Richard B. Simon
@rbsimon.bsky.social
Writer. Professor. PEN America Bellwether Prize Finalist. Words: GulfstreamLit, ChicagoQReview, Hunger Mtn., Relix, RollingStone, MTV, Juxtapoz. Teaching Big History (UC Press). BRIGHT SPIDER PRESS https://www.brightspiderpress.com .
happy publication week to @livedeadbook.bsky.social!
jesse jarnow@bourgwick.bsky.social · last wk.and a careful & crucial look at the dead's "in the dark" years by @livedeadbook.bsky.social built on the band's archive of business papers, an oddly unexamined period despite it being the actual peak of the band's popularity. www.dukeupress.edu/touch-of-gre...
I'm extremely honored to announce this little West Coast book tour for THE DOLPHIN AMBASSADOR'S DAUGHTER with mindbending musical support from Sanae Yamada, Barry Walker Unit, Winter Band, Isaiah Mitchell, Marika Christine, and Serafima. Epic adventure, deep in the belly of Ocean. Come join us!
'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
bloomberg.com
A scorpion asked another scorpion to carry it across the river. Halfway across, the scorpion stung the other scorpion. Why did you sting me? said the scorpion. Now we will both surely drown. You knew I was a scorpion, said the other scorpion. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Why Trump is lashing out at Chevron amid profit windfall
The president criticized Chevron for not giving the administration what he considers adequate credit for the oil major’s financial success.
washingtonpost.com
McConnell will do neither. Give him 24 hours to check in with the governor directly or he will be removed and replaced. Better yet — just do it already. It’s been two months and he has not checked in since Beshear’s request weeks ago. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Kentucky Gov. Beshear demands McConnell prove ‘capacity to serve’ or resign
The Democratic governor criticized the limited communication between the Republican senator and constituents after he suffered a fall.
washingtonpost.com
“Did you ever notice that those cans that soup comes in seem to get harder and harder to open every year?”
Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · last wk.Scoop: I’m told that Ross Douthat is exiting The NYT and is expected to take a role at “60 Minutes.” News expected to be announced soon.
MAGA has started calling Dems "communists" because it sounds like a potent insult for those who don't know what communists are. A communist gov't controls "the means of production," e.g. factories, farms, etc.; no private property. Social Dems provide care: education, health care, etc. #ProudBlue
Hi! Looking for an extra for Phish tonight cause I think it’ll be too hard to find three together with the birthday boy! So sell me your extra (or if you randomly have three together that works too?!!!!)
Summer in France, 2026, Presented By ExxonMobil: Tour the wildfire shelters of Bourdeaux!
Just heard about the mass shooting at Seattle Center. If you were at Bite of Seattle, please check in with your loved ones so they know you're safe...
By the way if you're into dub but want to dig deeper, the treasure map nonpareil is this famous list from a 1977 issue of the UK magazine Black Echoes
What if hostile foreign governments were able to control social media algorithms in the United States, suppressing information vital to our survival as a democracy? That would be weird.
So, running 4-6 gas flames perpetually burning fossil fuel inside the house is bad for lungs.
Sammy Roth@sammyroth.bsky.social · 2w agoInsane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
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Sammy Roth@sammyroth.bsky.social · 2w agoInsane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
Ah, so, sensing, finally, a massive transfer of hoarded wealth from boomers to the younger generations, healthcare corporations move in to intercept. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
As the cost of aging soars, families’ wealth is evaporating
Growing old is eroding the inheritance Americans hoped to leave behind, a Washington Post analysis found. Many will have nothing to pass on.
washingtonpost.com
@tacobellquarterly.org did you see this turn in the narrative coming?
heaumeau e. rotacism@vashwood.bsky.social · 2w agojoining the war on taco bell on the side of taco bell
Pretty happy to announce that my novel THE DOLPHIN AMBASSADOR’S DAUGHTER will be out 9/1 with illustrations by ALAN FORBES!!!! An epic about an Orca who's trying to start a war, and a Dolphin who's trying to prevent one ... More (and pre-order!) here: www.brightspiderpress.com/books
I mean, Homer jumps back and forth among three protagonists in third person, and the most famous stories are all told by Odysseus in first person in flashback while he’s nearly at the end of his journey, but ok.
@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2w agoMatt Walsh complains that Nolan brought his obsession with nonlinear story telling to the Odyssey, undercutting the original's narrative. The defenders of western civilisation, folks.
