Tal Lavin

he is 73 years old. my god.

my friend elie is exploring new terrain for his horror fiction 😱

A minor league hockey team had a wiener dog race. Zero thoughts, just vibes and absolute chaos. A thing of beauty

the thing about depression sleep is you have no control over it; wake up to missed appointments and opportunities and just as much exhaustion as you had before you slept

what stage of depression is missing a night's sleep and then accidentally sleeping from noon to 11pm

the two phases of writing: (1) writing and (2) wandering aimlessly like an unmoored ghost and complaining about not writing

call me jörmungandr with the way i keep the world safe by sucking my own dick

I think a lot of writers would do well to admit themselves, embrace JLC's dictum that 'the writer is a natural spy' - it's uncomfortable but you have to wrestle with it if you want to write things that last

le carré's absolute obsession with traitors and professional liars makes a lot more sense when you know his dad was a con man

i just finished the book like ten minutes ago haha. i think the tv version is more linear (understandably so; a guy sweatily writing his memoirs in a room while going insane isnt primo primetime material)

I didn't think of him as a ghoul at all! if anything he's a way more tragic figure than magnus

yeah i read it over 3 days didnt wanna stop. poor magnus! also i want 300% more axel

yesss takes a bit to get used to but once i was locked in i was Locked In

its the one where he addresses his father's ghost for sure

it's both and it does both SO well. rick is an absolute ghoul

my only complaint is i wanted a bit more axel he was my favorite character

it took a little while to get on board with the dual timeline but once it sunk in it was just gorgeous. every sentence spare & crafted. the audiobook is also extremely good

none of the rather tiresome mystery elements just a pure raw semi memoir combined with the fractured psychology of the double agent

a perfect spy by john le carré was genuinely beautiful and devastating and i loved it

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

the guy with the fuckin crusader tattoos is doing “war for israel”

yuh huh

the country is divided between people who believe in antisemitic myths about the world's greatest superpower doing the bidding of nefarious jews and those who don't

when people say stuff like “oh we have a pope at home” and it’s the pope in avignon

This is not a joke, it is much closer to reality than headlines would suggest

Everyone should read Wild Faith by @swordsjew.bsky.social for more about this worldview. There are people actively hoping for the “end of the world”.

We have just been through 10 solid years of the heaviest white supremacist recruitment I have ever seen anywhere, done right out in the open, including by the military and far-right churches holding "masculinity events"- I am not sure people are worried enough

Guy who is convinced he is a werewolf, keeps waking up naked in weird locations with a mouthful of bloody fur and such.

He sets up a camera on the full moon to record himself transform, and discovers that he actually transforms into a stocky stray tomcat, not a wolf at all

N.Y. Attorney General Orders Hospital to Resume Youth Transgender Care

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/n...

a series of threaded replies: - my post: who up waning they gibbous - Papa Nurgle's favorite daughter's post: It's a waxing cresent tonight, JERRY - my post: who up waxing they crescent

i'm on bluesky for the scientific community

whether war, vaccines, or critical infrastructure there is contingent of the right that seems to believe that their security from the worst things that happen is some kind of metaphysical principle rather than the result of specific historical processes that could've gone otherwise and still could