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World’s oldest gymnast.

Higgledy piggledy Timothée Chalamet Has a name meriting Endless design Much like his forerunner Benedict Cumberbatch: Hexasyllabically, Easy to rhyme

@smartless.bsky.social great interview with Jennifer Lopez. Thanks for mentioning “Out of Sight.” I hope she goes back to movies like that.

@joycecaroloates.bsky.social I just re-read your short story “The Frenzy.” It’s a marvel. Perhaps my favorite aspect (as a writer): every detail is seamlessly presented, interwoven into the story, and yet, at the end, every detail has served a purpose, is a necessary step to the ending.

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Uber needs to have a button to cancel a ride in the specific situation when you’re heading to your driver and the trip has suddenly started without you because the driver picked up the wrong passenger and neither one of them bothered verifying. Just happened.

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

@hiddenbrain.bsky.social I’m listening to the show on turning around a downward spiral. You ask listeners to send in stories; subject line: “failure.” OMG. You just made it harder for listeners. Better: “reversing the negative spiral” or “challenging failure.” Something not so utterly downbeat.

New haircut, honey? [Ok, 3 words.]

I clocked ⚡ 12/12 ⚡ on the Fluxometer Try it yourself! Play on The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/games/fluxis

Goon Night and Goon Luck

Matchy-matchy

Suggested new theme song for latenightseth.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=LHki...

Change one letter, ruin a candy. Pounds

Can someone be please stop the president from further demolition/construction on the White House? He doesn’t own the place. Doesn’t even pay rent. How is this legal? Would anyone like to start a lawsuit? One thing is clear: asking him to stop isn’t working. www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/p...

If you like that, try this: youtu.be/8tmzjaN2DWc

Do you know who she is? Well, interesting story that. bsky.app/profile/thim...

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

@rufus-hickok.bsky.social “Too Late to Call” is turning into a Banquo’s ghost of a song, constantly popping up, then morphing into something like “Goodbye to You” or, most recently, Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark.” I oughta play it for my guitarist autistic son, who spots similarities in music.

The best Trump can do now is acknowledge that RFK Jr. lied and misled, and fire him.

@mluckovich.bsky.social I had a clever answer—A, because it appeals to our increasing violent streak plus suggested the question of how animals without opposable thumbs could carry arms. Then you deleted it. Well, you have my opinion, and that’s what counts.

@birbigs.bsky.social I just listened to “The Good Life” while I was cooking. Just masterful. Poignant and funny.

bsky.app/profile/mark... So cute. But not cuter than a porg.

Matchy-matchy.

I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope. She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive. But the FDA recently denied its approval. Now, her health hangs in the balance. Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵

Listening to Sarah Sherman interview on Good One podcast. Vulgar and funny. Does she realize that the greatest thing she does is give viewers a moment of relief when she shows up on Weekend Update—because we know it’ll work.

A book I’d read: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/b...

“We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader” is hiding,” Trump wrote. “He is an easy target, but is safe there—We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now.” It’s serious stuff but still: what are the chances anyone thought “take out” was dinner and a movie?

Hit a cop and didn’t vote for President Trump, you’re going to jail.

Sure. No problem.

The spat of the behemoths and I suddenly need to watch “Kong vs. Godzilla.”

May 1 I submitted 3 short pieces of flash nonfiction to Brevity. Today I found 3 rejection emails. Gently encouraging, in a form-email way, but I envision the reader holding each story at a distance, with thumb and forefinger, like me years ago with my kids’ dirty diapers: eew, where do I put this.

@tanglenews.bsky.social re your talk with Sarah Isgur about nationwide injunctions: the phrase “do no harm” is a decent guidepost when weighing a sudden, drastic change to accepted nationwide law, by executive order, vs holding off on drastic change until the high court steps in.

Yesterday I read, on a whim, the final third of “Marathon Man.” I’m not sure how we got the book. I’ve seen the movie a couple of times, but even with no surprises left, that book is propulsive.

Cabinet officials in charge of two of America's biggest departments - including one dealing with health - don't believe germs are real.

@randyrainbow.bsky.social just to say, in today’s political climate it’s kinda your civic duty to release a video a week. Or tell a joke. Something.

This on X. “Former”? Did I miss something?

Don’t wanna seem ungrateful, but how happy do I have to be that I’m down only 9.7% since Inauguration Day?

Every time the White House makes another brilliant move I say to a friend who voted for him: “See what your boy did now.” He says, irritated, “He’s not my boy.” Such fun. Not quite an offset to our imploding democracy, but fun.

Why do I think China’s response to the President will be “F around and find out.”

@cnbc.com quote of the day: “I’m really quite humble.”

I just got an email from an investing service that starts “Dow plunges almost 1500” and then asks the usual question to link to their site: “Is this email difficult to read?” Yup. Yes indeed.

@stephenking.bsky.social hey “The Stand” once got me thru a bad breakup so thanks. Also I still remember the scene with the garbage-disposal from one of your books though not which book. (What’s a day without a blathering fan? You’re welcome.)

@tmcallister.bsky.social I read your NYT essay on AI in creative writing—or the impossibility of such a union. Loved it. I imagine you can feed AI with data to replicate someone’s unique voice, but the result would be a simulacrum. Yet I fear that “close enough” might satisfy people, once AI is all.

Apparently, I’m not a multitasker. I was listening to The Daily, about the WH’s Signal disaster (the phrase works whether or not it’s a capital S), while going thru emails. I stopped at an email from NYT Cooking and had a quick mental audible of our prez saying “I’d always wanted to make biryani.”

@joycecaroloates.bsky.social just to say my writing class (I attend, not teach) discussed “The Frenzy” today and FWIW we all loved it on so many levels. Thank you.

As a mom of a kid on the spectrum—here’s some great disability comedy I just discovered (yes, you all may know her already): x.com/caroljsroth/...