A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

Me every time the Spurs don't just lob it to Wemby

Pinky promise?

this plus the olga tokarczuk business is just too depressing for words man. how eager people are to sign their brains over to a machine

Maybe try riding the metro then, you goons

Failing to build less than two hundred working trucks is actually innovative, when you think about it. I'm in charge of the stock market and am very smart.

The new show Widow's Bay is so good, like instant classic good. Equal parts hilarious and spooky, with meticulously cinematography

the giant banners with his stupid fucking face on them are less annoying than the fact that he's made us the city with the highest unemployment rate in the country

Men, stop losing money gambling on sports and start losing it to submission fees for weird short stories

Maybe because it's the start of baseball season, but this story from Emil DeAndreis hit the spot. "The River Table" in the New Delta Review: ndrmag.org/the-river-ta...

If anyone knows where the new Miniature Wife show got these ceramic coffee mugs, dm me. I will fly to Japan if needed.

bars

Another year, another great day of writing craft lessons and book hauls from @barrelhouse.bsky.social's DC conference.

friday night everyone. let’s see those copies of God Emperor of Dune

"The Editorial Board"

Waiting in line for a new bakery to open this morning and children are running up and down the queue shouting out any progress. They can't sell papers any more, but the children yearn to report the news.

I spent so many summers during high school and college at parks departments and landscaping jobs, getting an AC job was my main career goal.

West Ham strategically losing to Leeds in the cup to focus on the relegation fight

I worked hard to become a writer. And I enjoy being a writer. I'm not here to let techbro robots take that shit away from me.

people finding out a science fiction writer they like has bad and incoherent politics

its a poltical death sentence but it should be quintupled at minimum and tied to inflation. road maintenance is destroying budgets at all levels of government.

This is, shot-for-shot, the same intro as CBS's new Culinary Cup cooking show with Padma Lakshmi

Corn sweat index is hitting an all time high

A top priority, great job team

Iowa basketball pulling some bizarro, monkey's paw curse with the #9 seeded men upsetting the #1 Florida and the #2 seeded women losing to #10 Virginia

Not enough corn in the diet

I cleaned out our garage today, locking in my work small talk for the next few days.

Next guy is gonna have to play triplets

To all who celebrate

"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is."

I don't use this website for work much, but I wrote a new piece about how the most interesting policy developments on how the internet gets built and who can afford it is happening at the state level these days: www.pew.org/en/research-...

Reggie Dinkins is really fulfilling it's 30 Rock successor shoes, like this running bit of the background show FDNY: Chicago "The Bean is on fire and the pizza is in a deep dish than I'm used to!"

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

I don't know why just yet but I've come to believe that smoke detectors are being designed so their batteries die between 1 - 4am.

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

congress sounds cool i wish it was real

Our block organized a mass snow shovel session this morning. I'm the cluster of pixels in the back here admiring our progress. Now for 6 ibuprofen and a nap.

Sometimes I struggle to still feeling like an Iowan after over a decade living out of the state, but when I'm pushing my DC neighbors' cars out of the snow I can feel the corn coarsing through my veins

You don't turn the Titanic around overnight, we're building the Hindenburg while we fly it.

"Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Get in loser, we're going to put our bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, to make it stop

rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks

It's gonna be a close one this year

Knocked out 2k words on my WIP today thanks to this group. (Embarrassingly, one of my most productive writing days of the year. But better late than never)

Proud of this chonky lil whale I carved for a Christmas gift this year

So it's only certain boats that get blown up, interesting.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

HR has informed me that I can't veto an Escape Room for the company's holiday party just because "it feels like every meeting I'm in is an escape room."