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I don't know why I did it but I just logged on to the other site and the first thing I saw was a video of a Trump impersonator at a child's birthday party. Cursed place.

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Daycare is crazy. You spend countless hours researching and getting on waitlists. You wait, for months, maybe years. You get a spot. You celebrate. Your kid starts daycare. You pay near-mortgage-payment amounts of money every month. You mourn not having enough time with your kid.

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I've spent much of my morning going back and forth with booksellers raving to me about @nikostratis.com's book, which is about as nice a way to spend a morning as I've had in while.

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Find me a better book dedication. (from Pat Blashill's SOMEDAY ALL THE ADULTS WILL DIE!, on the birth of Texas punk, publishing with us in September.)

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Witnessed Austin hell this morning: Cybertruck with license plate reading "cyberpunk."

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“I feel Deborah’s openness. I see her big liquid eyes and easy smile, her sweet little buck teeth, and I realize that I want to love things the way she loves them, without additional anxiety about where it might fit into the world, thinking only of where it fits inside her.”

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Enjoy this picture of Isla giving love to our friend’s dog, with our dog Piper looking on jealously in the background.

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Evergreen Sasha Frere-Jones.

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What would you recommend to someone asking for a “good uplifting relatively short novel”? I’m getting stuck on the “uplifting” of it all.

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Is there anything new in the world

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On the subject of headlines (and the failure of so much media in the usage thereof)—this @albertburneko.bsky.social piece from November expresses the appropriate amount of rage at one of the most salient of those failures.

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Lessons here for the majority of US media on how to write a headline: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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“That is the entirety of Pamela Paul’s political vision: It’s bedtime again in America.” nymag.com/intelligence...

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If you call my dentist after hours, you now reach an AI whose job it is to "receive messages and pass them along to the staff." I can leave a message and the dentist's office will hear it next time they're in! Just really innovative stuff.

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Some good news: 18-month-old loves The New Pornographers.

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As good a time as any to say that if you need something to listen to that has nothing to do with the world as it is today, the Bandsplain back catalog will never let you down.

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The Democrats, probably to their detriment, spent the entire campaign cycle talking about the existential crisis of Trump, and now that we’re experiencing the beginnings of such a crisis, they’re generally just posting through it and going about their weekends. Good opposition party we have here.

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It’s wild how many songs for children are centered around a group of small animals that’s rapidly decreasing in size, one after the other being consumed by vicious predators.

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My take on blurbs: they should always be a collaboration between author + publisher, and five blurbs should be the cap. Three blurbs from the right folks, chosen carefully, together, by author + publisher, and then approached thoughtfully, is infinitely better than 10 folks doing someone a favor.

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I was just mindlessly whistling R.E.M’s “Man on the Moon” and my 18-month-old started vigorously waving her arms and telling me no. @nikostratis.com this seems bad.

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I'd love to hear about some rhythm of yours—daily, weekly—that adds a lot to your life. Mine is my Friday AM basketball run, consistent for five years, made up mostly of guys I don't know otherwise. It has become for me a kind of island space that feels genuinely separate from the rest of my life.

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"Everything I write myself and everything I love to read or listen to or watch has one bedrock component to it which is this: Jesus Christ I am alive right now and you are alive right now and someday we will not be but for the duration of this we are both stupidly and beautifully alive."

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Tells of a good bookstore. Get yourself to Basket Books & Art next time you’re in Houston. I haven’t been to many bookstores better than this one (and I have been to many bookstores).

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An incredible book for many reasons, but perhaps most of all: I don’t think I’ve read anything that so beautifully depicts the experience of loving and caring for (and being loved and cared for by) an animal.

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Adventures in the work inbox.

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We spent about 20 minutes with Prince’s “Kiss” on a loop because his scream at the 2:20 mark delights her more than just about anything else.

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A good day to be using my brain to take care of an indoor-bound 18-month-old, let me tell you.

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This is what it looks like when "community" is more than a marketing buzzword. www.altaonline.com/california-b...

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For people who often re-read books: do you have a practice/rhythm for it? Or is it just random, as you feel the need/desire? I re-read fairly regularly and usually find it to be just as, if not more, rewarding as reading new-to-me books, and I'd love to have a more regular rhythm of it this year.

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Some of the best books I read in 2024.

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My 1.5-year-old no longer indiscriminately pulls books off the bookshelf, but over the last few days she has pulled Ross Gay’s CATALOG OF UNABASHED GRATITUDE five or six times and brought it over to me. This morning she said poem for the first time.

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The Millions' "Year in Reading" feature is, as ever, the best year-end coverage on the internet. Do yourself a favor and spend some time digging into these pieces: themillions.com/2024/12/a-ye...

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This essay does a pretty remarkable job confining to the margins those who harass trans folks and deny their existence, not ignoring the real threats but making their perpetrators as peripheral as they actually are in the context of a real community.

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Thinking about the incredible instinct babies have to turn toward their caretaker for comfort after the caretaker does something for them that’s necessary but uncomfortable (brushing their teeth, changing their diaper, etc); and how cruel it is when that instinct is taken advantage of later in life.

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Isla has decided the stroller cannot contain her out in these streets.

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Breaking: local woman holds her own book for the first time

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Some of the best moments as a parent are when you surprise yourself with your competency.

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