Literally @josie.zone and Timmy

caroline cash@cashbrowns.bsky.social · 7d ago

Nancy 7/27/26

remember when Virginia Woolf went on and on about how lyric poetry had changed forever after The Great War?

Carli Velocci 👽@carlivelocci.com · yesterday

When they say nobody makes romcoms like they used to, they really mean The American President (1995), an Aaron Sorkin joint where President Michael Douglas starts dating environmental lobbyist Annette Benning and the big scandal is that she went to a flag burning once and he respects women too much

as @lukeoneil47.bsky.social noticed, it's There Will Come Soft Rains Day. This is the only day that will ever be There Will Come Soft Rains Day, so why not celebrate by watching this disturbing Uzbek animated adaptation? www.youtube.com/watch?v=OumN...

Watch: There Will Come Soft Rains (1984) | The Rediscovered Soviet Animated Warning

YouTube video by Trailer HQ

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Look at this cutie pie @josie.zone

Me to Emily Wilson, Susan Orlean, Joyce Carol Oates, etc: Ladies, ladies! I know how we can settle this! I've got this golden apple, see ...

UPDATE: My spouse, @sirosenbaum.bsky.social, is the greatest spouse EVER, and helped me get booked at a DIFFERENT rental on the same island, albeit with a departure time of TUESDAY instead of today And we're gonna sic my mom's partner -- a lesbian accountant from Brooklyn -- on the booking company

Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 5d ago

Me, upon finding out an hour ago that my month-long rental in the Azores, which was supposed to begin tomorrow, has been summarily canceled We are attempting to figure it out but FUUUUUUCK

So around 8:30pm, AFTER she'd already checked in for her flight tomorrow, Airbnb told Josie that her reservation was canceled. So now she's about to fly to the Azores with nowhere to stay for a month.

I have more training in Anglo Saxon epic poetry but I'll pass on the epic-poem aphorism of Professor Geoffrey "Rick" Russom which has served me well as a newswriter over the years: "You don't play games with narrative when your audience is drunk and armed."

Real question: Has Amnesty International had anything to say about the goings-on at Amnesty International UK?

how to explain to my dad that I don't want to get to know his new gf, who is 5 years younger than me and married to someone else

guys will literally go to therapy instead of transitioning

We've also got a mayoral candidate running on BDS

Erin Vachon (they/them) 🍉@erinvachon.bsky.social · 6d ago

MY CITY IS THE COOLEST. In Providence, we've collected enough signatures to put city divestment from genocide and ethnic cleansing on the ballot. This is a *huge* deal.

MY CITY IS THE COOLEST. In Providence, we've collected enough signatures to put city divestment from genocide and ethnic cleansing on the ballot. This is a *huge* deal.

Ballot question aimed at Israel will ask Providence voters to divest city funds - The Boston Globe

If approved by voters in November, the citizen-led effort aims to divest city assets from countries committing human rights violations and companies that are "complicit".

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“Immigration camps in the United States today disappear people politically before, all too frequently, they disappear them physically. To combat the suffering we should use language that reveals the inhumanity rather than conceals it. The word camp does just that.”

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

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one of the classic blunders tbh

James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 6d ago

Let me tell you, having chronicled Pentagon-style war game on attacking Iran nearly 25 yr ago, every single "surprise," "darkening turn," "narrowing option," spreading warfare," "rising casualties," "no easy exit," etc that comes drip-by-drip is EXACTLY why GHWB WJC GWB OBAMA BiDEN did NOT do this

if someone turns you on to Big Pharma are you pillpilled

Not positive but pretty sure they had to change it bc "tintins" means "balls" in Portugal

The horse was based on Blucipher, right? We’re all in agreement on that?

your mom's so fat when she pieds-a-terre she pieds a terre

as Maddy's former editor I approve this take

Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈@midimyers.com · last wk.

i know everyone has been dying for my take on emily wilson's review of nolan's odyssey and so here it is. it should be an embarrassment to whoever edited it. when a writer files copy like that, you should know how controversial it will be and go above and beyond to help them shore up their take.

Please god let a candidate run on being "tough on cops"

BUT BATTLE CAT, WE JUST BATTLED nedroid.com/extra/partyc...

Everyone stop what they're doing and go read this amazing Babar fanfic

Benjamin Rosenbaum@benjaminrosenbaum.com · last wk.

Okay here you go! benjaminrosenbaum.github.io/stories/orph...

yeah and I'm mad that they cut her role, Athena is basically the co-protagonist of the poem

Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · last wk.

This is @sirosenbaum.bsky.social's theory too, more or less: "Athena doesn't think Odysseus is GOOD, she thinks he's INTERESTING"

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER would be better if it was called AGAIN WITH THE BATTLES, IT'S ALWAYS BATTLES WITH YOU

Chat I’m trying to convince @josie.zone that it’s a great idea to revive the 1993 kevin Kline picture DAVE as a gritty post-apocalypse action sequel, what do we think

Sicily is indigenous Norman land

Anyone see the NYT’s “re-examination” of “The Surrendered Wife”

What’s the solution Dara WHAT’S THE SOLUTION DARA

Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 2w ago

Fucking hell, Dara, what a horrible, horrible title for your shitty Zionist book

My question is, why call it “The Final Solution To the Jewish Question” when “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” was right there