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“It didn’t help his reputation.” — NYT obituary of Ted Hughes, noting successive suicides of his major love interests within 7 years of each other, by oven gas.

You’re a good man, coldchef!

Inspiring blurbs here — congratulations and hope it’s first of many!

Full cover spread of my book, out Aug 12 from @stanchion.bsky.social! 🥹🥰

There’s a famous SNL skit called: What the Hell IS That?

This is the Old MacDonald version.

Hilarious

"You are being loved, please do not resist. 🖤"

#cats #catsofbluesky #personalspace

MethAmphetamine, no? Amphetamine not emphetamine?

That his panacea for fighting Trump is for colleges and media to themselves become more conservative (as though conservatism naturally offers a voice of reason to liberalism) shows an astounding lack of self awareness or reflection.

I just finished Loving Sylvia Plath (audiobook) yesterday and it moved me so much. Thank you for writing it.

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

"…d at the stage door when their show was kind of terrible? Is there a “nonpliment” you’d recommend?
There are three basic options here:https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/arts/art-friendship.htmlts/art-friendship.html

I’d be interested in helping, more on the case reading, summarizing, and data entry side than on the tech side (balancing with my legal day job).

/2 The list needs to be a searchable online database with (1) the pleadings they filed, (2) transcripts of their arguments where available, (3) orders evaluating their arguments and transcripts of judge’s comments about them, (4) links to commentary about their stances.

"…oup, called the consumer bureau’s attempt to overturn the settlement “bananacakes." occurred in:https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/business/cfpb-repay-mortgage-lawsuit.htmll

can u imagine how badly jeffrey goldberg probably wanted to jump into the chat
"this stuff is wild guys not gonna lie can not believe i was invited"

That’s .1 though!

Boasberg again gets DOJ to confirm that they are arguing that because he didn't include every word of that language in the written order, they could simply ignore what he said.

DOJ lawyer says that's what his client has instructed him to argue. Boasberg is incredulous and keeps pushing back.

When you go to a party and the only person the host makes a point of introducing you to is a giant asshole, is that secretly a clue that *you* are also actually a giant asshole? Asking for a friend.

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Lady Gaga explores ASMR with W Magazine

"Reddit was a meme factory for favorites like Lolcats and icanhazcheeseburger." occurred in:https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/technology/elon-musk-internet-slang.htmll