If only there were some kind of democratic process we could use

This is so sick. Israel struck apartment buildings, medical facilities, even a crowd of mourners by a cemetery, per FT reporting

Darkness came on

"One paper’s acknowledgements thank 'Professor Maria Bohm at The Starfleet Academy for her kindness and generosity in contributing with her knowledge and her lab onboard the USS Enterprise'."

101 best book club picks for every type of reader From romance and memoirs to mystery and fantasy, here are the 101 best book club picks, according to a survey of more than 200 authors, publishers, journalists and book club fans.

The best books to read in groups inspire a dialogue. With help from more than 200 voters, we compiled an in depth list of the best book club picks here: www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books...

Happy Appomattox Day to all that celebrate

Don’t know where this came from. It’s been on the kitchen chalkboard since the pandemic. Still endlessly useful.

Preorder American Rambler before May 12th and I’ll buy you a beer—or cider! 🍺🌳🥾🍎🍺

With tremendous thanks to the great team at @aaknopf.bsky.social, along with the rad folks at Books Are Magic, @bluewillowbooks.bsky.social, @barnesandnoble.com, and booksellers everywhere! 🙏🏻❤️

Guess we just keep riding this rickety piece of crap rollercoaster as it crumbles to ruin around us, huh?

Who but a fool would take his left hand by his right, and say to himself, how d’ye do?

Well, if it isn't birthday celebrant Billy Dee Williams in The Firebrand of Florence with Lotte Lenya!

Watching an episode of the Six Million Dollar Man in which William Shatner is using the power of his "supercharged by space" mind to communicate with four dolphins at Marineland of the Pacific. He wants to take them into space

Enid A. Haupt Fund

François Morellet, Random Distribution of 40,000 Squares Using the Odd and Even Numbers of a Telephone Directory, 50% Blue, 50% Red, 1960
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137133

I’m surprised by how often I think about a line from Toni Morrison’s SULA: “…more tranquil than the curve of eggs.”

What an image. The first time I read it, I was so startled that I went in the kitchen and got an egg out the damn fridge to look at its curve.

This is so, so well-articulated.

Charlie Browns mom: Waaah wah wah wah waaah waaah waaah wah

Charlie Brown: oh, you mean pigpen

Charlie browns mom: Wah way. Waaaah wahwahwah wah wah waaah waaaah wahwhawah wah wah

Charlie Brown: yeah I get that. It’s pretty bad over there but I don’t think they hit him

Outer space. In the distance is a red comet-like streak heading downward to the left of a Saturn-like planet. In left foreground there is a smoking moon, asteroid or something. Narration: "In order for us to merge, I must, perforce, regain the purity that once was mine! I would gladly vault the dimensional doorways myself if thou wouldst vault them with me!"

A faithful, slightly slavish, yet still abstracted digital recreation of The Clash’s London Calling album cover. Featuring a guy lit by a spotlight on a stage in a very wide stance and bent over with his head down, holding an electric guitar like an axe by the neck just an instant before he smashes it into the floor. Small white type at the top reads ‘Maybe it’ll’, then down the left side in pink and the bottom in green larger block lettering reads ‘happen today’.

Congrats, Alyssa!

Uh, 'interesting' way of presenting this... the only 'authors' I'm aware of using AI are the lazy, unethical, incompetent grifters who don't give a shit about their readers or real writers. People should stop using it, not resent that they have to 'lie about it.' Jesus.

[If something is famous, you don't need to tell your reader that it's famous. And if it isn't famous, all your "famous"ing isn't going to make it so. Also, it's an incredibly dull adjective, exceeded in dullness only, perhaps, by "special."]

New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows

Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

Claudia ❤️

We remember the luminous Claudia Cardinale with an evening of films beginning with Federico Fellini's masterpiece 8 1/2. It all starts at 8pm ET.

New York Times Cuts Ties With Book Review Writer Over AI Use | Exclusive The New York Times has cut ties with a freelancer of his reliance on AI.

personally I don't use AI in writing because I enjoy the process — yeah, even the parts when I want to rip all my hair out! — but hey, here's another good reason to abjure AI: it'll plagiarize www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

Prince, Parade (rel. 31 Mar 1986)

Side 1, from Christopher Tracy's Parade to Venus de Milo

Side 2, from the epic "Mountains" to the weeper "Sometimes It Snows in April"

inner sleeve photo of the Revolution

released 40 yrs ago (tomorrow). it'll likely always lose out to 3-4 other LPs of his as his greatest work, & I get it, but it's the one I love the most. the sequencing alone, the graceful segues from odd little trifles to perfect funk pop tracks, then closing with the saddest song in the world

Israeli soldiers echo settler ideology, talk of revenge after targeting Palestinians and detaining CNN crew in the West Bank | CNN Twelve hours after Israeli settlers brutally attacked several Palestinians and established a new illegal outpost in their village, the Israeli military stepped in.

This is a horrible story about a CNN crew being beaten & detained by Israeli troops.

www.cnn.com/2026/03/27/m...

Opinion | Is It 1914 in America?

This is brilliant.

Read the last paragraph.
Slowly.

[gift article]

Is It 1914 in America? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

Oh, yeah, that guy’s a real character. We summoned him from a novel using a ritual we found online. He’s miserable because the woman he was created to love doesn’t exist in our world. We don’t know how to send him back and we’re afraid of what would happen if he dies