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In a world where I keep thinking I can’t get any more angry there’s always something that proves me wrong. We (scientists) have mandatory ethics courses that are supposed to prevent this kind of thing.

As a parent I have had many opportunities to reflect on the “don’t put salt in your eye” sketch.

I am reading this right now and it has been fantastic from page one. Spyjinx in a delightfully eldritch city.

When the timeline aligns just right…

The number of people still seemingly unaware that Substack has a Nazi problem means it’s apparently worth mentioning yet again that Substack has a fucking Nazi problem.

Joan Osborne did Son of a Preacher Man on an early album but it wasn’t in her fall 2000 set. The crowd asked for it, she protested that they hadn’t rehearsed it, but the band started the intro anyway. She gave in and sang. I sprained my ankle on the way to the show, it was still worth standing for.

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One of her many good deeds, in addition to being one of the greatest songwriters of the 20th and 21st centuries. The world is richer for her having been in it and poorer for her being gone.

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

People: You can't just post one line from a song and expect everyone to know the song ME: Birthday party, cheesecake, jellybean boom

Excited about both of these books. Carrick’s Rook and Rose trilogy was great and Wiswell’s Wearing the Lion was among my favorites last year.

Our federal grantmaking system has supported American innovation and medical breakthroughs for decades. Now, it’s at risk — and there's a narrow window to do something about it.

If you don’t need books right now but want to help there’s cute new merch!

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Like much of Samantha Mills' work, this one took a wrecking ball to my emotions. Absolutely worth the read.

This. See thread for examples of things that are better.

The Cleric Chih novellas are always something to look forward to.

Elizabeth, I’ll tell the Supreme Court the same thing I told your family: 6 of you can go fuck yourselves. Darcy

Tom Waits is possibly the most glaring omission IMO (just look at the wide range of people who have covered his stuff), but it's a pretty decent list.

I can never remember if, as an American, events are canceled or cancelled.

I was already in the middle of The Raven Scholar when this dropped and wow, what a book it is. Those of you who recommended it were not kidding. If you have been letting it idle in your TBR like I did for far too long it’s time to get reading.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

I’m (still) the only candidate in this race who is neither a billionaire nor taking corporate PAC money. Our campaign is powered by tens of thousands of Californians. That’s who the next governor should be focused on—not themselves, not their donors, not any insiders.

It's a national holiday

I am pretty sure I figured out what the hospital ship to Greenland thing is all about.

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Mine was probably The Village. I watched at least one subsequent Shyamalan on cable, but that was the last one I paid for.

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One of my bookseller besties from back in the day now has a small bookstore in BC. She's been surrounded by neighborhood construction that's disrupted business and could use some support. If you want to buy books, they ship to the US and Canada. If you just want to help, visit the GFM.

First new book purchase of the new year for me! Love this series.

Life is pain, Charlie Brown. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

Sharing for my Minnesota friends…