A lot about the world is very heavy right now but if a college football podcast that got jettisoned by Vox during the pandemic for not having a marketable audience can raise this much money for refugees in Atlanta in two days then just think of all the stuff we can all do together

I dare you not to tear up reading this whole thing, which you should do immediately. if these are the times we’re living in, then this is how we should aspire to be in them

BIG BELLY COMEDY CLUB: APRIL 25TH 7PM APRIL 26TH 4PM AND 7PM. THE MUNICIPAL RODEO. HYAH

hey so our London shows are THIS weekend! we're recording THREE episodes LIVE.

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I believe this to be the case wrt ~90% of the changes to social media since 2020, if I’m being really honest

The social media pivot from chronological timelines to popular-first was done at least partly to throttle real time organizing

It’s always striking to me how much the people who’ve been complaining about feminists being “man haters” for all these decades do, in fact, *actually* think men are monsters

batteries in smoke alarm dying?

genuinely some of the most serene hours of my life. imagine getting to sit in front of a gigantic window and watch a sunset over a bunch of airplanes while you read a book and eavesdrop?

pretty sure their flight is at midnight, to be clear, she’s talking about time until boarding, and she’s still underselling it. oh also she’s right btw

a text that says: We made it - at the airport, through security, having a snack, about to go find a seat for the next 3 1/2 hrs 😘😘

especially fun to get a nice text from my mom after the last few days of airport discourse on here

literally every day my wife or I go outside with our daughter people go out of their way to be friendly, offer aid or a kind word, no matter where we've traveled. it's nice to remember that hostility as default mode of interaction is not destiny, much as it benefits some to pretend it is

I’ve been going through the handful of books I still have with my earnest little undergrad underlines in them, bc of reasons, and I feel very tender toward that kid but otoh I’m not sure rereading Autobiography of Red and Savage Detectives in the same weekend is advisable mental-health-wise

I mean not no (the S isn’t Stein but the book is Anne Carson so spiritually basically yes)

a page from Anne Carson’s “Autobiography of Red” that ends with the sentence “what is the difference between a volcano and a guinea pig is not a description why is it like it is is a description”

my single favorite piece of writing advice, answer hasn’t changed in twenty years

(to be very clear, I usually eat maybe 5 grapes out of each 3 lb bag)

lol I saw Margaret’s post and was immediately like “oh no Thomas is gonna say something about this”

i will keep reiterating it but the mRNA vaccine is one of the most important human inventions in history, next to the printing press and the solar panel, and the fact america is abandoning it is frankly anti-human in all ways possible

wafting up gently from the street below our window, a loud car horn and then, in reply, in the most beautiful classic new york accent I’ve heard in the wild in years, “you fuckin stoopid, bro?” live from new york, it’s saturday night!

One of the great heroes of modern life

oh so now it's illegal to put on a little play with your friends

I mean it did make me cry all on its own, anyway, so

(as far as I can find out from digging around in the YouTube comments and a couple articles it seems to be legit, let’s hope that holds)

the quality of this is such that one of our cats came over and rubbed up against the phone like there was a guy in our house she wanted to make friends with

thomas and I were watching an episode of Taskmaster which I’d already paused like a dozen different times for complete bullshit reasons, and the night and day change in his reaction from “okay I have to pause this one more time” to “let me show you why” was absolute cinema

@bbolander.bsky.social klaxon

hooooooooooooooooooooooooly shit

anyway Red Rocks is one of the greatest live albums ever recorded ok bye

“aren’t you shocked to find out Dave Matthews has great politics and Radiohead has shit politics” no I have lived in the world

is this at long last the year I finally stop pretending to be cooler than I am and admit that I grew up in the SF Bay Area in the late 90s/early 2000s and have at no point stopped being exactly as big a DMB fan as that might suggest

everything wants to be loved

that is the lesson of springtime

my Sherman’s March to the Sea layer cake has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the cake