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The newest edition of The Onion featuring the headline Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled Don and Jeff: Time Pedophiles

Know something that’s never down due to AWS? A gosh dang newspaper.

The real banger in this is the coinage of the term "epistemia," for something that has the surface appearance of knowledgeability & plausibility but no actual verification or expertise. Gonna get a lot of use, connecting the dots between bullshit, technochauvinism, & epistemic/hermeneutic injustice.

‘Sinners’ Production Designer Hannah Beachler on Weaving in Folklore, History and Spirituality Into Her Sets "Sinners" production designer Hannah Beachler on weaving history and folklore into the film's sets.

“‘Sinners’ Production Designer Hannah Beachler on Weaving in Folklore, History and Spirituality Into Her Sets” variety.com/2025/artisan...

I do think it's terribly funny in a post-ironic sense that the viewer managed to, accidentally, self-insert themselves into the work and experience the themes firsthand. you couldn't pay for that level of metatextual immersion in a semiotics course

So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people?

Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help!

A thread!

TO THE LIGHT OF SEPTEMBER When you are already here you appear to be only a name that tells of you whether you are present or not and for now it seems as though you are still summer still the high familiar endless summer yet with a glint of bronze in the chill mornings and the late yellow petals of the mullein fluttering on the stalks that lean over their broken shadows across the cracked ground but they all know that you have come the seed heads of the sage the whispering birds with nowhere to hide you to keep you for later you who fly with them you who are neither before nor after you who arrive with blue plums that have fallen through the night perfect in the dew

you who are neither before nor after
you who arrive with blue plums
that have fallen through the night
perfect in the dew

-W.S. Merwin, To the Light of September"
#everynightapoem sharing Merwin on his birthday

A greenish yellow milkweed, with pods bursting open and fluff floating through the air and grass.

It’s the time of year when milkweed seeds blow everywhere. We started with two milkweed plants. Now we have over a dozen.

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I feel my age everytime someone reads THE BEWITCHING and tells me they didn't know we had laptops and internet in 1998. Short piece I wrote about technology and perception.
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BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

Look, if they bring back HUAC, I propose that we just sort of treat it like Shark Tank. They'll make a reality show of it anyway--we could come with pitches for un-American activities, degenerate art, insufficiently-sanitized museums, insufficient obeisances. Maybe bring a trombone, make it festive.

Mamdani will go down in history, but not only for the reason that he's likely to win in November. It's his refusal to engage with the fascist mirrorworld's warped reality as his colleagues & other media do. His insistence on *staying here*, in the lived reality of his people, is the real triumph.

Go read this. It's wonderful.

Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material.

Oh my.

If we have to lose him, it better be to the White House

“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.”

"Okay I get that," Meg whispered back, "but I've been angry for over a decade straight and my arteries are basically solid carbon fiber at this point. Do I ever get a freakin' break?"

AI this, LLM that, I'm amped for the counterculture to ignite against this banal mediocrity.

Gimme handmade zines, let's write poems on the back of receipts, a watercolor using found pigments, book clubs on subway cars; let the revolution be not just analog but antiquated, baby. Bring back quills!

Exactly! My community college students are no less deserving than ivy students of a broad liberal arts education and the opportunity to explore many possible intellectual paths—CCs aren’t (only) trade schools—they’re an opportunity for many ppl to get their 1st two years of college cheaply & often

among all the many reasons I think we should cut Pete Buttigieg out of the primary discourse right now before he gets any ideas: he is being a little weasel at the same time that we are watching all these other Dems FUCKING FIGHT

YOU DON’T HAVE TO ROLL OVER FOR THESE PEOPLE! GROW ONE (1) SPINE!

#somethingbeautiful

How To Be A Resilient Writer First and floormoose,1 I have a book that comes out in two weeks. It’s called Lessons in Magic and Disaster and it’s about a witch named Jamie who decides to...

My latest newsletter is all about how to be a resilient writer in the face of career setbacks, ego death and creeping fascism.

I offer 17 handy tips on how to hang onto yourself and keep going when the challenging times just don't seem to stop.

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What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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I’ve never seen it so well put

the small things might not fully fix a problem but they matter

A flowerscape of allium blossoms.

#FlowersonFriday #Scape #MobilePhotography #VideoVignette 🎵📷 🌱

Trans issues have been especially divisive for Democrats in the wake of the 2024 election, when Republicans used the subject to cast Kamala Harris and other opponents as out-of-touch. Newsom, another possible 2028 contender who visited South Carolina last week, drew backlash from activists and some liberal colleagues this year when he said “it’s deeply unfair” for trans athletes to participate in women’s sports. In South Carolina, Beshear was eager to talk about how he had handled LGBTQ issues, however. “I vetoed it because it was the right thing to do,” he said of the bill in Kentucky. “I said my faith teaches me that all children are children of God, and I didn’t want people picking on those kids.”

If the (wildly popular) governor of Kentucky can say this with his whole chest then what excuse does the (wildly unpopular) governor of California have?

A tuft of crown tipped coral mushrooms grows between two logs in a sunny green forest. Each ivory arm is topped with a little hand 🙌 All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.

Newspaper photo of a group of cats huddled together on a satellite dish with the headline, "Outdoor cats are using $500 Starlink satellite dishes as self-heating beds."

Cats are and always have been cyberpunks

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Ashley
Photographer East Coast of Australia
"Here's a little #wildlifewednesday moment for you, filmed only an hour ago, as this gorgeous humpback descends into the water right on sunset, ready for the night to take over"