in honor of the adaptation’s Oscar nominations. If you haven’t read it, here’s your chance. www.theparisreview.org/fiction/396/...

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

When did they open a Transgender Chili’s?

To be fair if I were born a Cybertruck I would also try to jump off a bridge

Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy. Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit. [email protected]

No respect out here for Juan de Fuca

To be left dead by attacks is the natural state of the Middle Easterner, while in the Western culture (also Israel somehow) being killed is a major taboo.

porting over my “banger novel openings” thread from the bird site

People are making fun of this but at the end they open mouth kiss and it's actually kind of beautiful. They're clearly doing hand stuff too but they don't show it.

Margaret Kennedy believed that “true novelists are responsible only to themselves and their readers, not to any cause that might be pursued through politics or religion or anything else that has not been transmuted by a novelist’s imagination.” —Edward Mendelson

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

hey gen z welcome to republican governance

All world leaders should have to wear hats with the name of their country on them

Complicated time to be teaching Persepolis to high schoolers…

brief me, daddy

From last year theonion.com/netanyahu-ca...

If FIFA did, for some reason, regularly give out a Peace Prize, you’d think #1 on the list of criteria for potential winners would be “do not start a war with another nation in the World Cup, directly before the start of the World Cup”

Imagine turning in a jazz record to your label and saying, "This album is called 'The Shape of Jazz to Come.'" That's like Shohei Ohtani changing his name to Studderton Hitpitch in his first spring with the Angels.

[doing backing vocals for Sam Cooke] Science Book

2026 taking "Kafkaesque" to a new level

This, basically:

I don't have a new angle on every cop union issuing its own version of Nick Swardson I Was Murdered Dot JPG after two cops got hit with snowballs while wandering NPC-style through a snowball fight. I guess I'm most curious about who called the cops to say "they're throwing snowballs in the park."

It was one of those days when you can see the ghosts of all the other lovely days. You drink a bit and watch the ghosts.

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"The Value of Not Understanding Everything" -- Grace Paley biblioklept.org/2026/02/24/t...

So let’s say you have gotten AI to fake your education, fake your job, fake your romantic life, fake your art, fake your entertainment, fake your dead relatives, what are you spending your time doing? Post-human life seems pointless.

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

lol

Terribly underrated Taylor novel. Each of the five I’ve read are astounding but this is one I see praised less frequently than others. Highly recommended.

This goes hand in hand with the AI industry trying to convince us that thinking for ourselves is problem in need of solving.

Far from the first to note this but with American leadership so obviously repellant to the vast majority of humanity I feel……more patriotic watching these Olympics than I have in the past? It’s just the people, man. We’re all stuck in this together. Plenty of bad ones sure, but so so many good ones.

Surely not Mayor Dingus!

Any chance to repost this classic Busta Rhymes moment

Countries that do not use Fritos as currency could be "left behind," says Frito-Lay CEO Ken Biddleman

I've heard it said by many great writers that there is big a difference between wanting to be a writer and wanting to have written a book.

Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.

This is something we should think about across all writing intensive fields. Even if you're using the AI to turn notes into drafts, you are offloading the kinds of creative and epistemic decisions that drive the organization of your writing to a machine.

it’d been a few yrs since the show had produced new eps., but 1) bookworm was a truly important, mass media venue for in-depth discussion abt books, presided over by Silverblatt’s incredible spirit; 2) tho it sounds hyperbolic, his death may seem to mark the end of an era in USA (broadcast bk media)