It's Sphere time

you know a bookstore has good vibes when it makes you, a writer, feel *better* rather than worse to be in there (Rough Draft ilu)

don't worry -- the OLD Farmer's Almanac (founded in 1792 with the old timey-cover you see at the grocery store) is still going

Heroes all around bsky.app/profile/jami...

Glory glory hoagie threw ya glory glory hoagie threw ya

Yale Anthropology is doing an open rank search for environmental anthropology. Happy to answer questions in DMs (I am not on the search committee). We’re a lovely department (imo) and given the current higher ed atmosphere, Yale has been doing a decent job at getting us thru (knock on wood).

Jess is the sharpest editor I've ever worked with, you def want her help

sometimes the math goes over my head but I still feel like I understand the game better

One cool thing about @coyotemedia.org is that we can collaboratively write a little thing like this at 9pm and include a silly little photoshopped graphic and no boss paid $$$$ can stop us.

Freedom, Safety, and Vengeance

feels good to sing it this morning

my parents haven’t lived in nyc since the 1990s and when they watched the mayoral debates this year they were like “wait that weird little guy with the hat we used to see around everywhere?” literally a generational weird little guy

I’m trying to write and suffering a terrible case of essayist incontinence (“we”-ing all over the place)

Honestly, any actor who has not read The Method at this point should not be allowed to use the term in interviews.

Or it's not a safety net, exactly, but the truth that almost no one makes their whole income from public-facing/bylined journalism or, lol, creative writing. Teaching, editing, copywriting, etc - you gotta have your anchor client, and art is never it.

hey, we've got a cool 1-day Zoom workshop in nonfiction running through Rutgers in 2 weeks (Nov 15). $10 for Camden residents and Rutgers students, $60 for everyone else. Full details here www.eventbrite.com/e/cooper-str...

lol imagine if zohran had a nazi tattoo

can't quote-post this but let me just say maybe instead of AI you can just use the good old-fashioned spell check, which never gave us alternate historical facts?

@lemoustier.bsky.social I had a dream last night that at some festival there were people *cosplaying* as Neanderthals, and I thought, I should pitch a story about this! Realized it was bc of your instagram pics of the Neanderthal museum exhibit!

Just want to make sure: We are not fucking giving out ramen and beef jerky on Halloween. We are giving kids CANDY and TOYS and a NORMAL HOLIDAY and then donating to food pantries and stocking our local community fridge.

"How could this view [of the night sky] be understood as anything but living? ... The question of are we alone is answered by a view full of stars. We are so not alone it isn’t funny." --Craig Childs, The Wild Dark

I want to say, Jeff, read my book, but, a, I haven't written it yet, and b, @zachweinersmith.bsky.social & @weinersmith.bsky.social's A CITY ON MARS so easily shows the impossibility of "millions" in space in decades. Just the amount of transport that would be needed is absurd!

Jefferey, my man tech.yahoo.com/science/arti...

the originals of young werther

Jfc this is absolutely insane

Hey, DC area! Come hear NASA astrobiologist @calebscharf.bsky.social talk about his new book "The Giant Leap: Why Space is the Next Frontier in the Evolution of Life" at @carnegiescience.bsky.social on November 6! You might even take home your very own copy of the book!

book deadline is too far away to pressure me to be productive, and yet it is so, so close

A real stunner of an essay from @beccaworby.bsky.social (cws are clear from the title) thecommononline.org/body-stories...

annoying thing about having written one book but not a second one yet is how often, two and a half years after my book came out, i'm wishing someone would be reading my book and, like, post about it

A call for work by Northeast regional emerging artists exploring "the dynamic connection between art and language," to be shown here at Emerson.

Embassytown is the book out of all the scifi I read for my book that most thoroughly blew my mind

I can never get over the account here that posts the most asinine prompts as a way to boost visibility for their only fans, and I cannot get over how well it works

creative writing students who say "no actually I like it when the story doesn't make sense":

it's fun to log on. it's enjoyable to read posts from my friends, and atrocities, and updates from my friends

I mean this is remarkable for a number of reasons but especially striking to me is that they’re Nuremberging so hard they’re not waiting to get the orders before insisting they were only following them

I was very curious about this topic and also the use of the word “prisoners” and I found, as is so often the case, that this explainer gets more and more revelatory as it goes on. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/w...

anyone wanna bet if i'll remember what this means next time i see this note?

guys i'm starting to think AI might be bad

On a basic publicity level this is one of the most weird and amateurish things I’ve ever seen a brand do, let alone a politician. It looks awful, barely a step above jibjab

Jesus christ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

When it's not human beings being hurt - that visceral, immediate harm - we're left with the victim being so clearly just America

hell yeah

"okay so I wanted to get it covered up five years ago. but that was covid, right? so I couldn't get in to see anyone until 2022. then, my regular guy moved to buffalo. there's this chick who does great coverups but she's in portugal. she did two weeks in CHICAGO but I couldnt get a slot."

Having spent more time than I'd like around the very privileged children of wealthy people, an extremely recognizable type is the guy who genuinely thinks he's blue collar because one summer he had to help out at his dad's construction site and his family's shore house isn't *that* big

I would like to hear your AWS outage story. Call and drop us a lil voicemail and we will put it on the air! ‪(240) 847-4915‬

New Ben Cosgrove, it's so good open.spotify.com/track/5UjhF4...

This whole Graham Platner thing is making me question the ancient Hindu symbol I got tattooed on the small of my back

… what we should tolerate. He’s running for the senate for chrissakes. Scott Lemieux puts it well here:

Ok @katelynburns.com said this way more eloquently than I did because she is super smart and you should follow her