My body is a machine that turns food and water into e-mails

OK, who let Tom Hanks pronounce Appalachian that way

@terrainorg.bsky.social , a journal I've admired for a long time, published 5 of my poems as finalists in its annual contest. Subjects include climate change and walking through a cemetery at dusk because really what else is going on right now? www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...

They called him Sleepy Joe because we could sleep at night.

It’s time for the Milk Hotel to choose a side

Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”

What a shame Ted Hughes’ Tales from Ovid is missing Orpheus. Would have loved to read his rendition

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”

Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

Hit us up @hallmarkchannel.bsky.social @netflix.com 🙏

I'm once again asking for a show where a librarian, a bookseller, and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their out-of-control book collections. Discuss their sentimental value, their rarity, their histories, then build amazing book nooks and shelves and little libraries to organize them

I'll go first. My money's on rapidly rising homeowners insurance premiums, declining property values and cratering municipal bond ratings as the most effective methods for communicating climate risks.

Painful, ruthless, inequality-exacerbating...but loud and clear.

www.nybooks.com/online/2023/...

Name a song that has influenced your writing.

Uh oh: the hot snowman is an undocumented immigrant

Bitcoin 100K — but still, after 15 years, no legitimate use cases www.ft.com/content/31b9...

spotify wrapped 916 BC you listened to that one guy with a lyre in the marketplace 403 times. honestly he's pretty weirded out. don't you have barley to thresh

I enjoy a nice AI-generated genre name from time to time