Laura Scalzo

Usually I hate it when we’re wasting our time dunking on the same worthless Twitter post here instead of doing our job (posting bangers) but this case is special

Looking for a fall title to add to your Netgalley queue? @margarethutton.bsky.social’s debut novel, If You Leave (10/21) is available now: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

“If You Leave will crack your heart and repair it with transportive precision and luxurious prose.” @laurascalzo.bsky.social

Quadrupling down on appreciation with every new episode.

Smart and true. Ann Telnaes is another example of honoring the work over the special comfort of the Washpo cocktail set.

My spite over this is so staunch that I slapped a "No AI" censor on any photos that included some shite GenAI trump placard that was brought to a US Consulate protest in Belfast and that's the only version of the photos I will publish and take this policy for any other protest coverage.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

On repeat. We here in DC who have no representation in congress (sorry a non-voting rep doesn’t count) are so very tired of a certain kind of dipshit that keeps showing up in town.

the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

This may seem like a weird small thing but the USNO Master clock hasn’t worked in weeks.

This is the way.

So few people realize this about starvation. Once you’ve starved a population to near death, food won’t bring them all back. You need complex medical interventions, like tube feeding carefully monitored in hospitals…which we let be bombed into ruins.

PSA

Be like KAREEM.....

Watching the Live Aid series and wow, Bob Geldof. But here we are with the cancellation of USAID and the suffering death that brings; it’s unnecessary and outrageous. Even the most hardened heart should try and understand the soft diplomacy that comes as a byproduct of human decency.

For example I am going to actively continue to not know what skibidi is.

Nearly there.

Screenshot from Reddit. User is zensnapple, posting 6 months ago. Thread says "How to turn off Google AI Overview in Chrome SOLVED Open Chrome and put chrome://settings/searchEngines in the search box. A tab will open which brings you to Search Engine > Manage Search Engines and Site Search. Click on the Add button by the Site Search update. A box will open. Fill in the form with the following: Name: AI Free Web Shortcut: @web URL: {google:baseURL}search?q=%s&udm=14 You’ll now see AI Free Web in the list of search engines. Click on the three stacked dots on the right side of AI Free Web on the list. Select Make Default. From now on, google functions pretty much like it did back when it was good. Good luck out there."

A while ago, we started a #FixItFriday tradition. We keep a running list - large & small, digital & analog, anything broken or annoying - and work on it together.

Today's 30-second fix: to remove AI "preview" from search results, here's the setting for Chrome users: www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...

EX GREEN BERET: “In my entire career, I never witnessed the brutality and use of indiscriminate & unnecessary force against an unarmed, starving civilian population until I was in Gaza at the hands of IDF & US contractors… without question, war crimes.”

If you know any poets have them scribble something on a piece of notebook paper. Better. 🤓

DMV folks: 804 lit salon on August 16th at 7p. Always lmk if you need an invite or want to be added!

We will have readings from @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social @Amanda Newell Allie Barkmeier, Molly McGinnis, Bailey Blumenstock, and @ktonbsky.bsky.social

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The real American game LAKE PLACID — There is no sport that reflects American history quite like lacrosse. That’s the case longtime sports reporter Scott Price discusses in his new book, “The American Game: History and Hope...

Heading to Lake Placid next week for a downtown chat with UVa head coach Lars Tiffany, during the epic Lacrosse Summit Classic. A Preview:
www.lakeplacidnews.com/news/local-n...

“I am glad you have an hour for books, those enthralling friends, the immortalities...” Emily Dickinson Image: from Dickinson’s letters

“I am glad you have an hour for books, those enthralling friends, the immortalities...”
Emily Dickinson

Image: from Dickinson’s letters
#writer

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Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship

Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”

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Imagine being a Columbia alumnus and watching Linda fucking McMahon, the pedo queen of pro wrestling, take a victory lap like this because the other pedos in the administration dogwalked the university and made them eat shit and now they're all having a big laugh about it

One of the best.

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Lucky to see this one in person. Della Francesca