cirrhosis of the rye

(and yes, many academic presses are hard for many indie booksellers -- the margin can be as low as 10% or even 0. In this case, Duke is pretty fair about the pricing, thankfully.)

oh, I didn't mean not to buy it from the press, my bad -- I was thinking of the habitual reaction of so many people to go straight to Amazon :-( Buying straight from the press is a great idea! (You can also ask your local library to carry it!)

Bad Bunny holds a football that says Together, we are America.

Unidos somos América.

... but buy it on bookshop.org and support your local independent bookstore! (My store will have copies by Wed or Thu - thanks for the great rec, @chanda.blacksky.app !)

"Content extruder" is the perfect term for people who use the slop plagiarism machine to make "art".

man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you

Muppets aside, it's hard to imagine a level of renown better than "famous among bisexual librarians"

AS220 AS220 is a non-profit community arts organization located in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. We provide all people in Rhode Island affordable access to galleries, performance venues, educational op...

ok that link is *not* their account, but check as220.org

@as220.bsky.social is a fantastic local artist hub/bar/venue that hosts lots of local shows and all kinds of other stuff. I haven't been there in years but the bar was wonderful and they even had fantastic vegan food. Really miss it, but I'm no longer in the littlest state 😔

I cannot wait to see the part where Shai-Hulud bursts out of the center of that spiral like a needle-toothed Kool Aid man

Bart Simpson is angry and frustrated as the computerized voice on the other end of the phone says, "You have selected regicide. If you know the name of the king or queen being murdered, press 1."

"Way less work"? My browser fills in my address instantly. Every attempt I've seen to smartify address input just increases the error rate of that process. What's the actual use case here?

Yesterday I made a coffee & brushed my hair & sat down for a zoom meeting, only to find that the meeting was entirely an AI hallucination. Gemini saw an email thread about possible meeting times, picked a random date and time, & popped it on my calendar. DAMMIT GOOGLE I DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS NONSENSE

@lorifreshwater.bsky.social

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

they're so cooked (no surprise) but on the plus side it's cool to see @clarkesworldmagazine.com lumped in with the New Yorker!

smoooooth operator

bsky.app/profile/donl...

In all sincerity, if they get this through and agree to fund DHS, I will never vote for a Democrat again. I am floored by the spinelessness, and I've been had too many times. It's just embarrassing that it took me this long to figure that out.

I have found any sold yet that aren't in the back row. People who feel obligated to go, but want to stay as far away as possible??

but does Kat know?

Trump smiling and patting his new best friend, Zohran Mamdani, on the arm at their White House meeting

I know he's busy with the new job, but I can think of one guy who might be able to convince Trump that his natural charisma and likeability are being undermined by the actions of a certain evil thumb-shaped vizier

On the other hand, I see no evidence whatsoever that Alex had a gun before the man in grey took it. He certainly wasn't "brandishing" it. But the idea that Alex was carrying is pretty consistent with everything else we know and see.

There's far more certainty in this thread than I think is merited, but the best explanation I've seen is bellingcat's conclusion that the man in grey took it from Alex before he was shot. I don't think the man in grey fired it, though.

I said a year ago that T2 would be the gom jabbar for America, to test whether we're still human. It seems truer every day.

this is it. this is the level. this is the standard for democratic officials. anything less is intolerable.

I know it’s not healthy to be so angry all the time but also “stay angry, little Meg” runs through my brain like a lifeline these days

We will all be judged by what we did at this moment.

exactly.