Stuck in the reading phase of writing a book. Need to stop. Send help.

"If someone can invent a new Olympic sport by stacking one guy on top of another guy, surely someone could invent another Olympic sport by stacking yet one more guy on top of the aforementioned guys." Important work from @sabs.bsky.social: [🎁]

I very much cannot with the world today so instead I ask if you, Bluesky, has anyone watched the Peacock series of The Burbs? It doesn't look bad and I wanna know.

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

My "Don't Panic, Everything is Totally Copacetic" t-shirt is raising a lot of questions answered by the shirt

CALL FOR PITCHES @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not. Details below!

"TikTok’s Terms of Service now explicitly include tracking of location and citizenship status (among other identity markers, such as sex)." newrepublic.com/article/2059...

Hey nerds, we know you're not watching the big game so why don't you settle in and let us tell you all about sex ninjas in THE NINJA. Murder, musings on "the Oriental Mind," and absolutely unhinged cunnilingus techniques. badbooksbadpeople.com/episodes/epi...

ethics professor here, can confirm

I ended up with Ween's "Ocean Man" stuck in my head earlier, a song I have neither heard nor thought of in probably 20 years. What I'm saying is, brains are weird.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Wario Green.

Obviously all the age apologists ("it's not like they were 4! 16-year-olds only became off limits because of m Me Too!" Etc.) are just objectively the worst, and would not be saying the same things if this wasn't associated with Trump. However, I wonder if it reads as more believable 🧵

Writing day footnote: "See someone who isn't Foucault because we're avoiding pedos."

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

This is so true. You get 2 blocks of a main drive in Tokyo (38 million people!) and it's totally peaceful. I love it. I hate that America is built around car culture and can't even imagine other ways to be.

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

Co-hosts Jeffrey (Night Vale co-creator) and Cecil (the voice of Welcome to Night Vale), make horror films more approachable one die roll at a time. Listen here: buff.ly/j614M69

Neil Gaiman should never be readmitted to polite society. A man with that much money and power, actively putting up a smokescreen of progressivism to conceal his predation, can never be trusted.

This is who runs this account.

Morning.

Tell me five classes you took in college: Intro to fart jokes This will all end badly 🪲 🐛 🐝 🪱 Making a fool of yourself 101 (& 201) Oh, that was an anal sex reference. (These are all bad descriptions of real classes )

For the good of the order, nobody calls metro Atlanta’s Buford Highway area “Little Mexico” except right wingers live-streaming for clout

'Taxi' and 'cab' essentially mean the same thing, but 'cab' doesn't come from 'taxicab.' It comes from ‘cabriolet,’ which was a type of light carriage. ‘Taxi’ comes from ‘taximeter,’ which is the device that calculates the amount of a fare based on the distance traveled.

Sen. Ossoff Statement on FBI Raid of Fulton County Elections Office

Post the cover of a book you love from the 90s. (Any century!) #booksky #readingchallenge

Look, it's been hard for me to figure out how to talk about the difference between healthy masculinity and bullshit, weak, fear-based control fantasies, but BOY HAS THIS WEEK MADE EVERYTHING MORE CLEAR.

Icy Atlanta. Still have power in Midtown, but the wind just kicked up a lot.

ICE isn't law enforcement without training; ICE is white nationalism with guns.

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

I won an Agnes Martin lithograph in an auction and I'm pretty stoked about it.

Everything feels weirdly like it's holding its breath before this ice storm.

“When an individual enters their residence, conceals themselves behind a closed door, and attempts to go about their everyday life, they are willfully impeding the important work of law enforcement officers and engaging in domestic terrorism,” said DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin

Sometimes scrolling gets you doom and gloom, but sometimes it gets you this!

February 15th deadline for this great opportunity. I really enjoyed my time in the postdoc jobs.chronicle.com/job/37939892...

In Trump's telling, the US are the equivalent of the Nazis

Right on cue, here are the push alerts from the 3 major newspapers lmao

it is -10 here today. I was supposed to go do a volunteer shift standing outside loading groceries into people’s cars to deliver to families stuck at home. just got a call not to come in because they have too many volunteers already. if you were wondering if the cold would stop us.

Cabin weekend. Happy place.

The only good thing about all this is that it has brought to my attention that the Greenland flag frickin’ rules. #Erfalasorput

General reminder that the Immigration Act of 1924 that set immigration quotas and established the Border Patrol was the crowning political achievement of the Klan

Every couple of weeks we get a different description of the apparently awful stench coming off our necrotic president and I think it's high time the media nail down exactly what kind of rotten meat covered in women's perfume he actually smells like.

Marco Rubio, June 2012.

What on earth?