Everything about this story is just so tragic. Israel is wrong to bomb Lebanon and it is wrong to respond to that real loss by attacking Jews who had nothing to do with the decision. Just trauma and tragedy and warmongering all the way down.
Obviously this war would be evil in any context, but it is stunning how much money these measly-hearted men will spend to destroy lives and how vanishingly little they are interested in spending to save them.
In America, people are regularly forced to crowdfund cancer treatment.
Me revising an essay
Will I, perhaps, cheer up once I have a better writing day? That’s for you to find out, asshole. Outta my way.
I did not have a good writing day and will now be an enormous bitch for the next week. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Looks like I'm taking a transatlantic flight
WHERE
A whole philosophical treatise dedicated to it, perhaps?!
Beholding a vast mountain range, taking the first sip of a Caramel Ribbon Crunch Frappuccino — comme ci, comme ça
For all we know, Burke’s 18th century tastebuds would be so stunned by the taste of Starbucks’ coked out novelty drinks that he *would* deem them examples of the sublime.
My freshmen mostly did not know Celine Dion, which was humbling. ELVIS, though!!
Psyched to have a new story at @theforge.bsky.social today, about hosting Jesus for dinner 🥣
I have clearly missed something discursive, but I love reading third person! George Eliot’s third person omniscient is my favorite point of view in all of literature.
Yeah, I don’t see the issue here. This seems like the ideal game plan to me.
I have not! I’ll look it up. Thank you for the rec.
I loved it; I hope you will too.
This is a fantastic review essay. Just placed a library hold
Spencer, thank you so much for reading! The book is excellent; I hope you love it.
*MilkWEED, yikes
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Some forthcoming indie press books I'm excited to read:
G., John Berger, NYRB
Quake, Kitty Mrosovsky, McNally Editions
We Were Forbidden, Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books
Attention-Seeking Behavior, Aea Varfis-van Warmelo, Graywolf
The Evolution of Fire, Angela Pelster, Milkweek Editions
This is evil and nauseatingly crass, but my guess is that it’s rhetorically on point for their intended audience, right? This mashup feels like a pretty accurate summation of MAGA’s vision of masculinity.
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Shuttering women’s and gender studies programs across the nation so that people will smile and nod at this shit with smooth, unbothered brains.
When I was sixteen years old, I interviewed someone professionally for the first time. The person? Usher.
(I did a bad job.)
I think that is such a keen insight
Grief is the endurance of love, despite absence. My mom died in 2017. I grieve her because I will love her for the rest of my life, knowing that I’ll never see her again. I’ll take the ache inherent to this form of love, which lacks a ready recipient, over indifference to my memories.
Really dislike the question “Can AI cure grief?” not only because I reject AI in most contexts, and certainly therapeutic ones, but also because framing grief in diagnostic terms is such an impoverished and frankly dangerous way to think about the ways we register and respond to loss.
Hello! I am a trans journalist looking to speak with trans kids and parents of trans kids across the US who have been impacted by the clinic closures---please get in touch or share!
