Of the 30 most-watched scripted television shows last year, 20 were about cops. I am not exaggerating

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As a writer, I don't think all writers are narcissists. I think we run parallel to them. Most of us are trying really hard to do better. The rest of us are manic or depressed right now.

I was skeptical of how she was using her fame, but kudos to Hawk Tuah girl for featuring Lydia Davis on her podcast.

It's 2024, y'all: the difference between genre and literary fiction is how the authors dress and how they feel about not receiving $7.19 in royalties.

Crews have begun chainsawing and shredding thousands of protected Joshua trees to make way for a sprawling solar field in the Mojave Desert. Century-old trees become a pile of dust. “Once the trees go through the shredders, they vanish” bit.ly/4dSFEm6

I did this yesterday...contract officially signed with Cowboy Jamboree Press (subs open 4 A CASE OF KINK). ALL AND THEN NONE OF YOU coming Sep. 2 2025

He knocked over a box of practice storytime scarves and crawled inside

This sort of rhetoric always strikes me as weirdly macho (and ppl calling academics "pick mes" doesn't help). Here's the thing: stress is relative. But also, the reason I'm not a true blue academic is bc I can't afford it. Instead, I'm a half-assed academic.

Audre Lorde wrote in her journal, “My feelings are real but not always right.” Again, knowing who to be mad at is part of the work.

Oh, it's been like this forever. Democrats have been saying forever that the Left (tm) is why Republicans keep winning and the Republicans keep calling Democrats communists.

2015: a refugee came in for a job-seeking program. I told him the gov't hires people to translate. He needed a Somali-English dictionary to take the gov't test. He couldn't afford the $400 for a copy so I downloaded one from the Internet Archive and printed it out. He won the job

What a bunch of narcs

The supermajority’s voucher system overwhelmingly benefits wealthy families, and takes public dollars away from public schools to those with little to no accountability. It’s time for new leadership to restore fiscal common sense for our schools. indystar.com/story/news/inv…