I worry sometimes that my response to AI might merely be regressive or reactionary and then every day I read shit like this and I think, no, I’m correct, these people have become completely untethered from the reality the rest of us share.

Eat your heart out, Hemingway

In recognition of the anniversary of Billie Holiday’s death on this day in 1959, here’s my second favorite poem of all time, “The Day Lady Died” by Frank O'Hara. (After you read this, go listen to her music for a few hours. Your day will be better for it.)

If we’d speak more ill of the dead, maybe it would remind the living not to be assholes.

Hey, fellas, before you write that white hot take about how rape is such a tricky thing and, I mean, who can really say what happened and, you know, maybe we should not be too judgmental, I'd like to remind you that instead you can simply shut the fuck up.

I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.

ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

The White House is openly saying they want to eliminate a minority group and people still want to say this is about sports.

if you're trans, you have to live. one day you can live to see these guys all die.

Irina Ratushinskaya didn’t scratch her poems into a bar of soap with a matchstick, memorize them and wash away her forbidden work as a political prisoner in a Soviet labor camp for you to tell me AI is "inevitable"

Democratic voters prefer politicians who are ready, willing and able to fight. Where incumbents fail that test, voters will look to replace them with politicians who will actually fight. That's it. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

It will never not be mind boggling that these demons’ worldview is that a new technology and the money it rakes in for them is more important than the literal planet we live on. It genuinely makes no sense to me.

I’ve hated Alexi Lalas for over thirty years and this is both the smartest and funniest explanation of why you should also hate him any of us are likely to ever read. It’s perfect sports journalism. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Everyone this man has hired has a name that you would make up in a panic at an improv show.

The three players in this photo: 1. Nigerian heritage, grew up in England, and is only a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship. 2. Born + raised in Holland, has a dad who immigrated to the US from Suriname. 3. Said he wanted to “make people who look like me proud” while playing on Juneteenth

Fuck RFK Jr. forever and ever. May he die a lonely, painful death. Failing that, may the earth one day open to swallow him whole and suck him down to whatever hell will have him.

I would happily give up an appendage to go back to when I read to my kids every night. These fucking ghouls don't understand how human connection works.

It is genuinely hard for me to fathom being this incurious about the world. But to be this incurious about the world yet feel compelled to write about it? Mind boggling levels of cognitive dissonance.

Bigots are gonna bigot

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

This makes me miss my Great Dane. I laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes. 🤣😂😂😭😭 #GreatDane

has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/...

This is a staggeringly good line.

That’s not manhood, NPR, it’s bigotry. Homophobia, transphobia, misogyny—take your pick, it’s what all of these awful remarks are. While that has everything to do with patriarchy, it’s got little to do with manhood.

Ben’s doing wonderful things with @pizamapress.bsky.social and I’m super excited to see it succeed into another year of weird, wonderful books! You should go buy one or both of these! (And maybe grab last year’s Disintegration Made Plain and Easy, too, because it’s a banger of a poetry collection!)

My god. Imagine being this fragile about your own masculinity and this big of a misogynist at the same time? Boggles the mind.

Oh, I absolutely do not trust you, Slack, not even a little bit, not even—especially not—when you use cutesy language instead of actual details of what fresh AI hell you’re no doubt subjecting me to.

I am so profoundly tired of these spineless centrist democrats either being too stupid to understanding the moment or understanding it just fine but being too weak to step up. They can all go get fucked.

This dog was a three term mayor of Whoville.

Every day the US legal system’s out here ensuring it’s just Calvinball all the way down

i remember learning "there is no silver bullet" in my cs classes and it's bleakly hilarious that all tech speculation now is "what if we made a silver bullet? we will add the line 'you are the silver bullet' to claude's code"

Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Ah shit, Gerry Conway died. He created the punisher & was very outspoken in saying "if you're a cop who wears a punisher logo, frank castle fucking HATES you." He said the punisher only existed because of a fatally flawed system, & so those most harmed by that system have more claim to the symbol:

This post from @ky.fyi about AI burnout and their place in tech resonates so deeply with me and articulates so much more clearly (and with copious anecdotal receipts!) what I was getting at last month with my bit of moaning below. ky.fyi/posts/ai-bur...

OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...

My therapist says: 'Don't look away' does not mean 'constantly stare at' Happy Friday. We will win.

Love, love, love this pro-em dash/anti-AI abbreviation tooltip on @kittygiraudel.com’s Interactive Cover Component blog post. They’ll have to pry the em dash from my cold, dead hands. 🔗 kittygiraudel.com/2026/04/09/a...

All of my political views and policy ideas have basically collapsed to "Punish the Villains" and I mumble it to myself every time I see a news article these days

Tonight’s Jeopardy! episode was so incredibly intense. My 11 year old was pacing during final while repeating, “Jamie will get this. Jamie will get this.” 😂

It’s really fucking excellent when it doesn’t get dark at 3:00 in the afternoon. One could get used to this whole “sunshine” thing.

The world is objectively shit, but Jamie Ding’s current run on Jeopardy! is an uncomplicated source of daily joy.

Been in line with my 15 year old for three hours now at Music Millennium for Record Store Day. We’re almost to the door. If they don’t get the record they’re hoping for I fear tears. Mine and theirs both.

The Butthole Surfers are culture

I am not being hyperbolic or glib when I say I do not want to live in this world.

I saw the best minds of my generation produce high quality content for startups that laid them off on a zoom call

Yet again: reading long form fiction and nonfiction widely and frequently helps with this. The primary conversation around so many canonical texts from Paradise Lost to Lolita is exactly this. That the majority of Americans don’t read is a problem that touches so many aspects of our lives.

He’s not wrong. This place I live is pretty easy on the eyes.

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.