Met so many famous writers over the last week and didn’t nervous vomit on any of them. It’s gonna be a good year.
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Met so many famous writers over the last week and didn’t nervous vomit on any of them. It’s gonna be a good year.
Amazing
Today, on International Women's Day, I, a human woman, want you to know there is a type of sea cucumber called the Headless Chicken Monster
lol Tessa, going bluesky viral entirely in character
header: Megan Giddings (image is a full page from first pass of Black Arts) "I thought you were only going to date white guys named Liam for the rest of your life." Lyn rolls her eyes. She's done that only twice, and each time it ended up being such a monumentally poor decision that she has a strict anti-Liam rule. Her dad had referred to her last Liam as a real Ashton Kutcher type until Liz taught him the word "himbo." But she also likes Liams, you don't have to know them because they don't want to be known. You don't have to feel bad if things go wrong. They are the type of men who barely want to be people; they are bags of memes and broccoli head haircuts and their big revelations are always a white dad who thought it would be soft to say I love you or having really taken it too far during frat recruitment. "How can you live a full and interesting romantic life if you're not dating people different from you? We were put on this Earth to experience many people. You are too old to have only experienced white dick," Liz says. She takes a long sip from her mug. The screen is clear and despite how annoying Liz is, Lyn can't help but notice how beautiful her older sister is. As always when Liz says a devastating truth wrapped in a joke, Lyn freezes. Liz is terrifying to disagree with, she has a brain that seems to use a vast amount of its processing power to remember every weird or problematic thing anyone has ever said. She is hilarious, too, and mostly kind. To say only white men are ever interested in Lyn would make Liz laugh so hard it would be heard around the world.
first pass is always weird for me but I still like this page (and if you like this page, this short story collection comes out in September!!)
MEDICAL UPDATE: after apologizing profusely and “retiring” the first bp cuff, the second prompted a very grave doctor to compare my heart to the titan submersible
Oh man did I love this game. Didn't have an OS yet, so I remember painstakingly pecking out DOS commands to initialize it when I was like six.
Depressed to find that after a slight delay, the predicted enshittification of Pitchfork is in full swing. RIP
The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
Guys, what the fuck am I going to do with all these Tulip bulbs.
What *is* Lionel Shriver up to these days?
The historical accounts from occupied Boston are worth it on their own, but this is also a pretty exhaustive gathering of documentary evidence of fed abuses in Minneapolis.
I can’t stop thinking about how we don’t even know how many people ICE has murdered off-camera. We know it’s not zero, but what’s the upper bound? Every death and disappearance is a potential execution when they seem to believe no killing is unjustified.
Treat the US government and ICE claims like you'd treat a Russian government claim after they've shot down an airliner or bombed a hospital. America 2026.
Evil evil evil—unsubtle, unsophisticated, unambiguous evil. What a failure of a society we are.
I see the polling, but the Trump voter in my life who told me my dire (and accurate) predictions for the 2nd term were because of my mental illness has not yet seen anything they don’t like.
The bleak outlook here seems, unfortunately, very plausible. Geopolitical fracturing, major wars between aspiring empires, liberalism and democracy waning worldwide. And us, a populace that couldn’t handle COVID or the resulting inflation without a tantrum, wholly unprepared for any of it.
Do repeated Botox and lip filler injections spoil the taste you think?
This has been going around and it is seriously worth reading—so many great quotes in here. A model for our moment (and someone I’m adding as inspiration for a novel I’ve been cooking for a long time that was inspired by a similar but unsuccessful life story).
Trump’s lost some constraining gunshyness about military adventurism. He is definitely having grandiose delusions of painting the map and playing emperor.
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine.
We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.
2026 coming out of the gate a little too strong for me
And there ya have it…
Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”
This is the most insane press conference I’ve ever seen. They started with some pretensions of liberation and justice, and have ended up at “yeah, we’re taking the oil cuz it’s ours”
These fucking buffoons
Can’t stop thinking about how blind we are right now to what our government and military are actually doing.
They’re waiting to see how many qualifiers and plaudits they should bury their condemnation in.
