Men live in apartments like this and see no issue

Pavement performing Grounded live in Manchester (1999)

"Textile Mill, Night Shift" Jack Delano photo, New Bedford, Massachusetts, January, 1941.

This might be the funniest thing Vollmann has ever written.

Sally Rooney on the psychological toll of renting:

Herman Melville / Pierre; or, The Ambiguities Signet, 1964

The least autistic guy ever:

No I won't love. —Linda Gregg

absolutely hilarious to watch people suddenly realize young people can’t afford anything and that this matters for politics

Economy Update:

Everyone is operating with a deep sense that they are fighting to survive in a temporary situation before some major cataclysm.

Trump: "I said, 'why is the Gulf of Mexico called the Gulf of Mexico?' I said, 'We're changing the name.' And now it's the Gulf of America. Has nothing to do with McDonald's, but maybe it does."

We throw around the words “recession indicator” a lot but I don’t know what else to call the fact that so many of you are reading John Steinbeck rn

Claude Monet’s snow landscapes

White House staff had been using Kennedy's two-day absence as an opportunity to remodel the Oval Office. He will never get a chance to use it, and President Johnson will surely want to redesign the room to his own taste, so Jackie asks a photographer to preserve how it looked.

Rewatching Tarkovksy because I miss that afterglow of bourgeois high culture that could only have been achieved in a deformed workers' state

Flaubert - "Read, do not dream."