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Pretty sure Philip K. Dick would have had three more psychotic breaks if he were living through all of this.

RFK really missed the simplest lesson of LBJ’s career, try not to get any kids killed if your name rhymes with “how many kids did you kill today”

We need to tax them until they bleed

There are an unfortunate amount of plastic surgeons giving women the hairless Guy Fawkes mask.

Commission your friends for art. Give them dollars (this makes them happy) in exchange for drawing you like (this makes you happy). This is symbiosis. This is a healthy ecosystem. Support your friends. Support art. Support your friends' art.

"Now we are governed in some way, by the dregs. We are governed by what you find in the bottom of dead beer glasses that whores have dunked their cigarettes in. The place has not even been swept out yet and they have an amateur pianist beating on the box." Ernest Hemingway

I love leaving voice mails for my senators where I say things like "the USPS is very important to our country" as if I'm helping a small child with a book report or describing our civilization to an alien

AI cannot exist without humans.

Folks who know what wheatpasting is are my people.

#smallbeautieshour #becauseofClem #threadofgold

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Art is for humans. If it isn't made by humans, then what's the point?

Spotted this morning, Columbia, South Carolina, while walking my dogs.

In occupied France, people would drop their used matches folded into a V, as a secret sign of resistance. People who opposed the Nazis would see them, knew they weren't alone, & felt emboldened to take action. Some modern day equivalents here--small but powerful actions you can absolutely do:

Overheard someone asking, "Boer hunting is legal in the US, right? Them pigs that run around mucking everything up?" I might have misheard.

Dear leaders, Last week I - 1. Spent all my money in a Mexican whorehouse across the street from the Catholic church 2. Wiped off my revolver 3. Buttoned up my burgundy shirt 4. Shot the morning in the back 5. Told the sun he better go back down And if I can find a book of matches ...

Hemingway's method of writing a true page is to include the word true at least ten times on that page #booksky

Maybe corny but it was helpful for me to hear Henry Rollins saying "this is not time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for... You can be thunderous in your own life, to the eight people around you. That rubs off... Goodness is viral"

Rats can drive, mice can perform CPR. I think the Planet of the Apes got it wrong.

I don't see the problem here.

I respect a book that has me stopping to re-read a perfectly and beautifully constructed sentence. #BookSky

Finally all those WE THE PEOPLE, ARE PISSED! window stickers make sense.

Perfection.

Every day I still have access to the Internet I have to make a choice. Doomscroll, or learn something trivial like the life cycle of the House Wren. I'm choosing the latter.

Suspect this is the early frontrunner for all the genre awards in 2026 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

Vaccines are as close to literal magic as humanity we’ll ever get. A serum that protects you against invisible enemies that used to literally decimate your whole community

But do they handle fly, spider, bird situations? Asking for a friend.

This. lithub.com/its-not-my-j...

"Ugh, rules. They're boring and I don't like them. I'm tired of different people being in charge of stuff and telling us what to do. I just want one person who agrees with me to be in charge forever so I don't have to think about any of this anymore. Everyone supporting a dictator ever.

Perfect.