A raised pharmacy counter dividing the floor of the store from where the pharmacists work. Above a collection of OTC medications, an orange cat sits library-lion-style, looking with disdain upon lesser beings.
King of the pharmacy.
Yeah, this is something I struggle with myself — I think “everybody knows that; everybody says that” but in fact a couple hundred of online people to whom I am very tenuously connected know and say that. I may be bored with facile critiques of capitalism but that doesn’t mean many other people are.
Horseshoe theory for people who want to have a personal aesthetic of politics!
See also the “better fash than cringe” thing, and how cringe fash actually is. There’s no escape from cringe, really; the grass on the right isn’t less trampled than on the left.
I read about a mini-wave of novels about bisexual women positioning sex with straight white male doms as transgressive, and how that positioning kind of flopped, and I do think there’s something interesting about how the transgression treadmill runs in a circle.
Cities in Vermont and Maine are experiencing some of the same tactics that ICE has been using across Minnesota since December, and facing lots of resistance.
The before and after pictures of the damage to the Golestan Palace’s throne room, with the stripped down Marble Throne of Fathali Shah (built 1805) in the middle (the before pic was taken by my wife)
Israel has carried out 6 aerial bombardments of the area in less than 20 minutes.
Oh this is very interesting. (Also same. God I miss the Expanded Awl Family.)
We need reparations for ICE victims.
Anything short of that is setting the stage for a massive wealth grab from people of color that will re-entrench racial disparities for generations.
What's up with all these America first types hating everything about America as it actually exists
All this barbarity was unleashed during Ramadan. That was a choice.
sometimes you genuinely have to wonder how America became a hegemon in the first place
More or less literally!
For what it’s worth, I have also heard that professional editors are hugely overworked these days and now much more likely to miss stuff like this.
Never has this meme been more appropriate
Not for nothing, but this broader dynamic of neither being able to safely discuss real organising, nor being able to silence doomers and other morale-destroyers, is exactly why social media is *not* generally a useful tool for activism, much less an indispensable one.
No, that’s the thing, you give an OC a walk-on role and suddenly they are your most beloved darling and it’s obvious everyone needs to read more about them, like at least three chapters.
I think the “for you” algorithm must have somehow seized on my post about a Dutch theater director. I didn’t realize Bluesky had such an appetite for remarks on the avant garde of fifteen years ago.
I think all this talk of toxic yuri neglects other equally important categories such as flammable yuri, biohazardous yuri, and radioactive yuri.
10/10 would absolutely have checked a half-shredded copy out of the junior high library paperback spinner.
We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record."
Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...
"The ToB, as a conceit, is fundamentally stupid," says Rosecrans. "We can't emphasize this fact enough. If you think it's dumb, we think it's dumber. We're writers and authors and editors ourselves —we don't see any value in calling one novel the best of the year, or trying to turn art into sports. At the same time, too much of literary culture is unthinking and fawning. A lot of it, especially in social media, is about the authors, not the books themselves. Plus, it's easy to read a novel and say I liked it, or I didn't like it, and put it away on the shelf. But to pause for a second and compare that novel to another one requires that you figure out why you liked or disliked it and what that says about what you value. Art belongs to the beholder. But to give that beholder a mic for a second, make them test themselves out loud—whether it's the judges or the commentariat-and then have everyone discuss it out in the open?
Apparently when Andrew W.K. was a judge he advanced Wolf Hall because he liked the cover more. But the founders say they know the whole enterprise is “fundamentally stupid.”
Sometimes they get insane, like the person who said they couldn’t choose so they decided by throwing the books off their porch and promoting the one that flew further. But it’s generally a really light-hearted enterprise.
What part of what?
A+++++++ job making those calls everybody ❤️❤️
I think NYTW would make it off-Broadway?
I think this is the first year I haven’t read any of the books but I suppose it’s not too late to catch up on some. The matches are often fun to read regardless though.
I did my second grade research project (pick a bird) on the trumpeter swan because I loved The Trumpet of the Swan so much. Honestly they are much more stylish than their European cousins.
Dutch swearing is amazing, just heard "Godverfuckingdomme-kankerhoer" today
