Caleb Crain

I really like this Muji pencil sharpener. It looks like they don't make it anymore, but here's one on Ebay...

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“The worker compared the scenes to ‘pictures that I saw in elementary school of how they brought the slaves from Africa.’ ”

ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

In the room the women come and go,
Asking what time is the Superbo

This chart. Wow. reportearth.substack.com/p/the-washin... via @chriscmooney.bsky.social

Screenshot of a reddit post (from r/lotr) dated 7 Feb 2026 that shows a picture of a pen holder in the shape of Boromir from Lord of the Rings, the character played by Sean Bean in the movies, who in his final scene is shot to death by huge spear-sized arrows fired by an Uruk-hai... which are proportionally the same size as the pens in the Boromir-shaped 3D-printed pen holder.

too soon

The aurora last night in Beaver, Alaska was just incredible. This is a real-time video (not sped up) of the crazy motion I saw. Also, look how BRIGHT it is, wow!

In “Pillion,” Gay B.D.S.M. Passions Edge Toward Dom-Com Anchored by Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling’s superb performances, the British director Harry Lighton’s feature début brightens the bleak novel it’s based on.

In theory I have reservations about puns but then there’s calling “Pillion” a “dom-com.”

After non-endorsement, 250,000 subscribers cancel The Washington Post Post staffers press for answers on loss of readers and trust after owner Jeff Bezos explained why the paper would no longer endorse presidential candidates.

It just guts me that the Washington Post lost a *quarter of a million* subscribers because of Bezos's sucking up to Trump, and his reaction is, "Obviously the Post should stop covering books and international affairs."
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I couldn’t hear anything he was saying because all I could focus on was how jacked he looks in that tailored shirt

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

Building on @espiers.bsky.social's post, I am again respectfully requesting a Zohran version of the photo shoot Ed Koch did with the Muppets in 1983. You should know I'm a very persistent person & will keep making this demand until someone makes this happen

this man will rule for a thousand years

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

“Several people said that Mr. Rosen vowed not to ask anyone to do anything illegal—an assurance that normally, the people said, would go without saying.”

Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved.

DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.

This is flawless and I feel like Marc Chagall would love it

Now only 9!

Hmm. If mining a Bitcoin costs more than it's worth, then new transactions won't get added to the blockchain, right? And if you can't validate the trade of existing Bitcoins, don't they become, practically speaking, worthless?

Surely I'm missing something, but please don't disillusion me.

birds from the marcel schurman company, n.d.

Epstein is like the evil Forrest Gump, somehow present and responsible for every terrible thing of the last twenty years.

LFG

A modest proposal for Jeff Bezos: donate the Washington Post to ProPublica to operate as a non-profit readers-revenue supported news outlet.

Here’s a question for Elon: have you seen the documentary Rovina’s Choice, in which a mother weeps as her little girl dies of malnutrition because of cuts to USAID?

Could the moral failure of America’s elite be any greater

Pup waits in deep boredom while its humans are meaninglessly absorbed by non-edible objects. Dog's-eye view of art & rarity collecting, c/o Cornelis de Bailleur. Born in Antwerp OTD 1607.

Dear Director Ratcliffe, I write to alert you to a classified letter I sent you earlier today in which I express deep concerns about CIA activities. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Sincerely, Ron Wyden, U.S. Senator

Sitting U.S. senators don't make letters such as this one public unless they feel a paper trail is needed to inform the public.

Not great. Really not great.

h/t Sahil Kapur

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

The Post's books section was very strong. And for it to be killed off by the founder of Amazon, the company that drove so many book stores to die off, is a level of irony that, if it were in a novel, would come across as contrived.
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Ron Charles is/was my favorite person in books coverage. He combined natural readerliness with good humor and a human touch. This is an insane decision. WaPo was the best newspaper books coverage in the country. Bezos just keeps finding new ways to harm reading. Immediate subscribe (✍🏼)