Anna Sproul-Latimer

On finding and loving the metadata Or: why you should care about the boring stuff (and the BISG).

Psst: the metadata is a metaphor for love (agape kind) substack.com/home/post/p-...

Why can’t I just live full time in the kingdom of Hyrule? ::bangs steering wheel:: lizalfos, I can HANDLE lizalfos

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Aaaand yadda yadda yadda, the universe and DCPD have literally forced me to give up on trying to drive and spend my morning waiting to see the monks. Here’s to loving kindness shutting everything down.

🙏 😪 🤦‍♀️

JAM THE GEARS OF THE WORLD TO A HALT, MY DUDES.

I forgot to check the peace monks’ route this morning, and it’s my precise morning commute, and my kids and I are trapped half a mile or so behind them and will be for at least an hour, and God this is kind of a holy experience?

watching lindsay vonn and internalizing the important lesson of never trying to do anything past the age of 40

And I could not be more proud.

well that's going to cause a lot of flooding isn't it

All you need to know going in is that Led Zeppelin disbanded in 1980 after their beloved bowler-hat wearing drummer John Bonham died suddenly at 32, and the three surviving members had no idea his son was going to be onstage.

YouTube video by Mark Pakula Heart - Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin - Kennedy Center Honors HD

On a related note — if you want spiritual medicine this Sunday morning, watch this — IMO the greatest performance ever on the Opera House stage:

youtu.be/2cZ_EFAmj08?...

I promise it’s worth it, even if you don’t think you’re a Led Zeppelin fan.

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

It’s 40-60! These people are violating the social contract!!!

Come sit with me in the empty theater A note on ambition as the old world breaks.

No paywall this week.

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Thank you ❤️

Excited to be a paying subscriber to this. The staff CVs are 🔥

I’ve been using the CIA World Factbook online since I was a little kid. What a stupid, pointless desecration.

(The archives include extensive book proposal tutorials.)

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If you're a Post journalist who got laid off today: 1. [pats bench] come sit by us, is it time to go get that book deal?; and 2. even if not, I'd be happy to comp you a free year's subscription to "How to Glow in the Dark" if you reach out this week. neonliterary.substack.com?utm_campaign...

Think of the world we could have if we just got our money back from like 100 people and enacted a little antitrust legislation. It's closer than you think.

Let your rage and sorrow in. Let it make you delulu for this.

lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

The Adults in the Room Megan Greenwell's 2019 article about G/O Media and Jim Spanfeller's mismanagement of Deadspin

Tapping the @greenwell.bsky.social sign www.megangreenwell.com/the-adults-i...

MacKenzie Scott has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.

(after which i will get out and build the world anew with you, just give me a minute)

watching wildly incompetent men come in and destroy every single thing that is tender and sacred in the city where my family has lived for 160 years is really, truly going to send me to the nuthouse

Last year Will Lewis told WaPo staff that "people aren't reading your stuff." As though it was their fault that he and Bezos had corrupted the opinion section, demolished local coverage, and alienated thousands of subscribers. Now a great newsroom is being destroyed to hide their gross incompetence.

I don’t even know what to say.

“first Judith, now THESE PEOPLE trying to cc me into a global cabal?” high camp lol

how many Jeffrey Epstein emails do you think this poor man got by accident? From John Brockman alone???