I'm reposting this because Ezra Pound and his wife didn't feel like having a daughter so they gave the baby to Tyrolean peasants, and she lived a hundred years and died owning a castle in Italy. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
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"I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: Your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards."
maybe the wrong people are doing the Neuromancer adaptation
Q: Is J. D. Vance the first person in the White House since Nixon to face the supernatural threat to our nation's security? A: No. The Clintons were far too curious about what Nixon had buried beneath the Oval Office. The situation quickly got out of control. SOMEBODY PLEASE PAY ME TO WRITE THIS
Lisa Kadonaga@tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 3w agoHas he been reading @grossman.bsky.social 's book? Maybe Nixon won't be the only VP who learns about the eldritch history of the Outworld Horror Kings, the pine men, and the Great Worm in Tunguska.
roald dahl's grandson is a former london-based journalist who once freelanced for the daily dot and then married princess raiyah of jordan during covid but then got divorced and moved to the US where he became a cop in south carolina and just married an american tiktoker
"Violence against women begins and ends with silencing; the two are not separate phenomena; a voice is what a human being has when that human being also has rights and membership in society..." -- @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, whose voice is always clear despite our horrors.
Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women
The following first appeared via Rebecca Solnit’s Meditations in an Emergency. Last weekend, the film The Odyssey was released and the Tate brothers were arrested in Florida at the behest of the Br…
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AMC Lincoln Square is gonna be real sorry they took this thing.
Subway tale: As I read the latest @lrb.co.uk, I observe the man seated across from me is reading the very same issue. Neither of us acknowledges the other. Fin.
Controversy aside, the writing in Yesteryear has legitimate high points.
It looks good! I was sent it to blurb, but I was too busy finishing a new thing to read it.
Christopher Hennessy@thealtchris.bsky.social · last mo.@annodracula.bsky.social's Model Actress Whatever looks good! It's being compared to @grossman.bsky.social 's Soon I Will Be Invincible, which I liked a good deal! www.ft.com/content/40ab...
Me: Okay, there's been a thunderstorm, the heatwave should be over now. (New health bar appears) (The sun is now named 'Sol, Starflame of Regret') (Objectively the greatest piece of classical music ever recorded starts playing).
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Levi Stahl@levistahl.bsky.social · 2mo agoFinally found an Edward Everett Horton tee I like enough to order. printerval.com/old-hollywoo...
This is the era of video games that will never be revived as a retro-cool look
Jess Morrissette@decafjedi.com · 2mo agoTonight on Retro Adventure Wednesday: I'm playing The Multipath Adventures of Superman: Menace of Metallo. It's basically a choose your own adventure/interactive movie from 2000, and it looks promisingly AWFUL. 😁 Join me around 9:30 p.m. Eastern on Twitch! twitch.tv/decafjedi
@nixonfoundation.bsky.social finally catching up www.austingrossman.com/crooked
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Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2mo ago"It’s being called Nixonmaxxing, and it involves a series of slickly edited social media videos that cut archival Nixon footage to rap tracks and turn the 37th president into the sort of stone-cold, sigma male-style antihero that Gen Z bros can’t get enough of these days."
I stumbled on Heather O’Neill’s novel Lullabies for a little criminals and it’s stunningly good. I tried The Lonely Hearts Hotel but it’s so drenched in whimsy I can’t deal. But it still has great sentences.
Yesterday I was interviewed by an academic who is writing about world-building in video games. He's talking to narrative designers, and I told him he needs to talk to at least one art director. Who should he talk to?
Trump gives them spectacle. Musk gives them infrastructure. ICE gives them force. Data centers give them extraction. The fight moves local because that’s where the machine touches land, water, housing, and bodies.
Guy on the NY subway absolutely gripped by the D&D manual he’s reading.
@merriam-webster.com Your entry for SCRIPS includes an erroneous example. "During the four-and-a-half-month program, filmmakers develop their scrips and network with industry professionals." —Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 Mar. 2026 Sorry to bother you. My insomnia is bad enough as it is.
I found a dollar at the bodega and handed it in to the guy at the cashier like he was a lost and found. He said "Do you want it?" I said "Yeah, I kind of do."
I had to install Microsoft Authenticator on my Apple phone to get Meta Workplace working so I could use Microsoft Teams. This Future Sucks.
Kafka - The Trial Baker - Cassandra at the Wedding Thackeray - Vanity Fair
John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · 3mo agoSay a group of friends is making their own Top 100 Best Novels List. Your friends ask you for your recommendations. What are the first three books that come to mind? No overthinking. Share the first three greats that hit you.