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Sometimes I think we’ve forgotten how to insult. Just passed four 20somethings, one making the others guffaw with the following: “I looked at him laughing his butt off at me, and I said, You’re just a waste of a body!” I thought, That’s not even mean. That’s just telling someone they could be nicer

every one of these stranger things characters is a few short years away from getting into the spin doctors

RFK Jr. is going to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It will take a few years before the deaths and disabilities ramp up to a level that even the most vile Republican cannot tolerate. RFK Jr. will be long gone and unaccountable, as our babies die from preventable illness.

Got a subscription email and noticed the bottom read, “Did you like this post?” Probably late here but I hadn’t previously noticed this question could be read as somewhat accusatory

O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!

🎵Hello frozen windscreen/ My old friend 🎵

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Wait, so it’s not “the Koch brothers” anymore, right? Just “the Koch brother?”

I remember when the walk of shame was a thing. Now I eat hot wings in my car outside the grocery store

Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day

Sometimes I think the people who pride themselves on being on the cutting edge of complaining have more in common than they realize with the people trying to put the internet into your pinkie finger

This should be a new fairy tale

I am bullish on one prediction, and one prediction alone: someday someone who has never listened to or even heard of American rock and roll will write a short story that begins, “She was a fast machine. She kept her motor clean”

One difference between this and 2008 is we now have recalibrated the collective death drive to monetize legacy press basically live-streaming the collapse

I had a dream that Bill Belichick came to my grad school English Department to lodge a complaint against me. “Who’s this guy think he is?” he grumbled. “Richard Nietzsche?” Everyone covered their mouths politely to keep from laughing

Art school problems

Part 96 of historically interesting things “Death blowing bubbles,” one of the several depictions of death created by Johann Georg Leinberger between 1729 and 1731 for the ceiling of the Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey in Bamberg, Germany. The bubbles are symbols of the fragility of life

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genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other

we need a department of kerning

if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

Most innings in a single World Series: 75 (1912) Most innings in a decisive WS Game 7: 12 (1924) 2025 would beat *both* records if it makes it to the 13th.

So the monkeys were never diseased and now they're dead. Life is a highway

It takes a specific sort of garden variety narcissism to write post-apocalyptic fiction

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Headline took my breath away

Cuomo can say Kościuszko but not Mamdani?

not enough of you are appreciating what a groundbreaking moment in English rhetoric it is that Sean Duffy said "It begs the question who is funding it"

Literary opinions are frivolous

old pond young frog ripple ripple ripple --Basho (& me)

In hindsight, all the problems started when we moved away from hand-written library catalog cards.

At first I thought the people saying, “you’re taking that incredibly racist or misogynistic quotation out of context” just didn’t know what “context” meant. And maybe some don’t. What I’ve come to understand, though, is that these people think quotation is a kind of illegal magic

We have strayed so far from God's light

There are a lot of perfect passages and paragraphs in this novel. This one is among my favorites

The whole Bluesky versus twitter thing is a real Applebees against chilis situation

He jumps in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the joey. He is jumping, jumping. He says that he will never die.

This is the way

UNIVERSE: little spirit, you will have the privilege of having any kind of human life you choose RFK, Jr: first of all i would like to make a personalized Chuck E. Cheese band out of roadkill and work out in denim

restaurants are a scam. most restaurants secretly have a kitchen in the back that you’re not allowed to see where they prepare all the food

Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok

One of the weird consequences of framing AI in higher education as creating access or leveling the field is that grades themselves come to appear inherently ableist. Now, I do not like grades at all and would prefer to ditch them, but this would be the wrong reason to do it

The money will be rerouted into producing an American clone of Andrew Lloyd Webber

i love to learn and grow from my mistakes. please dont ask me anything about them though