To commemorate World AIDS Day, the last stanza of a poem, an elegy, a memory that brings me to tears every time:
“The Language of Dust” by Assotto Saint
that night
we curled
into each other
aware
one of us
would leave roses
tears & kisses
on our tombstone
the next november 9th/
“The Language of Dust” by Assotto Saint
that night
we curled
into each other
aware
one of us
would leave roses
tears & kisses
on our tombstone
the next november 9th/
The Language of Dust
where do you find strength to climb down the hill to your lover’s grave what do you bring but thirteen years of memories/ how do you deal with his death when your gasps loom in the autumn air like c...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
To commemorate World AIDS Day, the last stanza of a poem, an elegy, a memory that brings me to tears every time:
“The Language of Dust” by Assotto Saint
that night
we curled
into each other
aware
one of us
would leave roses
tears & kisses
on our tombstone
the next november 9th/
“The Language of Dust” by Assotto Saint
that night
we curled
into each other
aware
one of us
would leave roses
tears & kisses
on our tombstone
the next november 9th/
Let’s go, ‘Bama!
It’s official. @dougjones.bsky.social will run against Tommy Tuberville for Alabama governor. www.al.com/life/2025/11...
Doug Jones will enter 2026 Alabama governor’s race
Campaign paperwork is to be filed this week.
www.al.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Let’s go, ‘Bama!
This is what I’m talking about, son! That’s a good-looking biscuit.
November 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This is what I’m talking about, son! That’s a good-looking biscuit.
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There’s no satisfaction as a bookseller greater than leading a lovely young person who asked for Ayn Rand toward Carmen Maria Machado instead.
November 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
There’s no satisfaction as a bookseller greater than leading a lovely young person who asked for Ayn Rand toward Carmen Maria Machado instead.
‘Tis the season for lonely autumnal running routes
November 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
‘Tis the season for lonely autumnal running routes
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“But I have to enable Holocaust denialism because my favorite sports reporters are there”
I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
November 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
“But I have to enable Holocaust denialism because my favorite sports reporters are there”
A few books from different seasons of my life.
A WRINKLE IN TIME as a kid was profound.
KITCHEN by Banana Yoshimoto was mind-blowing in college. Gender fluidity, different types of love, written in the ‘80s.
Most recently, OUR SHARE OF NIGHT. Also fucking love the cover
A WRINKLE IN TIME as a kid was profound.
KITCHEN by Banana Yoshimoto was mind-blowing in college. Gender fluidity, different types of love, written in the ‘80s.
Most recently, OUR SHARE OF NIGHT. Also fucking love the cover
November 20, 2025 at 4:52 AM
A few books from different seasons of my life.
A WRINKLE IN TIME as a kid was profound.
KITCHEN by Banana Yoshimoto was mind-blowing in college. Gender fluidity, different types of love, written in the ‘80s.
Most recently, OUR SHARE OF NIGHT. Also fucking love the cover
A WRINKLE IN TIME as a kid was profound.
KITCHEN by Banana Yoshimoto was mind-blowing in college. Gender fluidity, different types of love, written in the ‘80s.
Most recently, OUR SHARE OF NIGHT. Also fucking love the cover
Dying. Always threatening us with a fun time 🌈
watching these two Christian Nationalists have a conversation and see if you can spot the part where I spit coffee all over my screen.
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Dying. Always threatening us with a fun time 🌈
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Blessings on writers everywhere. May you do lots of writing, deleting, and rewriting today.
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Blessings on writers everywhere. May you do lots of writing, deleting, and rewriting today.
I just barely missed this trend when I went on the job market in 2017. Thinking about this is just wild. And somehow so on brand for academia.
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I just barely missed this trend when I went on the job market in 2017. Thinking about this is just wild. And somehow so on brand for academia.
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The 8 Dems who surrendered: @SenAngusKing @timkaine @SenCortezMasto @JohnFetterman @SenatorDurbin @SenatorHassan @SenatorShaheen @SenJackyRosen
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The 8 Dems who surrendered: @SenAngusKing @timkaine @SenCortezMasto @JohnFetterman @SenatorDurbin @SenatorHassan @SenatorShaheen @SenJackyRosen
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All of this
Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
All of this
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Disturbing news out of Auburn University, where the admin is pressuring professors to sign a statement saying they're complying with an "anti-DEI" law and TPUSA is holding a rally and trying to record classes.
I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.
I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.
Auburn University requires faculty to review courses to comply with anti-DEI law
Auburn's provost office posted a web site on how to comply with state and federal DEI mandates on Oct. 31.
www.al.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Disturbing news out of Auburn University, where the admin is pressuring professors to sign a statement saying they're complying with an "anti-DEI" law and TPUSA is holding a rally and trying to record classes.
I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.
I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.
Virginia is for lovers, y’all 💙
Democrats sweep Virginia’s statewide races, reclaiming full control of executive branch • Virginia Mercury
Spanberger defeats Earle-Sears for governor as Hashmi and Jones win down-ballot contests, capping a year shaped by federal layoffs, reproductive rights and political scandal.
virginiamercury.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Virginia is for lovers, y’all 💙
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Let’s get it, VA!
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Let’s get it, VA!
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Inflammatory falsehoods to distract from the fact that cutting SNAP is widespread child sacrifice.
Speaking at the Univ of Mississippi in Oxford, Vice President JD Vance claimed that when settlers arrived in the New World, they “found widespread child sacrifice,” adding that “Christian civilization ended the practice.”
JD Vance talks Israel, abortion, AI and immigration at Ole Miss Turning Point rally
Thousands packed Ole Miss’ pavilion as Vice President JD Vance took unscripted questions on faith, policy and Trump-era politics.
www.clarionledger.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Inflammatory falsehoods to distract from the fact that cutting SNAP is widespread child sacrifice.
Just rewatched MIDNIGHT MASS followed by CARRIE (1976), and I cannot wait for Mike Flanagan’s remake of Carrie with Samantha Sloyan as the mother.
November 1, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Just rewatched MIDNIGHT MASS followed by CARRIE (1976), and I cannot wait for Mike Flanagan’s remake of Carrie with Samantha Sloyan as the mother.
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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
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Old Soviet joke:
Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?
One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals
Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?
One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals
New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST
October 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Old Soviet joke:
Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?
One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals
Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?
One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals
Alarming and unsurprising. Autocratic regimes tend to target LGBTQ folks first. Sprinkle in white Christian nationalism, the current censorship war on books, and right-wing tech companies, and queer folks have few safe spaces left. We’re seeing the erosion of a healthy civil society.
New Report on Hate: Physical attacks on LGBTQ ppl are linked to growth in politicians attacking us. Online spaces erase us [most influential LGBTQ activists are shadow banned on X] & tech has changed rules to allow us be attacked [IG, FB, X etc]. Books censored: www.isdglobal.org/digital_disp...
October 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Alarming and unsurprising. Autocratic regimes tend to target LGBTQ folks first. Sprinkle in white Christian nationalism, the current censorship war on books, and right-wing tech companies, and queer folks have few safe spaces left. We’re seeing the erosion of a healthy civil society.
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last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’
The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."
www.yahoo.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.
This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.
This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
October 9, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.
This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.
This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.
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When you consider that 1 in 5 young adults identifies as LGBTQ, then it isn’t surprising that there is now a healthy choice in writing. This list of US authors shows the diversity there*, for instance.
Fun fact: Queer books are not just Queer ppl; Straight books are not just for straight ppl!
Fun fact: Queer books are not just Queer ppl; Straight books are not just for straight ppl!
Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Lammy Awards
The winners of the 2025
lambdaliterary.org
October 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
When you consider that 1 in 5 young adults identifies as LGBTQ, then it isn’t surprising that there is now a healthy choice in writing. This list of US authors shows the diversity there*, for instance.
Fun fact: Queer books are not just Queer ppl; Straight books are not just for straight ppl!
Fun fact: Queer books are not just Queer ppl; Straight books are not just for straight ppl!