Jesh Baker

The second zinnia of summer, half a dog and the other half of the dog...

In a letter drawn from a posthumous collection of correspondence, published in 2019, the neurologist Oliver Sacks argued that society had no immunity to the seductions of digital life. “What we are seeing—and bringing on ourselves—resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale,” he wrote. Revisit his prescient piece: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/0Y2tQH

we here now

then this happens

you arrive at your buddy and she hands you a cup of tea and a spliff.

Washington needs some ire RN

Goebbels Awards 2026 nominee

2026 the USA have passed the same law for ICE.

Komati and Crocodile rivers meeting📷Deon Van Elst @peoples_weather @SAWeatherServic @VoxWeatherZa @landbou @AgriSA1904 @maroelamedia

My Therapist said I need to write letters to the people who have wronged me and then throw them in the fire. I said OK but what do I do with the letters?

🇺🇸 for the win

I made a video about Palantir on IG and within an hour my account was suspended without any specific rule I had broken lol

A sitting US president stole $500 million in another country’s oil money and transferred it into a personal account, and it’s barely making headlines

read that slowly. @JamieBonkiewicz

Awarded by Basil Fawlty. Almost as great a statesman and international peace-maker as Donald Trump.

I'm going to institute the Monty Python Peace Prize, which will be awarded each year to the highest bidder

Only two people have ever accepted a second-hand Nobel Prize as a gift. One of them was Joseph Goebbels.

#GP 🙈

Han Kang, the celebrated South Korean author and our 2024 literature laureate, explores the themes that shaped her novel ‘The Vegetarian’ in her Nobel Prize lecture: “While writing my third novel, 'The Vegetarian', from 2003 to 2005, I was staying with some painful questions: Can a person ever be completely innocent? To what depths can we reject violence? What happens to one who refuses to belong to the species called human? Electing not to eat meat in a refusal of violence, and in the end declining all food and drink except water in the belief that she has transformed into a plant, Yeong-hye, the protagonist of 'The Vegetarian', finds herself in the ironic situation of quickening towards death in her bid to save herself. Yeong-hye and her sister In-hye, who are in fact co-protagonists, scream soundlessly through devastating nightmares and ruptures, but are together in the end. I set the final scene in an ambulance, as I hoped Yeong-hye would remain alive in the world of this story. The car rushes down the mountain road beneath blazing green leaves while the alert older sister gazes intensely out the window. Perhaps awaiting a response, or perhaps in protest. The entire novel resides in a state of questioning. Staring and defying. Waiting for a response.” Read the full lecture here: nobelprize.org/prizes/literat…

The Tot System, from Drum Magazine, June 1952