Delany

Shifting baseline syndrome explains how we normalise the continual visceration of once unimaginably rich ecosystems.

Rewilding – our minds, lands, and seas – is the solution. 🌏

‘With brain preservation, nobody has to die’: meet the neuroscientist who believes life could be eternal A brilliant young scientist believes that if we preserve our brains, they could be revived in the future, helping us live for centuries

Idea it'd be easier to extend life by preserving brains to be installed into future sci-fi bodies instead of addressing human health now is of a piece with idea it'd be easier to terraform entire distant planets than to address the damage we're doing to earth now

www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

TBC it is YOU, dear reader, who are non-believing ass motherfuckers

Syracuse, you godless motherfuckers

THIS SAD ASS TEAM LEARNS NO LESSONS. YEAR AFTER YEAR OF MALPRACTICE IN THE FRONT OFFICE

What does it take to lose your job as politics understander at the New York Times

It’s Friday, folks

I— uh. I am in the market for a new hat.

The Booker Prize-nominated books that were rejected by publishers | The Booker Prizes John Self explores some of the most famous titles that were initially turned down by publishers, and speaks to editors, authors and agents about why those books struggled to secure a deal

Which Booker novel was rejected because some people at the publishing house didn't like the characters?

What winner chose his publisher "I had not many other options, frankly"?

I had great fun writing this piece about rejected Booker books:

thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Does anybody have a performance of Sartre's "No Exit" viewable online that they particularly recommend?

This is super true, and it’s true in music, too; the industry relies heavily on first week sales to stay afloat in both cases, so it’s great for authors and musicians if you buy stuff in the first week. But the idea that you have to have something to say about it right away or even soon, absurd!

lady of sophistication @janky_jane Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in ireland i wore a red beret once in waterford and someone called me super mario Andrew Beatty V @AndrewBeatty Replying to @janky_jane I once ordered a taxi in Belfast for a night out. The driver pulls up to my house and just says "yer not going out like that. Go back in and change, I'll turn off the metre." | swear I was wearing normal jeans and a normal jacket.

Matthew @MrWeir Replying to @janky jane I once wore a silver jacket to college, turned up late for class, said 'sorry I'm late', lecturer said, 'that's ok' then waited til I was halfway across the front of the full class before following up with 'trouble with the spaceship again was it?'. Replying to @janky _jane My sister was in France sporting a new trench coat, thought was so stylish, but went into an Irish bar and got called Inspector Gadget by the first guy that saw her 15:53 • 8/16/21 • Twitter Web App

was wearing my super-fashionable short trench coat. My friend took one look at me wearing the jacket and said, "Where are we off to now. Columbo?" Eoin O Neill @eoinjoneill Replying to @janky_jane Was wearing a vintage nike jacket in a very long que for drinks at a boxing match when a Belfast lad goes "furk me this is taking forever, your man has been here since the 80's"

Loic Wright @dufflest Replying to @janky jane I wore a suit with a matching tie and pocket square to my first day of work at an advertising company (I thought I was going to be in Mad Men I guess) and the staff sent around and signed a communion card for me with a fiver in it. Eóin O Coileáin @L20_MTN Replying to @janky_jane I wore a white, wool turtle-neck jumper to the match once and a fella in the pub said 'Where have you parked the U-boat?'.

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

"introduce yourself by-" I am not telling you people shit

Expressions People Use When They Lose a Game (Electronic Fun with Computer and Games #5, Mar. 1983). They read: 1. Life is a tough deal 2. Death be not proud 3. Oh. I took abuse 4. Stinking Mutants 5. Bummer 6. That rots 7. Harsh toke 8. Wasted, blew me away 9. Thus endeth the game

We should just start saying this shit again. They can’t stop us all.

Scene from “The Batman”: Batman approaching flood survivors with a torch

Scene from “The Batman”: overhead shot of batman leading survivors through the water with his lit torch

how it feels posting on twitter: shouting into a canyon of people who hate you or are selling cryptocurrency named after a slur

how it feels posting “tacos for lumch 👍” to 500 followers on bluesky:

As someone who likes to check the career TD leaderboards whenever he gets into the end zone, this was a huge day for me.

More career scores than Chris Godwin and Leonard Fournette.

Taysom Hill

Still forming my opinion on Jung. What do we think folks.

Art by the legendary Wayne Barlowe

Started reading it tonight because I need something to break up my current reads. Really good so far.

Center of the sports universe

They had this shit solved when Wagon Wheels came out

Most pasta shapes are just about satisfying primal urges to eat increasingly more complex legos

The Pels are inventing new ways to be hit by injuries

Art is both necessary and insufficient.

I made a starter pack of the best narrative journalists in America. It's a vanishing art but one still worth a lot.

If I haven't added you yet and you clearly meet this description, it's just because I haven't found you on Bluesky.

go.bsky.app/45aomyC

Happy birthday, Kurt.

And happy Armistice Day.

Took a trip home so I grabbed some stuff I didn’t bring to Syracuse from my collection for some projects I might want to work on soon.