not only would this team go 82-0, it would catalyze a renaissance in NBA rage-blogging

We've got a new Gender Reveal episode that I think y'all would like! @sabs.bsky.social @goodbyealma.bsky.social @kasulke.co and I competed to draft the best bookshelf of transsexual literature :) First two rounds available here or all podcast places: gender.libsyn.com/bonus-the-in...

found my new favorite chum ad

truly no one doing it like Dave was

tired of the meager ambitions of our tech overlords. why is no one building a second the Tower of Babel. if you want to build god you must first lay siege to heaven, and IPO the trebuchets with which you’ll pulverize the seraphim

Very big thank you to @literaryhub.bsky.social for publishing this excerpt of PLASTIC, PRISM, VOID today 🥰

NBA playoff thoughts from the last two nights of hoops: 1. is Victor Wembanyama god? 2. BING BONG

thinking about why people get surprised when an AI agent does something like, say, delete years' worth of data, and it may be because people have this idea that thinking and feeling are two separate functions. But no, the AI agent deleted all that shit in part because it has no fear of consequences

Ravenous is also proudly a home for dumb blogs. Here's me on the greatest food innovation of my lifetime: the cup that lets you drink soda and eat chicken tenders with one hand. www.weareravenous.com/sip-and-snac...

the place where I occasionally board Jeff when I'm away sent me an email asking how I would rate his "experience staying with them." I do not know if my dog had a four or five or even a two-star experience with you; he is a dog. I've seen him eat a dorito out of a puddle. I'm sure he had a nice time

current level of NYC Knicks hype: wore a Knicks hoodie on my way to the gym yesterday. Man in a truck leans all the way out his window to SCREAM at me: "WE'RE ENDING IT TONIGHT. THE SERIES ENDS TONIGHT!!" I manage to yell back "Knicks in four" before he drives off

I knew searching "3D printed beyblade" would completely upend my afternoon, and yet

two 20th century alt history scenarios I think about constantly are "what if Lenin publicly named a successor" and "what if Huey Long wasn't assassinated"

to your left, a few checkout clerks with whom you can exchange pleasantries. to your right, the Stanford Prison Experiment in miniature, where failing to scan your yogurt sufficiently means a man in an apron will tase you unconscious

another surprise note from last night: "cooligula"

someone has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

mayor Mamdani I beseech you: bring back NYC's free range, trash-eating pigs

my man entered the race with the blessed attitude of "So excited to run my first marathon! I bet I can go pretty fast :) " and vibed his way into the record books

Guy whose girlfriend "goes to another school" but he’s terrified of her. “She’s not here, is she? You haven’t—thank god. I mean. Oh, bummer.”

forgive me if I don't believe AI is going to take over everything, earlier today I tried to save an essay to read later and my phone helpfully suggested I save the article to Lyft

really good when a politician has a national identity name that would be too obvious for fiction. President Magyar, President de Gaulle. Like if we elected a guy named Jim Yankee

I don't know who this @kasulke.co guy is, but it sounds like he's a very good friend who gives very good advice lithub.com/one-great-po...

that's right, Pauline

is there a secret form of cardio that isn't running that will scratch the same terrible itch? worried that my spine won't be up for it this spring but the classic alternatives (swimming, biking) are extremely not my thing

shoutout to the person in front of me at the coffeeshop whose milk choice for their latte was half-and-half. I am a changed man.

if "cancelation" can refer to someone either 1. Being broadly disliked by a bunch of powerless randos on the internet, or 2. Being legally barred from entering a G7 nation, then I think the word is too imprecise for further use. pack it in, fellas

"Why don't Americans..." they do. There's brave acts happening out of sight everyday. Why don't YOU support them when they get arrested or provide material cover for them?

btw @mattielubchansky.com @kasulke.co and I made an advice podcast this week and mattie got so impassioned that she unsheathed a sword mid-recording. we discuss whether u should tell yr husband about yr affair(!), whether u should flee the country(!), the time we met a piss ghost(!!), and more!

Area 51 on the sunset strip

do NOT find someone who looks at you the way @kasulke.co looks at Chicago style pizza

from Paul’s Blart, I stab at thee

Dear campaigns for Dem candidates in states I don't live in, If you're all buying the same ActBlue donor list, you should coordinate so as to not send first-time texts within *single-digit minutes of each other* on the exact same day. It does not inspire faith that yours is a well-run campaign.

spine doctors, for some reason: your back is acting up? okay, the important thing is to take it easy and not do any activities that might irritate it further. I'm going to prescribe you a course of oral steroids that make you feel like practicing Mortal Kombat fatalities in your living room

back surgery: symptom of aging, proof of your advanced decrepitude, connotes chronic pain going forward spine surgery: something dramatic must’ve happened to you, ohmygod but you’re okay now right??, proof of resiliency… perhaps even heroism…

I've set my devices to block most websites in the evenings, so if I think of a post at night I have to write myself a phone note. which is how I opened my notes app just now to find the word SHELMET

grateful to be in recovery for many reasons, but lately I'm especially appreciative that it's inoculated me against sports betting. I'm perfectly capable of letting the Knicks ruin my life without *also* losing a barrel-and-suspenders sum of money on them, thank you

Car Yu-Gi-Oh

if elected, I promise to run our government like a business. more specifically, like a lesbian-dominated grocery co-op

this is 100% what happened. check your photos. we are there and we have made them unwholesome

one of the countless reasons public transit is good: it forces you to see human faces/bodies that haven't been manicured for the screen. unhealthy to look at exclusively at either people you know or clinically beautiful strangers. take the bus, check out some real Faces

Mr. Met is a Zoroastrian

look, the political climate might make you think it's a bad time to come out as trans. but there's never been a better opportunity to: 1. Pretend you already came out and then detransitioned, 2. Start a gofundme to raise grifty detrans money off of right-wing freaks 3. Pay for yr transition in cash

if you are not a Lit Hub member you can become one at lithub.memberful.com/join; it would mean a lot to me (and the website write large) if you did

would love for political candidates to stop texting me like they've got grim news about a loved one. "It’s Analilia Mejia." okay girl shit did you just bring a mutual friend to the hospital?? alarming every single time

found some good art

Vivian Gornick cannot be stopped. She will be writing books criticism long after the last star's light has been absorbed by the final, yawning black hole

Friends! The ICE siege of Minneapolis is not over, and YOU can help keep 200 families safe and housed for another month! These are trusted folks who have already helped 10% of all Central Minneapolis households pay rent. Please pitch in: gofund.me/d4acb0e6c

gunkatana. it's like gunkata but the gun is a sword

about 15 years ago everyone who worked in digital was some kind of embarrassingly-titled "social media maven," then roles standardized into something like "digital media manager," and now it's become bizarrely tactical and everyone's called an "operator"