Et in Arcadia.

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

He also owns major stock holdings in the detention & deportation companies contracted by the administration.

Not that I don’t love a mid Pad Thai.

Evening at the lake.

A quiet 4th.

If someone had been killed this would have been a crime, and making matters worse, it’s Trump’s State Fair, so, no witnesses.

Mediaite@mediaite.com · last mo.

Video Shows Large Chunk of Stage Falling Off and Nearly Hitting Performers at Trump’s State Fair

Where’s Waldo.

NARR: He did not, after all, drain the swamp.

Really interesting thread by nonfiction author / Dartmouth college prof Jeff Sharlet about the reaction of students to AI in the classroom.

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

Recently I’ve been hearing a lot of shit-talking from an Irritable Mammal. Today I located him.

Oh crap.

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sadly this morning, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved Sen. Mike Lee’s amendment to eliminate the 2001 Roadless Rule, which protects roughly 45 million acres of national forest land.

Someone has got to stop the president from asking AI to draw him in the style of Paul Cadmus and Tom of Finland.

“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself” — William Faulkner

Welp there’s no unseeing this