Geoff George

Book's got me listening to Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 in the office.

Been dipping a toe back into "ER" as I wait for more "Pitt." Just an ep here or there while I get ready for bed or fold laundry. The interesting big difference is how judgy the '90s docs are w/r/t drug addicts and other hard-hit patients coming in. They're people, too, Anthony Edwards!

Oh that’s my friend Montressor’s wine cellar

Amazing. Had no idea this existed.

What sort of Magic: the Gathering card is this?

Dude, remember the website?

Finally had to retreat when the temp dipped *just* enough, but I'd call it a success!

POV of "the mystery.doc" in my hand as I put my legs up on a wicker ottoman; in the background, Ruth looks over the railing

A mostly blue sky above, with a few wisps of cloud

First porch read of the season. (Kinda forcing it in this wind, but whatever.)

Sometimes if you're up late enough, too. 😬

Raising the Garage Door Figuring out how to find people outside the algorithmic platforms

Clicked with this one a lot. Been thinking about many of the same things since abandoning the remaining algorithmic sites last year. The hard part's been figuring out how to stay in touch with friends who're too busy to see in person often. Quoted a different piece of yours in writing about it.

A spray-paintes marking that I see all the time on sidewalks that probably means something to city workers about electrical wiring or plumbing, but it also looks like a Tie Fighter.

Never tell me what this municipal-service marking actually means. I like to pretend it's a warning about Tie Fighters.

Cannot imagine giving a single shit about an individual actor's opinion on another art form, let alone spending whole days talking about it.

Cover of William T. Vollmann's "Europe Central"

Presently in the middle of a long chapter that's making me feel bad for Shostakovich.

OFFENSE TAKEN.

Careful. If you walk up those steps, you'll find yourself trapped in a rotation of four separate screens of forest views, from which you'll have to find the right combination of exits to proceed further or return to where you started.

This is how I feel about most of Tim Burton's output, even the early stuff so many love ("Edward Scissorhands," "Batman," etc.). His whole thing is black licorice to me.

I like that jacket to the point of envy.

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Ousts Noem as Homeland Security Secretary

Would be cool if the downfall didn't stop here, but I know better than to expect such things.

A category header reading "Beware, Mercury Is In Retrograde"

The strangest Netflix category I've ever seen.

I once hit an epilogue that was basically 50 pages, and, buddy, that ain't an epilogue. That's just another chapter. I feel like an epilogue gets to max out at like ten pages.

A long string of campaign signs hung along a chain-link fence

Trees along the sidewalk, with at least five campaign signs stuck into the ground around each one

*Screams in Illinois primary*

Pinched nerves are quite upsetting!

I think I came to the conclusion a bit ago that you can aware yourself to death, and it's not gonna make much difference. I keep up, but I try not to panic anymore about not keeping up enough.

Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.

If you feel that you can be critical of the platforms but still use and extract value from them, well, guess what? That's how a lot of people feel about the legacy pubs, too. Independent newsletters alone don't fill the gap.

One of the big ways I feel any boycott of the NYT and other pubs is bullshit is that the boycotters cannot also bring themselves to divest from algorithmic slop platforms, which are just as (if not more) deleterious to the information that comes to those boycotters.

Dispatch from the Trail: A Depressing Duo William T. Vollmann’s “Europe Central” is hitting uncomfortably close to home, and at the same time I'm braced for Yiyun Li’s latest

Just a quick progress check-in.

Ah, duh. My brain's a little slow on the uptake.

any time i complain about the degredation of our ability to express ourselves through language people go "language always changes, it wasn't the same 200 years ago either" but have u read letters from 200 years ago? they actually were better at expressing themselves through language than we are lol

View of the Leaflet.pub sidebar, with no "Discover" option.

Say, what happened to @leaflet.pub's in-UI Discover feed?