Molly

This reads just like one of the motivational emails my company’s president “writes.”

A line of Ramona Quimby, a young girl with a choppy bob cut. She has a furious frown. The text, by Beverly Cleary, reads: "I am too a Merry Sunshine," insisted Ramona, but she got down from the table and ran out of the room.

finding joy despite the world in 2025 is like this lol

Hey @governorwalz.mn.gov

Usain. Suzanne. Susie.

100%

The greatest romance novelist of all time.

Do you have Kanopy through your library? They have it. Apart from that, the internet tells me Tubi.

Have you watched The Killing (Danish version)?

OK, I am not COMPLETELY averse to scented paper. For example, my cassette of Madonna’s Like a Prayer still smells like the patchouli it was infused with in 1989 and I love it.

But I draw the line at garlic mayonnaise.

Yeah. It feels like a microcosm of what’s happening in the US right now.

I was just yearning for some bonkers contemporaries.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

All because our society does not (literally) value art and creativity.

WTF 🤣🤣🤣

I seem to have missed the rapture thing till now, but all those bloody awful people are going to disappear today? Best news ever.

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You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia

Give it here 🤤

You had me at “Black Silk”

“this is perhaps why the right is so obsessed with AI: it’s the idea of art without any of art’s complexity. art without labor, cost, intention, specificity, or joy; art that no one, neither producer nor consumer, has to spend any time on at all.”

It’s adorable when guys dismiss Jane Austen as saccharine romantic fluff because I suspect none of her critics will write novels of such sharp comedy and keen understanding of human nature that they’re still being read by millions of people 250 years in the future.

A thought I keep returning to — and that’s underscored by today’s news — is that a legacy publication or a deep-pocketed investor could hire an astonishing array of talent right now and make the best newspaper in America overnight.

They have backtracked for now. archive.ph/jPyiv

Arrrrrggghhhhhh

I got mine at Costco yesterday, no questions asked.

Why do I keep getting porny posts in my feed? From all genders?

It’s not just malevolent; there is also a touch of sneer 🤌

Sold!

Is it a MMPB?

I know it and still use it! First heard it from my mom in the 80s - we’re in Minnesota.