Musicology Duck

also not as much of the nonfiction i'm personally interested in is available as audiobooks--I think i'd be more likely to get through it right now if I could knit or something at the same time

i don't think it will stay this way

but i think there really is a cognitive load reason why i'm gravitating toward plot-driven lately for longer works

i'm still buying and reading nonfiction but it tends to be slower going lately--a few chapters at a time over months

Are we falling out of love with nonfiction? In the early 2020s, readers flocked to books to explain political turbulence. But is the world now too grim to read about – and are podcasters taking the place of authors?

have seen this floating around today—finally read it and hate that it resonates a bit

it uses a specific part of my brain to consume longform nonfiction, and that part of my brain has just not been fully available to me in my free time for the last 14 months

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

also mainly seems to be the men who get asked to muse about anything and everything in public. You generally don't see as much of Chavez-DeRemer, McMahon, Rollins, Loeffler etc unless their agencies are specifically in hot water for something

right???

i also cannot with the audio most of the time, though if I repost I usually force myself to make sure I'm not misinterpreting

i mean this is a little stating the obvious in that it's been clear a lot of them have been taking a hefty amount of direction from Wiles or Miller or whomestever all along... but also not so in that what is acutally happening downstream of the cabinet members is confusing af

markwayne was already going on the news four times a week to talk about things completely unrelated to anything he actually knows about or is working on in the senate, so he'll fit right in

between the secretary of the treasury going on cable news to discuss war strategy, and the secretary of state speaking on a roundtable about college sports during a war... i'm starting to wonder how much it actually matters who is secretary of what over there

oof, executive director of National Symphony Orchestra announced she's stepping down

do you think i am going to post this on the internet

they never cared if they were hypocrites for sure, but they used to not flail from thing to thing so much

it's really hard to believe, but also not hard to believe, how sloppy the comms have gotten

i guess this is the new talking point given that House GOP saying it too, which is silly because it's so easy to turn it around and go "why is the anti-mask party who spent years telling everyone this was bad for society suddenly pro-mask"

never forget

the funny part is going to be when nobody thinks of turning off all those videos of Noem at the airports, and they just play until the whole admin finally crumbles

every day in the extra space in my planner, I jot down a quick list of who and what I saw that day and today so bonkers I had to borrow some space from tomorrow

Afterglow fangirled outside w Adelita Grijalva while waiting for Ubers lol. Needed the reminder today there are still good people

that was so fun

lol they pulled Dingell and Nicole Malliotakis (r-ny) on stage and Carter says they are working on “educating” Malliotakis

(Patty and Lynda, not Gary and Debbie)

wait the two of them have the same birthday and birth time????

Lynda Carter in a gold sparkly suit talks to Patty Jenkins on a stage

does the state of Michigan have close ties to the Wonder Woman franchise or are Gary Peters and Debbie Dingell both just coincidentally fans, and other things you sometimes need to know when you live here

I didn’t know wolf blitzer was obsessed with it which is very funny because it’s just so patently obviously price inflated even to me as a non-driver

haha I wondered what the deal with this place was. The only people who seem to fill up there are police

capitol police apparently having quite a week too

have walked by several very dazed looking house dems on my way home

There it is: Noem out, Mullin in