Don’t be creepy

He is risen!

The sort of society I’d like to live in and pass on to my boys is unlikely to survive under these conditions. We’re salting the earth.

I got a kick out of this “song,” then I got to the comments. Wow. The way algorithmic social media platforms concentrate pockets of scornfulness is *wild* to behold. We just hate each other more for dumber reasons.

I sent ChatGPT an audio file of a series of FART sound effects and asked what it thinks of "my music" and this is what it said

Good morning—time to limber up.

@hunterbaker Watching replies to @NeilShenvi posts is similar. There is some truly nasty rot underway.

Study the long chain of nasty reactions to this post. It's a black hole of defeat and snarling. The lord being embraced there is a pagan one.

@BMcGrewvy Honestly, I just judge this stuff by the sets, wardrobe, and promo photography now. Usually lands me in the same area as other assessments (in this case, with a big “nahhhhh”). The visual shorthand is kind of a time saver.

Stop. Please. Just make it stop.

@jaycjackson That recycle truck looks like home (and has been fun for three boys).

Why I’m running in one LD14 pic. Community. Dirt. Neighbors. Hard work. Kids. Our future. 🇺🇸

🇺🇸🇯🇵 Everyone in Japan knows "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver. We cover it all the time so I hope our American friends can appreciate it.

Nintendo was founded in 1889 making playing cards. Coca-Cola was founded in 1892. Dracula was published in 1897 and was set in the same time. You could have a Dracula adaptation where Dracula drinks a Coke and plays Nintendo and it would be historically accurate.

In 1931, 14-year-old Forrest J. Ackerman wrote a letter to Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of Tarzan and the John Carter of Mars series, informing him of an argument he had with his teacher regarding Edgar's books. Burroughs replied... Burroughs’ reply defended popular fiction in direct terms. He argued that reading anything engaging is better than not reading at all, and that entertainment can serve as a gateway to lifelong reading habits. He also criticized rigid school reading lists, noting that forcing material on students often turns reading into obligation rather than curiosity. Ackerman would go on to become one of the most influential figures in science fiction fandom, editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland, literary agent to authors like Ray Bradbury, and a key organizer of early sci-fi conventions. Burroughs, best known for creating Tarzan (1912) and the Barsoom/John Carter series, was one of the highest-paid writers of his era, with his works translated into dozens of languages and adapted into film, radio, and comics. Ackerman preserved this letter for decades, and it became a widely cited example in debates about “high” vs. “popular” literature, often used to argue that genre fiction plays a critical role in building readers. © Reddit #archaeohistories

@QuetzalThoughts Me either. And also, I think TikTok is doing way more damage to women (and men, and relationships) than whatever this is, if it’s even real. We are mainlining some absolutely wild stuff.

I can't wrap my head around men who do this. When I've been in nature with women, even the ones I have zero romantic entanglements with, I've always understood it as an unspoken but sacred fact that I am there for protection if anything goes awry. Deserting a woman in the middle of nowhere is so vile it offends my deepest conceptions of what it even means to be a man.

From the “…for Dummies” book line, this hurt a little.

Beautiful. Hollywood Star Jessie Buckley praises marriage and motherhood during her Oscar-winning speech, dedicating the award to every mom “I would like to dedicate this to the beautiful chaos of a mother’s heart.” Marriage isn’t a trap. Babies aren’t burdens. Motherhood is a gift.

silly idea i had

I hate the way writers have to be influencers now. It’s the single worst thing that has happened to books. Good writers have to waste valuable time making content when they should be writing, bad writers get book deals because they have a lot of followers

influencers have replaced everything. being an actor or a musician or a writer is just treating your work as fodder for sponsored social media posts and brand deals. politicians see their jobs as clip farming. real life is just a content farm for shortform vertical video

Whenever the topic is something the media doesn’t like, journalists all become creative writing professors. The press has done everything possible to obfuscate the facts of this story—and it has done so deliberately.

@jamesrwoodtheo He always was. His mischaracterization of your observations in the first round telegraphed where we are now.

he's going to make me pick the winsomness discourse back up again, isn't he...