Well, I guess that worked last time with Trump

And “Putin’s mouse” (self-described, remarkably: “According to a leaked transcript of the phone call, Orbán also compared himself to a mouse rescuing a trapped lion after it spared the rodent”)

Praying that Orbán is going DOWN

Seemed like a great opportunity

I’m so embarrassed I just spend $500 to participate in a suspiciously unfocused conversation with “Patrick Radden Keefe” about P.G. Wodehouse

Boots Riley @iucinema.bsky.social
@bootsriley.bsky.social

Ah too bad!

“The board member was not the only person who, unprompted, used the word “sociopathic”…. Not long before his death, Aaron Swartz expressed concerns about Altman to several friends. “You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” he told one. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything””

Trump threatens Iran with ‘Hell’ over Strait of Hormuz in profane post Trump escalated threats against Iran’s power plants, bridges and other infrastructure in an expletive-laden post on Truth Social on Easter morning.

It is difficult to focus on work when our president is threatening to unleash a horrific collective punishment on a modern nation of over 90 million people in the midst of a war one of the premises of which is that the majority of that population do not support the regime under which they live.

@danielhack.bsky.social's essay prompted me to finally read Carr's (very wonderful) novel! Glad he concludes with the amazing bit about finding traces of the medieval painter's beard in the paint: “he was fair-headed; hairs kept turning up where his beard had prodded into tacky paint"

new writing + a scandal in plain sight Arthur c brooks, looksmaxxers, evangelical cinema + a request

From open.substack.com/pub/afetewor...

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Who Goes AI? An interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game.

It’s fun—a macabre sort of fun—this parlor game of “Who Goes AI?” And it simplifies things—asking the question in regard to specific journalists.

www.todayintabs.com/p/who-goes-ai

A month into Iran, the GOP’s political reality sinks in Republicans in battleground states are largely sticking by the president's war — but they’re finding it harder to brush off the consequences.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Yeah I can see how that would be discouraging as a Republican, lol

brb writing a new book chapter

I had not realized that Michel de Montaigne got so horny

For Arendt, “thinking properly depends on our setting up windshields, walls perhaps of canvas not of brick, behind which we can draw a breath and focus our eyes more acutely on what lies out there in the glare”

How did “sexistential” go unused in pop history until now. Saved for Robyn

“…the college assumes we want efficiency at all cost through automated rather than hand-pulled coffee.” I maintain that human services, including library services, are often inefficient when they are good, because the care & connection of humans is not quick work. Oberlin Luddites, I stand with you!

Check out Alex Murray’s blog post about his article “Gatekeeping: Publishers’ Readers, Gender, and the Literature of the 1890s,” which explores the often reactionary and sexist genre of the reader’s report during the complicated cultural politics of the 1890s.

Had an amazing meal (pizza and beer; we brought our own salad) at Scratch Brewing in Ava, Illinois (semi-finalists for a James Beard Award for best bar this year). Foraged beer! -- made from e.g. wild carrot, nettle, pawpaw, & fig leaves foraged from the property or the woods around it

Grey Gardens shoutout!

“From the moment when somebody invented a way of duplicating books from moveable type, the mass-produced sixpenny became inevitable.” —Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books, 1938. (Le livre de poche est mort. Vive le livre de poche)

The Femcels are hilarious- “You’re Gay and You’re in Love With Me (Please Let Me Touch Your Boobs),” “No One Will Fuck Me When I Wear Two Different Shoes (One Jordan, One Gucci Flip Flop),” “Please Don’t stab Yourself (Like Elliot Smith)”

This whole situation is such a PK Dick nightmare to me

nymag.com/intelligence...

Bloomingtonians w/ blue/purple/whatever hair ftw

This rules. JCO won the Canon Wars.

so true from JCO

I keep making Adobe Acrobat tell me I have too many tabs open, feel perversely proud of this. Feels like, 'oh you can't handle this, huh??'