sorry to all my other records bc i haven't taken the new Cass McCombs off the turntable since it came out..... truly stellar

Some Good News, everybody! "Nonprofit environmental organization the Ocean Cleanup has announced that it's on track to eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2034"

First the grand juries, now the trial juries. This Admin is not winning.

yea i’m always thinking damn, i just don’t get enough advertisements in my daily life……. what if i had another Bad Screen

If we are going to have a modern day Salem Witch Trials can we at least get the cool bread that makes you high

from the preposterously great Stay Dead by Natalie Shapero

least-favorite Type of Content is person being filmed approaching people on the street to ask them inane questions & my second least-favorite is person sitting in car yelling into front-facing camera & yet somehow this seems to be my entire feed on insta

Love these stories from Ian MacKaye about not knowing who the Velvet Underground and the Stooges were (from an interview in Howard Wuelfing's new anthology of his 80s fanzines: www.diwulf.com/products/ava...)

i told you philly was the center of the known universe 💞

Hey y'all! I have a three-part interview up now at La Cuenta, Stanford's online magazine and newsletter exploring issues of migration and politics. Parts 1 and 3 in the links below! Part 2: "Why are borders continually produced in the imagination?" lacuenta.substack.com/p/why-are-bo...

keep thinking about how throughout all of this, the daily storm and stress, the incipient economic crisis is still snowballing itself into existence, and very little else will matter to many, many people if and when it does

The censorship will continue until free speech improves

honestly i’m shocked & impressed that they’re allowing the Library of Congress to still select a new US Poet Laureate at all—& that furthermore, it’s a great poet & translator who is explicitly focusing on work in translation

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

The dismissals for free speech (also the need for things like strike funds) mean it's a good time to check out this guide to holding mutual aid funds safely & fairly, by Mutual Aid Disaster Relief mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/wp-content/u...

Javier Bardem at the #Emmys: "Here I am today denouncing the genocide in Gaza... Free Palestine!" (via @Variety)

if you're in Philly, i highly recommend seeing An Evening With Complicity Huffman, a solo show by Palestinian-American poet & performer Fargo Nissim Tbakhi before it closes 9/16 it's haunting, incisive, & will make you laugh out loud—like only the best satire can phillyfringe.org/events/an-ev...

Hammock read: Toska by @alinapleskova.bsky.social

they should try letting a weary stoned woman run this country for once

batshit insane how domestic political terrorism is the only realm in which they're desperately in favor of more diversity

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

This is so crucial. When people think about these land comparisons, they don't think about the entire sprawling infrastructure behind FF.

creepy how this WaPo reporting isn’t paywalled, but their articles that quote what he actually last said “moments” before all seem to be www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

it’s giving

ok. let's all have a 36-72 hour debate about the efficacy of political violence.

i keep seeing the words "civil society" being used & i'm just like.... i'm sorry, is this civil society in the room with us

yes hello surveillance agents, i have no thoughts or opinions whatsoever!!!!! not a one!!!!

show me anywhere else in the known galaxy where "school shooting industry" is a combination of words that refer to a real thing

For @newyorker.com I wrote about the censorship of trans art. I spoke to many of my favorite artists from Puppies Puppies to Creighton Baxter, thought about strategic opacity, Amy Sherald, and whether or not we have had great trans artists. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

do you know that there's a moss feed on bsky.... it's just pics of moss, often blanketing surroundings like houses & utility poles & stones & forest floors. sometimes accompanied by fungi & other friends of moss. my ideal internet Experience at last

Christine Shan Shan Hou, from A Promise (published by blush)

Nepal having an actual social media revolution: (predominantly young) ppl went out into the street to protest the govt shut down of social media sites, police fired live rounds, killing dozens this weekend, now the parliament is on fire and the prime minister has just stepped down (like, this hour)

fascism is the legalization of this kind of shit (as Israel has done)--the formal re-absorption of racism back into the law. we've been (back) there awhile and this is another blazing marker. & when moral harm is enshrined in law, well, rest easy breaking it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

has anyone seen my Content

pleased to have encountered this on the Bob & Barbara’s bathroom wall, where god intended poetry to live

James Tate

Ok so in case yall missed the memo like I did. David Lehman, series editor of Best American Poetry is a Zionist ass. Literally feel embarrassed that I wound up in this situation. I was literally the only person of color in a room of 50+ people. It was terrifying. #poetry #bestamericanpoetry

“AI is a cruel technology. It replaces workers, devours millions of gallons of water, vomits CO2 into the atmosphere, propagandises exclusively for the worst ideologies, and fills the world with more ugliness and stupidity. Cruelty is the central tenet of right wing ideology.”

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

equal parts incisive reflection & inside baseball-y lols "...when we’re not apologizing for it, we poets spill a lot of ink trying to justify the materially useless endeavor to which we’ve devoted our lives, all the while fostering complicated prejudices against anyone doing it differently than us"

the only things that have actually helped me be less tethered to my accurséd device: keeping my phone in focus mode for ~98% of time asking "what exactly am i doing?" when i pick up my phone; if i can't answer with a concrete task (answering a text, looking up directions, etc), i put it back down

Destroying the planet in search of a computer program powerful enough to count the 'b's in blueberry

this is that real good shit, the dumb shit, the Soft Idiot Supreme shit that fills you back up in trying times. 30 seconds of pure frothing liberation from reality

to which i say, !!!!!!!!

found Richard Siken’s new book, I Do Know Some Things, to be remarkable unexpected turns of language, glitchy sequence, slant & sometimes-discomfiting candor, pitchdark humor that legit made me lol, not very excerptable—rather, slow build into an astonishing compendium of, & reflection on, a life

this section of Patricia Highsmith’s wiki is the ultimate let women have hobbies

The thing the mainstream media is not remembering about Hurricane Katrina is their own lethal, racist contribution to treating rumors as facts used to demonize the stranded in New Orleans, turning them from victims to be aided to enemies to be contained.

Exciting news !!!