the sandwich guy walking away from the court house and suddenly, his limp disappears

I love this so much what the hell

what a headline www.404media.co/nancy-pelosi...

My next read.

I knew I had fans, but this is big!

I always share when I come across this quote again:

People who are leaving NYC, please post pix of your U-Hauls!

I’d forgotten the sludge of late dynastic dishonesty. Clinton then Cheney publicly lied with impunity from the Oval Office, eschewing decades of norms to retain power (among a million other things). Nixon resigned. Bush 41 lost over no new taxes (to Clinton).

Wow gorgeous

Louvrrrrrrre

Post the good news when you see it…

So worth your time

Unnnf this! So much this ❤️🖤

I’m in for @printrunpodcast.bsky.social November writing run👇 I’m rewriting—from zero—an 80k novel I thought was a fourth draft six months ago. But… clarity 😱🫣 Collab with @mdbell79.bsky.social Refuse to Be Done prompt to retype the MS word by word, cause your fingers won’t retype shit sentences.

David Foster Wallace said, correctly, to never trust anyone who uses “classy” when they mean “refined.”

It's pretty cool that the US economy is propped up entirely by continuing work on software thats only real functional uses are eroding consensus reality, spreading often politically motivated misinformation, and for various scams like impersonating your grandma and saying she's been kidnapped

Yesss! A fantastic terrifying and very rereadable bloody revenge story. FLOVE this genre bending horror. Happy Halloween 👻

In a win for the arts and universal basic income, Ireland plans to make permanent a $1,500-a-month pilot program for artists, citing benefits to creativity, mental health, and financial stability.

This is the best list I’ve read this year. Just look at them! Thank you Adam

Fantastic read

Filmed four episodes of Reading Rainbow, all are out on KidZuko on YouTube 😁 Thankful to still be in the world for this journey. Highest of honors for one of Reading Rainbow & LeVar Burton’s biggest fans ✨ Proud & grateful for all involved! 🦋🌌 “Take a look, it’s in a book!” YOU can be anything 📚🌈

The urge to tell friends who read your work “it’s called research” when they try to dissect every invented character or trauma to reveal which one is you. 😂 Do fantasy and horror writers deal with this? Not every story is autofiction. That’d be scary 👻

i fucking love hamlet

I would read the hell out of a deeply reported piece on how the media/political elite addiction to Twitter is shaping their views, which in turn shape the views of millions of people. It's a total reality-warper.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Adventures in chocolate: Made a tart for a Halloween party. Called it My Bittersweet T-heart. It tasted divine. 🎃 Wish you were here

All props to folks who need meal prep for health issues. But body influencers who encourage us to cook & store a dozen of the same freaking meal on Sundays are the nadir of humanity. Is not a wonderful part of life breaking bread? With loved ones? Enjoying food? Even the word influencer deprives.

notes from our gilded age

The joy of reading fiction can be vibing on another’s imagination. Why must we conflate an author’s real life with a clever story? Is this a modern commercialized reaction?

The extinction of shared experience, the apotheosis of algorithmic manipulation, will likely be studied by whomever survives this age. The handful of tech bros who dine on us and our resources with impunity are Frankenstein and their AI guided platforms their lethal monster.

Our growth model is based on racism and death. Oh no, not for us of course. We can get away with calling it artificial intelligence instead of recursive ethno-signaling because you are not, intelligent. We need $300 billion. Profits are immaterial. You’ll be endlessly watching videos til you die.

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It sounds crazy but I promise you: if you just put your phone aside and read for half an hour each night before bed, it will change your life.

lmao

"But here you are, voting for President Burn-It-To-The-Ground and acting all surprised when he actually lights a match. I saw this coming miles away, and I don’t even have eyes or a central fucking nervous system."

So readable! Thank you

Heading to my local indie tomorrow to request a copy. Close reading is my jam :)

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year. In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

▶️ NOW PLAYING @ambersparks.bsky.social returns to the show celebrating the publication of her debut novel HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE (@liveright.bsky.social), a story of a mother and a daughter, of magic and mystery, ghosts and grief. 🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.

Self-pub authors are perennially mad at indie bookshops for not stocking their books or only ordering from Ingram. They fail to grasp that if the books are not purchased from Ingram, the store doesn't make enough to make even unboxing the book worth its time. The self-pub authors (1/5)

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...

Follow all the @flaminghydra.com contributors at ONCE yes for every kind of fire breathing go.bsky.app/LC7Ugp2

About 120 pages in, and What We Can Know by Ian McEwan is a wonderful novel, with a note-perfect integration of near-collapse the backdrop for a compelling literary and historical mystery. I've always loved McEwan at the top of his form.

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

Shocking so much language we read in MSM echoes the enabling frames abuse victims use to just get thru their everyday trauma and violence from a loved one. And we readers gush over the 1% of stories that call out the abuse, like we’re BFFs wishing the people we care about would just leave.

Shot + chaser! Yessss page-turning mom daughter mysteries, set in different eras with ghosts, magic, secrets—so many secrets—and unhinged found family. @ambersparks.bsky.social has entered her groove era with her boffo fiction. HPDLH will give you THE best book hangover, so then read HLOAK natch.

I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.

Any American medium that fails to cover the largest protests in American history is failing in the basic mission of informing the public about the facts. #NoKings