still can't believe these crazy guys #BajaDolphins

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Comienzo a creérmelo #Galeras

Buenos días alegrías

imagining the meeting where someone was like goal number one is to find a trendier, more whimsical term for attempted murder

I don’t know who came up with the bed-on-a-beach idea but I’d like to shake their hand

For those in need of a break from all the sound and fury, here’s a pair of gray whales I met yesterday here in Laguna de San Ignacio

Blue whale passing beneath our vessel en Baja

Sea lion on Espíritu Santo

I’m in Baja all week so follow me for daily timeline cleanses - today, this pod of dolphins followed our boat 🐬🐬🐬

Momma and baby humpbacks off Cabo San Lucas 🐋🐋 (sound on if you want to hear them breathe before they dive)

Room with a view (of the marina at San José del Cabo)

Cuernavaca

Last night in Mexico City’s Chinatown

Buen viaje, Willie Colón www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Se...

Eduardo Huchín Sosa pondera el estado actual del género ensayístico (y se arremete contra los asteriscos) en su más reciente entrega para Literal: Últimas noticias del ensayo literalmagazine.com/ultimas-noti...

Este mes para Literal, escríbí sobre Suma de las partes de Álvaro Uribe: literalmagazine.com/suma-de-las-...

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Esta semana en @literalmagazine.bsky.social Odette Alonso da un reporte meterológico del espíritu cubano: PROFETA SIN TIERRA. Sí hay inviernos en La Habana literalmagazine.com/profeta-sin-...

Proud translator of Nadia López García here:

Moving portrayal of Andy Goldsworthy, one of my favorite artists (hard to believe he was often dismissed as being "uncool" or promoting a "coffee table" aesthetic) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

When your nieta adorada asks you to make a chocolate cake with spiders for her birthday

cruelty is not merely a byproduct, but a central component of fascism

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

After gunning down unarmed Marimar Martínez in Chicago, border Patrol agent Charles Exum bragged "I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys." DHS shot her and called her a “terrorist.” New videos show something different. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Esta semana en Literal, escribe Alberto Chimal sobre las falsas profecías y el centenario del futuro vislumbrado por Fritz Lang en Metrópolis: literalmagazine.com/el-ano-que-l...

for shame...

Am I the only one who sees a Macbeth Birnam Wood reference in all those advancing halftime sugarcane plants? "Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root?" Bad Bunny can, that's who

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

Richard Lloyd just announced that Television bassist Fred Smith died in hospice today RIP to one of the greats

Si andan en la CDMX, esto es ¡hoy!

Hoy coinciden en México el año nuevo chino, el día de la constitución y la misa de la candelaria - si la realidad fuera un cómic, habría una batalla campal en la plaza pública entre dragones, congresistas y muñecos vestidos de niño dios

To process the loss of Catherine O'Hara, I will spend the afternoon folding in cheese youtu.be/fCVKCUB5w50?...

Mi columna para Literal se dedica este mes a la obra reciente de Polo Vallejo en vísperas de Art Week: literalmagazine.com/obra-recient...

As far as the Oscars are concerned, I have believed for decades that Delroy Lindo deserved ALL the awards for his performance as West Indian Archie in Malcolm X, and I fervently hope he receives them for his glorious role as Delta Slim in Sinners.

Snow Tha Product on how to deal with that Trump voter in your family - trapos sucios, lávalos www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtcP...

Hoy en Literal: esta columna conmovedora de Miriam Mabel Martínez sobre nuestra obsolescencia humana literalmagazine.com/obsolescenci...

Somebody alert Gary Larson Do Cows Use Tools? This One Does. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/s...

Mi querido amigo Héctor Manjarrez la libró después de sufrir hace poco un infarto masivo, pero necesita apoyo después de que el @*&%# seguro se negara a pagar su emergencia médica. Aquí sus hijas cuentan la historia y piden nuestra ayuda. Por favor, echen una manita si pueden... gofund.me/c7b9d6e38

January in Chapultepec Park (near the baths of Motecuhzoma)

RENEE GOOD “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you.” ICE AGENT (shoots her 3 times in the head) “Fucking bitch.”

Today in the burgeoning reality surpasses fiction category, the Nobel Committee issues a reminder that its prizes are "non-transferrable"

Now reading…

Some AI chatbots have a surprisingly good handle on breaking news. Others decidedly don't. www.wired.com/story/us-inv...

just saw the news - holy crap

I am potato

Feliz New Year!

Cooper’s hawk / Oregon

This flu season be sure and keep a box of tissues handy, unless of course you are underwater because they would get all soggy

So here I am proofreading galleys for a collection of my essays to be published early next year, and frickin Adobe AI keeps telling me it looks like a long document and wouldn't I prefer a summary