been a really difficult last however many years for everyone who cares about other people

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

Death is also a memory. Marguerite Duras, The Star. In Practicalities, translated by Barbara Bray.

In a historic vote, Tennessee Volkswagen workers get their first union contract - WSKG #unions#politics

in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.

Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,

Stuff’s melting

Bobsled is great event, reminds me of a game my best friend invented called suicide car

I like watching the Olympics but don’t understand why I should want to eat or hang out with Stanley tucci

"Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it." ~ Kurt Vonnegut

POV: you, a highly trained jet pilot, have an opportunity to save yourself and everyone on board—though you can never tell *a soul* why or how—if only you crack a secret in-flight window juuuuuuust enough to suck out a presidentially appointed officer’s wubby. What do you do

It will never not be funny when people who’ve crafted a massive following by projecting some high ethical or moral standard use their position of high visibility to brag about owning some random jerk. Just one of those sweet li’l reminders of our common insatiable desire for self-aggrandizement

Want to thank this streaming app for reminding me about Elliott Smith, the saddest Beatle

Look, if you’re going to make a movie out of Blood Meridian, it should obviously be hand-drawn animation. There’s no other way

One thing lit journals with even modest security can do is beef up/launch online crit sections. for print quarterlies/biannuals it's a great way to drive traffic between issues. Budget 10k/yr for 25 pieces at 400/per--a decent albeit not awesome rate. Tweak those numbers as needed but it's a start

For all the fearmongering about capital flight from New York City, there’s an exodus few want to talk about: working people.

Sky-high rents and outrageous child care costs are already pushing families out of the city they keep running.  
That’s what we have to change.

The tweet of this lousy era we can't get out of x.com/dhm/status/8...

This is Minneapolis. Literally every corner along Lake St. packed with people holding candles, many singing, honoring a person who by all accounts was an absolute gem of a human, whose life was tragically stolen by a fascist, paramilitary occupation force.

Rick speaking like this should be noted. This is not how he posts.

*sigh* Radicalized Will Stancil is right again.

It’s like a movie where a novice takes on a formidable task and proves, through pluck and good fortune, more than up to it, winning over even the harshest critics. Except this novice is a senile gangster pedophile-rapist who just gets grosser and more senile as corpses pile up and we all get measles

If you see one, the most important thing to say is “WHAT’S YOUR NAME” because otherwise the person is gone for good, maybe. I witnessed one in an alley as the sole pursuit car, I was the only witness, I froze for a second and didn’t shout it in time, and the guy is just… gone now. I’ll never know.

Some personal news

Had a dream in which I looked at a football score and the Buccaneers had scored eight safeties. One announcer said, Whoa, must be some kind of record, and the Al Michaelsy one was like, They’ve done it again

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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.

O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!

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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

Many left publications sadly aren’t paying attention to this story. 12 years, labor has fought for a union in Chattanooga, after 3 tries they won last year. Now they are preparing to strike for a first contract paydayreport.com/following-st...

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.