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This op-ed is freaking beautiful and everyone should read it www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

Absolutely thrilled to share the cover to next year's short story collection coming out from @tordotcom.bsky.social! I'm obsessed with it! Comes out March 24, 2026, but you can pre-order it now wherever you like getting your books! Here's Macmillan's link. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

submitted 12 days ago • 68 comments

Wood Ducks Eddy Cobiness ~ Ojibwe 1981

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

If you are a hockey team's fans and your opponent's team's country's leader threatens to colonize your country and make you its 51st state, it is perfectly appropriate to boo their national anthem.

submitted 23 days ago • 15 comments

Call it anecdotal, but my Canadian friends who are cancelling their US travel are not doing it because of tariff worries at all; they’re doing it because the US government is currently actively threatening Canada’s sovereignty and economy and they’re all justifiably furious

submitted 64 days ago • 405 comments

On the subject of people traveling to the US right about now: Fuck, if I were from another country and I didn't need to come, I sure as hell wouldn't, the current administration has made it clear traveling here isn't safe, and why not take them at their word, there's a whole world to visit

submitted 64 days ago • 1337 comments

RS with what you are currently reading (refreshing my memory before KoWT)

submitted 193 days ago • 0 comments

Will Ferrell has an enormous audience of straight dudes who need to hear this. Nothing but facts here about anti-trans bigotry:

submitted 234 days ago • 94 comments

Race is still factored in. White applicants get to keep the advantages they've accrued through systemic racism without any countervailing forces.

submitted 324 days ago • 20 comments

You know, when someone says ‘I enjoyed a thing’ you are actually permitted not to reply with a small essay explaining why you did not.

submitted 357 days ago • 59 comments

Move over Mickey...Let's give a round of applause to Tigger, who also moved into the public domain this year, thanks to his debut in 1928's "The House at Pooh Corner" 📚🐯 Read, remix, and share for free! archive.org/details/the-...

submitted 392 days ago • 20 comments

I don’t know who wrote this, but it’s absolutely perfect

submitted 422 days ago • 98 comments

To all who celebrate

submitted 430 days ago • 27 comments

Shel Silverstein doesn’t get nearly enough credit for predicting ChatGPT.

submitted 431 days ago • 28 comments

I'll never get over how the best line in all of noir – "I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are bourbon" – doesn't come from Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, but Calvin and Hobbes

submitted 441 days ago • 35 comments

Just coined the word ‘rhubard’ which is presumably a performer who just plays wordless nonsense in the background.

submitted 442 days ago • 8 comments

I don't think people understand the gravity of making librarians and teachers *criminally liable* for disseminating information. Fascist shit, from a known playbook. No one has the luxury of being surprised anymore.

submitted 455 days ago • 62 comments

A cartoon about libraries for the Guardian.

submitted 463 days ago • 32 comments

"How am I supposed to explain a trans person to my kids" My parents had to explain what a blowjob was because I asked what the president was in trouble for. You are WEAK. You DISGUST me.

submitted 465 days ago • 128 comments

Once again noting that if this is what happens to a cis girl accused of being trans, imagine what happens to a girl that is actually trans

submitted 466 days ago • 34 comments