Amazing, thanks for sharing these.

Text "United States Department of Agriculture. Transporting Watermelons in Bulk and Bin by Truck." Illustration of a semi truck with a watermelon as its trailer.

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It wasn’t about girls sports 🤦🏻‍♂️

For the Winter issue of #ColumbiaMagazine I had the pleasure of commissioning Victoria Tentler-Krylov ... posting this lovely result before it turns spring (as of the dirty snow in NYC melts).

First post of 2026: I winked at two strangers today, dad-style.

Love this book, what a great match!! Congrats Zoë

Movie review from Guardian on Melania.

Ain't dead in my house. I got one plumb pump ready for shmeer

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"We're cooking up the brisket the kosher butcher sold my Uncle Saul"!!!

“School shootings are normalized. The lack of gun laws has created a violence epidemic here in the United States that is nowhere else in the world. This is domestic errorism.”

Internet, please stop. Do your research.

Sigrid Nunez Takes a Walk With nine novels and two recent film adaptations, the National Book Award-winning author is having a moment.

In the Deserves-More-Hype Dept, I felt fortunate to Art Direct this fantastic profile on #SigridNunez by #JessRuliffson for #columbiamagazine. The story is best read in print! But happy to share the digital version too. magazine.columbia.edu/article/sigr...

IM IN!

A honey deuce despot is the inly despot I like

To busy correcting James Yang’s serve @jamesyang.bsky.social

Too busy playing tennis against Zendaya

Too busy running the US Open

Here goes my usual random Bluesky post... #illustrators ! Get on this:
www.usopen.org/en_US/news/a...

Your mind is a marvel. Embrace that. It is not difficult to ascertain when students are using AI because the writing is bad. If your goal is to get a good grade, you want to put your best writing forward. I prefer flawed, human writing to mediocre machine writing.

“Uh-oh, overflow, population ‘common food, but it’ll do’, save yourself, serve yourself, world serves its own needs—listen to your heart bleed, dummy with the raptured and the revered and the right, right”

And let it be said I’m of the lets eat grandma school of punctuation, so

You look more like Charlottes husband from SATC?

This headache really needs to make a decision about whether it’s a barometric pressure headache, shoulder exhaustion headache, recent head wound headache, the flu, or something else

“It's not a partisan issue. It’s not an ideological issue. So who voted for this? I personally don't remember Donald Trump's campaign promise to cut breast cancer research and to make menopause harder for American women,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social.

Fake Massachusetts Towns Lameham Methol Shamesbury Blight Falls West Lameham Mansocket Whitefolk Leominsterlingburghamshireton Scroughton Unstable (/unst’-a-bull/) Hamham B...

Can't let Patriots' Day go by without returning to one of our most loved and controversial lists ever.

Michael Hurley, RIP The cultishly loved folk legend was 83 year old and had just performed at Big Ears.

When I first moved here I was playing in a band with a sweet fellow named Mike. He would host any folk players who needed a place to crash. One time I found Michael Hurley napping in his chair. He woke up, took a toke, and went back to sleep. #RIP
www.brooklynvegan.com/michael-hurl...

If I had made a bet on this, I would double it today.

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*Dinner! @joshuajfriedman.com I need your notes in all aspects of my written life