Now complaint to management about mysterious holes in the wall--perhaps vermin or big insects? And see if they will repair :). But still no doorbell...

For a long time, I've been trying to write about the culture of silence I felt in Montana family culture. And how to represent that in my essays, the gaps and empty spots.

Thank you for this. Much needed right now

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

Nice data map!

Normal people: gotta wake up, eat breakfast, go to work

62 million men: almost done with my bachelor’s degree in rape

JD Vance’s Terrible, Horrible No Good Week continues

an underrated, unforgivable belief that remains prevalent among pols and normies is that a rising tide lifts all boats when it’s been clear forever that a rising tide simply drowns the people on low lying land

It's reverse Robin Hood.

What the actual?

William Stafford's poem Yes handwritten on notebook paper

It's still poetry month and it's still possible for hope and beauty and surprise reversals.

Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable If Viktor Orbán can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too.

How did Magyar win? A long running grassroots campaign in rural and small town Hungary; a refusal to be distracted by government propaganda; a focus on economic issues and corruption; a central promise to bring back democracy and the rule of law

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

Just part of JD Vance's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Creeping phlox is the best at crowding out weeds.

Where did you buy it? I am currently trying to transplant some of mine into a new weed-heavy space but I don't think my technique is all that great. Thinking I need to buy a few plants

was that Melania speech one of Iran’s demands

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:

Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%

Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

Maybe we need a matchmaker service where people could swap homes rather than sell them and have to pay the dreaded taxes (though seriously for most of the people in this article, it's an emotional issue (wah! wah! why should I have to pay taxes?) not a financial one.

What the absolute fuck

I totally agree. And also honestly doesn't he know there is a tax exemption for when you sell your primary home?

Father Guido Sarducci from Saturday NIght Live

Remember that no more than two of the three miracles can be card tricks, according to Father Guido Sarducci

Jesus got up one day a little later than usual. He had been dreaming so deep there was nothing left in his head. What was it? A nightmare, dead bodies walking all around him, eyes rolled back, skin falling off. But he wasn't afraid of that. It was a beautiful day. How 'bout some coffee? Don't mind if I do. Take a little ride on my donkey, I love that donkey. Hell, I love everybody.

My traditional Easter reading, from James Tate.

Moving Pried from its wooden stand on the middle of the block our two-story house on Oak moved slower than my watch through white summer days to its vacant lot, a neighborhood of early mowers on Siesta Drive...

As feeling affects the body,
as a sleeping mountain moves men,
as Shasta Daylight transports honey in tank cars,
that old house moves us again.
At the Office for Short-Lived Phenomena everyone says
contact the center of volcanoes
if you want news.

M Defrees
#poetry
agnionline.bu.edu/poetry/moving/

if you’re trying to “save time” as a writer by using AI, i suggest you find another profession. it takes time to write well, time to write exciting books. it takes time to write one good poem. i’ve spent years on a single poem. the time spent learning one’s craft is everything

Lynda Hull's poem Insect Life of Florida

April is National #Poetry Month. Here is Lynda Hull.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Ada Limon The Conditional

It is poetry month, so
poets.org/poem/conditi...

Of course he didn’t do lots of other things.

I knew a teacher who every summer would set the goal of seeing free music every night. He did it!