US news environment feels very 19thc right now: big networks doing yellow journalism bc they’re effectively entertainment corps, viewers putting their trust in independent muckrakers or bitchy commentators, everything saturated with a lurid combo of puritanism + ultraviolence
Snooooooooooooot.
New bench press pr. 105×3.
Our general submissions for Issue 2 are NOW OPEN until April 21st!
If you are a 2SLGBTQIA+ writer, send us your work! You can submit one story and up to three poems. Wondering what we like? Issue 1 is free to read on our site! But please don't self-reject—we can't wait to read your work 🗡️🪐🌈
Nuke it from orbit. It's the--
Another short story accepted. 6/6 now.
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
Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...
Madam.
Ok, now she's licking herself inappropriately. I am free.
🧵Tradwife culture is moving further into the mainstream. People who watch this film will likely come away with a better sense of the performance, hypocrisy and marketing behind the movement. But, the real issue is the way tradwife content functions as an algorithmic gateway into far-right ideology.
I was going to go to the gym but my dog is making her happy SCHNORK SCHNORK noises and petting me with her paw, so I don't know if I can.
Not an early modernist by training but I've always (by which I mean since Covid) wanted to teach Faith, Reason, and the Plague.
A group of individuals stands in a wooded area, listening to a person wearing a park ranger uniform speaking. The image has a text overlay saying, "Historians are everywhere, working on an incredible range of topics." The bottom displays the logo of the American Historical Association and the hashtag #TalkAboutHumanities.
Historians are everywhere, working on more than most people realize.
Historians, what are you researching, teaching, or exploring right now?
Share a sentence and help illustrate the range of the discipline.
#TalkAboutHumanities 🗃️
Don’t allow anyone to tell you that reading Edgar Allan Poe in a dimly-lit café on a cobblestone side street in Prague during a raging thunderstorm whilst enjoying cappuccinos and croissants “doesn’t classify” as self-care.
What are humanities and social sciences research good for? Consider Enslaved.org: putting names to as many of the people trafficked during the Atlantic slave trade as possible. Insisting on the dignity of every human being. #Talkabouthumanities #talkaboutsocialsciences
You know Lina, we heard those tales of the spear Danes doncha know, and their kings, well, they were different, and Sven he told me they performed pretty good you betcha.
Grant would get Botox injections to deal with his migraines and chew Nicorette.
Teddy would work out in an MMA gym and get that viking wolftail haircut.
He would drink the Monsters that are hangover-coded.
Will never get used to learning about friends' deaths via social media.
“Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful.”
— Albert Camus (1913–1960)
DC Metro sign for the “Pentagon City” station.
Where the grass is [redacted] and the girls are [redacted].
Just a friendly reminder that your desire to have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder is valid.
Don’t allow anyone to disrespect you by telling you otherwise.
an off-campus novel, where the characters have to commute
"Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead."
-- Kurt Vonnegut, who died #OTD 2007
A crudely made sign stand of bundled bamboo held together with wire, upon which is mounted a roughly made sign of a single piece of wood, painted black, on which someone has crudely written BOOKS with an arrow pointing to the right, in a street somewhere.
When I know it's definitely a trap, but I'm going anyway.
Chat is this good