My favorite Dinosaur Jr song title is "Whatever's Cool With Me." My favorite Red House Painters song title is "Things Mean a Lot."

hated landlords until I became one - tenants are just ungrateful Rhiannon Picton-James

I hated serial killers until I got that first rush of my hands squeezing tighter and tighter around a helpless delicate neck

The Atlantic has helped shape elite opinion on Gaza by packaging dehumanizing arguments and one-sided narratives in the language of serious, high-minded journalism.

"In retrospect, basing the entire global food system on fossil fuels may have been a poor idea." -- @benehrenreich.bsky.social
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The 17 New Horror Books Terrifying Us in 2026 (And 13 More We Can’t Wait For) Get your reading list ready—if you’re brave enough.

There is something deliciously appropriate about Men's Health naming DEAD WEIGHT as one of the new horror books that terrifies them.

Because what happens to the men in this book is not exactly ... good for their health.

Poems by Stephen Danos in Diagram

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A screenshot of the collection of NASA documentaries on the free streaming service Kanopy.

If your local #library offers #Kanopy access, there's a great selection of #NASA #space #documentaries to watch. 🚀🌌🌠 Check these out! www.kanopy.com/en/category/...

I love writing. that’s all

HBD Elaine May! For anyone celebrating www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

ooh, very cool!

ergot. innovative + experimental horror

"When night came and the floor was acrawl with glisters, Arnie talked to the girl at the bottom of the chute. Between his level and the one below sat a dumbwaiter, inoperable, collecting dust."

Today on ergot.: 'Late Bloomer' by Ian Kappos

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A woman's hand holds up a black-background, multi-colored titled book: "The Build-A-Monster Workshop" by Pedro Iniguez

It's April, it's #NationalPoetryMonth, and I just got a new book from one of my favorite authors, @PedroIniguez.bsky.social 📖💖

I would throw the drink in his face on instinct if I saw this IRL

images of the covers of the following movies: The Devil's Advocate (a younger dark-haired main in a suit, seated, with an older dark-haried man in a suit behind him), Michael Clayton (Face of a middle-aged man, greying hair, head tilted down and looking to his left, George Clooney), Certified Copy (two versions of the same middle-aged couple, a dark-haired woman & grey-haired man), and The Deep Blue Sea (dark-haired woman and Dark haired man, 30s, in profile, both with eyes closed).

#letterboxdfriday I think I missed logging a couple of things but it's pretty much right.

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

My controversial take is that I want all the movies I like to be at least a half hour longer. I want MORE MOVIE.

Genuinely hate it whenever a bartender has a "thing." Your thing should be getting me a drink, that's the extent of it.

Thanks everybody still sending me Head Cleaner shelfies! B&N's at Mall of America, Fallen Timbers, Gilroy, plus indie shops like Word Brooklyn, Penguin Bookshop Pittsburgh, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Green Apple Bookstores in the Bay (I think?) Fantask in Denmark (!) somewhere in New Zealand (!!!)

#ThePitt

I didn't cry for during the season finale of #ThePitt until Santos & Mel did their You Outta Know karaoke & specifically when Santos undid Mel's hair so she could shake that hair out.

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DUST BUNNY IS NOW ON HBO

One sad thing about living in Arkansas is not having people who are insane about the Revolutionary War. Bennington Battle Day is my favorite bc I guess nothing really happened but we were very proud of it!!! But here people are proud of a very different war.

Also shots when they mention Fort Ticonderoga bc while it's not Vermont, it's a common Vermont school trip, so it counts!

Taking a shot every time they mention Ethan Allen in the Ken Burns Revolutionary War series bc I'm a Vermonter in my bones & heart & I have to honor our hard drinking Revolutionary War hero/furniture store namesake appropriately.

newwwwwww beestung! please check it out and share if you're so inclined! bzz bzz bzz! thank you for reading, honeys! 🐝

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

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The Young Pope (2016)

how lucky I am not just to read good poets but to be friends with good poets

This vibrating web When she was growing up near Perpignan, in the south of France, Laura Vazquez wrote what she now describes as long, obsessive prayers “against death”. She

Review of THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez (trans by Alex Niemi) just up at the @thetls.bsky.social!

"There is a dreamlike quality to her writing, reminiscent of Kafka, Beckett and Dostoevsky . . ."