This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Independent Bookstore Day is THIS Saturday! How will you be celebrating? 📚✨

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

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This is a niche skeet for my fellow musical theatre/Boston sports fans: doesn’t Roman Anthony look like Jonathan Groff’s cousin or something??

And if you’re married to a location manager (🙋🏼‍♀️) you have definitely stopped at all 3 on the way to somewhere else to check parking signs 😆

A rare instance where both are great!

More people should read (and watch) Brother Cadfael! So good, and no longer than an Agatha Christie.

screencap of a tweet with a photo at the bottom of JD Vance giving a talk, gesturing smugly with his hands Eric Daugherty • @EricLDaugh • 1h • JD VANCE RESPONDS TO POPE LEO: "When the Pope says that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword - there is more than a THOUSAND year tradition of Just war Theory." "In the same way that it's important for the vice president of the United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy, I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology." "And I think that one of these issues here is that there has been - if you're going to opine on matters of theology, you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth, and that's one of the things that I try to do, and it's certainly something I would expect from the clergy, whether they're Catholic or Protestant."

I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far -

POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad

VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church??

POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there

I love this, but I am begging you to put names on the jerseys since they, you know, all have the same number.

Lol who could have predicted such a thing??

YES I love this plan

Once again being yelled at by birds on my own balcony who feel I am too close to the bird feeder. Who do you think fills the feeder??

Shoutout to the Mets for this

📸 @mets.com

there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes

Post from Dale Partridge claiming nobody wants to live in diverse neighborhoods

I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries.

Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.

My Red Sox are 1-4 to start the season but I have purchased MLB TV so I can watch them anyway. I have faith! It’s only April! 🤞🏻

This is a fab opportunity!!

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT

there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

Hello! Today is THE LAST DAY to file a claim in Bartz v. Anthropic.

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graphic novels do count as books and being mad at your kids for liking them more than prose books is how your kids learn to hate reading

Dashverse to Create Short Videos of Harlequin Romances Harlequin and AI entertainment company Dashverse have partnered to offer short-form drama videos inspired by Harlequin Romance books. The "microdramas" will be "developed by a team of illustrators assisted by Dashverse's proprietary production system, Frameo," an "AI-powered creation platform," a release states. The videos will be available in English and distributed through Dashverse's DashReels and other platforms. The first of 40 planned adaptations is Catherine Mann's A Fairy-Tail Ending, available in April. In May, the companies will release JC Harroway's Forbidden Fiji Nights with Her Rival and Mistletoe Baby Mix-Up, Jackie Ashenden's Newlywed Enemies, and La Quette's The King's Pregnancy Proposition. "Harlequin romance stories have a long-standing legacy of resonating with readers through their universal themes of love and connection," Harlequin evp and publisher Brent Lewis said. "This partnership with Dashverse represents an exciting opportunity to reimagine these cherished stories for a new audience, leveraging cutting-edge technology to bring them to life in an innovative and engaging medium." "Some of the most powerful stories in the world already exist, they just need to be experienced in new ways," Dashverse ceo and cofounder Sanidhya Narain said. "With Harlequin, we’re unlocking a vast library of beloved stories and reimagining them for a format that is visual, immediate, and built for today’s generation. This is a step toward building global entertainment franchises from existing IP, powered by AI."

this is disgusting!!!!!!!

I want a doc series on the women who cooked, cleaned, and did his laundry. Seriously.

Putting out my periodic call: if you have a book coming out about finance, econ, politics, media or tech, send me a galley. DM me and I’ll give you my email for your PR people. We do author interviews for Slate Money’s Money Talks series and I’m always thinking about columns on these topics

Loved this @moiradonegan.bsky.social essay on Elizabeth Cady Stanton, particularly the last line of the beliw excerpt. Relatable! www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

LOVED this

Hate that it took so long, but glad it’s finally here! May her inbox be flooded with great offers.

Great set for the Oscars this year. Interesting but not distracting, and all the pieces moved seamlessly. Bravo!

Autumn Durald Arkapaw made Oscars history as the first woman and first woman of color to win Best Cinematography for her work on “Sinners.”

Follow our live Oscars coverage: https://wapo.st/4bgLmOo

Can’t wait to tell my 6 year old that the song we listen to on the way to school is an Oscar winner! (And explain what that means lol)

Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart” Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001 Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar at city hall Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.