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The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation

bleak. fascinating. a car crash u can't look away from. also, rip the titular connotation of jennifer egan's 2010 masterpiece, "A Visit from...": harpers.org/archive/2025...

I think that leaves Fishlock and Adriana Leon as the other active players in the NWSL who played in the 2013 season (though there are of course others active abroad, like Sam Kerr)...surreal

hadn't heard this one before--different take than adia victoria's "stuck in the south" or mandolin orange's "wildfire," but i'm always a sucker for songs negotiating the tension of southern-ness as identity and the political realities of it

interesting how ppl embracing "trad" lifestyles in search of fulfillment will inevitably find it as empty as the "hedonism" or "modernity" or ~queerness~ they blame their discontent on. life is weird and ppl in the past didn't have it figured out either! self-imposed suffering isn't a virtue tho lol

thanks, gotta put my mfa to use before they take us off the internet lol

extremely bleak to have liberal pundits chastise frightened minority groups with "but guys we have to learn to live with each other, including reactionaries" while elected reactionaries tell minority groups "actually you shouldn't get to live." the asymmetry is almost artistic in its absurdity

Splitsville (2025) is a really good movie, actually. my favorite comedy since Booksmart (2019) even though they are wildly different vibes. there was something very shakespeare-like about the plot and humor. totally rec

tbh this seemed inevitable from the moment bay went down three goals in the first half in front of a record-setting crowd

ok but maybe can we invest in dmv workers so it doesn't take new residents 100+ days to get an id

i have no mouth, and i must...

Anne Lived in Gables. They Were Green. by Ernest Hemingway Matthew Cuthbert was a silent man. He drove a buggy. Mrs. Rachel Lynde, a loud, fat woman, watched him drive by. - - -Matthew saw an ugly girl with...

"Anne gave Diana Barry a tumbler of liquid. Diana drank the entire tumbler. It was filled with grappa. Diana got very drunk until she was red in the cheeks, like Anne’s ugly hair. She stumbled home and vomited in the garden."

Tried playing around with it for a minute, and it was...not amazing. I don't use genAI much, but when I do, it's mostly as an enhanced search engine given the way search has deteriorated the last few years. It gave me pretty quick misinfo on the Idaho college murders and qualified with word salad

> "Rep. Diane Mullins recently suffered a stroke"

hmm i wonder if she saw the wrong "shapeless, communist" sculpture and had an adverse reaction 😵‍💫

...i'd treat her with more dignity except she's clearly healthy enough to vote against the concept of dignity

Cake | Laura van den Berg Rita has exorcised her mother’s superstitions, but that hasn’t kept her from developing her own.

Cool short story for anyone bored of scrolling: "Cake" by Laura van den Berg (whose novel "State of Paradise" is one of the best FL books, period). Shout out to the Baffler @thebaffler.com too which is a seriously cool journal!!

thebaffler.com/stories/cake...

Enigma on HBO was pretty good actually, idk

Check out the new issue of MoonPark Review for my latest micro piece, “Late Stage Capitalism” ☺️ !!!

“I saw all of him through the air-tight window of his car. He was sitting hunch-backed as he suckled the plastic, protruding tit of his Starbucks drink…”

moonparkreview.com/issue-32-sum...

C. P. Cavafy, 1898: Waiting for the Barbarians

"What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? / The barbarians are due here today.

Why isn’t anything going on in the senate? ... What’s the point of senators making laws now? / Once the barbarians are here, they’ll do the legislating..."

#poetry

They're literally doing the meme

I used to teach in his town. A lot of good people there. A lot of not good people too 🫠

j’aime paris 💙🩵🤍🩷❤️

No shock that people from as wide as Sam Kriss (pic) to @juliaserano.bsky.social have been dunking on Helen Lewis lately…amazed @theatlantic.com continues to publish pieces from her that contain blatant inaccuracies and weird snark. Where’s the editing?? I canceled my sub lol

kinda funny how miserable the ppl in power & ultra rich are. goes to show that what our economic and civil systems reward is fucked. ironic too we’re facing all this heartache and fascism on their behalf when it won’t make them happy either. like a toxic family member ruining things for everyone

imo we take to the streets to scream in protest precisely bc we know it doesn’t change anything—it’s the most basic action we have left in a moment where so many other ways to push change have been eroded or sold away. see y’all out there again soon 🩵

She's a hero. Hopefully her courage helps people understand that interning us in men's prisons is how they plan to *end* us. In FL prisons they already humiliate, de-transition, and put trans women in the path of physical and sexual violence. There is no need for camps when the state has prisons.

An old, long short story of mine that finally found a home :) carminamagazine.com/a-mothers-la...

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

She was the first transgender woman to testify before Congress. Then conservatives began attacking her identity | CNN Frances Thompson’s testimony in 1866 came at a critical time, as the nation weighed whether to expand equal constitutional protections to newly freed Black Americans. But it also came at a great perso...

A Black transgender woman's testimony helped ratify the 14th Amendment. Then her identity was attacked. Some see parallels to today's climate.

Tomorrow I will go for a walk in the bitter, frozen woods. I will curl up with a book, tea, and my cats. I will not go online. I will ignore the tea leaves of what every action and headline might portend. I will live in the beautiful, ephemeral bliss of the winter dark for one last day. 🩵

Gemini was the kick in the butt I needed to degoogle tbh. I didn’t want it shoved in my face and I didn’t want my raw data being used to train it either. Now I actually pay for the services I need elsewhere and it works better than google

If you make your syllabus as short and to the point possible (~2 pages imo) then students will actually read it! Crunching down required/boilerplate language is especially good. I find students tend to skim/gloss/ignore longer syllabi 🤷‍♀️