Black-owned bookstores in the U.S. now have their own directory for the first time ever, launched by the nonprofit National Association of Black Bookstores www.nab2.org
"subway takes" no. no no no. subway gives. the subway gives us so much
a hippo in a simulation of colored marker
23.5 cents from each of my followers would get me housed, fed, medicated, and able to take the bus! Every 5 bucks pays for over 20 people! Have a hippo!
H.R. 7661 would harm so many publishers, authors, and readers. Only the smallest sliver of human experience would make it onto shelves. If you think kids deserve the world, you are against this bill - please read this article and call your reps.
An orange cat is sleeping on a white comforter. A raccoon toy is in front of him in the same position.
this is art
UPDATE: @thenarwhal.ca is the first newsroom I have removed from this starter pack, after a reader sent me evidence of Generative AI voice use.
I am a big fan of their reporting, but their newsroom practices do not meet my clearly defined standards for the purposes of this starter pack.
Morrisβs Cray pattern textile (1884), which features sinuous plant stems inspired by tributaries of the Thames, and red and pink flowers against a background of green leaves.
Good morning, friends, from London, where my first stop was the William Morris Society in Hammersmith!
A guy at a pool drinking a fruit-filled cocktail and looking at his phone. A monster is coming out of the pool behind him. The guy doesn't notice, because he is distracted by his phone. His young nephew says, "Uncle Roy, there's a guy." The text reads: Nothing good happens when you're distracted at the pool. Always watch kids at pools and spas.
Soon.
Tufted titmouse showing off his peanut
Everything sucks. Here's a bird with a peanut.
A gray cat is stretching oddly on a chair
she didn't even go to any of the job interviews i graciously set up for her today
Wrote about the central lie of prediction markets. How they are the perfect technology for a low-trust society, simultaneously exploiting and reifying an environment in which believing the motives behind any person or action becomes harder. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The Scratch collective exists because we believe art matters, that artists matter, and that those who would have us believe otherwiseβbelieve in "content" aloneβare worth fighting head-on. My thanks to everyone who spread the word or shared kind ones of their own. Much more to come. talkscratch.com
Is being driven insane by AI discourse without actually interacting with a chatbot a subset of AI psychosis
"As of March 3, scientists have tallied 26 living chicks." β€οΈ
lots of people focusing on the "kick their ass in" part of the song (which was the point of putting that part in the first place) and not enough people talking about the songs connection to Joni Mitchell, and that the new radicals guy also wrote "Murder On The Dance Floor"
WHEN I MOVE, YOU MOVE bomber jacket drop cc: @rachelholliday.bsky.social onlyny.com/collections/...
comic book art of a woman looking out her window at the city skyscape under smoke & says βwhat a stupid time to be aliveβ
i hate it here
www.culturehub.org/re-fest-2026 one of my studiomates does design and comms for CultureHub NYC and aside from these events looking cool and fun I just want everyone to appreciate what a good job they did on the branding here, I love my talented friends
A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, itβs not a publishing problem, itβs a men problem.
rides may now become A Thing
i swear to god i had nothing to do with the theft of the wheelchair curling stones
If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.
jimothy burglary @JimothyBurglary Follow 200,000 years of human warfare and we have landed on the 3 platonically ideal weapons. AR15, rc plane with a lit stick of dynamite taped to it, and Machine That Rips Apart The Fabric Of The Fucking Universe 7:23 PM β’ Mar 3, 2026 β’ 708.9K Views β 127 L71.4K C28K θ΄2.2K δΌ Relevant v View quotes βΊ jimothy burg... @JimothyBur... β’ 13h g... "Ak47" "A10" "b2" REDDITORS. ALL OF YOU. REDDITORS Β’β¦11
I worked on this beat for a decade and he just posted it out
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Brown and fest tabby cat with white tummy and toes lies curled up like a C and is adorable
Stop doomscrolling and start cat scrolling. Happy #WhiskersWednesday!
ok I would definitely watch baseball if each team got one (1) animal to let loose during the game. when will you use your animal delay. what animal will you choose
meanwhile Nine Inch Nails has been selling out shows in packed stadiums for the last two years. skill issue, billy.
βhave I become a washed up loser incapable of making art that challenges the existing hierarchies in my society? no, itβs because the government is woke.β
Astoria the Wild Turkey shows her iridescence in the warm evening light in The Battery. π¦ β€οΈ π
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing βreviewedβ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
