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Everyone keeps asking me how I’m feeling about early voting so far. I’m feeling like nobody *actually* knows anything, and this is the most important midterm of our lives. I’d rather be us than them, but we can’t get comfortable. We can’t get complacent. Go vote like we’re down 3%.

Banning a booke ys extinguishing a beacon. Banning a booke ys silencinge a thousand voyces speakinge yn the heart. Banning a booke ys refusinge to looke at the stars. Banning a booke ys damming a streame of feelinge and invitinge flood. Banning a booke ys making a violent litel shryne to ignorance.

A.I. and corporate lingo are dragging language ynto drugged realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Language must have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake and leave wet dirtye footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Wielde them. Save us.

Workinge IX to V, nys no waye to make a livinge, Scarsli gettinge by, all the takinge but no givinge, Thei but selle thy mynde and ne nevir issue credit -- Ynogh to make thee wax woode yf thou let it!

England is a witch riding a pig

To put it mildly

M-W

Do not dreame it Be it

This week can fuck right off. First Dolly and now Tim Curry. That’s it. Rest of the week cancelled. We’ll try again starting Monday.

If Mary gave birth to Jesus and Jesus was the lamb of God… Does that mean, Mary had a little lamb?

Went to a Mary Poppins themed restaurant last night. Super cauliflower cheese but the lobster was atrocious.

Generative A.I. ys the microplastics of thoughte and language

A.I. and corporate lingo are trapping language yn nonsense realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Good language must have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake, leave honest heartbreake footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Cherish them.

Basquiat seyde that "art ys how we decorate space, and musique ys how we decorate tyme." It doth followe that poetrye ys how we decorate thoughte and sense, and narratyve ys how we decorate memorye. And all are middel fingeres agaynste death. Make art, or else.

🎶 'Alas, what hast thou done? Thou art a pynke pony girl Yn the daunse at the clubbe!' 'Nay, modir! Ich am but seekinge mirthe On the stage yn myne heeles It ys wher Ich belonge: Downe at the Pynke Ponye Clubbe! Ich shal keep on daunsinge, Down yn West Hollywoode' [LUTE SOLO] 🎶

Do not messe wyth writers. Thei are the kyndeste and meanest and weirdest folk on Earthe. Thei kan create a person yn a second, or make a partye be rememberid for two thousande years. Thei kan stitch and unstitch worldes. Thei give names to emociouns we do not yet understande. Odd people, mightye.

Influencers? Meanest thou the three Fates who weave, measure, and cut the whisper-thin yet iron-strong threades that bynde togethir all of spacetyme? - threades that spelle out, yn sorcerous glyphs unreadable to any save the three, everyething that ys, was, or will be? Aye, Ich knowe of influencers.

@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social Thys mighte seem a litel niche but ys yn facte reallye ymportant - the lyfe of an academic org specificallye supportinge the teachinge of writinge ys on the lyne. Koude you plese consider boostinge? bsky.app/profile/dlib...

The produce is going to kill us

The ‘dog days’ of summer get their name due to their association with the Dog Star, Sirius, found in the constellation Canis Major. The first visible rising of Sirius occurs during the hot stretch from early July to early September. Woof.

Today’s video is brought to you by the letter D. 😵‍💫🎤🎼

"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"

Nobody is vandalizing the Reflecting Pool, and Trump knows it. This is a visible example of his corruption--a no-bid contract to some crony followed by sky-high cost overruns, and shoddy construction to boot. Classic Trump: I didn't fuck up, it was my enemies.

live your life in such a way that the entire world isn’t waiting to see your accursed name pried off every building

Not What They’re Paid For. 💣🎀

I get the strategy. But I have needs. 💍 #WhereTheHellIsOurCongress #WeDontWantAKing

If Donald Jessica gets a sequel, so do I. Happy 250th, America. 🇺🇸🙄🧠 #VeryStableGenius #PartTwo

Trump promised to deport violent criminals and “the worst of the worst.” Instead, ICE is terrorizing law-abiding families, detaining an 18-year-old girl weeks from graduation, and denying basic medical care at Delaney Hall. This brutality is NOT America. #ShutDownDelaneyHall

Why are Penguins so ynterestede yn publisshinge bookes?

Give a person a fisshe and thei will eate for a daye. Teache a person to fisshe and thei will eate for a lyfetyme. Destroye the fish ponde to make a computer tell lies about fisshe, you are a Gen AI companye.

Teachinge young people how to reade literature and poetrye and novels ys teachinge them how to access an olde and goode and powerful system for sharinge messages yn tymes of emergencye. Readinge literature ys key to the ongoing struggle for a bettir and more just worlde.

Most expensive vehicle to operate under trump:

Texas Republicans started the mid-decade redistricting fight and Virginia Democrats finished it.

Flour comes from a plant, sugar comes from a plant, and chocolate comes from a plant. So, basically a chocolate chip cookie is a salad. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk

@number10cat.bsky.social Ahh! I just saw the clip of you catching a mouse! Way to go!

Lyin’ and Spinnin’: My Apocalyptic Valentine 😬💘

The Fate of Melania (Randy’s Version) 🧡🎻

Readinge complex textes not for ynformacioun but for understandinge, writinge nuanced argumentes, reasoninge criticallye and also beinge critical of reasoninge when needid -- these are the vital technologyes taught by humanityes disciplines lyke literarye studyes, historye, and philosophye.

The alternative to Harvard/Stanford that we neede ys not some bullshit tech AI dystopia zone but ynstead a generouslye funded public university system wher tuition ys FREE, SFR ys low, and facultye & studentes are supported to do all of the incredible thinges thei kan do yf given the goddamn chance.

My morning mantra

Criticizinge technological exploitacioun ys not fear of the future, it ys the harde brave worke we must do for a bettir future. Distrust any narratyve of tech inevitability.

🎶 'Alas, what hast thou done? Thou art a pynke ponye girle Yn the daunse at the clubbe!' 'Nay, modir! Ich am but seekinge mirthe On the stage yn myne heeles It ys wher Ich belonge: Downe at the Pynke Ponye Clubbe! Ich shal keepe on daunsinge, Downe yn West Hollywoode' [LUTE SOLO] 🎶

‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’ ‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’ ‘Hello’ is not related to either. Goodbye.

Naught but a leap to the left And thanne a clockwyse tread; Put thyne handes on thyne hippes, And be thy knees yn-gatheréd: Lo, it ys the pelvique thruste That maketh mirthe down to rayne - Let us do the Tyme Warpe agayne!