the leadership lessons in Shakespeare: eat a snack and you won't kill your wife / hats can change your gender and no one will recognize you

this is not about someone from iceland

Nelson Eddy / Jeanette MacDonald one day on LL

Resist Assuming Her Life Is Like Her Books

“I cannot imagine anything more ignominious than watching ‘Hamnet,’” Ms. Riley said.

This alone is reason to read The Palm House (also it's NYRB not NYRB Classics, ugh)

The truck beds are nearly the same size

aside from the environmental impact and the loss of the most popular wilderness area in the US, there are SO many more jobs in outdoor recreation than there are in a mine

our mayor sucks but our council president (my neighbor!) and his colleagues are proof that good local government is where it's at.

time to enter our julia butterfly hill era

sorry, celine song got a *whiting* ??? please get serious

words mean absolutely nothing if this counts as "emerging"

immediate hire

marriage is so dangerous

I was just talking to a lawyer friend, whose firm is insisting they use AI, about how much *more* work it creates because 1) it makes stuff up but also 2) AI is very verbose? A contract that a human wrote would be 40 pages and an AI generated one is like, 140.

oooh no this is great!

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I went to mass at a monastery (for the first time in years) and prayers of the faithful were all barely concealed attacks on the convert and his ilk.

this essay was great

(this is for the confirmed among us)

"just war doctrine" from a guy who could not name a virgin martyr to save his life

we live in hell

I mean, I was told (when I moved there) that eastern Iowa didn't get tornadoes bc of the hills. So you are doing necessary work (that sorority house was across the backyard from me).

it was crazy (I lived right on Iowa Ave) and I had *no* idea what to expect.

that was my first tornado and when it got really quiet I was like "time to run outside!"

Copies of On the Calculation of IV displayed on a counter at Island Books

Out today On the Calculation of IV!

anyway, the amount of wrong discourse around books proves that gossip is good

people are always like, "I love this publisher" and it is run by a sex pest

Heather! (keep not scrolling far enough)

Elisa! Emily Ogden! Paula Bohince!

Megha! Marlon! Stone cold genius Andre Alexis!

“The bulldozed remains of buildings were piled into a landscape of earth berms, which were then shaped into barriers, detention facilities and military outposts from which Israeli tanks and snipers commanded the area where survivors were concentrated.”

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