I should make it clear I would happily get rid of the fucking bird feeder altogether, or put it somewhere else, it is messy and ugly and a giant fucking pain but SOME PEOPLE like birds

He is back this morning and again delivering a sustained assault, he must be really hungry now I don't know what to do 🥹

I’ll throw in for the flight, anyone else?

Our Problematic Elder agreed to a community process regarding harmful behaviors and then immediately blocked out the next six weeks on their calendar as UNAVAILABLE, classic

Bird feeder is under heavy attack from the squirrel community, this has united cat and birds against a common enemy

the communication practices of our culture---daily torture

Not inviting Durst is the one good thing Coachella has ever done

I had plans today but then the Russian Revolution started and I needed to find out how it would turn out

There isn’t a model of building long term political power in NY that can challenge Hochul and capital that doesn’t involve people needing to be able to have a non transactional conversation with your black middle aged neighbor.

I had forgotten how LA is plagued with golf courses, every one of them should be a fucking park, where are the olmsteads when u need them

This is what we’re calling sex tourists now?

Black Zine Fair Sat, May 9 in Brooklyn, New York

Three of the 4 new zines that I will be bringing to Black Zine Fair incorporate archival documents. I am very interested in ways to activate my collections for public sharing and access.

The zines will only be available at BZF.

Stop by if you're in the city on May 9.

Secretly getting married to have something up your sleeve when an essay comes due on your New Yorker contract--master class

They organized mutual aid in the same place for nearly a decade. Now they're being forced to move. After nearly ten years at Bernie's Coffee Shop on Wilshire and Fairfax, the organizers with LA's Community Solidarity Project have to move—and are asking for the public's help.

NEW, FROM ME: The organizers with Community Solidarity Project, a local LA mutual aid group, organized from their main hub at Bernies Coffee Shop for years. Now, they've been asked to move, and are asking for the public's help. They've set up a online fundraiser and Goodbye Party tomorrow, April 19

it's super funny because what it actually says is theyre now so deep up the arsehole of their group chats they think this is a gripe that will find a broad swathe of sympathy across society-because they now no longer even interact in any capacity with ppl without multiple homes

It was like seeing a dragon I swear

However we both had on sheer black dresses and I'm really proud of myself for that day and for surviving that loser

THAT'S IT lol thank you

The second time was at a screening of Dangerous Game a movie that still bends my mind in many uncomfortable ways, she walked past with Abel Ferrara my jaw was on the floor that she could have watched herself in that performance and still been whole unfortunately was with a much worse boyfriend

I just remember John and I gasping like the children of Fatima it was so elusive and so real and mundane and amazing, I miss him so much

I will formally begin the freakout by relating my two Madonna stories, which will be 90% of my brain for the next two days

1. We came out of Jabberjaw at like 3 in the morning one of those weirdly foggy LA nights, we saw her up the street wearing hot pants going into the gay club I forget the name

SCREENSHOT of a text that reads "I love art but the thought of being in the same room as someone who made a dress Madonna wore 😳"

FREAKING OUT

I keep looking at the feelings wheel but nothing quite describes the feeling of hearing your cat get busy with a project in the other room

don't worry you guys i'm sure CO will vigorously enforce its own trans nondiscri- ah fuck i keep forgetting we gotta stay on our grind getting our numbers up before we qualify for the trans nondiscrimination protections in the trans nondiscrimination laws my b
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It’s Getting Harder to Spot AI in Contemporary Publishing. And That’s Very, Very Bad. Lately there has been a lot of hand-wringing, and rightly so, about if and how the publishing industry will deal with AI in the wake of the cancelation of the first major book deal due to suspected…

I wrote about how AI in book publishing is a labor issue. "AI paranoia is a symptom of a larger problem: a corporate culture that values quantity over quality, quick output over the very human labor of poring over a manuscript & making sure that each & every word sings."
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"domestic" violence is such a classic example of something that was named to make it visible and now basically makes it invisible

polling must be wild

Everybody is doing workwear these days

Finding a place to camp I want to carry through with my series of public posts about access and the outdoors.

I have written a piece on how to find public land camping opportunities for my newsletter. It is free for anyone who is interested.
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Dr asked how long I’ve struggled with fatigue and I had to answer honestly, since 5th grade