This is a far bigger fuel, fertilizer, food crisis for Asia and Europe than it is for the US.
US dependence on Persian Gulf oil has almost never been lower
A thread by @sstapczynski.bsky.social on how Asia is alreaddy within days facing a destabilizing.
x.com/SStapczynski...
We mans like to cook. 😄
ohhh did the white men not welcome you with kindly open arms
damn
Friends you can now read Aliya Whiteley's "After the Last Night Comes the Rest of Your Life." Locus called it "A fine and truly weird tale." It is that, and more.
Enjoy!
www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/last-night
Made and ate a Mexican-inspired beans (rajma) and rice meal & now I'm in a food coma byeee
*sob
Sometimes, evil shops at Fabindia.
Geez this guy talks in entire pamphlets at a time. Everyone else is looking thoughtful and a little visionary.
I want to ask the men where they get these lovely printed cotton shirts. I am a traitor to my values.
One of them looks like me, given a haircut and linen trousers...
These pleasant, nicely-dressed, well-spoken people at the next table are planning a business that will exploit gig workers, add to urban traffic, needlessly use AI, and Deliver Shareholder Value...
The existence of women's boyfriend shirt dresses implies the existence of men's girlfriend dress shirts.
Indeed he did. Hugh Laurie too. Lots of disappointments.
My wife reads the poems I write while she's at work and she comes home and asks me if I'm okay. I'll call my next chapbook Red Flag.
Dad joke recognise dad joke 😄
many other supposedly sincere, convincing gestures.
Anyway please remember people like Tate or Epstein are only ever one among many. There's always more where that came from.
was just a lucky a friend did some internet sleuthing and found out the guy was wanted in connection with trafficking in one country, and was associated with an 'escort service' in another. He did the classic love bombing stuff, and it nearly worked. He even got on a video call with her parents and
I've come to understand many things about how human nature enables self-sabotage. I'd still find it incomprehensible that anyone could get conned into being sex trafficked by Andrew Tate if I didn't personally know of a young woman who was nearly taken in by a Tate-wannabe on a trip to Europe. She
I pretend some of the later Fringe stuff never happened but otherwise a superb decision.
Well, I've abandoned that novel. Just need to finish this fascinating Karl-Markus Gauß book and then back to worrying about what fiction I can possibly read that won't disappoint me.
that world is gone
where I'd never been
and so is the next and the next
sky the blue of
day-for-night
a hovel on an empty page
my shoes by the door
my throat confiding
a slow death
to this world and the rest
and the ocean the colour of sand.
The Harare Review of Books Is Back with Its First Issue of 2026 and It's a Good One brittlepaper.com/2026/03/the-...
Best coin.
Do you know offhand which collection i might find it in?
This book sounds as if designed for me.
Yes! And also some scions of wealthy or powerful families, like Edith Bouvier Beale.
@deepcuts.blog will possibly understand my fascination for such lost, dead-end characters.
The life of her son, Ari Boulogne, Alain Delon's unacknowledged love-child, who died of an overdose, aged 60, in 2023 is one of those insignificant historical footnotes that haunts me tremendously.
