it makes no difference - the band
apple music shuffle: hey good morning :)
me: hey
shuffle: how’s your day going?
me: fine i guess
shuffle: feeling good? pretty normal?
me: yeah sure
shuffle: WELL NOW IT’S OVER
I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again
Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
Large bookshelf in a bookstore, featuring staff picks. An American Girl Anthology is next to I Who Have Never Known Men and three down from Slow Days, Fast Company by Eve Babitz
A close-up of An American Girl Anthology, with a staff note that says “an accessible, critical deep dive into all things American Girl! Done by folks with clear affection for the dolls but complicated feelings with the brand. ideal for people who watch four hour deep dive video essays analyzing most halo media”
not really confident I’ll peak higher than seeing our book next to I Who Have Never Known Men and three down from Slow Days, Fast Company
📍Green Apple Books, San Francisco
Cannot be overstated how every suggestion to the contrary is just hype
In Honor of Our 10th Yoyvl....a very Special Issue!
We are still celebrating 10+ years of In geveb with reflections (in varying forms) and endless, sincere gratitude to our readers and supporters who have helped us reach this milestone.
ingeveb.org/blog/song-of...
![patsy the whale mini golf, west main, hyannis port, massachusetts, [between 1972 and 2008]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ozjtqqab26axmvi3rygbtw6y/bafkreic7y4zl4cvjjqah7vncvohauhxnjxvdjkmjnz5ayduaowgxjdglaq)
patsy the whale mini golf, west main, hyannis port, massachusetts, [between 1972 and 2008]
patsy the whale mini golf, west main, hyannis port, massachusetts, [between 1972 and 2008]
Pay for actual repro journalism by people who know what they are doing, have been on this beat for a very long time, take ethics seriously, and practice responsible reporting that prioritizes accuracy and informativeness over clicks.
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
a beautiful bright red tulip flower, wide-open in the sun
A really tall, layered cranberry-orange scone on a white plate, catching the sun
just a nice Sunday morning, really
This design with a flower marks the beginning of Torah portion Metzora (מְּצֹרָע).
#ParashahPictures
BnF Hébreu 29; Bible; 15th century; f.71r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
The cup: 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm) in height and 3 3/8 in. (6 cm) in diameter. The saucer: 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm). Neither have factory marks; the saucer has inside the stacking ring the Sarah Belk Gambrell inventory number handwritten in red and an old collection label.
PROVENANCE The Property of Wilfred Sainsbury, Esquire. Sotheby’s, London, 5 May 1970, lot 30. The Sarah Belk Gambrell Collection. Doyle, New York, Sale 21BG01, The Sarah Belk Gambrell Collection of European Porcelain, 24 June 2021, lot 40. Bonhams, London, Sale 31108, 500 Years of European Ceramics including the Richard Deacon Collection, 2 December 2025, lot 124.
A finely-decorated saucer with applied decoration. For a similar cup and saucer, see accession no. 1995.268.215a and b in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Hans Syz Collection.
A circa 1740 Chantilly porcelain tea cup with handle and a cover with a flower bud finial, with a saucer, all with applied floral decoration in imitation of Chinese Dehua wares. Simple decoration overall but quite the handle on that cup.
next week 💘💘💘
“The problem is a decline in teen pregnancy” is not a sentence I thought I would have heard spoken this boldly and affirmatively for the first 35+ years of my life but the last decade or so has shifted my expectations.
the menu/burger image that’s described in the next image
There's something suspiciously needy in all the pleas to "be smarter than AI," to learn how it works, to charge ahead with the hares instead of chilling with the tortoises. It's no brag to say that I am already smarter than AI. So are you, so is everybody, including the insecure people who refuse to live in a world where the mac and cheese they film doesn't look steamy enough. AI can only execute shallow imitations of the humanity we naturally inhabit. Case in point: this little slice of Daisy's advertising dystopia that appears in the interview with Beau. Sure, it pretty much looks like a photo of a menu sitting next to a burger, but at no point in looking at this image am I fooled into thinking it's a real burger or a real menu. What's with the inch-thick slice of cheese on the top half of the bun, where no slice of cheese ever goes? Since when do loaded beef nachos go under the "drink up" section of the menu? What the hell is "blackberry marh"? And perhaps most importantly, if the burger doesn't exist and the menu doesn't exist — if nothing in the picture maps onto reality — then what, exactly, is even being advertised to me?
i wrote about that park slope diner owner who’s hellbent on using AI advertising
www.patreon.com/posts/155290...
A graphic sharing that our book, An American Girl Anthology, has won the Susan Koppelman Award for Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in Feminist Studies in Popular and American Culture
Really excited to share that AN AMERICAN GIRL ANTHOLOGY has won the 2026 Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in Feminist Studies in Popular and American Culture 💘 @kchysmith.bsky.social and I are over the 🌙
A graphic sharing that our book, An American Girl Anthology, has won the Susan Koppelman Award for Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in Feminist Studies in Popular and American Culture
Really excited to share that AN AMERICAN GIRL ANTHOLOGY has won the 2026 Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in Feminist Studies in Popular and American Culture 💘 @kchysmith.bsky.social and I are over the 🌙
Whenever someone says "there are no civilians in [country]," they are making an argument for genocide.
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
next week 💘💘💘
The first product I see for sale is a trio of individually packaged strawberries that sell for $20 each. A small plaque next to the berries tells the curious peruser, "Our strawberries redefine sweetness and beauty. Each berry is cultivated to achieve perfect symmetry, brilliant color, and exceptional size." The berries confront you with their perfection. You gaze at the rubicund specimens and let yourself imagine indulging in the forbidden nectar. You imagine what it would be like to have both the material security and the freedom from embarrassment that would make you the sort of person who would buy a $20 strawberry. You think about the impossible logistics of producing the perfect strawberry in Japan and rushing it roughly 5,500 miles across the world's biggest and most powerful ocean—a process that places you, the would-be strawberry consumer, at the pointy end of the most decadent, most unfathomably specialized consumer experience currently possible under the extant limits of global human interconnectivity. You cannot smell the strawberries, unless you buy one.
"The first product I see for sale is a trio of individually packaged strawberries that sell for $20 each." defector.com/erewhon-is-n...
Absolutely gorgeous day for the UCLA ladies to win it all!!!
A plate of sweet matzo brei—topped with cinnamon and powdered sugar. The plate has silver and green laurels around the edge and my visible hand has nails painted blue
trying to help my matzo brei find flattering light 🥚
A small wooden netsuke in the shape of a rabbit. It is brown in colour with green eyes.
🐰 Happy Easter to everyone celebrating!
This little rabbit netsuke is only 2.5 centimetres high. A netsuke is an ornamental toggle or counterweight used to attach small containers to the sash worn with the traditional Japanese kimono.
Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
BREAKING: The White House today proposed eliminating the Title X family planning program.
A few hours later, the health dept quietly released guidance that would shift the focus of the program millions of low-income people rely on away from contraception and toward "family formation."
A copy of the novel Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid, a copy of What Am I, a Deer? by Polly Barton, and a small piece of paper with Florida poem by Emma Trelles printed on it tucked in between the books
📍for the foreseeable future
what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?
"is this a pigeon?" meme, except it's a writer looking at a perfectly normal first draft and asking "Is this the worst thing ever written?"
Remember, a first draft's only job is to exist
