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The Jan 6 insurrection was successful, & now it gets to be preserved as a success by this administration it brought to power.

Explaining to children that they shouldn't worry about a career because the world will be completely unlivable in 15 years and that death will be a sweet relief from living in a nuclear wasteland is probably the hardest part of working at Build-a-Bear

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

"Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please ... tell us something that will save us from ourselves." ~ Alan Watts

The facade of the east wing of the White House being torn down with a "Spirit Halloween Coming Soon" sign hanging up

Feel safer?

A sign that says THEY BLAME IMMIGRANTS AO YOU DON'T BLAME BILLIONAIRES Also behind them to the left is a sign that says NO TROOPS IN OUR STREETS

That's right

I find the “will I be warm enough?” Internal dialogue before leaving the house to be both lame and humbling.

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. by Raymond Carver

(Untitled) What me worry? 1987, Barbara Kruger

New filing: "Oregon v. Trump (national guard deployment)"
Doc #15: Attorney Appearance

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How to Be a Good Literary Citizen (in Seven Easy Steps) Last Sunday I spent hours at the Brooklyn Book Festival, a too rare occasion for me to pull myself away from the internet for an entire afternoon. As I looked around at the crowd on their way to pa…

My way of coping with all of the madness is focusing on what I can do to make my community a little bit stronger. So excuse me for all of the earnestness, but I wrote about ways we can all pitch in to support a thriving literary culture. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-...

The Art of the Impersonal Essay, by Zadie Smith In my experience, every kind of writing requires some kind of self-soothing Jedi mind trick, and, when it comes to essay composition, the rectangle is mine.

“In my experience, every kind of writing requires some kind of self-soothing Jedi mind trick, and, when it comes to essay composition, this rectangle is mine.” Zadie Smith shares the blueprint she uses to write impersonal essays.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

This

Humans, jump on this!! Write amazing, brilliant *tiny* things. 💚🐈‍⬛💚

(and then send them to us 🙃)

If The Thieving AI Company Can Survive The Legal Settlement, Then It Is Not Big Enough | Defector There is an easy answer to the question “How long does it take to write a book?” but it is not a true one. The easy answer is the duration between when you actually start putting your pen down on the ...

I wrote about how I am not buying the narrative that the anthropic AI settlement is good for authors: defector.com/if-the-thiev...

The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting Welcome back to Culture Club, a feature where David and I discuss what we’ve been reading, watching, playing, and listening to, for paid subscribers. As...

In which @zachrabiroff.com and I talk about fascism-induced writer's block, who we write for, how to meet a big moment with your small self, and a bevy of midcentury poets: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

A stick figure made of overlapping punctuation marks from a typewriter labeled as Craig saying "ladies & gentlemen, we are currently facing a full scale genocide of multiple groups within our borders and abroad, with no meaningful opposition frem those we entrusted to do so. we're on our own. also, the Weekend.

YouTube video by TEDx Talks The art of discomfort | Leigh Bardugo | TEDxUCDavis

I cannot be the only writer that needs to listen to this: youtu.be/DCtbFZtoQ88?...

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A delicious meander where things do and don’t add up. ✨

Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"

YouTube video by Rational Animations AI Sleeper Agents: How Anthropic Trains and Catches Them

Oh my bad, i think i got confused about the dates on the article! Which makes it all the more dumb that they have been sleeping on this problem for a year+! I warned about it at North Bay Python in April. Nobody in industry listened. Here is an explainer. youtu.be/Z3WMt_ncgUI

World’s oldest and biggest iceberg starts to break up and may disappear in weeks ‘Megbaurg’ known as A23a has rapidly disintegrated in warmer warmers and could disappear within weeks

So long, A23a. 🥹

‎Customize Search Engine ‎Safari Extension to customize your search engine. --- Customize your Search Engine --- Change Safari's default search engine. This is the most basic feature. --- CSE for Private Browse --- Swit...

Wee tip for Mac/iPhone users: you can use the Customise Search Engine extension to hide Google's AI summaries in Safari on Mac and mobile.

A painting showing a long drop toilet from the outside, with two bums poking out

When you both need the loo, but you don't want to miss any of the gossip 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

A crop from "Netherlandish Proverbs (The Blue Cloak)", 1559, by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, now at Gemäldegalerie Berlin 😁

Ps: special reminder 🫶🏽💕✨👇🏽