watching the Jersey Mike’s worker make my sandwich

I sure hope they find a nice farm upstate where he can spend his last years in peace and, you know, a gigantic hoodie

Pope: [moral critique of illegal war] President: I am Jesus. Thr pope is gay Media: they are feuding😳

they should invent a goodreads where cool small press books get thousands and thousands of reviews and big dumb mainstream books get dozens

As the South African billionaire eyes a $2 trillion IPO for SpaceX, it’s worth considering how to make sense of a world that rewards ‘Muskism.’

Just want to give a shout out to all the acronyms at today’s meetings. Great job guys

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

People should actually be very alarmed that while AP's business model is shot to bits, Americans are still very much reliant on the news it delivers. The alternatives in some cases are inferior or non-existent. apnews.com/article/news...

Imagine being behind the Moon and not getting scam calls for half an hour

Reviewing / essaying upon DAYBREAK BIRDSONG ALWAYS WAKES HIM in Socrates on the Beach, Luke Dunne's deep consideration of Pamela Ryder's work is not to be missed: socratesonthebeach.com/luke-dunne-o...

A beaut

By the time my children are grown, Mr Beast will be a real life version of an early Nintendo game final boss

What do we have, like another week before the guys who think Claude or whatever is sentient go back to arguing like college freshmen with nowhere to be on a Friday night?

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

my lawyer friends speak highly of AI tools for certain purposes (mostly research), but contracts? we don’t need a plagiarism machine for that, we can plagiarize manually

the igloo, toledo, ohio, 1988

it’s beautiful to think One Battle inspired a whole new generation to read Thomas Pynchon’s wikipedia page

Seems undeniable now. We are saying “libidinal” too much

They had to give an Oscar to the racecar movie just to prove they were serious about nominating it

Probably a sign of some form of decline when leading podcasts not only constantly make conscious reference to and unconsciously echo each other but increasingly offer the same rotation of guests

Single issue presidential candidate running on a 48 hour Saturday

Interesting to see so many “experts” on here all of a sudden 🤔. A week ago most of you had never even heard of oil

Still not sure if we need Medicare for All?

remember when that cronenberg movie 'existenz' came out and it seemed like a fun and silly conceit for there to be freedom fighters taking on corporate conglomerates in an attempt to protect consensus reality from an ocean of digital hallucination

Finally, an opportunity to buy the really expensive gasoline

We cannot account for unconscious experience, which not only proceeds from embodiment but from unique histories of embodiment in constantly changing material contexts (both in subject and world). An individual’s history of interpretations, actions, and reactions sometimes yields a transformative

it's actually pretty easy for me to explain why I don't feel the need to extend rights I think humans have to things I don't think are human

These Hegseth pressers are a little like They Live, if everybody had the sunglasses

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

Sometimes I think was a bad idea to give Secretary of Defense to Edward Fortyhands

“The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.” —Muhammad Ali on refusing to fight in Vietnam No to War, No to Empire: An Anti-Imperialist Reading List

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.