wait a second people are out there naming their kids Maybe?

“Lighting races them in a stitchless thread, and to the north rain shimmers through the sheerest window, stamped perfectly horizontal against the mountains like the execution line on a document” This is Trump’s America

the subways should be better

My cat just walked across my keyboard and elected to delete 1740 emails in my inbox, and while the undo function is available what if I just...don't

This is actually a deeply scary take? Like the recent exec order that mandates that 18 year olds be treated as children (they are not), this assumes a strange lack of agency or critical faculty for adults, and seeks to mandate the kinds of stories we are allowed. (#propaganda)

We are in a period of massive disillusion and an apparent attempt to walk back the enlightenment. Maybe this is the Disinlightenment?

Covfefe all the way down

This video posted on 11/7/24; it’s kind of quaint how tame everyone’s “worst case scenario” projections are. The clip buttons with m. gessen saying they have a great fear of all these bad things happening in the next 4 years. Try, the next 4 weeks. nytimes.com/video/opinion/…

You cannot breathe between O and Ver, this is nonnegotiable

Theater: Can we have a Vladimir remounting immediately? Please?

Wonder if there’s an emoji-laden Signal thread about who Trump should shoot in the middle of 5th Avenue

On an accidental bender of rageful wife novels--Vladimir, by Julia May Jonas; Liars, by Sarah Manguso; Listen to Me, by Hannah Pittard. What's next? Accepting angry recommendations.

"Man on Fire" is the most underrated Black Mirror episode; war is an ancient technology of dehumanization which keeps installing updates. We're living through an epic reboot.

Not a good idea to watch that movie Anniversary this week. Its poster was deceptive! I thought I was in for, like, Stilted Nora Ephron. Instead I got Black Mirror ABC News. Save yourselves! Avoid!

The 2nd amendment is not for hunting, it is not for self protection It is there to ensure that free people can defend themselves if god forbid government became tyrannical and turned against its citizens