Unutterably weird

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/w...

I am dealing with a “thorny problem” right now, today. It is hard and scary because IT IS ALWAYS HARD AND SCARY. But it is also where you do your best work. It is where stories go from “meh” to “WOW”. When I fix it - because that is the job - I will be that much closer to something worth reading.

Portland Frog! 🐸

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

It's so embarrassing to have a president selling shitty knockoff Rolex watches on Newsmax

pee is stored in the balls and autism is stored in the foreskin

Let nothing be called natural in an age of bloody confusion, ordered disorder, planned caprice, and dehumanised humanity, lest all things be held unalterable!

- Brecht

Louise in Berlin, 1928. Photo by Hans Casparius.

Back in the USA & beginnig my annual election season rewatch of pre-Halloween favorites. Tonight cueing up a more recent addition to the list, The Manchurian Candidate (1962).

Tiny, tiny signature!

Oops! You’re right!

Here’s a good deal on the start of the Bridge Trilogy

Ever misread verification code as vilification code?

As basic question from an ex-police reporter: Can some of our journalists detail the training regimen all these new federal agents receive? The lethal incompetence involving use of force and perameters of the 4A suggests they are just handed guns, masks and badges and told to go fuck people up.

It troubles me that I’m starting to feel the same way about Bluesky that I do about the UK. Like: it sounds great, and some of the people I know are great, but the leadership is making some weird choices and I’m a bit worried it may all be over in a couple of years.

Thanks, New Yorker

Two faves of mine, Kadrey and Pynchon, to each drop a new novel, the morning after the rise of the harvest moon…

Pleased to discover this one back in print, & at a very reasonable price point, too.

"[L]ike its predecessors, a near-faultless technical performance...[plus] 2 new items to the Beauman repertoire: relative structural simplicity and profound emotional resonance."

On sale @ both PFBs tomorrow (Tue 7th) at opening. Special orders available for pick-up at the same time.

I live semi-nearish; anyone who wants to pick up from Main Street at 12:01am is welcome to DM ***before 9pm*** & if there is any interest I'll walk over & briefly reopen the shop.

On this Harvest Moon 🎶
[Neil Young twang]

The award-winning novelist and veteran tech activist Cory Doctorow has written millions of words in his nearly four-decade career. Now he's best known for a single one: "Enshittification." How did he get here? My profile: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...

This guy is in charge of US health care.