god what is it about SCOTUS that makes even ardent Dem partisans short-sighted cowards

You know sometimes I wonder if having a father who had cello whose scroll was a grinning skull and whose tuning pegs were shaped like the heads of femurs manifests in my own personality at all

DROOPY DOG: My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my s

It's wild to … talk about … editing?

For an assignment, I spent 1.5 hours at a stop sign by U of T. Out of 228 vehicles, 208 did not stop. 59 when pedestrians were waiting or actively crossing. I saw 20/228 (9%) lawful interactions w/ that stop sign. If police showed any force to even one of those 208 drivers, there would be riots.

the c programming language is a lot like latin, in that it’s the foundation for a lot of modern culture even without any direct relation, the people who actually spoke it natively are all dead and/or pedophiles, and they never imagined that zero could be a real number that exists and has meaning

Putterer about. Yes this is what I do all day now but no one pays me for it

Say, what's the difference between a 12oz coke, pepsi, or sprite and a properly metrical tail end of a story?

A charming essay by James Redfield who, apparently, has just died thepointmag.com/examined-lif...

Patter song / satyr pong btw

we ain't haulin' milk

"The frogurt is also cursed" is one of the best lines on the Simpsons. Not really apropos of anything I just remembered it

(Lubricating my horse) fetch the colt butters

More like "we love Boots R.s", am I not right

there’s a new patriotic budweiser commercial with the horses & when i saw it i immediately thought of

Poetry Reading Voice. Some linguistics grad student, there's a topic for you

Attikos app doesn't have Sappho texts (who, fine, didn't write Attic) and would you believe that searching the app store for "Sappho" is less than useful?

Remember, Horace was talking about *placing* the reader *into* the middle of things. If you're talking about something that begins in the middle of things—no motion, just state—you want a dative, not an accusative, construction: the film begins in mediis rebus. Impress your friends!

I was a member of Blank Forms for a year and they sent me a bunch of free LPs, which I never listened to because it's a very tiny moderate hassle. But now I am and this one (the first I've listened to, to be clear) is actually great

it was not only deflating that walz was muzzled from calling weird people weird, but it led to the weird people grabbing the dropped strategy and started wielding it against normal people! it's twilight zone's eye of the beholder as a political strategy.

Shit I can do this for free. Next year they'll be a year older. And that isn't even an estimate it's for sure

Wait fuck this one is incredible

You're telling me a shrimp fried this rice?

Sending this to Walter Benn Michaels to give him an aneurysm

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Off, off, phone light! Life's but a walking shadow, an NPC, That struts and frets his thirty second reel

ST. PETER: as I go willingly to my reward i ask only that i be crucified upside down, as I do not deserve to be executed in the same manner as my Lord Christ. SOME LOW-LEVEL ROMAN FUNCTIONARY: *rubbing his brow* wow it really is always fucking something with you people, isn't it.

If we want readers to fall in love with the same story we fell in love with as teenagers, the best way to do that is to reach them where they are

I suspect what's really happening here is "I, an adult reader of 'YA', fear the unfamiliar, and therefore I assume that kids must too"

The Ambassadors, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1533, 📸 by @jp_lavs

reading my 2008 edition of American Psycho where there’s an entire chapter of Patrick Bateman going on about Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

This would be a great time for Joseph Medeiros to bring back the variously located throughout the city series he did in which he recited the entire Odyssey in Greek while acting out the parts

Michael Silverstein sure loves to say that something or other "will be Xed"; noted or recalled or observed or what have you

Guy Maddin's delirious cult masterwork CAREFUL opens at Film Forum in exactly one month on Fri, 6/26 in new 4K, with Maddin joining in-person! PLUS select shows of TALES FROM THE GIMLI HOSPITAL [REDUX], ARCHANGEL & DRACULA: PAGES FROM A VIRGIN'S DIARY. buff.ly/cL1sPcx

Zohran Mamdani to camera: Poppy Curbeh Tuech Es Housing Assistance Vouchers Application Deadline June First Ho Ho Ho

You know that Juki is better than Singer not just because my Singer got somehow irreparably busted in short order but also because Juki included a *printed manual* with its equally home-level machine

(In my youth I took a summer class on historical linguistics and was much impressed by the fourth law of analogy)

"the principle that a general intellectual education should not be the preserve of a narrow elite" has been totally abandoned across the West, by the combined effects of neoliberal administration, antidemocratic populism, and the promise that automation and "access" by subscription obviate knowledge

I'm concerned people think I'm joking about this.

I hate that I know what Alex Karp looks like

Bluestockings (they've hen-pecked you all, according to Byron). Bluehairs (old ladies, in my mind censorious but possibly by conflation with…). Blue noses (definitely censorious). Bluehairs (young hipster ladies). The color blue does so much work

If banks just implemented FedNow we wouldn't need crap like this (in fact venmo does use it under the hood for banks that support it)

Since the sun can be out on for instance a clear but frigid winter day without the being out of guns, we must conclude that it is some other factor, imperfectly correlated with the sun's being out, that brings out the guns

the thing is I am old enough to remember this and no it wasn't and no it wasn't

went to a goth coffee shop and while we were there a whole family of goths came in and it's like oh yeah that's how you can tell its good

Would you believe that the greatest movie of all time is such a one?

Woke Jesuit school had speeches calling for free Palestine/Sudan, admonishing SCOTUS and the destruction of the VRA, lionizing Alex Pretti and Renee Good, and the President telling grads that their education is to make them pause and ask better questions, not to go faster and make money with AI lol

You: American, crude, pitiably attached to the idea that it's better for things to be good than not, attached: badly made Me: "continental", sophisticated, knows both the phrase "mono no aware" and "lacrimae rerum", at peace with transience: malfatti

The good (or anyway, better) version of what I assume this idiocy is was already written nearly 20 years ago by @dsquareddigest.bsky.social