Honestly this meeting could have been a Google assistant recap of an Apple Intelligence summary of an auto generated outlook email reply that I haven’t figured out how to disable yet

True. "Did you have a happy childhood or are you funny?"

coming out of retirement for a bit this month: i’ll be reading next week 4/7 in Santa Fe for the Prroblem Press series at No Name. #poetry

The TikTok girlies (gender neutral) are hatching a plan to all buy copies of communion by hooks on Vance's release date. I will be participating.

The snag is: You have to knit the fox-emblazoned cardigan Ryan Gosling wears in “Project Hail Mary” yourself. on.wsj.com/4sOSucn

youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4?... #poetry

It’s hard to make a living as a writer: fellowship money dries up, freelance rates keep dropping, and book advances aren’t what they used to be. Our new issue features a forum on the side hustles that journalists, novelists, and poets take on to survive.

Freedom of ‘76 kind of morning youtu.be/WCGcsK1_agE?...

Spain invested heavily in clean energy over the last 6 years. Now, as gas prices rise, Spain has some of the lowest electricity costs on the continent. In August 2025, Spain used zero coal — just 10 years ago it powered 25% of the country. This is what energy independence actually looks like. 🌎

shoutout to the first monk who was like nah dawg i'm gonna use this paper for baking cookies

I do love the way that Irish libraries have continued to integrate into society. This v impressive stand is in one of Dublin’s main hospitals, Tallaght, in the West of the capital.

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026...

Retweet to save a life, this problem comes up a lot for everyone and Ben finally has a solution

from the “also reading” file b/c in common time #poetry month is right around the corner #booksky the descent of Alette by Alice Notley & The inferno of Dante (trans. Pinsky)

Check out this incredibly talented magpie. For about ten minutes, it channelled a seagull, a ruru🦉, a dog, an electronic car key, a car alarm, a human voice, the Android alert tone😂📱and more – most of which you can hear in this clip. Quardle, ardle, oodle, wardle and furthermore, doodle. Amazing!🤩

📚currently reading: What We Can Know by Ian McEwan #booksky

Prediction markets are, at their core, a service for doing financial arbitrage on our eroded information environment, or a sort of derivative market for reality. 😵‍💫

Regardless of how you feel about the quality of LLM-generated code, it's not more important than a literal city.

Congress members are massively failing us and the USA as an institutional ideal they swore to uphold. And I want to be clear on that. This threat, if nothing else so far, is and should be grounds for immediate impeachment and removal. Playtime was over a long a fucking time ago.

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i’d try it

🌱 #gardening 😬

it’s a Vampire Blues kinda morning youtu.be/fn27aTInqBM?...

Japan’s defense minister says the nation currently has no plans to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz after Trump put pressure on Tokyo to do so ahead of a summit meeting with Takaichi later this week.

Australia will not send naval ships to assist in reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a government minister said. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Jack Dorsey is copying the 2023 leadership framework: - overhire - lay everyone off - pretend it's because of AI productivity gains - stock go up The layoff victims were some of the most productive, AI-pilled people in the company, but it didn't save them, because that's not what it was about.

SPOTTED IN NASHVILLE…

WHAT IF YOU JUST READ A FUCKING BOOK

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

remember when the scuttlebutt was that lady whining at the grizzly bear about her canoe?

i’m still stuck on “Markwayne” is that like “Billybob”?

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

daaaaaammmmn

At the bottom of the Substack settings page, under "Danger Zone," you can turn off all subscriptions at once. Apologies to all my friends on Substack. I'd gritted my teeth and supported you because I love your work. But Substack's partnership with Polymarket is the last straw for me.

Good thing to remember online right now is that everyone here is very emotionally dysregulated and dealing with that by posting

so caught up in who bought zorro ranch didn’t even think abt who bought up cormac’s library #newmexico

apparently i wrote a pantoum in may 2025 titled “May 2025” and it’s not half bad!

The military is moving to an off-the-self model. Where instead of asking for bids for a thing they want purpose-built, they’re just buying commercial products then trying to adapt them to their needs as a way to move faster with evolution of technology.

every mystery of the sloppy joe revealed! i debunk its connection to ernest hemingway! we discuss the loosemeat sandwiches of iowa! the fashion movement around "sloppy joe" sweaters ca. 1940! the french concept of "nostalgia for the mud"! buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Democrats to introduce bill aimed at resurrecting IRS Direct File

Allergies should be a part of movies & novels. Red, watery eyes, congestion. The annoyance that your 12 hour meds stopped working at hour 9 so you don’t get enough sleep. Blowing your nose every 3-8 minutes. Wondering if your baby has allergies.

The pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.

i am here for this sudden interest in the us beef/cattle industry. a good place to start: michaelpollan.com/articles-arc...

gotta love a good PDF

The Morrígan, Irish war goddess, was particularly irritated by mansplaining on the battlefield.

It’s time to turn the Epstein files into the Epstein trials. - Rep. Andrea Romero, Chair of the NM Epstein Truth Commission

Submissions for this year's Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize, for writers who are incarcerated or formerly incarcerated, are open! The prize honors my sister, who died tragically in 2020 after many years in & out of incarceration. Please help us spread the word.❤️ truthout.org/articles/kee...

Here we are.