Lester’s monologue to McNulty in season 3 is my favorite part of the entire series. “A life, Jimmy. You know what that is? It’s the shit that happens while you wait for moments that never come.”

"Frankly he can go fuck himself" sounds so easy in French

The historians will call the Trump presidencies the end of the American century.

- Pace yourself - don’t go too crazy - no fedposting - stay on top of regulating your nervous system - act local - find people who’ve been doing the work and ask how you can help - tend to the myriad biological needs we need as confused little apes - give grace to dysregulated people on your side

If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.

As called by Kent Pavelka & Jeff Smith on the Nebraska Cornhuskers Radio Network:

Connections Puzzle #1015 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Current streak: 6 (for the first time!) Solve rate: 58%, approaching 60.

Elemente des autoritär-fascho Playbooks: Feindbilder etablieren (Minderheiten) ✅ Lügen statt Fakten ins Feld führen ✅ Unsagbares in Sprache bringen („Remigration“ …) ✅ Loyalität über Kompetenz (Spahn, Reiche…) ✅ Kulturkampf (Weimer) ✅ Institutionen delegitimieren oder handlungsunfähig machen:

And O she was the Sunday In every week. - "The Planter's Daughter" - Austin Clarke That years of love have been forgot In the fever of a minute - "To M-" - Edgar Allan Poe What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? - "Anthem For Doomed Youth" - Wilfred Owen

The surface of a slate-grey lake is lit By the earthed lightning of a flock of swans - "Postscript" - Seamus Heaney We dreamed that a great painter had been born To cold Clare rock and Galway rock and thorn - "In Memory Of Major Robert Gregory" - WB Yeats

Happy #worldpoetryday! Feel free to add more lines to this post.

Happy #worldpoetryday! Some Gregory Orr.

42% prefer drinking bleach to drinking water.

The King is mad

American tech oligarchs are the strongest argument against unregulated capitalism

This will be the lecture of my LIFE! Next Thursday at the Boston Athenaeum: COMMON SENSE at 250. Washington’s copy will be on display. It’s sold out (!!!) but will be posted online afterwards for everyone to see.

Getting the hang of it. #connections

It's one of those days.

"I am still reading the book ..." #bookhistory

Much phew. Wordle 1,733 6/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

UPDATE ON THE HORMUZ COALITION (Mon, March 16): 🇫🇷 France: REJECTED 🇬🇧 UK: REJECTED 🇮🇹 Italy: REJECTED 🇪🇸 Spain: REJECTED 🇯🇵 Japan: REJECTED 🇳🇴 Norway: REJECTED 🇨🇦 Canada: REJECTED 🇦🇺 Australia: REJECTED 🇩🇪 Germany: REJECTED 🇨🇳 China: NO RESPONSE 🇳🇱 Netherlands: NO RESPONSE 🇰🇷 South Korea: NO CONFIRMATION

You've got to see it to believe it. Triumphant.

Sad to see the Ides of March becoming commercialised like this. I really feel like we're losing track of the true spirit of the holiday. It's not about how many knives you can stick in a tyrant all at once, it's about the whole community coming together to stab the tyrant as many times as possible.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor in Wiesbaden tonight!

Richard Brautigan #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

Germany is today facing a constitutional crisis. Apparently the Grundgesetz was only legally valid during Habermas’s lifetime and has now lapsed. No one is sure whether any laws still apply.

The Shaw Memorial Window at Paisley Abbey. John Clark. 1989. #stainedglassSundays

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“Fuck! I’m dying!” during a press conference. “Fuck! I’m fucking dying! Oh God, it hurts! Ahhhhhhh!” Trump said in response to a question about the ongoing war in Iran

June and I had an idea for a bumper sticker and now it exists in real life

Could this be it?

New James Blake album.

Death throes of the republic.

Just walked by a colleague's classroom after my class finished and he was talking about Elvis, getting blank stares and so he had to ask "Does anyone know who Elvis Presley is?" It's rough out here on these teaching streets.

Nothing against a fun prompt but in reality you have to account for the possibility of resurgence. If The Cure had quit while they were ahead we wouldn't have gotten Songs of a Lost World last year. If Bob Dylan had quit before Empire Burlesque we wouldn't have Time Out of Mind. You never know!

Alysa Liu shares the political issues she cares about most: “Climate, election things, Black Lives Matter, Stop Asian Hate, ICE protests... More empathy needs to happen, for sure.” Interview: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

TONIGHT, BALTIMORE! #AWP2026 7-9pm 🎉🎉🎉

Perfect indie track, here we come.

Perfect indie track, here we come.

If you wait another day, I will wait a day. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Agnes, Queen of Sorrow

“Trans children are perfect.”

Eternity and a Day

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country. The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...

Fascinated that Madonna - arguably 80s pop's greatest icon - doesn't appear in the decade's top 50 most streamed songs. (Cyndi Lauper has two.) Is she dropping off the cultural radar?