Achilles Micawber

Anyone have fiction recs - specifically books where the author allows the reader to visualize, infer, deduce background points in the plot for those of us who can still use all the parts of our brain - I'm getting real tired of being led by the hand everywhere

They Might Be Giant's debut album

Glad I get to listen to this for the first time. They Might Be Giants are such a unique band. Includes the massive Don't Let's Start. The only track I've heard before.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Truthful, given the following definitions:
"concerned" as in "concerned it's still available to too many"
"fix" as one might "fix" a race or a dog

Book cover with title: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, Ed. Sinykin and Winant

In the category of good things entering the world of ideas: this smart and beautifully conceived collection of essays close reading superlative close readings from @johannawinant.bsky.social @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social from @princetonupress.bsky.social

If Pynchon wins the Nobel Prize for Literature, presumably his acceptance speech will be sent to Stockholm using a clandestine postal service then read out by a small child claiming to be the last living descendent of Werner von Braun

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

queen shit, rest in peace

YouTube video by Vic Chesnutt - Topic Flirted With You All My Life

And to this day I swear it was nice
But clearly I was not ready

~Vic Chesnutt - Flirted With You All My Life

THE WORLD I thought that you were an anchor in the drift of the world; but no: there isn't an anchor anywhere. There isn't an anchor in the drift of the world. Oh no. I thought you were. Oh no. The drift of the world.

Just an all-time fave.

William Bronk's The World

#poetry #poem #poetrysky

From Barbara Crooker's Selected Poems: bookshop.org/a/862/9781938853708

#poem #books #writing

YouTube video by STARTRACKS AB Kristofer Åström - How Can You Live With Yourself (Official Audio )

The contrast between how sweet this sounds and how acid the lyrics are makes the song. Haven’t heard this in a while.

Happy first female Archbishop of Canterbury to all who observe 🙏🏻

For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵

An image of Taylor Swift, and an emerald bodysuit and black heels, food cart with a bowl of pasta and champagne.

taylorswift Tonight all these lives converge here The mosaics of laughter and cocktails of tears Where fraternal souls sing identical things And it's beautiful It's rapturous. It is frightening. I can't tell you how proud I am to share this with you, an album that just feels so right. A forever thank you goes out to my mentors and friends Max and Shellback for helping me paint this self portrait. If you thought the big show was wild, perhaps you should come and take a look behind the curtain... The Life of a Showgirl is out now. Album Producers: Max Martin, Shellback and Taylor Swift 5: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott less

Happy #TLOAS day! ❤️‍🔥 A message from Taylor:

“If you thought the big show was wild, perhaps you should come and take a look behind the curtain...
The Life of a Showgirl is out now.”

I found this quite helpful during the head-scratching.

www.gravitysrainbowguide.com

Have fun. There are many helpful resources around on the web.

The Prime Minister of Albania came up to Macron and Azerbaijani President Aliyev and joked about how Trump had resolved the conflict between Albania and Azerbaijan.

A printed poem which reads: I hav for breakfast Weetabix I hav for lunch some meat I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat Peter Hazel, 5

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

That would be a good slogan.

From The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara: bookshop.org/a/862/9780520201668

#poem #books #writing

Shouldn‘t this be/have been a bigger story?

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

Listening to Soft Machine‘s Third. I think I‘ve never listened to the entire album.

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.

Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

We've got a cover and a publication date (April 3, 2026).

#REMtop30
Here’s the final playlist of the thirty most popular tracks as voted for in the challenge. Time constraints meant that I couldn’t finish the expanded Top 60 playlist yesterday but that should follow tomorrow. Thanks again to all who participated.

open.spotify.com/playlist/7bM...

YouTube video by R.E.M. - Topic Nightswimming

#REMTop30
#MusicChallenge

Thanks James for all the trouble.

This title impressed me when I was a child listening to the radio, and I still think it's the most beautiful R.E.M. song.

Heartbreaking:

You I thought I knew you
You I cannot judge
You I thought you knew me

1. R.E.M. - Nightswimming