Small towns in red states overwhelmingly voted in support of cutting federal spending in their own backyard. Now the future of their libraries—and their communities—is in flux. buff.ly/lzGnvVk

This statistic is wild. Oprah's Book Club picks used to cause overall book sales to DROP as people stopped buying easy quick reads because the books she picked required time and attention to read.

We had a whole century of sci fi and fantasty to warn us about this stuff. We going to jump in anyway.

I hate Mike Lee

I have saved two marriages now telling the couple about frames per second and showing them how to turn off motion interpolation on the TV

Inspired by RodeoProfessor Seth Largo KC NoDak Brim 🇺🇸 , I created a public lands explorer map with 3D terrain and sat imagery, link in next tweet. The Senate GOP's land sale plan is too blunt an instrument and might start a broader enclosure of our unique, treasured American commons.

A Roman Emperor said the same thing a long time ago

this is right: humanities education is about *expertise* in that much-hated thing, culture - the signs that this expertise is wanting are everywhere

California Supremacy

Go Daniel-san. Go learn balance.

"Titan AE" was underrated. It holds up well. Don Bluth's last film, and it shouldn't have been.

A nice baggie of stuff for the kiddos

Part of the reason communism was so popular is the upper class never liked capitalism. What elites want is status conservation and capitalism really doesn't help there. Communism isn't exactly feudalism but easier to conserve status on the margin.

Yearning via phone is unaesthetic. Men will not write about it.

I have found myself at some place called a Great Wolf Lodge. Unlocking new dad levels.

Saw a guy reading a book today and had to beat him up. He didn't get the memo that men don't read anymore. Now he knows. Kicked the book in the gutter, too.

More wonderful work by AI. Aaron Gwyn

Americans get used to doing "literal" translations in Spanish (just swapping out how they'd say it in English with Spanish words), because that generally works with Spanish. English and Spanish are closer in that way. But you can't do that in German, and when we try, it confuses

The New York Times once again validating something we were called crazy for saying years ago

A noble bird. There will be crows in heaven. But not pigeons. Pigeons will be in the fifth circle of hell, stuck in a river made from all the shit they left on my car and porch.