"Mother Octopus is broad reaching in scope, cyclical and regenerative like an ecosystem..." @asavagewriter.bsky.social delves into the ecosystem of Sara Giragosian's Mother Octopus on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

Substack users, this option is OFF by default. If you do NOT want your publication to be used to train AI, open your publication, go to Settings > Publication details and switch it on.

Look at @thesusanito.bsky.social go!! Congratulations, Susan! www.pw.org/content/page...

The Onion asked young adults why they were such prudes when it came to their viewing habits, and this is what they said.

The Onion is legit killing it these days www.theonion.com/americans-tr...

"The problem is the human finger. Fingers are too well-engineered to fit around the trigger of an assault weapon. On other planets, life forms have fingers with no joints that are only straight. You don’t hear about gun violence on any of those planets."

A fun game is to think about this cumulative suffering and lost talent inflicted by sexism against women around the world, across the eons of human life, and slowly sink into an awed horror and grief from which you can’t emerge for a whole afternoon.

Do crocodiles move toward the sound of a crying baby because they want to eat it, or help it? Re-upping this story for the afternoon crew, who I trust will actually read it (and learn how crocodiles and alligators are amazing parents) before mocking me! 🧪

Brilliant novelist Madeline Miller writing about her experience with long covid—and the increasingly stigmatized fight to avoid reinfection. Real heart-smasher. https://wapo.st/3s1vP2i

“When I was eight a prostitute came to live in our pool house. I use that term—“prostitute”—because that was what she called herself. Her name was Nan.” New Jamie Quatro in the New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/07/yogurt-days-fiction-jamie-quatro