Just your regular PSA that actor Vincent Price was cool as f*ck: Here he reads Native American student’s poetry in 1967 at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Price established the Vincent Price Awards in Creative Writing for Native students, a stipend that was in place

I've asked so many people to please quit substack, and if I see a substack link, I rarely, if ever, click on it. and I know amazing people that I love and respect and learn from are on there and it makes me so sad. in case it helps you to finally quit that place: www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

we need to stop excusing "weird old guys" who are in positions of power and prestige and being shitty esp to women that's the only way to change things

also loved this; it's under my skin now

I loved reading this

REALLY USEFUL overview of the many ways ICE is entwined with sheriffs from @jesspish.bsky.social "...local laws that require or encourage the arrest and detention of people (even those accused of misdemeanors) are making it easier to deport immigrants."

A better world has never felt more possible or tangible to me, watching people continue to fight for Palestine and for their neighbours and for an end to state mandated violence abroad and at home. And yet! Some folks still want to destroy that, because god forbid they are wrong!

add "untold amounts of domestic violence/family annihilation" to "self-harm"

patting yourself on the back on your substack for getting off tiktok certainly is a choice

this part, which too many people are still refusing to see

It’s been illuminating to see some people provide a clear-eyed analysis of what ICE is doing, but fail to apply the same analysis to what the IDF has been doing

45 years since the bathhouse raids/Operation Soap: the largest mass arrest in Canada since the October Crisis.

yes please

like if you don’t want to practice and get good at something that’s fine quit making it everyone else’s problem tho I’ll never be a painter but you don’t see me calling Bob Ross a gatekeeper

AI is like every other extractive technology: built on the proletariat of the neocolonial economies of the global South. Do not look away. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Talk to your friends and family about jury nullification.

slowly moving from "the guillotine was too kind" to "the dispatching of the romanovs was too kind" as each year passes

What 5 Non-Fiction books made the most lasting impression on you? Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Hartman Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Dillard Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, & the Marketing of Gay America, Schulman City Poet: Life & Times of Frank O'Hara, Gooch Talking Back, bell hooks

Escorted over to Ward’s Island this morning #Toronto

On January 24th, my parents home burned down. They and my disabled brother escaped with only minor burns but they lost everything they've ever had. I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!

I can't tell if it is a justified criticism that this novel, set in the Upper Midwest in a low-tech future of social collapse, simply elides the passage of winter (after tracing very clearly spring into summer) or if I'm being, idk, gotcha-cinemasins-insufferable-nerd about this. It bugs me. :/

ICYMI, my interactive poem built in Twine, Block by Frozen Block adeniro.itch.io/block-by-fro...

Responses to the news about Mamdani appointing Stanley Richards to head the city Dept of Corrections Such shittiness here: first the weary know-better "pragmatism", followed by the overt preference for mediated entertainment over anything real. I'm just so sick of this posture of disengagement, ig

The world is awful but also love is real

The second #DavidLynchGameJam is still going until the 24th (Twin Peaks Day)! Join us in making something strange yet beautiful itch.io/jam/david-ly...

It’s always property over people. Kick a car and break a light? You deserve to die.

I feel like I talk about this all the time so im sorry but it still seems like tons of people believe in the idea of 'a site where 100s of millions of people post everyday but also its not run by vc freaks and is secure and moderated and fun' and i just feel like thats over, its never happening

Still haven't seen CPB killings identified as "extrajudicial executions" yet. The ideological regimentation is so thorough

baseball might be the "best" sport. it's like the abstract idea of sport given a terrible maw and beauty

John Ganz vibecoding AI to measure authoritarianism is like something out of Pynchon, if Pynchon sucked. What the actual fuck

Don't you got some corner gas to watch

nothing like an impending weather event to reveal how many Americans never even pause to think that not everyone is there and like them

sometimes I wonder how "immersion" became the sole criterion of quality in online media discussion. I'm just so sick of hearing it.

When I was much younger, I read a ton of baseball lit & fell hard for the whole cornfed (faux-)magical realism. I'm still really susceptible to all of that, but revisiting the field (heh) now is very odd. So many explicit, unexamined assumptions grounded in white supremacy, holy shit.

for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture*, I'm reading lots of baseball lit. This section, from Coover's "McDuff on the Mound" (a riff on "Casey at the Bat" from the pitcher's POV), is so delightful with its sheer pomo ebullience. * trying to write smthg for @s2b2.bsky.social

What the FUCK?

The press practice of relying on the govt to set the narrative is routine enough in the US to normally escape notice, but in an insurrection it looks unmistakably absurd alongside citizen reporting. Running in clown shoes to the cops & the White House to uncritically report back whatever they say.

Bad Bunny opened his concert in Chile Jan. 10 with a tribute to Victor Jara, the singer/songwriter killed during the Pinochet dictatorship. The choice is deliciously pointed, both at Chile's incoming far-right president & at the U.S.'s imperialist authoritarian. www.tiktok.com/@agus.chicot...

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Dessalines was right. Sherman was right.

a shallow understanding of equally shallow sporkings has done as much damage to media literacy as the curtains were blue, I swear. so many people trained to treat any writer freer with words than hemingway as a cringe hedonist committing sins in simile

sleepily hand-feeding the elderly cat, watching the snow sift rapidly down: it's not peace, but the closest I've felt in a while

cat playing a harp, Egypt (c. 1 CE)

At this point *anyone* in any policy position (government, think tank, whatever) should have enough information to understand that anything short of "abolish ICE, punish the ICE agents, severely punish the government putting them to use" is just fascist apologia and assistance.

Overshadowed by Gaza, Venezuela and Iran but US designation of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon as "terrorist organizations" is one of the more blatant and nakedly antidemocratic actions taken by USG abroad in a while.

latest canlit quiz just dropped called "do you see anything wrong with this picture"