"Digital Bath" is a classic, but don't sleep on "Street Carp" and "Knife Prty".

Today's car music has been decided.

I’m marking undergraduate creative writing at the moment, so reading the supposedly AI story ‘The Serpent in the Grove’ was a familiar experience. I've been reading it, in their work, all week. It makes you despair, but it's also fascinating for what it tells us about literary fiction as a genre.

The United States government just agreed to pay $1.8 billion to the United States president, approved by the president's own personal lawyer who represented him when he was convicted of 34 criminal counts. This is the biggest scandal in all of American political history.

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

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Respect For Friend Drops After Reading Book They Recommended

Trump Requests $1.2 Trillion To Have https://bit.ly/3RjdlH1

The plot accrues More corruption ensues.

because it's not often emphasized in Oklahoma, it's always a good time to point out that the Karen Silkwood story is an organized labor story: thread:

Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. (George Eliot - Middlemarch; Book One, Chapter One)

Apparently, I'm a social democrat...

This website shows you what your browser is leaking about you. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

faith in humanity restored

This ain't it.

Sweden is a banger.

Name ten bands/musicians you've obsessed over at some point :🎶 Pink Floyd Can Sonic Youth David Bowie Bill Callahan Swans Dory Previn Scott Walker Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Wild Billy Childish

Books lists? You want book lists? Here’s the only one you need today: my rundown of the International Booker Prize shortlist in today’s Guardian, ahead of Tuesday’s winner announcement. Accept no substitutes. In print (in abbreviated form) today, online soon.

1. Owen Glendower (Powys) 2. Lanark (Gray) 3. The Tunnel (Gass) 4. Infinite Jest (Wallace) 5. Mason&Dixon (Pynchon) #BookSky💙📚 My top 30 then, in no order of preference. @cjdonnelly72.bsky.social @gingerworrier.bsky.social

Proof of time travel - that these terracotta sculptures from Romania are 7000 years old and not from the early-to-mid 20th century Yes yes I know Neolithic art was a big influence on modernism but it’s rare to see examples where the route seems so…direct? Had never seen these before!

It's interesting that The Catcher in the Rye is not on such a list. Also, what about Mark Twain?

So that Guardian book list...any surprises? Any alarms?

On the left is an Onion headline from March. On the right is Reuters, today.

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One of the unreservedly good things of 2026 is @schuneke.bsky.social new book on lesbian women in Nazi Germany. I Will Not Abandon You is a tremendous work of history, deeply researched, original, modest, and refreshing. A 🧵

Tomorrow, we have an exclusive interview with a very special guest. Introducing... Tom Holland talks to Paul McCartney

Hey @jd-vance-1.bsky.social dont you want to visit Germany for a little bit of campaigning?

I listened to Songs of Faith and Devotion for the first time yesterday.

I should really and then I have to there's so much I but first love #TankaThursday #NaTankaMonth #micropoetry #tanka #poetrysky

"Get a collection of the short stories of Chekhov and read every one. Then read 'Youth' by Joseph Conrad. I’m not suggesting that you do these things. I am ordering you to do them."

Thomas Stockett's Baltimore Afro-American cartoon on the Voting Rights Act, August 1965.

: An Illustrated History of Urban Legends (2024). www.tumblr.com/vintagerpg/8...

Connections Puzzle #1069 🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟪🟦🟨🟩 🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Phew. I can't remember having such a comeback.

In the Night Kitchen, 1970 by Meowrice Sendak

This is about baseball - no no don’t leave - but also about people, and America, and is both very funny and informative

Good morning with Stevie.

And I can make it more complicated. - Yanyi’s Catallus 85

I just la-la-love The Handsome Family. I mean: This is why people OD on pills And jump from the Golden Gate Bridge Anything to feel weightless again ~The Handsome Family - Weightless Again

Cover and interior illustrations for the @subpress.bsky.social edition of Queen Demon by Martha Wells, sequel to Witch King!

Every second headline nowadays reads as if we're already living the Dystopia.

Never ceases to amaze me.

This is stellar. She is so good at this.

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

[🧵] Eve Babitz (13. Mai 1943 – 17. Dezember 2021) und Marcel Duchamp 1963 im Pasadena Museum of Art beim Schach. 1/7

The Guardian launches its '100 best novels of all time' list, with numbers 100-81. I was one of the 172 authors, critics and academics polled. Afaik, two of my ten choices made the final cut, one in this first tranche:

Today's word of the day: long johns = long underwear