One ran a funeral home in a small town, the other ran a hardware store in the same small town
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One ran a funeral home in a small town, the other ran a hardware store in the same small town
i don't think they should be able to call themselves "pod save america" anymore. like it's been going for nine years now and the country's just gotten worse. just call it "I Know Barack Obama"
You won’t find a better or safer environment for effeminate gay boys to freely be themselves than a community where trans kids are affirmed.
Not me, sadly, but that same year I did win Get the Knack at a Teen Club dance, the only good thing that ever happened to me at a Teen Club dance
Starmer is a great example to Democrats--you'd better as hell stand for something and fight when you win in 28 or the fascist victory in the 30 midterms and 32 general will make Trump look like Gandhi
It took Putin and Orban years to do what they’re doing.
"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
I am, by nature, not a completist, so the closest are probably Bill James and Kafka
Thanks for visiting, Brad--I loved hearing the backstories to all the once-neglected books!
Sign at Phinney Books reading Wednesday at 7PM: Writer and editor Brad Bigelow
Copies of Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts and books from the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press in the display window of Phinney Books in Seattle.
Wow! Phinney Books devoted their entire window display to my Virginia Faulkner biography and some of the books from the Recovered Books series that I edit for @bhousepress.bsky.social. @tomnissley.bsky.social, you are a superstar!
It's no exaggeration to say that this, the news that stinkbug eggs look exactly like a hape of creamy pints, is one of the most impactful things that's ever happened in the history of Irish posting. A dazzling event. A nuclear level revelation.
To those of you who have read and enjoyed any of my three books, the reason they wound up in your hands is that in 2004, Ann Godoff, the editing and publishing giant who founded Penguin Press, took a chance on me. She died yesterday at 76. I owe her more than I can say. She changed my life. >
historical detail I can't help but bring up: by some accounts, the event that instigated the British soldiers to open fire on Crispus Attacks and the rest of the crowd in the Boston Massacre was a soldier being hit by a snowball
I'll tell you why Newsom is going to lose: he plays the other side's game. You never play your opponent's game. He'll always beat you. You make him play yours.
Come hear Brad talk about his new book and his lifelong passion (which we share!) for old books!
Here's the problem, though. If you stand up to tanks in the streets, everyone will agree you're a Brave Hero. But if you stand up to the small things -- stopping the train before it really gets started -- you will be coded as *annoying*, as uptight, as moralistic, as uncool.
Last month, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin approved a proposal to establish a College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence funded by private corporations and philanthropy. Mnookin said the move was a response to the inevitable creep of artificial intelligence into all disciplines of academia. Rather than reject AI, she envisioned a university that capitalized on this change by making artificial intelligence a "hub" connecting the humanities to computer science.
On the first day of my economics elective this spring, my professor said we would be expected to use NotebookLM to pass his class. He had lengthened the coding assignments so that they would be doable only with the help of AI. The reading assignments were longer, too: ten 40-page papers per week, which he asked us to feed into AI for a summary rather than read ourselves. When it came to lectures, he told us to simply upload the slides to AI and ask it to teach us whatever he failed to explain properly in class.
BLEAK. Bleak. I’d been paying attention to Columbia selling out its governance to the Trump admin, not so much its stance on AI.
www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026...
I don't think I will ever not be thrown by Tom Paine's resemblance to Harry Shearer. I can only hope he had his voice too.
The current Court majority is a classic captured court.
The Justices pick the outcome they want, and work backwards from there, inventing and disregarding legal theories on the fly in the process.
Thank you, Mark! (Lovely illustrations by @nornissley.bsky.social )
Oh man, thank you, Mark! That means a lot.
Writing can be frustrating and exhausting, and sometimes it can feel like flying. Being able to articulate what I mean in words all the time has made me smarter and happier too. Writing a lot is deeply important and will change your life. Even if you think it sucks! It probably does at first!
I feel bad when I read people who say they hate writing, especially to the extent they’d let an LLM do it. Writing was the path to making me feel human and the emotional journey of doing it all the time fills me full of purpose. I refuse to believe I’m the only person who feels like this!
Jim Rice, Pedro Martinez, David Ortiz, and Mark Fidrych, for whom my appreciation grows every year
Thanks, Caroline!
Thank you!!
Oh wow--I wish I could be there. What a lineup.
Thanks, Mark! You replied before I could post the order link: www.phinneybooks.com/signed-books...
It's a guide to "100 Books You Might Not Know About That We Think You'll Love" (the first 100 books in our Phinney by Post backlist subscription). You can order your copy through us, or, even better, come to our release party at the store on Sunday at 7! www.phinneybooks.com/signed-books...