There is something special about approaching the end of a novel. You know what this book is now. The narrative threads converge, the pace accelerates, as the remaining pages dwindle in your hand. A wistful note creeps in as you begin to pre-mourn the end of the journey. You're running out of mystery

i think about this all the time

This is the future liberals want

Just submitted to @wwnorton.com and @pushkinpress.com for June 2027 publication: my biography, the first, of Rudi Gernreich, who was one of the two degrees of separation between Karl Marx and Cher.

That seems right. Several organizers in Jackson, MS last night talked about “keep the main thing the main thing”, which means learning how to knock doors, have human conversations, “make people happy you called”, etc.

Jacob Kramer-Duffield@jaykaydee.bsky.social · 18h ago

El-Sayed in particular describes himself as a proud capitalist so yeah it is not just DSA. People with organizing experience - inclusive of but not limited to DSA folks - are the ones who are best prepared to face our fractured media environment b/c they have experience going and finding ppl (1/n)

I know we are chalking the success of some leftist candidates almost entirely to the DSA. However, it seems like the more common theme is that these are candidates with organizing experience?

I am honored to announce that in cooperation with the Toth family, I will be working on the official Alex Toth typeface in the coming months. The plan is for this to be a commercially available font via the official Toth estate. Stay tuned for updates.

“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”

BrooklynVegan, Alt Press Hit With Mass Layoffs

Music publications Revolver and Goldmine have also been gutted by owners Veeps and Live Nation

pitchfork.com

The Knicks didn't get the sweep they wanted

If you live near an opera company, find out when they do their costume sales. Do it for me. That’s some of the best clothing you’ve ever seen. Beautifully made stuff worth every penny. Every company cleans out their stock from time to time

bird millman@mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 18h ago

Yeah, one of the orgs that rents costumes for Broadway and off Broadway has an annual sale. But honestly if you’ve got a local or regional opera company, you have to figure out when they do sales. That’s the good stuff

Citizen Louis Capet can call 311 like the rest of us

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · yesterday

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion

here: a unifying theory of Christopher Nolan, the bard at dusk aftermath.site/christopher-...

Christopher Nolan, Cinema's Manic Street Preacher

Why everyone wants to argue about Christopher Nolan, and why we'll do it all again

aftermath.site

She's spitting. She is simply spitting

Well that’s a tweet I’m gonna be thinking about for the rest of my life

neotl@ctrlcreep.bsky.social · 2d ago

It is known that birds conceive of songs and nests as entities that long for unification. Some species, therefore, make nests that feel like their songs, while others make songs that sound like their nests

So, the last issue of IS TED OK? dropped almost a week ago, so maybe now I'll compile some thoughts in a thread!? First, again, huge thanks to everyone who bought it, read it, and helped spread the word. This is a project that managed to keep momentum through six issues and it was so exciting!

they did the thing

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 2d ago

Shameful: The #BrokenTimes hands David Ellison op-ed space rather than challenging his bullshit pap and propaganda about journalism with the receipts he has already delivered at CBS. That would be journalism. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

don’t know this person but I liked this www.pivot-club.com/p/actually-n...

Actually, Nolan IS kind of making a point about trans people

And I have the (ancient) receipts

pivot-club.com

the biggest and best movie of the year revolves around the perils and horrors that come with sacrificing a trans life in the name of a short term victory

has anyone unpacked christopher nolan casting a trans person to be the distraction sacrifice for a trojan horse to enter, and then destroy, civilization

The “best” thing about genAI (the quotes are doing heavy work here) is that it’s really lowered the bar on getting into hand-made art. Literally anything you make is better than ai. There’s never been a better time to throw away your fear and start learning that craft you’ve always wanted to learn.

And I hope you go gold I hope we both go gold

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d ago

I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"

watching X-Men '97 is such a peculiar experience that I can only compare to having the Walt Disney Company send a rep to my house to be like "hey remember that weird dream that you had when you were 12? Remember the in-joke you and your brother invented? We are beaming it into millions of homes"

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wrote about why dbt is good actually

Flaming Hydra@flaminghydra.com · 3d ago

TODAY: @katewagner.wehwalt.net on the life-changing power of skills-based therapy. "A lot of this stuff has saved my life and the thing it’s saved my life from is not capitalism, or any other form of adversity, but myself." flaminghydra.com/issue-620/?a...

Listening to one of Keith Jarrett's classic long-form piano improvs. In hindsight, it's crazy that he hasn't been more widely sampled in hip-hop.

Bremen, July 12, 1973, Part I (Live)

YouTube video by Keith Jarrett - Topic

music.youtube.com

this is an interesting interview and if i were clipping it for social media i would have excerpted "We're still a place where we don't downrank links. We love sending traffic to people. We send two million clicks a day to publishers" rather than the part that'll just piss people off lol

The Verge@theverge.com · 3d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."