Liberals when candidates defend trans people: "We can't do this, it's too unpopular." Liberals when candidates have a nazi ss tattoo: "it's ok, not all candidates are perfect." Do y'all hear yourselves?!

Crunchy left hip probably due to ridiculously heavy shoulder bag usually carried on right shoulder. I hate a backpack in the winter with a coat... but maybe I need to figure it out.

#wxpn #xpnCountdown #CoverSongs How are people handling albums? Jennifer Warnes' Famous Blue Raincoat? The Commitments? A Life Aquatic? My list is all Aretha Franklin right now. I don't know how to proceed!

#WXPNWhatsTheFrequency has me stuck in the car, unwilling to turn off Jeff Buckley's "Lilac Wine"

Why do we reserve tree skirts for Christmas? Don't trees want to be cute other times of the year?

A. This isn’t what learning is and B. Sadly more and more classes are being pushed in this direction as class sizes go through the roof because states and universities refuse to invest in their faculty

weird phenomenon i keep encountering where “writers” correctly identify the soul-sucking danger that large language models pose to their craft, but for some reason have no problem using generative AI to make images. like….are you stupid!!!!

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

INCORRECT HEADLINE: Reporters refuse to sign Pentagon’s new press rules CORRECT HEADLINE: Pentagon launches sweeping effort to censor the news, kicks out major media outlets

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🧵 regarding the shutdown: The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives. If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

hell yeah

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

Chin wobbling before the first "a-hoo"! Kate Bush's " This Woman's Work" on #xpn #SleepyHollow

Slipping into my first opaque black tights of the season like Sweeney Todd: "Speak to me, friend Whisper, I'll listen I know, I know, You've been locked Out of sight All these years Like me, my friend Well, I've come home To find you waiting"

This strikes me as pretty bad

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Use those vouchers NOW. If you can get powdered milk & canned goat milk to cook with. They will store well. www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

this felt too informative not to share

Y'all, you get a free registration for AWP if you volunteer for ONE SHIFT. That's incredible, considering the $$$ of entrance! conference.awpwriter.org/work_exchang...

Weird thing where people say “no one could have predicted it” when really what they mean is their political commitments and orientation were such that they ignored everyone who was predicting it Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations

I lost my phone at the Collingswood Book Festival on Saturday, and I have had the two best nights of sleep in ages since then. I think this means I should find a bog immediately and build a spooky hut from which I will lure children with candy. Not for anything sinister, just, like hi-fives.

beestung is hoping to raise just $136 more to keep us going for another year 🖤💛

At APBP, we’re dedicated to fighting censorship and book bans in prisons and jails across Appalachia and making sure people behind bars have access to the books. 📚 This #BannedBooksWeek, you can support our mission by donating a book from one of our indie bookstore wish lists.

Timeline cleanse. Newspaper clipping, 1906.

Little worried that I'm compartmentalizing my compartments and won't ever be able to find certain compartmentalized feelings ever again.

Still time to register for Monday's @aaup.org webinar on the state-backed threat to independent higher education accreditation www.aaup.org/event/politi...

sometimes I just look at instagram and think "why is everyone so mad at crow's feet" they are delicate little lines around the eyes

When faculty are silenced it's not just about what those individuals. The community is also degraded. A new project is documenting these injustices. academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/a-new-proj...

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

A lil chipmunk just came up on the porch and started barking. And I've watched all the movie trailers. #Grading

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Fever itself can endanger fetal development—which is why Tylenol remains an important tool for protecting moms and babies.

it's okay that the modems stopped screaming. they taught us to scream instead.

Andrew Ng: "AI is the new electricity!" Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...)

A good time to re-read this Lucille Clifton poem, always a good time.

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

Some people need to sit in a room and watch Mr. Rogers, Sesame Street, and Reading Rainbow until they become better people.

Sick on a Saturday. Cancel everything.

I am hydrating so hard and watching Sliding Doors through this sniffle.

*chef’s kiss*

So so so grateful to the #WildIndigo poetry series and the community of poets and audiences! Raina & Sarah & Reclaim & Young American -- & Allens Lane, tonight -- remind me how local and colossal are our hurts and struggles... but how local and colossal is our love.

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵

Works I think the Art Institute of Chicago should put back on display ASAP: A thread. Philip Guston - Bad Times www.artic.edu/artworks/118...

Do you remember that white bathing suit tampon ad: "Wouldn't you know it..."? Last night, I was gleefully telling a friend at a party, "I barely have a period anymore" at 48 with an IUD. Today? Lo and behold! Wouldn't you know it?

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

"They haven’t got nearly as many swords as I do. Just one apiece, where I’ve got three. At best the two of them could kill each other, the chumps" Love the voice in this @karenin.bsky.social @havehashad.com poem: www.havehashad.com/hadposts/sel...