settle down you had me at pasta

i am digging this daily email

Will share more later, but for now, an announcement: "Meeting the Moment: Political Poetry and the Anthemic Impulse" is open for registration now. An *asynchronous* class sharing questions, tactics, examples, etc. that have been useful to me. More info: guante.info/meetingthemoment

oh this glorious interview with the author & illustrator about one spread in Last Stop on Market Street slate.com/culture/2025...

Minnesota just earned a AAA bond rating - that’s basically an 850 credit score for the state, thanks to responsible budgeting and strong fiscal management. Our employers added 5,900 jobs in August - beating the national average. A bet against Minnesota is a bad bet.

all these pet services email lists making me click on I NO LONGER HAVE A PET to unsubscribe

My contribution to the niche Redford takes: The man was a titan of the afternoon thriller. www.npr.org/2025/09/16/n...

is nate bargatze hiding in a cave for a while

Not every book needs to live forever on your bookshelves, and ebooks are ideal for, among other people, readers who need to enlarge typefaces so they can actually see the text. Stop being such freaking snobs about it.

not gonna learn about groypers you can’t make me

It absolutely matters here that Pritzker was effective at sounding the alarm and plainly stating this would be unconstitutional in a profoundly radical and fundamental way, and showing he could rally practical popular opposition, which then gets spun as backing out over "legal headaches."

why must sabalenka perform a one-woman play about dismay at every damn lost point why

ANISIMOVAAAAAA

If you’re going to the final, there’s only one solution to this, and that’s to boo him so loudly they hear you in Sacramento

no Carlos no

huge tactical move in my battle against mindless scrolling surely i shall now vanquish my foe

O Carlos my Carlos #USOpenTennis

don't think i have ever liked watching a tennis player less than i do aryna sabalenka. the display of dismay at EVERY point lost, like each one is a terrible unfairness delivered upon her. and the screaming celebration as if she has vanquished a civilization

Every fourth woman used to be tiny. Not anymore, thanks to woke

Yes we know

tfw you have sustained a concussion & subsequently per doctor’s orders have not looked at email, or read or watched anything, & have avoided bright light for 3 days & are ready now for a big excursion down to the lobby to get your mail, & are allowing yourself 1 minute of screen time to post this

Sending love and care to all my Minneapolis beloveds today 💔❤️✊🏼

w/o downloading anything new, where are you mentally

thank you to Milwaukee’s socialist mayors for building and protecting our publicly accessible lakefront for generations to come

wanna marry this weather

completely forgot I had put a hold on a book with that title & was like what spam strategy is this

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

all my life women have treated me like being me is their worst nightmare and then tried to hastily pretend that it wasn’t an insult joke’s on you, if you have never had the approval of men it costs you nothing to lose it and then you’re free

🚨 neko case on wtf podcast today 🚨

Never a bad time to remind everyone you know that Trump ran on making things more affordable. Instead he imposes new & crushing taxes through his tariffs—and makes the largest cuts to health care EVER, while ensuring higher premiums for everyone.

it's going to take a while for it to not feel pointless to go for a walk without my dear Betsy 😢

Holy hell. NYT raves don’t get any better: “A thunderous gallop of a war novel, a new classic, a best-in-class example of speculative fiction. Mysterious and full of grace, rambling and ducking and shifting for 285 dizzying, blood-soaked, astonishing pages.”

I am deeply sad to share the news that my darling Betsy girl died peacefully yesterday. We loved each other well, and the size of her absence is hard to put into words 💔

This is such a beautiful thread and was so exactly what I meant, and I'm so over the moon that it was helpful in any way-- and here are some other ideas if you want some:

A fun thing about American politics is that more people voted in New York City in a June primary than live in five states that get two senators.

are you flippin kidding me new yorker

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

(being carried along on the tide of history) well

Bluesky when something funny happens

the oracle of Fleece Mountain awaits your inquiry

I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

new Dambo troll in Wauwatosa

The Pope took the photo on the The Replacements’ Let It Be. The Pope broke up Tom Arnold and David Carr fighting across the street from the CC Club over some blow. The Pope and Prince met birding at Eloise Butler. The Pope was the sound guy for the first Doomtree Blowout at the Varsity.

this morning’s configuration

a raccoon and a bat had a baby named Betsy and she lives in my apartment

i am confused

HOW poisonous is the green bit of potato underneath the skin?

Obsessed w this video of Vinny Thomas (vin_ayy) doing an impression of the cardinal who got third place at the conclave