Taylor Fleet
@leaflottery.bsky.social
Former copyeditor fond of semicolons.
“I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.”
—Wallace Stevens
“I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.”
—Wallace Stevens
What gives, @kaine.senate.gov? You’d vote to reopen w/o guarantees of healthcare subsidies, etc.? Disappointing.
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
What gives, @kaine.senate.gov? You’d vote to reopen w/o guarantees of healthcare subsidies, etc.? Disappointing.
Best sign seen today at the No Kings march in Richmond, Va.
October 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Best sign seen today at the No Kings march in Richmond, Va.
Republicans not passing by any opportunity for chest-thumping, I see.
October 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Republicans not passing by any opportunity for chest-thumping, I see.
So glad to see the small-government, pro–First Amendment folks hard at work doing their part.
September 13, 2025 at 4:13 AM
So glad to see the small-government, pro–First Amendment folks hard at work doing their part.
FFS, stop, NYT, you’re killing me.
August 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
FFS, stop, NYT, you’re killing me.
I’m surprised this gem didn’t make it in:
August 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I’m surprised this gem didn’t make it in:
The BLS mess reminded me of this, from Martin Amis’s biography of Stalin, “Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million”:
August 3, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The BLS mess reminded me of this, from Martin Amis’s biography of Stalin, “Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million”:
Is this guy for real?
August 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Is this guy for real?
This guy’s takes are always bonkers-amazing.
April 3, 2025 at 4:31 AM
This guy’s takes are always bonkers-amazing.
My kind of epigraph .
March 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
My kind of epigraph .
I don’t know, WaPo, this sounds awfully anti-“personal liberty” to me.
March 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I don’t know, WaPo, this sounds awfully anti-“personal liberty” to me.
Comedy from the New York Times
February 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Comedy from the New York Times
Got to say, now that seven soldiers have died of typhoid fever and everyone in the 10th Massachusetts Volunteers is cold and miserable, this might not have been the best book to read while in bed with Covid. (Otherwise it’s a gem.) (1/2)
February 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Got to say, now that seven soldiers have died of typhoid fever and everyone in the 10th Massachusetts Volunteers is cold and miserable, this might not have been the best book to read while in bed with Covid. (Otherwise it’s a gem.) (1/2)
The pettiness is really pretty astounding.
February 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The pettiness is really pretty astounding.
Reminds me of Robert Frank’s 1955 photo of a trolley in New Orleans. Eerie symmetry.
January 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Reminds me of Robert Frank’s 1955 photo of a trolley in New Orleans. Eerie symmetry.
“You don't have to make this unnecessarily complicated…. Anyone who stretches his right arm on a political stage during a political speech in front of a partly extreme right-wing audience and several times obliquely up, makes the Hitler salute…. The gesture speaks for itself.”
January 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“You don't have to make this unnecessarily complicated…. Anyone who stretches his right arm on a political stage during a political speech in front of a partly extreme right-wing audience and several times obliquely up, makes the Hitler salute…. The gesture speaks for itself.”