All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”

WELCOME TO THE DRACULA PAPRIKA DISCOURSE!! (meme from tumblr, not my own, original link seems to be dead now)

Here are next year's books and the dates on which we'll be discussing them The selections constellate around challenge, both in the text and irl. In addition to other lenses, we'll discuss if and why we believe the work has been subject to bans or challenges app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal...

California? The best? Tell me you're strung out on another man without telling me you're strung out on another man

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

Planning for three to see Merrily We Roll Along but it might end up just being two of us which would be like meta cosplay

Stop interviewing CEOs

Starting January I'm gonna be hosting a zoom/twitch book discussion? Pencil in every third Tuesday and start reading David Levithan's Two Boys Kissing More details to follow

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

@mobydickatsea.bsky.social has swears! They've used 70 profanities in their last 2,863 posts. 🥇 "dick" (35 times) 🥈 "hell" (11 times) 🥉 "damn" (5 times)

Public libraries often have shelves of new additions to the collection. This is a super great place to browse. Digital collections can be sorted by release date or date added for the same effect I've encountered a huge proportion of the most interesting things I've read the past few years this way

We watched some great canadian baking show and one host referred to another's commentary as "hosty" and I was like what you can't say that on canadian television wtf

Great example of how fucked up public education is. It's important to me to be well read and stay informed but even so I'm actually only hearing about this for the first time today

Because I love an establishing shot: "Uncomplicated" Blood and Chocolate, Elvis Costello "Every Single Night" The Idler Wheel..., Fiona Apple "Day Without End" Ultimate Success Today, Protomartyr "My Name is Prince" O(+>, Prince "Pop Song 89" Green, R.E.M.

From Hard Words, For Karl and Jean by Ursula K Le Guin Consider / the lovely devices of living / to which we are driven, driven.

what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it

*seeing a Detroit legend is about to rise out of the stage behind Jack White* please be Robocop

DO HARM TO YOUR ENEMIES; TREAT YOURSELF WITH KINDNESS!

Honey I hope you can

Publishers and corporations can be exploitative, absolutely; IP law is objectionable on several fundamental grounds, fully agree; a system of universal basic income would be better for artists, I'm on board - but until those changes are in place we're talking about stealing

he’s the creator of Flask. he’s literally the creator of Django. you dipshits he invented Zoop. better watch how you talk to the actual inventor of Peebo

e v e n w h e n I r u n I ' m c r a w l i n g youtu.be/AwO3QD0zja8?...

Tight squeeze in Segovia Tight squeeze in Segovia Tight squeeze in Segovia Tight squeeze in Segovia (to the tune of "Pico & Sepulveda")

When me and my comrades in the War on Cars finally track down Gary Numan

*spins this chair around* I heard you kids love getting "all bricked up," so you'll love The Cask of Amontillado.

Okay I set up Storygraph I had a bad time with Goodreads becoming homework, so I'm probably never going to track what I'm reading as I read it I'll probably just update monthly But I took the library's data and have a largely complete 2025 so far app.thestorygraph.com/profile/cuba...

Quick someone do "Dilaudid" with "Tomorrow Never Knows" drums

what's repugnant is the ethics not the "deviant" sex what's repugnant is the ethics not the "deviant" sex what's repugnant is the ethics not the "deviant" sex what's repugnant is the ethics not the "deviant" sex what's repugnant is the ethics not the "deviant" sex what's repugnant is the ethics not

A book club with relative strangers is fun because they'll bring up books people in your circles have never mentioned, like On Human Bondage But because they're relative strangers and do not know your mother is (somewhat recently) dead they will issue you no warnings So, yeah

I dunno if I've played too many games or if I've played them too earnestly, but the thirty seconds I spent with jmail are among the most uncomfortable I can remember

Lmao no shit man

Had no idea that thicc Superman predated George Reeves by 11 years

(I think I made you up inside my head) could be a rallying cry for either side

Library has a dessert competition at holiday party and I'm iterating on a labyrinth cookie idea (one of our branches has a circular labyrinth)

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

Alanis made a career out of reckoning with "Too Hot" (etc) so I'm not mad that "Jail Bait" exists. The trajectory from there is what actually matters

Aloooooo-ooooo-oooo-oooooone

Gonna tell my kids this was The Dispossessed

A guy makes ONE tiny mistake (has a years-long friendship with the world's worst sex trafficker; brags about sexually harassing colleagues; is racist; says women are stupid) and his whole LIFE is blown up (does slightly fewer speaking engagements; keeps teaching at #1 university)??!?!?!?!?!

A true Wolf Blitzer situation

Oh what he does to me When he makes love to me And he says don't worry, baby It's not a worm

I am going to lose my goddamn mind

there is room in the tent for MtG but we didn’t bring a lot of extra tokens and +1/+1 counters so please bring your own

Genuinely not certain what this is doing on a holiday record but please don't let that stop you I listened through the piano bit and was like wow good job but then holy shit man youtu.be/oikuB242wOI?...

The actual core twitter experience has survived

Quick somebody recut the Metroid trailer with "Love Vigilantes" for a soundtrack

Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators

Does the Hungry Tiger of Oz count? If so