Hope Henderson

Kafka understood that an even greater indignity than being turned into a giant insect was still being required to go to work afterward.

sir what am i seeing? pineapple, deli ham, and ginger? 🤔

I just worry my mutuals don't think enough about Marisa Tomei

American Poetry Me & my Dad frying bacon beside a river, opening a box of flies tied by "old-timers" in the 1930's.

Curtis Faville

Vicki Rivard

it is something!

Love labours it is tireless.

Paul Éluard, tr. Gilbert Bowen

Kaori Sakamoto in a blue shirt with a wrist watch looking TOO GAY ITS NOT LEGAL IT KILLED ME IM DEAD GOODBYE

Looks like I won't be able to join everyone for the pairs free because GQ Japan shared this picture of Kaori Sakamoto and I am dead now goodbye 🪦

With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules

“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups…

“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”

Love is very everything, like fire: Many things burning. But only one combustion.

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜

feel free to post small poems you wrote, or ones you like by other poets :)

here’s a little one I love by Laura Riding~

A warning sign reading "danger not only will this kill you it will hurt the whole time youre dying"

Roses are red,
These times are quite trying

you love to see it

tired: the esptein files
wired: the epstein TRIALS

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

tfw

takes me 10+ phone calls to get a preauthorization for an MRI but the ultra-wealthy can pick up the phone and order trafficked children and women like pizza

oh an another one. there is no such things a "child prostitute" because children can't consent to sex, paid or otherwise. there are only children being sexually abused. likewise trafficked women are not "prostitutes," they are sex slaves.

also treating women and children as chattel slaves for sexual exploitation isn't a "sex scandal," it's a crime against humanity. ftfy!

on the Epstein files & language: it is not "sex with children" or "sex with trafficked women" or a "sex scandal." Sexual abuse and rape are to sex what hitting someone over the head with a frying pan is to cooking. Call it what it is.

The cover or Frog and Toad Are Friends: an I CAN READ book by Arnold Lobel

For those of you into Heated Rivalry, might I suggest THIS sizzling slow burn?

I would totally come if it's streaming!

why aren't the epstein files all over the front of @nytimes.com, why haven't they been all week, why is Walmart's market cap increasing a bigger story than multiple credible claims of "auctioning" girls and women, of murdering girls and women and their babies

lollll Benjamin

“There is no conceivable degree of institutional incompetence sufficient to explain the scale, consistency, and persistence of the failures that occurred —particularly where the sole task ordered by the Court and repeatedly emphasized by DOJ was simple: redact known victim names before publication,”

if you want to know what working for a nobel-prize winning scientist is like, my phone now corrects "mean" to "mRNA"

quote from Haruki Murakami: “I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind. “But to hold to such repetition for so long—six months to a year—requires a good amount of mental and physical strength. In that sense, writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.”

Not pictured: Haruki Murakami’s wife, or indeed whoever is cooking, cleaning, paying bills, running errands, doing the laundry, answering emails, etc

like yea his routine is goals, but let’s not lie to ourselves about all the invisible work others are doing to enable him to have that routine

What Americans Really Mean by ‘Affordability’

oh you mean paying for a home, education, childcare, or being able to retire? not just the price of eggs? i mean yes

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

it’s so good

Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless Independent research identifies few learning gains

Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com.

‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’
economist.com/united-state...

Get out dumb fucks, with an illustration of an ICE agent slipping on actual ice

FUCK and a loon melting an ice cube with laser eyes

Live Laugh FUCK ICE

Baby's first protest (I'm baby)

A few favorite signs from today's protest in Minneapolis