Joe Weinmunson

When you get visited by three Puerto Rican ghosts

Oooooooofffffff

a smiling woman lies in bed on a wedge pillow. she holds a long body pillow in her arms.

I recommend these pillows for anyone who has trouble sleeping because of their arms. It made a huge difference for me.

the character Dominic Toretto from the Fast and Furious movies stares at the viewer from the driver's seat

Dominic Toretto taunts an arrogant Donald Trump into a Washington D.C. street race where the winner becomes president. In our darkest hour he shall arise

Bertie Wooster and Gussie Fink-Nottle, characters from Jeeves and Wooster are talking. Gussie says "Life would be so much simpler if we were newts!"

their superhero identities: Aunt-Man and the Newt

hitting the weed pen and typing "people being nice to each other" into the youtube search bar

We gotta imprison each of these shithead AI ceo's in a different data center like the minotaur

I think life as a wage slavey conditions us to believe we must always be productive to justify our continued existence.

Oof.

Michelle Obama’s Christmas Goth Glow Up!

This is just to say

I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert

and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand

Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old

A screen capture of a poem: Persephone She walks in the dark, stepping From toadstool to leaf, Her moony face burning with light That is not hers. She steals it from others, Drains it of coarse warmth And reflects it back, now silver, now cold. Still Everyone wants a piece of that light Holding out their hands in prayer, In plea, “Look here! Persephone! Favor me!” I begged too, Too long Basking in her light, Telling myself That it felt warm. But she never looks, or favors them. She just sinks. Down, down. Past the grinding engines, Past the bones, Past the magma fields. Into the darkness. I thought she was dead, Once. Her mouth stained, wine-dark, Her womb seeded but empty. Sweetness on her lips, Bitter in her heart, Paralyzed on the ground With the screams of A million children In her ears. Madelyn Boudreaux Sept 12, 2025 #poetry #poetry

Persephone
Madelyn Boudreaux
Sept 12, 2025

Full text in the alt tag. #poetry #poem

"You guys'll be chalk outlines without me." Sidney Poitier, and my favorite movie of all time.

when Sidney Poitier died in 2022, I wrote about how "Sneakers" is one of my favorite movies of all time-and holds up terrifically well for a 30+ year-old techno-thriller.

with Robert Redford's passing, I am again imploring you to watch this perfect movie:

www.actioncookbook.com/you-guysll-b...

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations “In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

McSweeney's did a great bit on this. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

OK, where'd you hide the cameras?

everyone at the doctor's office gathered around for my x-rays because no one has any idea why part of my fibula is just straight up gone [x-ray of leg and part of her fibula is gone]

I'd be surprised, but not surprised surprised

*wearily points at "The Heresy of Paraphrase" by Cleanth Brooks* oldsite.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/ayli...

actor Enrico Colantoni in a scene from English teacher. A bald, bearded, middle-aged white man looks smolderingly at the camera

Enrico Colantoni has entered the chat

I agree. He has loads of charisma, great in Twisted Metal. I feel like he gets run down a lot online and I don't get it.

I have to watch this! One time at work we drove by Chester A. Arthur's birthplace in the middle of Godforsaken Nowhere, Vermont

oh, I love this idea! wish I'd known about it when I ran Dracula Dossier.

I'm staring at this on loop like a caveman

YouTube video by FolkieFudged Dick Gaughan - World Turned Upside Down (BBC 1982)

the great Dick Gaughan has several of these youtu.be/XWzzvnPOyTM

Ok I am completely broken by this. The Hague and UN need to see this.

#Texas

I think I take a lot of the RFK stuff pretty personally because as a Dipshit-American I have a lot of quasi-magical beliefs about how my body works and it really pisses me off to see someone turn this joyful practice to evil

Cannot tell you how often I think about this scene

It’s a heist movie but just with a bunch of humanities scholars trying to get their grant money back.

why is this so funny?! 😆

Forecasting Cuts Leave Some Worried For Hurricane Season Emergency response experts say that funding and staff cuts at the National Weather Service could mean less reliable weather forecasts.

Hundreds of NOAA workers, including National Weather Service meteorologists, have been laid off. @ejreports.bsky.social joins us to discuss her reporting on experts' concerns about forecast accuracy for the next hurricane season, for Wabe and @gristnews.bsky.social.

PBS and public radio were so important to this country boy. a window into symphonies, foreign TV that helped me learn about the world, totally different perspectives on news. We should be making this more accessible, not getting rid of it because it doesn't make money.