leila

and here i was planning out a podcast in which we watch movies on tubi and laugh until we pass out

💔💔💔

omg i saw that delroy lindo was trending and my blood pressure spiked but then i saw it was about an OSCAR NOM and i am so relieved and delighted

glad to know i'm not alone in this

I think the people at GMail are not anticipating how much inconvenience and agitation I am willing to suffer through just to make their desire to mine my data a tiny bit harder to accomplish.

i hate AI so much that my phone usage is down to under 30 minutes a day, sooooo thanks for your annoying-ass choices, Big Tech

King: you'll love this story
King: joe's a chip off the ol' block
Joe Hill: dad please stop
Hill: i need to find my own voice
Hill: i don't want everyone thinking i'm a nepo baby
King: i'm sorry joe
King: i'm just so proud of you
King: DO YOU HEAR ME, PEOPLE? I LOVE MY BOY JOE!
Hill: dad stahp

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

And so it was that throughout the lands, as news readers named Watson and Crick as the discoverers of the DNA helix, a rousing chorus of “Rosalind Franklin” was directed towards the news.

The words "FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE" placed over David Lynch's face (a still from TWIN PEAKS THE RETURN).

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

The f*&%ing library.

Me explaining the MERL deep lore to my partner so that he will understand how this is Very Funny, Actually™

Nicholas Decker tweet: “I am anti-fiction more generally. Why don’t you learn about things that actually happened?”

“You think your pain & your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive.” Baldwin

Two Households, Both Alike in Indignity: An Interview with Anne Ursu (I wrote this lying down. I sat at my old desk to write and it was a mistake so I had to lie down. Every time I rewrote this or sent Anne questions I was lying down. I dictated some of my questions…

“You truly cannot separate the personal experience of having this disease from the social experience of it.” @gavingrant.bsky.social and @anneursu.bsky.social on chronic illness, writing, and family.

Merlin doesn’t seem to have a setting for “Creature that screams at you from the darkest shadows at four AM” and this needs fixing asap.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence the conversation around young men is so similar to racism. Someone says “we need to end racism” and so often the response from a white person is “did you just call me racist????”

People with more power are so scared about losing what they know they don’t deserve.

A lesson to be learned here

Every April, we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day to remind us how vital indie bookstores are to our communities and society. It’s a day of joy and solidarity, and significant financial impact for these bookstores. This year, Amazon is undercutting that with a “Book Sale” on the same day—a calculated move by a company that has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controls over 60% of the market and sells far more books than all indie bookstores combined. The people at Amazon responsible for the timing of their "Book Sale" should be ashamed, but they are shameless.

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

sound is a must

rewatching “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” as homework for a podcast appearance tomorrow in which I will get to explain why it is actually amazing and underrated and romantic and profound despite all the hate it gets, and I’ve simply never seen a man as beautiful as Jim Kirk swooning over his ship

Walton Goggins in a bright yellow speedo and an open mustard yellow button up. He leaning on the open door of a bathroom, his blue joggers at his ankles and a cigarette dangling from his mouth.

yes.

there will be plenty of things out there that are not to your taste, but this culture of saying yuck to sincerity to get little more than an empty laugh - it will destroy your heart.

Peek-a-boo!

Forever guilty

BIOLOGICAL SEX IS WHAT I HAD WITH YOUR MOTHER LAST NIGHT

London

Four baby bats / sky puppies lying on a green blanket, wrapped in cloth dusters

Happy Bat Appreciation Day! The German word for a bat, Fledermaus, means “flutter mouse.” The Basque word, saguzar, means “old mouse.” And the Estonian word, nahkhiir, means “leather mouse.” But to me (and to anyone who’s seen the picture below) the correct term for bats will always be “sky puppies”

King: hey clive i read online that you were pro trans rights
Clive Barker: what an odd thing to say
Barker: why ever would you feel the need to remark on that
Barker: when it's the obvious opinion held by all right-thinking people
Barker: but yes

photo by me - "Followed Footsteps" - of two yellow Sandhill Crane colts being guided by their parent, one with their forehead up against the long beak as they're shown how to find food

As Detroit's own Grace Lee Boggs taught us, “You don’t choose the times you live in. But you do choose who you want to be, and you do choose how you want to think.”

Hard to feel celebratory, here in the Turbulent Era, but I'm proud of the way I've chosen to live regardless ✌🏾

I worked with Clive. Loved it. Loved him. I would do it again. He knows what the fuck is up.