brandon brown

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

TNC looking confused and disappointed.

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AABB Author Sign-Up Form Hello! We're Authors Against Book Bans, a group of authors who’ve come together to protect and promote the freedom to read on both the national and local levels. We’re creating a network of authors to...

It's banned books week and so I'm legally obligated to bully you, a person who has ever had their name on a book, into joining @authorsabb.bsky.social.

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We fight the source of book bans with calls to action, partnership w everyone in the game, and offer training.

I've been seeing a lot of this even in books that seem like they should be more driven, pulpier, more plot & action-focused. What frustrates me about it—to be clear, I adore a contemplative lost-in-the-landscape literary meander—is when it seems to stem from a televisual concept of *time*.

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

a lovely poem

Ross incredulously pointing behind himself over his shoulder, where stands the revolutionary girl, Utena. Ross is exclaiming "Get a load of this gender!"

You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies

This essay is a banger. houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/you-dont-n... (obligatory "wish it weren't on substack")

I'm not gonna hate on yalls movie. If you like it, I love it. But you will never convince me that Leo DiCaprio shouting while wearing a tatty bathrobe is the best movie of the year when Ryan Coogler was literally summoning the ancestors a few months ago.

We are now also the most official looking Taco Bell account on here and I would just like to let everyone know that eating Taco Bell makes you trans

i think i've cracked the idea i've been chewing on for this, god help me

I did this last year and did not regret a second of it—they change a lot over the years, but there's really something to a lot of these flicks imo

It’s been a couple of weeks since my story came out in khōréō! Proud of this one. Check it out if you haven’t—it’s about cigarettes, shame, and grappling with atrocity 👀

I actually think it's worth listening to this interview. Coates does a really great job refusing to allow Klein to frame everything as in service to politics, and instead forcing him to meet Coates on the more essential ground of morality.

It's frustrating to listen to, but also instructive.

if taylor swift hated someone a lot and then dated them……i don’t know, i just think that would be cool. the album would be rancid, but we’d all be riding high, like during the summer of not like us

bionic coffee coming up

thinking a lot about taylor swift because of @sillygoosepress.bsky.social and i'm angry. i'm seething about it. i'm thinking about girlhood and how reality is built and policed and i'm thinking about love. it's annoying

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

The ICE Shooter’s Motive Joshua Jahn's friends speak

ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me.

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Chotiner getting to the whole "semi-clone of your dead wife that's 14 and which you have a suspiciously close relationship with" part would make Gendo truly crash out

are there any enemies-to-lovers pop albums?

t's hot pynchon fall, where almost everyone in the news has a stupid name, the grift is on, and we're all either deteriorating from paranoia or seeing reality in all its firework against a night sky sharpness

Restricting the expression of sexuality through fiction and art made by adults, for adults – including those you find personally disturbing or offputting – is conservative censorship, full stop. When that censorship disproportionately affects subgroups, that's also discrimination. For shame.

I love confusion and frustration when they are engineered by the text rather than careless byproducts, much like laughing at a well-constructed and well-told joke is different from laughing at someone slipping on a banana peel.

i’m writing a story about this kind of thing right now (shoutouts to my @tinhouse.bsky.social speculative workshop, can’t wait to hear what they think)

messy business (friends at the table) (bluff city) (2019)

Some NM artists decline federal-state grant funding, worrying it’s ‘tantamount to censorship’ • Source New Mexico A New Mexico arts organization will decline grant funding citing a new anti-DEI provision it says risks artistic freedom.

A New Mexico arts organization on Thursday said it plans to decline a longstanding state grant that relies on federal funding, citing a new anti-DEI provision it says risks artistic freedom.

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself."

Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.