Evidence is building that the repair work is going to be much more than anyone's consciously absorbing. There's an assumption that "states and locals" are where it's at for future governance, post-DOGE, but this is what's happening at that level in one of the wealthiest cities in the world.
It’s not even that funny or good, but I gotta say: Legal Eagles!
I'd always heard it was left-ish but Rambo pt. 1 really is a blast.
With both Cruise and Stallone their visceral commitment to performance serves as the underlying integrity of their characters.
Just like the opening bit where Francis is like "Apocalypse *is* Vietnam", Eleanor was like "my documentary *is* your movie"
Eleanor Coppola's Apocalypse Now documentary kind of renders the movie unnecessary
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This is excellent.
Outlets can just do this! No current events hook, not even a new release for the author, just 'this writer is good as hell' backed by a lot of close reading.
A screenshot from a scam website targeting authors that claims to work with Zadie Smith and Colson Whitehead both of whom are Black people but the photos of them are AI generated generic white people
Well today in AI scams targeting authors. I received an email claiming to want to include my book in a book club. Not only do all the photos of authors they claim to work with look AI generated but look at @colsonwhitehead.com and @zadiesmith.bsky.social and then look at these photos
SF Bay Popfest playlist to get you hyped - weekend passes go on sale this Friday!
indiecrates.com/crates/slumber…
10am sharp, new music on @bff.fm:
-figure eight
-Flamingos
-What's Important
-DI LEO
-Sonny & the Sunsets
-The Letterwriters
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Reminder that we're doing a query critique donation drive for a shelter-in-place program here in MSP. Going well so far--we're at about $1700 and would love to get to like $2500. Come get your pitch critiqued!
Digital technology increases the efficiency of grids, but the AI boom is increasing the strain. Every bit of copper and steel used for bespoke power for massive data centres is not being used for the more pressing matter of decarbonization.
This is like that part in Fugazi Instrument where the couple says Margin Walker is their song
I've written up a brief script for anyone who wants to call or write your representatives regarding this bill (yes, even the ones you think won't care). PLEASE DO THIS IF YOU ARE ABLE. This bill *cannot* pass.
You can find your representatives here: www.congress.gov/members/find...
Making one Snow Job out of two!
Events are eventing, all across Oakland (and only there): www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/calendar/
Y’know when the characters in a movie go to see a movie and it feels really meta? Well, with an “Ultimate Double Feature,” we play the first movie up until the point when they enter a cinema to watch a different film… then we play that film… then we go back to the first film to finish that story.
Get it. #ripMichaelSilverblatt
Make use of the bold proposition/ Make use the vast fashion, the passion/ is soon to burn out
Make use of the boring young heroes/ Their efforts not wasted/
Reward them for what they turn out/ Of this we are proud
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I made it through the wilderness/ somehow I made it through
THE EVICTION didn't come as much surprise I just thank god that I'm alive like the boys town gang sang covering frankie valli hayes valley castro eureka valley polk gulch all the low places where I went all the way I'm a ghost now in your old apartment I bang your boyfriend when you're not home
From @dapowell.bsky.social’s exquisitely saucy new chapbook “Tricks”: www.cutbankonline.org/2026-chapbooks
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
This 4-year-old episode had 600+ downloads this weekend. Maybe Merve is up to something on one of those other sites. It’s a great convo with her & @annakornbluh.bsky.social. It makes me cringe to think how bad the mix might be. I was learning sound design on the fly!
Hello, load-bearing ball knowers
He once said he wrote it in four months but writers mean different things by that and I can’t quite take it literally
Don Delillo, Running Dog (1978)
Upon re-read this is really The One, for the first time his different modes and milieus come together and by the end he’s throwing classic shapes. Every conversation is cool and funny.
That Lunchbox and that Telephone Numbers 👀
Martinez: "[I] sat in federal court and watched from 20 feet away as the border patrol agent who attempted to kill me testified at a hearing. Agent Charles Exum—Charles Exum, my attempted executioner was Charles Exum—I hope the government does not consider my use of his name here to be...doxxing."
Imagine being a yuppie in '89, you've been listening to Henley's End of the Innocence all summer on the coast, then Billy's Storm Front drops in the fall, LIFE CHANGING
