Jeremy Hornik

How To Put Down Your Phone And Read A Book | Defector Welcome to Ask The Book Doctor, a recurring series about books and reading them. The beautiful shiny phone is killing us. We all know it, but there it is. We want it. It is made to keep us captivated....

@mckinneykelsey.bsky.social aka the Book Doctor at Defector answered my important book question… how can I put down my apps and read nice long groovy books?

Thank you! I have already gotten the ebook of Cassandra at the Wedding!

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Yet another “for want of Oxford commas someone fell into the Phantom Zone” sermon? FINE, WE GET IT, AND YOU CAN STOP

i know this is quaint of me but the white house renovation is crazy illegal and actually really emblematic of how trump sees the presidency as belonging to him

I’d like to introduce yall to Rosner’s Law of Double Garnish:

Every savory dish is made better by not one but TWO finishing elements added just before serving: one brightening (green herbs, lemon zest/juice, pickled onion), one deepening (cheese, nuts/seeds, toasty breadcrumbs, oil drizzle)

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:

Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

The filing, which is not public, was submitted to the inspector general’s office in electronic form on May 2, and a longer, printed version that included documentary evidence was delivered on May 5, according to people familiar with the filing. The inspector general appears to have done nothing with the information for more than two months, and many in that office did not realize they even had the material until a day or two before the full Senate voted on Mr. Bove’s nomination. He was confirmed Tuesday by a razor-thin margin, 50 to 49. Last Friday, when the whistle-blower group went public about the filing’s existence, the inspector general’s office told lawmakers that it had no such complaint, according to people familiar with the case, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations. The office only found the documents after lawyers for the whistle-blower presented electronic and FedEx delivery receipts for them. The implications of that inaction are potentially significant, given that Republicans have cast skepticism on another Justice Department whistle-blower, Erez Reuveni, describing his account as part of a politically timed effort by Democrats to scuttle a Trump nomination. That someone appears to have come forward about Mr. Bove’s conduct well before his nomination was known would undercut those claims. The complaint, according to people familiar with it, outlines a set of allegations that largely tracks with Mr. Reuveni’s account.

Oh boy.

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We gotta get that guy to write another one

What are you already doing?

What else can you do?

What are you doing together with others?

Do you ever feel like there are inferences you have made but cannot write about for whatever reason? I mean, like, this rich guy seems to control everything happening in some area, but not in a way you can tie down. Or is that my conspiratorial nature imagining it?

The Confidence-Man is for the real heads lol

Yeah, I called it "Martha's Island." Why do those fancypants get to call it a Vineyard anyway.

close up crop of an illustration from the previous post. a man in long coattails with a sassy black haircut stands astride a bicycle of sorts with his legs splayed wide. the bicycle consists of two equal-sized wheels with a confusing frame between them that has no pedals or handlebars, just a long straight bit over the front wheel. it almost looks like he's sitting on it backwards. but he knows what he's doing, he's got an air of confidence

it's like they described a bicycle to one of those 13th century manuscript illuminators who had never seen e.g. a tortoise

When I was a buyer at a large indie, my rule of thumb was:

1 preorder: huh, let me take a closer look at this one
2 preorders: we need to stock this book
3 preorders: we should order enough to face this out
4+ preorders: this should be on front-of-store display

Quote from an article by Tracy Kidder on a food pantry in Massachusetts: It is easy to make wrong assumptions about the center’s clients. A bystander once watched a woman drive off with a load of groceries in an expensive late-model S.U.V. and told Ms. Bialecki that he disapproved. “Not that it’s any of your business,” she replied, “but that woman’s husband just left her with four kids and no money.” Anyway, she added, that woman’s car would soon be repossessed.

Tracy Kidder on food pantries and food insecurity.

Yeah also I'm sick of big wind having major wind spills every few years that pollute the oceans and get the wildlife all covered in wind

Hello, I’m a game designer in a film. My mild mannered demeanor hides my sinister and manipulative heart. Lots of teenagers die while I watch unblinking, one hand at my chin. I might make a little note. But I’m not a meaningful antagonist, and I rarely appear in the third act.

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@hleisthen.bsky.social

Starting my objections early.

I have installed two light fixtures, a garden hose hanger, and rescued a screw that fell down the bathroom sink, and the whole family is away so the kids don’t have to hear their old man saying, “Mother FUCKER.”

It's worth your time to read.

A new essay collection celebrates Sinéad O’Connor’s legacy Contributors to a new book of essays, Nothing Compares to You: What Sinéad O’Connor Means to Us, weigh up the singer’s cultural and political legacy

Happy pub day to NOTHING COMISRES TO YOU: WHAT SINÉAD O’CONNOR MEANS TO US! Here’s a link to this weekend’s wonderful feature in the Sunday Times www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...

No cheating, post your lock screen

@mattbors.bsky.social

Treasury Department files reviewed by Senator Ron Wyden’s staff members show 4,725 wire transfers, adding up to nearly $1.1 billion, associated with just one of Mr. Epstein’s bank accounts. Follow. The. Money.

he really is as short as they say

I enjoyed Metallic Realms myself

Fascinating! I'd heard "Oll Korrekt," but didn't know the rest.

At least one should be U. Otter Knough

Gonna build myself a labyrinth made out of #Borges collections, as a trap for my enemies... 😅🪞

Hey #BSbookclub 📖 we should read Arthur Gordon Pym. It's short and completely bananas.

this reminds me of the period in american politics when pundits would demand that any black politician of note — really, any black person in politics with a national audience — “condemn farrakhan”

Not enough people made fun of this headline for my liking