Otter.ai tried to sabotage my piece by transcribing "figures" to "boogers"

Horrible! Area Woman's Career Forcing Her to Learn New Skills

Definitely been more productive since I got a second monitor but now I hate my desk chair

An Island Home With a Colorful and Complicated Past: Sylvester Manor Farm’s Rich History savingplaces.org/stories/sylv...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

remember we did this in Iraq and ISIS was like, gee thanks and everyone learned nothing and Alex Garland made a film showing how these decisions very much fucked over US service members and got them killed and their limbs blown off

My sleep schedule has gone to hell and I have no idea what day it is. Happy holidays!

With His Sculptures Full of Natural Splendor, Artist Truman Lowe Could Make Wood Look Like Water www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

We designed a beautiful calendar to fundraise for Sojourners for Justice Press. Pre-orders end on Nov 16 so get yours soon. sojourners4justice.press/calendar/ - It will only be available through pre-orders cuz we're too broke to print it otherwise, lol.

Thank You D’Angelo 🕊️✨ 📹: thedangelo_fp (Instagram)

Author Viet Thanh Nguyen responds to Donald Trump's threat to invade Chicago using the imagery of Vietnam War film "Apocalypse Now" to evoke "the entire history of American troops ... cleansing the land [for] American conquest."

New from me: Exploring the Chesapeake Bay's Unsung Black History savingplaces.org/stories/ches...

Hi @kailanthropy.bsky.social, thanks for sharing! Just passed along to our writing job board to help you get some new pitches :) makewritingyourjob.com

Smol reminder that I'm always accepting feature pitches for full-stop.net at [email protected]!

Slowly but surely falling in love with historical research

New from me: A Search for Ancestors Sheds New Light on Pierce Chapel African Cemetery savingplaces.org/stories/pier...

Very excited to share this essay about the great German author Alexander Kluge whose unusual work is all about common human feelings and "happy endings that don't lie." www.full-stop.net/2025/03/06/f...

One day you’re wondering how much your fitness journey has changed you, the next you’re casually walking thru a snowstorm to get to the gym

In the New Year, there will be supermoons, meteor showers and other exciting celestial events. via @chandelis.bsky.social

Albert Cleage Jr. spent his life advocating for all-Black economic and political organizations to build power without the distorting effects of self-hate. @kailanthropy.bsky.social writes on a new book that charts the history of his Black Christian Nationalist movement.

NEW: For @thebaffler.com, I reviewed Aaron Robertson’s excellent THE BLACK UTOPIANS within the context of Black utopian thinking, past and present: thebaffler.com/latest/we-ow...

The process of reading any link to a New Yorker story is this weird Kafkaesque journey of “You must log in! But you’re already logged in. But no! You must log in. And wait, we don’t think you have a subscription!” And about 50% of the time they show me the story I want to read, possibly by mistake?

Eating cookies and coffee for lunch

I now understand why the aunties and grandmas are always knitting

Today's record open.spotify.com/track/4J95y5...

Sad to report that an afternoon green tea actually did improve my mood, energy and focus by a lot

Ugh. I hate myself. I hate life. Fuck this shit. Everything sucks. I hope I die. I hope somebody kills me. [I take precisely one bite of food, after having been hungry and cranky all day] Oh wow. Fantastic. I feel great. Now I have the energy to kill myself.

How do they measure the water temperature tho? Should I get hip to this

Doing manifestation work (life-planning, really) and realizing from the sheer amount of effort and struggle it’ll take to bring to fruition that this is indeed not a magic trick 🥴

DC really has become my home, like my own big cozy house. It gives so much to me!

It happened: I’m actually excited to be answering emails at 9 pm

Read this from @johnvaillant.bsky.social and follow him. His prize-winning book, Fire Weather, is beautifully written and well worth your time.

"Clarke worked for the Mississippi Legislature for four years before she was offered a key to a bathroom that had previously been whites-only. When Diana Peranich was elected in 1988, House Speaker House Speaker C.B. “Buddie” Newman sent a security guard to give her a key to the bathroom."

our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.

‘Stabilization by inertia’ has eroded American elites’ capacity to buy consent from their population—and from each other. newleftreview.org/issues/ii149...

Had a dream I was being chased by vampires, woke up and thought “I need to take a self defense class.” For the vampires.

Focusing on small consistent accomplishments rather than big ones so the big ones last. Right now I wanna develop a taste for history books and denser novels, so we’re reading 10 pages of the new Richard Beck tonight 😌

Sometimes you think you’re one thing but you’re actually a totally other thing. It’s a trick of the light!

Sarah McBride was elected as the first transgender representative and now Republicans trying to ban her from the bathroom.

Tonight's record open.spotify.com/track/4wajJ1...

Not this nasty reading slump right before the holidays...

I am tired of sending emails 🧍🏾‍♀️

Owning cacti makes me so nervous. Like what if I faceplant into it lol

Ed Yong won the 2021 Pulitzer prize for his reporting in the Atlantic on COVID. In private posts on IG last week, he told his followers they should unsubscribe, citing the magazine's decision to hire Jonathan Chait, and its coverage of trans issues/Gaza www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...

Elizabeth, I have included you in the Starter Pack, “People who have had the pleasure of my company.” You’re welcome, Darcy

Tonight’s record open.spotify.com/album/3Yv2jJ...

We are a group of autonomous writers, artists, educators and translators coming together to offer online courses and workshops to raise money for people in Gaza 🥀🥀🥀