spain is going to have his head on a plate and use it for a free kick into the sea

George Pearkes@peark.es · 5h ago

oh it's getting real *INFANTINO OFFERS MOROCCO WORLD CUP FINAL FOR SUPPORT: TIMES

okay but even the original statement is absurd. air travel is less pleasant but not worse. more people can and do travel more freely than they did 40 years ago. accidents are incredibly rare. planes are WAY more efficient.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 19h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

woke up to the appalling news that the Asian American Writers' Workshop has laid off all their remaining staff; please join me in donating to the laid off workers' safety fund chuffed.org/project/1583...

Laid Off Workers' Safety Fund

On Aug. 4, 2026 the remaining staff at AAWW received layoff emails from the newly-announced Interim Executive Director Ed Lin.

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Yes and also: some people are terrible at their jobs and they can become even worse by using AI

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

Canada is an extraction racket on what should be indigenous land.

Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · yesterday

Thousands of good jobs. Billions in new investment. A stronger, more resilient Canadian economy.

these queer proceedings increased my uncomfortableness

I'm personally rather vanilla but as a curious and open person I'm not squeamish or uninformed about how kinky the sexy can get ... that being said, the "heads up, this book includes" sections of dark romance make me go "wait, we can sell this?"

I just also realized this and had to make sure someone else did too, specifically have a parent that was expelled by the regime (Charli's mom didn't go back, Zohran's dad did)

Robin James@robinjames.bsky.social · last yr.

Just realized that both Zohran and Charli have an Indian Ugandan parent

Tens of millions of AIPAC dollars and still losing the absentee vote in Grand Rapids by double digits.

VoteHub@votehub.com · 21h ago

Michigan U.S. Senate Democratic Primary Kent County Absentee: 🟣 Abdul El-Sayed – 4,106 (55.4%) 🟠 Haley Stevens – 2,895 (39.1%)

it's story not history but it's more fun to play history and in that case all he had to do was get from western anatolia to western greece and somehow he ended up way the hell out past sicily

R. O. Kwon 권오경@rokwon.bsky.social · 21h ago

one of my all-time favorite disgruntled reviews of THE ODYSSEY long precedes the movie & comes from my partner. His take: “Odysseus is a shit sailor. There was very little ocean to cross to get home”

everytime republican politicians are on tv I understand a little better dante's inspiration when writing inferno

does this make elon the first guy to hit the moon by accident

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · yesterday

TIME MAGAZINE YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY NOT TELLING ME EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE SPACEX ROCKET ANOUT TO CRASH INTO THE MOON HERE YOUR HEADLINE IS A HEAD OF LIES

Toni Morrison and Gene Wolfe were both born in 1931 and both died in 2019. Both Catholic converts, too. I haven't figured out what to make of that yet but I'm going to make something of it one of these days

I have read The Cinnamon Shops alone like twenty times

So Mayer@suchmayer.bsky.social · yesterday

Bruno Schulz! The original thick describer & champion of the viscous. How can a short story be so clotted, so rich, so textured, so worlded, so adjectived? Just amazing.

Well. E.R. Eddison, to be sure. I'd also, honestly? Set Dorothy Dunnett on the shelf there, less, perhaps, for viscosity per se than a joint love for the sort of willful opacity that can be a byproduct of viscosity, or other techniques.

I am permanently halfway through Cloud & Ashes

Will Not Standstil@kellylink.bsky.social · yesterday

Greer Gilman, always!

Most of Delany's work, including his notorious DHALGREN. A lot of Alan Moore's work, including the novel of his I've read (VOICE OF THE FIRE). Olga Tokarczuk's (alas) THE BOOKS OF JACOB (trans. Jennifer Croft), DICTIONARY OF THE KHAZARS by Milorad Pavić (trans. Christina Pribićević-Zorić).

aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · yesterday

this is about gene wolfe and I am hijacking it to suggest sharing your own favourite texts that are so thick, so viscous

people have already mention M. John Harrison and Antoine Volodine, so let me add basically anything by Michael Cisco

aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · yesterday

this is about gene wolfe and I am hijacking it to suggest sharing your own favourite texts that are so thick, so viscous

very appropriately of late summer, which is its whole mood and why I like it

Tav Nyong’o@tavia.bsky.social · yesterday

“Card Declined” by Charlie XCX is immediately the song the of summer

the evolution of written english as we communicate more by casual text to include explicit tonal modifiers like (complimentary) (derogatory) etc I like it, we should keep going

an all-timer from the auto-translate of a bilingual voicemail that started in French: "Oh, sure, sure, the vigilance, captus, moral, sure, sure, the paper, confirmation, tran, devoir, vet, nous, de minus, sang, au, au, brother. Hello, I'm calling from Lens Crafters..."

this is about gene wolfe and I am hijacking it to suggest sharing your own favourite texts that are so thick, so viscous

Vajra Chandrasekera@vajra.me · yesterday

it is just such a pleasure to read a text so thick, so viscous

I barely remember who that is who got fired but the weather turned clear and cool for a pretty evening so I care even less then usual, the sounds of traffic are better than further details

This. Every Carney decision seems to come down to this. Between these moves and the bunker building billionaires, it sure feels like the great robber barons of our world are cleaning out the drawers before the house collapses...

@psvrh.bsky.social · 3d ago

What Carney does makes sense if you think about it not in terms of "is this moral or strategic?", but "does this make the most amount of money in the shortest time?" If it makes money, it's the right thing to do. Sovereignty, ethics, even planning past a few quarters doesn't matter.

I'm glad Maori people are fighting against this. #LangSky #Linguistics

UAINE@mahtowin1.bsky.social · 4d ago

New Zealand wants to make English its official language. Maori people object. "Let me tell you why te reo Māori has a protected language status: because it was beaten out of Māori systematically.” mymodernmet.com/tabatha-paul...

dropping this one into the tv nostalgia suggestion box

Bruce Springsteen - 57 Channels (And Nothin' On)

YouTube video by BruceSpringsteenVEVO

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At 1pm PT on Mon, Aug 3, I'll have a live update on the historic wildfire disaster that unfolded over the weekend in Spokane, Washington, including causes and context, then discuss the very active wildfire conditions currently present elsewhere in West.

Active wildfire conditions worsen across U.S. West, including historic wildfire disaster in Spokane - YouTube

The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive #weather and #climate-focused "office hours" hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain. 08/03/2026 topics: ...

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nyt: you've been married a year, your wife is mamdani: an oasis when I most need it, a deep pool of water that brings life to my world, a sparkling fountain in shady courtyard that I am blessed to be in the presence of each day nyt: yeah so do you fight over toothbrushes or