there are still good things.

No amount of AI literacy can protect us because the problem isn’t knowledge, or how to use the system, it’s that the system exists in a culture that has been radically structured around white supremacy and patriarchy and your precious autocomplete incorporates it into its operations.

where do we find a guest list (this is a serious question). Like who *would* go? And if they do, are they warbling songs about needing access in order to "do the job" and so forth?

Gosh I don't know why folks aren't trusting the ol' mainstream media.

Jesus these people are dumber than rocks

Is there a fecked? Else how is there a feckless? Ditto Ruth. The word Episcopalian. Lilts like “Lolita” on the tongue. And a word akin to “widow” for people who suffer the death of a child.

He is one of the people who has risen to the occasion, unlike the entire GOP which has slithered to the ground, and unlike those nambypamby wafflers @schumer.senate.gov & @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social etc

these sentences are from someone who has read widely and in multiple languages (including Latin) ... there is heft and structure and clarity and omg what if all leaders talked and wrote lke that? <crawls away to sob into her OED>

Friends, this week is #nationallibraryweek and the ALA is doing a massive matching campaign. I have an ALA fundraising print on banned books, & if you're in a position to support, I will make sure to relay the donation *this* week to maximize your generosity: hotbrownpress.etsy.com/listing/4380...

but why should he care (and certainly Congress seems not to) because *individually* they are all getting rich

Abdulla is a prominent and well-respected voice with deep connections in the UAE whom I’ve followed for many years. His statement here is significant:

Exterior of the Grolier Club, 47 E 60th St, which includes an arched entryway, below which are white double doors opened wide to encourage people to come in. To the left of the doors, in a black framed glass case for the display of signage, is a poster promoting the current free exhibit at the Grolier Club, “Running Through Heaven: Visions of Jack Kerouac.” April 18, 2026.

Saturday, I went to the Grolier Club, 47 E 60th St. Founded in 1884, it’s “the oldest existing bibliophilic club in North America.” It also has free exhibits open to the public, including “Running Through Heaven: Visions of Jack Kerouac,” which I saw yesterday. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grolier... #NYC

I think you have to be shitfaced for it to make sense

Yep. Sometimes I'm so boiling with rage I almost can't move.

We are living in the interregnum, as Gramsci might say, which is to say, we are living in and with a large variety of morbid symptoms, from a disease that has been spreading for decades.

A environmentalist & scholar I know coined the term "petroleum-based masculinity" and yep that's it

That movie should be required viewing for all voting-age humans

My kids learned the alphabet from the subway and all the New Yorker folk who enthused over them knowing they were on the A (or J or whatever) train.

We should be learning from other countries...

His much-vaunted "legacy" is the most corrupt lickspittle court that we've seen in modern memory

Wait...is that Laura Loomer? Or does he use the same surgeon?

not long enough, tbh.

Well, from RFK's vantage point, Donny Two Dolls *IS* sane. Which is terrifying from all directions.

Jesus H Christ america please have the courage to determine your own goddamn drink choice.

Could someone please start reading the names of the dudes in the Epstein files into the Congressional record? #EpsteinFiles

Siri show me a man who has never shopped for himself ever in his life.

Serious contender for "stupidest member of the cabinet" and I gotta say, there is a *lot* of competition for that crown

If she's scared I'm delighted. That's just math.

If she's scared I'm delighted. That's just math.

Where my Warhol deep cut #ootd appreciation folks at