TJD

The best early-warning system for natural disasters is Ted Cruz leaving the country for vacation.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Peaceful day of adventures with the kids and submitting

I made funeral potatoes as another culinary tour of Utah. They are delicious and contain so much dairy and cheese, they may accelerate your own funeral

Staring at mountains and reading a mystery. A high point for today

Excited to have some work forthcoming soon in Sugared Water from Porkbelly Press.

Botherrrr me

Packing and organizing. Purging and dreaming

Featuring Matt Dennison, Abhik Ganguly, Jayden DeWald, Jessie McLean, Tim Duffy, @carriganak.bsky.social, Andrew Smith, and @aurynanya.bsky.social!!!

Issue #12 Welcome (back) to Stanza Cannon, a literary quarterly dedicated to the spoken word and all the passion behind it. It’s spring and April, which means it’s National Poetry Month here in t…

It's (a)live! Our twelfth issue, which marks our third full publishing year, is ready for your ears! Eight poets. Fifteen #poems Oodles (yes, oodles) of talent. Listen here: stanzacannon.com/issues/issue...

#poetry #NationalPoetryMonth #audio

YouTube video by skeptonomist habilis Ah, tutti contenti saremo cosi

Could listen to this endlessly: youtu.be/z1CN70DqDP8

Issue #12 Welcome (back) to Stanza Cannon, a literary quarterly dedicated to the spoken word and all the passion behind it. It’s spring and April, which means it’s National Poetry Month here in t…

New work in Stanza Cannon!

stanzacannon.com/issues/issue...

Reading the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Is the fun part that most of it isn’t true? I am loving it nevertheless

It is very strange how people went from complaining about the Biden Economy which was good to defending the crashed Trump economy with defenses only one hair away from “is money even real?” GOP teenage nihilism is on the rise

This asshole raised prices and ruined your retirement savings, and now he's out golfing for the rest of the weekend.

I think it’d be a very funny bit for an account that seemed to be live skeeting from an academic panel that never ends

Who did this?

Trump Officials Warn of Tariff Pain as Price Increases Loom and Stocks Tumble The president’s aides insist the fallout will be short and ultimately result in a better economy, as economists warn of higher inflation and slower growth.

It makes sense given how much Put*nism has infected American thought, but this is Stalinist thought. The created suffering is necessary because of an imagined, illogical better future!

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...

This seems like a time to go back to the archive, sharpen your skills, remember stuff, and find ways to tell everyone about everything

A Post-Humanities Defense of the Humanities Lingering in the memories of the plague year

Some thoughts on the Humanities in stupid times

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For April, trying to make writing a more central part of my day

Pottersville Poems | Poems Out Of Potterville | Substack Poems and discourse in vexed times. Click to read Pottersville Poems, by Poems Out Of Potterville, a Substack publication. Launched 15 minutes ago.

Discourse generation coming soon: tjduffct.substack.com?r=8nxp&utm_c...

They need it! You’re doing the lord’s work. They’re often used to teachers who for structural reasons were encouraged to ask for less and give in more

Loving this book

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.

It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

Home sick and staring off into the distance as the children race around

Show me you in a hat.

Firing a highly qualified Black man and hiring lots and lots of completely unqualified and underqualified white men and women (and at least one South Asian man) is DEI for white people (and those Asians who want to be white adjacent).

Loved reading The Extinction of Irina Rey by Jennifer Croft. Very smart novel about translation.

Let them start with the entire administration