there was a Shiba parade in San Francisco and all the shibas wore yukatas it’s too much

Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be https://theonion.com/area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-consti-1819571149/

You are a senator.

Muriel Rukeyser, always but especially today. Full text at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/...

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Unpopular opinion: “look on the bright side” is more about your discomfort than my unhappiness

All I'm saying is whenever you force your brain and body to perform the tricks that you've assigned value, they meet up in secret while you sleep and plan their revenge.

Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.

There’s a pretty robust case to make that the Iran Hostage crisis of 1979, the revolution itself, and the policies of the Iranian government towards the US since, was all blowback from the CIA’s decision to overthrow Mossadegh in 1953. www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/p...

Me frantically making calls trying to make sure the email my team sent lands right

It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.

Mary Oliver 🩷

If we're going to start using the word "politics" to mean "deeply held value systems and ideas about the purpose/value of human life," can we abolish phrases like "just politics" and "let's not bring politics into this"? One's bedrock concept of the very meaning of life is not... like... optional.

Scientists have used artificial intelligence to create an enzyme that can eat one of the toughest plastics on Earth. The enzyme breaks polyurethane down into reusable chemicals in just 12 hours at 50°C, turning it back into raw materials. Truly circular recycling. buff.ly/oUxRjjl #ShareGoodNewsToo

Dip the rim of your January Monday in orange juice and then in sugar. You can't go into this thing without reinforcements.

*looking around* hey what’s with all these dead canaries ohhhhhhh

Everybody every single day in January

From W.H. Auden's September 1, 1939

When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?

1st Movement of Elgar's Cello Concerto as performed by cellist Jacqueline Du Pre with Daniel Barenboim conducting the London Philharmonic in 1967. 🎶🎧🗃️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUgd...

Managers: “This meeting could have been an email!” Also managers: *does not read email*

They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.

receive an email. send an email. receive an email. send an email. one must imagine sisyphus happy

I understand that it is what it is, but hear me out…what if it could be what it isn’t?

Man when JCO is on she is ON

An excellent article

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

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😍 I did not know this existed!

Oh this is me

Happy "panic ordering a new Halloween costume bc your child changed their mind again" week to all who celebrate

A great reminder

my therapist: sometimes you simply have to experience an emotion instead of thinking about it me, nodding sagely: and then it goes away therapist: well not necessarily me, shaking my head furiously: no, I don't like that

“You should grow a thicker skin.” Maybe. But maybe I like that my thin skin reminds me to move gently through the world.

Wednesday!!!! If you're an East Bay person who's missed all my San Francisco events, you can come see me along with some truly incredible authors, no need to cross the bay! <3

Got my performance review.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

I want to be brave warrior snail but I’m afraid I am actually anxiety owl

Being in your 40s is fun because you start feeling like shit and you’re like am I dying? Is it perimenopause? Or did I just forget to drink water again?

What I call Serfdom of the Self is when our identities, attention, and even emotions become dependent on digital systems we don’t control. We hand over more of our inner lives to these systems, and in return they decide the conditions of our existence.

When you were down, what helped you through?

I hope this is true

Why is email an infinite firehose vortex of certain doom? 😞

Shoutout to unmasking and discovering you’re kind of mean lol

Rn I need a little seasonal cafe called Sweater Weather where the AC is absolutely cranked and there’s crunchy leaves on the floor and the coffee is hot and delicious and there’s a little menu of really good soups and fresh bread and everyone’s talking about what they’re gonna do for Halloween

i write poems so that i don't withdraw from the world. or abandon myself. or lose all hope. or think clumsily. or feel imprecisely. or forget my own gentleness, or the possibiity of it

sie haben ein buch über mich geschrieben

I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved. —Louise Glück