I ended up writing four reports: Sinner winning in four sets, Alcaraz winning in five, Sinner winning in five and then the final report. - Carayol, Tumaini

The 60 Minutes episode on CECOT that Bari Weiss tried to spike has leaked. youtu.be/lenFGZ5WUTA?...

The Epstein cover-up continues. Let's keep up the pressure on Republicans until ALL the files are released. act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-yo...

every time a writer or creator I admire starts a substack I just get so… sad

The desperate hands of the global south seek to take back an overheated world. Seriously, what's next? The McHamburglar trophy in gourmet cooking? The Pol Pot Human Rights medal? The Jeffrey Epstein childcare grant? The Vladimir Putin democracy fellowship? The Weinstein-Cosby feminism prize?

shabbat shalom. i will be spending my entire day inside @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social’s links, starting with journaling and ending with rice forty-deuce.ghost.io/commonplace-...

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rosmarie waldrop.

this essay is gorgeous.

i don't want to have to second guess if every image is ai!! i don't want to edit with ai!! i don't wait to generate anything!!!! i don't want to talk to an ai chatbot!!! go away omg

A poem, like trying to remember, is a movement of the whole body. You follow the fog into more fog. —Rosemarie Waldrop

it’s weird to mention yiddish just because the guy you hate is jewish most references to a living language being “ancient” get real weird real fast but talking about the ancientness of a language that’s barely a thousand years old feels like its own kind of weird

IMAGINE if you were one of the people seeing one battle after another for the first time today OMG. music.apple.com/us/album/the...

The GOP was already freaking out about the impending Trump effect on the midterms. Now they’re fucking terrified.

i am so happy right now

“A few small beers”

i believe there are about a hundred and fifty million people like me who would pay $17 to watch benicio del toro as sergio st. carlos plan and execute a tight sunday costco run before he has to man the barbecue after his niece's afternoon soccer game (run time: 2 hours 20 minutes)

Please take the time and see this on the biggest screen that is available to you. It was filmed for the cinema experience. It is so funny and thrilling and the final needledrop made me burst into open-hearted tears.

WH stands by Ingrassia, who said education should focus on helping "elevate the high IQ section of your demographics, so you know, basically young men, straight White men.”

Have you heard of tactical frivolity? It’s one of my favorite forms of protest. Tactical frivolity is what happens when you use humor, costumes, and joy to make power look ridiculous. 🪩🐔🐸 🧵 1/x

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unless we are willing to face the fact that somewhere in our imaginations we are evil, vicious people, it is not going to work." ~Nikki Giovanni 🌸🌸🌸

today is the day i see one battle after another in vista vision. boston, you are good to me

i don’t even do games, and i loved this.

Why I 🧡 the web. This #WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet is amazing. Smooth animation. Peaceful vibes (and i didn't even play, I wondered around). messenger.abeto.co #JavaScript #chillvibe #game

Time spent scritching animals is not deducted from your lifespan

there’s this setup, as in trap, that gets inside to tell us we can’t help each oher, that we don’t have enough to share, that it is too risky to open ourselves to one another’s needs & situations. but we are enough. when we share the load & the risks & the openness, we are plenty.

Tolerance is a social contract. It only works if both people are cooperating. Once one refuses, the contract is broken and the extension of tolerance MUST be retracted in the same way that you can cooperate with a bank until they steal your money. Then you must stop doing business with that bank.

my feed was infected by a bad starter pack i’m sure i didn’t click on. that was weird. anyway i think i fixed it.

cashier at Market Basket apologized for bagging my order slowly, i said tyt i’m not in a hurry. she said “i’m conservative. it has been a long week.” i said “i’m not conservative. it has been a long week.” then we both smiled.

i am here for any and all cello metaphors

i love this gilbert grape kit it’s not tight, and the hem kind of floats it has wit.

gauff is doing a hard thing. she has to keep to this plan and have faith in it, make the changes in her serve, and at the same time mute her ambition to win, on THIS court of all courts. that’s a LOT of cognitive rewiring. this match is riveting.

perfection music.apple.com/us/album/per...

I’m still learning about myself. —Venus Williams, 45.

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“Notice, please, how gracious it is, how welcoming, like an outstretched arm guiding you over a tricky step.” www.theringer.com/2025/08/20/p...

Sadly I could not, in conscience, apply to a women's fellowship that explicitly excludes trans women. :-(

“i’ll remember that for the rest of my life” 🤔

protect the dolls the bricks and all in between, off to the side, stealth in headphones drinking soda, whistling at the laundromat, walking their kids to school, etc.

We must preserve the US Postal Service because UPS or FedEx would never do this.

i’m happy with who i am but if i had to be someone else on earth for a day

utterly charmless expression like acid reflux

every summer i invite one friend to come listen to Deepstep Come Shining (CD’s full recording) on the hottest day. it’s a conversion. dip them in the river. feed them vanilla yogurt, a peach, boiled peanuts. “an acquired taste” it’s Deepstep day.

is watermelon with whipped cream a thing?

is there a way to disable the part of teen brain that auto translates everything you say to her to “why the fuck did you do that, are you a fucking idiot? you are such a fucking loser”?