"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"

You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

Quickbeam, visiting the Shire in 1465, ceremonially shown his entry in the Red Book, "wait what is this made of?"

This is incredible

if you want artists to make weirder art, you have to create stable living conditions that allow them to. homogeneity isn't a matter of artists lacking culture-- there are many soulful artists out there-- it's a matter of unregulated corporate dominance combined with artists who cant afford to create

"10 items or less" is right

"less" has been used for both count and non-count nouns since before modern English existed

"fewer" can only be used for count nouns. this has confused some ignorant pedants into imagining that "less" cannot be used for count nouns. but it always can and always has been

On Mental Health and Writing: My father was a poet, and I watched him wrestle with his issues, and I learned exactly the wrong lesson from it
open.substack.com/pub/levgross...

Denethor gave up without a fight because he spent too much time staring into a telecommunications device that only showed him the most frightening and depressing information.

Don't be like Denethor.

The owner of Coors is funding the anti-union agenda of Project 2025. If you’re buying beer for Labor Day, remember to leave these beers on the shelf:

Coors Light
Fosters
Icehouse
Keystone Light
Miller
Milwaukee’s Best
Olde English
Redd’s
Sharp’s
Steel
Yuengling

Oops let me share with gift link: reviewing Sofia Samatar, Vajra Chandrasekera & Emet North. www.nytimes.com/2024/08/21/b...

“Chickadees are the Nelson Muntz of the bird world” —my husband, who is not a birder, but whom I cannot dispute

Just read a post suggesting that Troi's empathy is just an ability to hear the episode's background music when someone is speaking. This is now my personal canon.

Linkin Bio, the worst Linkin Park tribute act

A friend who had never encountered Malort before couldn't remember the name and just called it Mordor.

Not wrong.

One does not simply walk into Malort.

Have not seen this analogy before, but I love it. As someone who enjoys almost everything I read, I wonder if it's because I've subconsciously learned this and set my expectations accordingly.

Appropriate first skeet.