All of our bookstore-ownership fantasies are corny. To pretend otherwise would be futile.
12.03.2026 02:50
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All of our bookstore-ownership fantasies are corny. To pretend otherwise would be futile.
I never thought I would see this. States are legislating unenforceable laws that violate privacy and decency and basic human dignity, targeting Trans people over a bunch of horseshit lies and ignorance.
So some of the best people are leaving because of the worst, and the silence of the rest.
3/
This is 2026 in a glass and the mere idea of its taste is haunting me
On Medicaid Work Requirements, as required by HR-1 (2025):
"Meeting those requirements will be particularly challenging for the state’s roughly 180,000 homeless people. They often have no phones or internet to complete a job application. They have limited access to meals, showers or clean clothes."
Really good to the last drop stuff here
Scrolling dystopia on the subway into the office youtu.be/m-H0uIH5HHQ?...
a chart of iwnd turbine isntallers
Global wind turbine installations hit a record last year! 😍
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i say this to my students a lot and am always surprised when they find it discouraging rather than exciting. no one cares as much as you do whether you write that book! you can write it however you want!
Yes, this is how literature works. You pull out passages from novels and you get a computer to pastiche them. Can’t spot the real one? Gotcha! The novel must be dead! That’s journalism and the singularity and entertainment!
I watched episode 1 of season 1 based on Mo’s post re season 2. Liking the lead actress enough to go on but particularly enthusiastic given the recommendations from people with good taste.
In my Vans, hailin’ the Hallen van.
“The U.S. military is the only force involved in the conflict that uses Tomahawk missiles.”https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/world/middleeast/iran-minab-school-strike.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
First they came for the trans people, and I said nothing because I wasn’t trans. Then they were like actually I’m pretty sure you are trans and I said no I’m not and they went okay well show us your penis then and I said what no get out of my face and they said that one’s a girl get her
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Can’t emphasize enough how important that semi-subterranean junkyard hangout was to me
Same!
Did someone mention a stone cold banger
I wanted to look away (I looked anyway). Great work!
The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.
At once impeccably cool and aggressively unfashionable, Joe Jackson’s Steppin’ Out is four minutes of nightmare disco and nightclub jitters which paves the way from ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ to the Magnetic Fields. Detours through Motown and Freud. A perfect single. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJwt...
Kristi Noem will return in Avengers: Doomsday
We have always been at war with
**gestures vaguely**
Psychic parasites will literally drain the vitality from those they encounter rather than go to therapy
My official response to that (very good) piece is the familiar but still applicable YIKES
This is a bombshell: "the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data"
This kind of agenda echoes the defunded Total Information Awareness effort, post-9/11
Augh. I’m sorry.
As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in
“He paid his dues”
This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting.
NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...
