some things about becoming a parent are radicalizing in ways I expected - e.g being reminded viscerally how screwed we'd all be if childcare and other care work disappeared. but other things are radicalizing in ways I didn't - like experiencing constant spontaneous solidarity in ways big and small
it's the first day at standing school for Wright, Zeldin, and Burgum
This is really sad. My sister went to Hampshire.
I for one think it's about time that marine mammals get the fearmongering media treatment once reserved for sharks nypost.com/2026/04/06/s...
A watercolor and gouache drawing of a tomato plant growing out of the ground, with tomato flowers as well as ripe and unripe tomatoes. The artist's signature appears at in the lower right corner.
Solanum lycopersicum / Tomato, c. 1690-1730, by #AlidaWithoos (Dutch, c. 1661/2-1730). Held at Wageningen University & Research, images.wur.nl/digital/coll... #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory #FreshTomatoDay #NationalFreshTomatoDay
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When I think of radical left groups, I definitely think of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Social movement scholar here again. So, why protest?
Nihilists were out yesterday arguing that "protests don't do anything."
A short 🧵:
"When I go into that voting booth, I think about three important things: What the man on the pamphlet looks like, what the name of the man on the pamphlet is, and whether or not that man is trapped in the pamphlet and needs help to get out."
Wow, I didn't know a computer review could be moving.
My latest review, out today in @wirobooks.bsky.social: "who among us hasn’t at some point gaped at our beloved and thought, “How is it that I’m even WITH you?” before once more remembering the how and the why." A thought-provoking memoir-in-essays from Lynette D'Amico.
This man did far more fighting for the US than anyone in the cabinet or the White House. And he died one day after being taken to an American concentration camp. One day.
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
An adorable brown and black tabby cat blinking in the sunlight as she contemplates a windy afternoon from atop a bookshelf under the window. A copy of the Centennial edition of "The House of the Seven Gables" lies at her paws.
Sometimes we paws our reading to watch the wind
Lynette D'Amico (MEN I HATE out now from Mad Creek Books) in conversation with her husband P.Carl about his book and now hers, which shares her perspective on the transition he documented in BECOMING A MAN. www.full-stop.net/2026/02/17/i...
Congratulations to @jsanchez-taylor.bsky.social on DISPELLING FANTASIES (Ohio State UP) being shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association awards! locusmag.com/2026/03/2025...
“If something weird happens to me, or I overhear a weird thing, or somebody says something weird to me and it disturbs me, that, to me, is a good opportunity for an essay." CITY OF TOYS out today from OSU Press! Thank you @matternews.bsky.social!
matternews.org/culture/word...
want some context on that Times Higher Ed article on authors and publishers? Check out this thread linking to great #FeedingtheElephant posts:
Glenwood Springs Co. July 1984. photo by Mark Williams. I was apparently working on a song that became Maps & Legends. Thanks Mark!!
Have you ever seen a snake eat a mouse and thought how unpleasant it must taste? How their mouths mostly come into contact with fur and nothing delicious?
Don’t feel too bad for them. Most snakes barely have any taste receptors. Most don’t even have the genes for tasting umami or sweetness.
ERASING STARS. A teacher of standing, a poet, tells her class, Never put stars in your poems, and some of the students write this down. And some stop writing after a year or two. And some get married or take jobs selling pharmaceuticals. And some think Time is in short supply, and ex cathedra take up parent worship. I know a Baltic poet who draws Egyptian star charts on cocktail napkins as he answers questions. I also know a poet in Tucson, an amateur ornithologist who believes that stars influence birds. “Of course,” he says, “the carbon in our brains comes from stars.” Erase stars from a page. Nothing happens. The allotropic pulse of mathematics ticks anyway. But now try putting the stars back in. It can’t be done. This failure has nothing to do with personal habits. Stephen Kuusisto
“A teacher of standing, a poet, tells her class, Never put stars in your poems, and some of the students write this down. And some stop writing after a year or two. And some get married or take jobs selling pharmaceuticals.” —Stephen Kuusisto, “Erasing Stars” @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
Congrats to my friend and colleague extraordinaire Elizabeth!
I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
Every time I see Buttons the passenger pigeon at @ohiohistory.bsky.social I feel like I commune with him a little and feel so sad
I did not like him talking jive
I did not like him on a drive
I did not like him while alive
Seeing @people.com include Lynette D'Amico's exquisite, funny, cutting memoir, MEN I HATE, on its books page in the new issue is super cool and … definitely one of the biggest surprises of my career! Book World may be gone but dammit, we still have People. ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
Fetid Rivalry
“Sun Ra: Do the Impossible” debuts tonight on PBS.
Great companion reading below from Michael Lowenthal @pbs.org @ohiostatepress.bsky.social @rafertess.bsky.social
"The possible has been tried and failed. Now it’s time to try the impossible."
— Sun Ra
