Not only is @apnews.com attending the White House correspondents dinner, they invited one of the Trump staffers who kicked them out of the press pool as their guest. This is all so wrong. apnews.com/article/whit...

Pay attention to the look on the woman’s face as the question is being asked.🤣 That’s the look of a woman who can’t wait to write a book.🤣

Other people's prose: "So many things feed forgetting and undermine memory, including news that reports the events of the moment without the context that gives them coherence by showing the patterns into which they fit." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social from "The Beginning Comes After the End"

RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'" Trump: "Right"

This feels like one of those rules that has a ... very specific ... genesis.

Watts Theatre Osage, IA

hint nothing

That's a lot of misconduct to squeeze into a year. I can understand why the secretary had to get her family involved.

If you don’t believe we are in a bubble you are in denial

Reading Didion's "Notes to John," a journal she kept while undergoing psychotherapy. At one point, she says, "I'm not good at communication," which is both ridiculous and completely believable. (Needless to say, she does not sound like a great parent.)

So many bangers from @colsonwhitehead.com — “Studies show that overreliance on these digital tools causes cognitive decline, but if current events are any indication, nobody’s making much of a contribution anyway. Go ahead and use A.I. however you like.”

“Why is it that the most vocal cheerleaders of generative A.I. are always the hackiest motherfreakers around?” Love u @colsonwhitehead.com

the fact that he’s using it for propaganda makes me regret ever painting this

samuel beckett was born on this day 120 years ago. astonishing to think that if he had survived, and could run 100m in 9.57 seconds, he would be not only the oldest but also the fastest man in the world - together with his nobel prize for literature, an astonishing trifecta

Just came across this and they may have a point...

Remembering Wilma Mankiller, the first woman elected Principal Chief of the #Cherokee Nation, who died #OTD in 2010. Mankiller was known for her accomplishments in education, healthcare, and government reform. #NativeAmerican www.wilmamankiller.com/#Cherokee#OTD#NativeAmerican/2)

learning that astronauts have to use microsoft outlook in space is unspeakably depressing. we have set microsoft outlook free from the bounds of earth. polluting the stars with that janky piece of shit

As true today as it was yesterday.

i’m glad the Supreme Court said what we’ve all been thinking: lawyers should be in charge of medicine

🇫🇷 #JeudiPhoto | Quand le vertige commence sur le parvis ! 🌐 When the vertigo begins on my esplanade! #VertigedelaTour 👉www.toureiffel.paris/fr/actualites/evenements/le-vertige-de-la-tour-fait-son-grand-retour

CITIZEN KANE is more fun than any great movie I can think of, and it's also a rare example of a movie that seems better today than when it first came out. (1967)

how is this real

"I did not say that writing ought to make everything clearer, but instead makes everything worse; what I said was that writing makes everything clearer and worse." —Franz Kafka, in a letter to Felice Bauer

Thought it was an @theonion.com headline for a split second.

Flexible, 1984 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5281

it’s 100% true.

participants from Benin's Vodun Day Festival, celebrated every January 10th.

Once you know the formula for narrative non-fiction it’s hard to enjoy reading it tbh because it’s often just watching a story check off bullet points in a specific order. Some people are great at making it feel organic but many, many people are not.

This is a dreadful sentence.

My mom drunk falls into the chair https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/mumon-drunk-falls-into-the-chair-1940

You have no employment for me?

The thing about journalism that even people in the industry don't always understand is that the only hard part is having ethics, and that part is very hard indeed.

I guess NBC doesn’t believe in ghosts.

Jeff Bezos’s yacht has its own yacht.

I’ve managed to write about movies for a lifetime without ever writing about the Academy Awards. That’s a great source of pride. (1998)

South Africa has been an obsession of President Trump, who has seized upon the claim by right-wing groups that white South Africans, particularly farmers, are victims of an ongoing genocide. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

My first byline in @theguardian.com on how the Quapaw Nation has revitalized their contaminated land so it can used for agriculture.

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

One of my favorite artists.

“The Emperor’s New Shoes”

It's all three, but there's also something else: weak, atrophied brains. Typos are one thing but elite messages go beyond that, they show an inability to communicate beyond mere urges and feelings, and the reason they can't communicate beyond those is because they can't think through those.

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Someone should make a different movie where a playwright abandons their family after a family tragedy & then their grief-stricken spouse attends the play and realizes it wasn’t worth it because the play is terrible

From the AP story this is based on: apnews.com/article/suic...

The memory of the righteous is a blessing

this made it past an editor, good lord

Most shocking part of this story? The man who lives here is NOT single.

After Warner Bros. deal, Paramount's debt has been downgraded to junk status Basically, the ratings agency thinks the combined entity faces a ton of competition & there's a risk the entire enterprise fails -- debt attached to it is therefore high-risk www.wsj.com/business/med...