The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

See now this how it goes when you keep company with vampires. You either become one of them or are left bloodless and dead for the dogs to devour. Congrats.

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

Lots of fun.

It’s a wild idea but the pack of asshats who spew nonsense everyday at five o’clock on Fox could change the course of history if one day they just decided to tell the truth. They’re like a friend group to America’s seniors. If you know anyone in their sway it’s really hard to witness.

Kurt Vonnegut spotted passing through Riverdale.

I mean this is the most church counselor way of putting it, but intelligence by itself is nearly worthless. wisdom and prudence and discernment are necessary qualities for intelligence to be useful. innumerable religious scriptures have tried to explain this but yr tech bros aren't big on books

I don’t have a long list of life-changing idols but there is one. ❤️

New Jersey, I love you.

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

Neal Katyal son of immigrants went to SCOTUS won & overturned tariffs, Alysa Liu, daughter of an immigrant, went Olympics & won gold. Winners representing a fraction of the myriad contributions to American society made every damn day by immigrants. Diversity is our strength USA.

“I'll tell you what Freedom is to me. No fear.” “You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served." “You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.” Born on this day musician, songwriter & civil rights activist Nina Simone 1933

Your last saved photo of a celebrity is your therapist. Well, yes please.

not to say they are doing this on purpose but the ram shortage & price spike is certainly playing into the hands of people investing billions into tech aimed at first stealing and then selling every bit of information and knowledge ever created by mankind because they hate open source and open data

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"free/cheap/non-toxic youth sports" feels like one of those skeleton keys that would have knock-on effects accidentally fix 100 unrelated things about America or, you know, even if it didn't, at least a bunch of kids would be able to have fun playing sports

The forthcoming book by Alito from Hachette reminds me of a drum I have been banging for a long time. As long as publishers continue to send $$ to people who attack our right to read, no matter what else they do, the right to read will be under attack

ProPublica's @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy have won a George Polk award for international reporting for “The End of Aid,” a series that investigated the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development and its consequences around the world. Read the full series here:

NYC. Next week. Thrilled to be part of this:

Always appreciated that Bowie knew who he was, a sort of collector and translator of interesting and important ideas and concepts.

Everywhere this man goes he should be treated as if he murdered millions of children, because he did.

“This is particularly useful in publishing, where adults really don’t know what they are talking about,” Biel said. “As such, I threw out the rules that don’t make any sense or serve the stated goals. I rebuilt mechanisms for what was best for what I wanted to achieve.”

I'm pretty sure I know. They aren't. We're not going to really be able to make a lot of progress in dealing with the implications of this tech unless and until we get rid of all this "woo-woo" talk about LLMs. Anthropic pushing this line is PR, unserious.

I am breathless with disgust.

"Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous." ~ Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow #Booksky

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Yup. So good.

I've been going to these fancy conferences and just doing a gloves off thing for the last few months and I feel freer than a guy with five DUIs riding an ebike on a sidewalk.

For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM Watch or (Rewatch) one of my favorite New York films "Crossing Delancey" (1988) - Dir. Joan Micklin Silver, Screenplay by Susan Sandler, based on her play. Starring Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, & Reizl Bozyk. Full movie ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Il...

This is a rough time to be a person with situational awareness.

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Invoking wealthy class solidarity to excuse sex crimes against children is sorta the Epstein Class in a nutshell

I did the thing! I emailed, cold, the author of a book I liked to tell them it was good, and to say thanks. Know what? That's a good idea. You were all correct. Everyone should do that.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Worth mentioning that Sam Darnold was kicked to the curb, sidelined, and overlooked prior to becoming a Super Bowl winning quarterback. Keep going mates, wherever you are, and I’ll do the same.

Listen, I’m a jewel thief, ok? I’m gonna brag about how I make more money than the jewelry store down the street and in the future everyone who does it this way also will. The NYT’s is gonna feature me as a predictor of things to come. Good?

Way better, baby. 🖤🖤🖤

Next time let’s elect a president that doesn’t want to kill anything he can’t fuck why don’t we. (Gift link) Trump Opens Marine National Monument in Atlantic to Commercial Fishing www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/c...

bring back shame

“We parted company at the moment when all kinds of things were about to find their way into words.” Find yourself a correspondent who writes to you as Gustave Flaubert did to George Sand.

Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge. We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.

Funeral Rites for Wash Post Pro Walmart Whatever George Will is talking about Pro Ice Anti urban life Military Action in Iran

Watching the worst try to tell us they control art and music reminds me why I’m excited for my friend’s new book, coming out in May from @microcosm.bsky.social. The DC story is art up not power down no matter how much they want you to think otherwise. microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/book...

Starting in April, I’m teaching a six-week writing workshop at the wonderful Writers & Books in Rochester, NY. If you live in the area, please join me.📚💚 wab.org/event/bright...

Im excited about Bad Bunny's superbowl performance! #SupportImmigrants

Unreal. He’s shutting down the Kennedy Center, after his flunkies caused mass defections of artists? Everything the man touches turns to ash. Our cultural heritage; destroyed. Our national treasures; plundered.

Buttigieg on Fox News: "When you see an American woman opening the door to her home and on her doorstep finds half a dozen federal agents in tactical gear that is more tricked out than what I would take outside the wire in Afghanistan -- I think most people get that that is wrong."

This is a Möbius strip of WTF. My brain just locked out. On the other hand, the more outrageous the better. Let’s make something new with the broken pieces.

A different kind of April fools *SUPREME COURT SETS BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ARGUMENTS FOR APRIL 1