Could run this article for every flight he takes

BIG NEWS! The Rumpus will transition to new ownership under @roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social effective May 1. This change is an opportunity for a more sustainable future and meaningful growth. 🎉 Read the full announcement from our publisher, Alyson Sinclair. buff.ly/aFeXcEE

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Is it possible to passive aggressively send someone a Sally Rooney book, because I’d like to.

Parallel Practice: How to Break a Sentence - The Rumpus Which color might capture the word “would,” for example? And which stitch?

I loved editing this essay on embroidery and how the act of making forces reinvention and pushing deeper. @therumpus.net therumpus.net/2025/02/20/h...

I think about this essay all the time. So good.

Cutting research budgets is like saying you don't care about cancer or Alzheimer's or Parkinson's being cured within your lifetime. Science is happening so quickly. Outcomes are improving year over year. Diseases that used to be death sentences aren't anymore. And they want to just walk away.

Fighting the instinct to post through something and instead blowing up a group chat from every stage of life.

We can't wait to read your debut novels! ✨

Our submission period opens tonight Friday 1/10/25 at midnight PT (technically Sat 1/11/25 @ 12:01 am PT) and stays open until Sunday 1/12/25 @ 11:59 pm PT.

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I want to take my parents to a Warriors game and the accessible tickets are over twice what the regular tickets are 👎

Spinning Webs in Space - The Rumpus That was it. She didn’t tell me anything about her life. Not a whisper.

It’s my honor to announce @therumpus.net’s five nominations for BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2025. Check out this thread and give our nominees some love!

1) @jillchristman.bsky.social’s “Spinning Webs in Space.” #RumpusEssays
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Thank you for reading and for your kind words!

I love that Gladiator 2 prioritized Denzel laughing and Paul Mescal palling around with the boys above earning the plot.

The most liberating feeling I’ve had as an adult is hitting my out-of-pocket max.

I can honestly say that didn’t occur to me!

Merry Christmas from the pups!

Richard will get at least 80% of a sweater for Christmas.

The Safeway by your apartment might be worse.

My kingdom for an airport Taco Mac.

How the novel became a laboratory for experimental physics | Aeon Essays By testing the boundaries of reality, Spanish-language authors have created a sublime counterpart to experimental physics

You almost certainly believe there is little overlap between the routines and aspirations of fiction writers and physicists. You are almost certainly wrong.

Wrote about the nature of experiments in physics and fiction.

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Our trainer can make us better, but we can also make him worse.

FIB perspective lamellae = Rothko paintings

She’s beautiful

Regressing to a second afternoon cup of coffee as an end-of-year treat.

Holiday hack: wear your mouthguard during the day!

This is a very good point

This was after she dropped a toy on my face.

I love experiments with overnight steps. Going in the next morning is like going to open christmas presents but then you find out that your present is nothing and didn't work at all.

As a food writer I feel it's important to report that sometimes the solution to your problems is eating as much mac and cheese as physically possible

How am I supposed to work under these conditions