“another adult living in the home was outside during the encounter and had pleaded to take care of Liam so the boy could avoid detention, but was denied.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I’m moved and enchanted by this poem by Meghan O’Rourke from the latest @newyorker.com which came through the letterbox earlier and which is trying to stop me getting on with my writing. I shouldn’t have opened it!

Brilliant to eliminate Energy Star, a program that costs $32m but delivered $40b in annual savings. None other than the US chamber of commerce tried to save it as a model of business/government partnership. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...

Hey All: Google is pulling the "automatically on for anyone over 18" bullshit with Gemini that the Dropbox did for its AI, but I can't afford to ditch Google Drive/Docs/Workspace.

If you have a personal Google Account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off...

many of us are doomin out tonite myself included so here is a poem by tony hoagland i like to read when i am trying to snap out of it a little

OK, let's try this again: A proper Starter Pack (NOT a list) of film critic-type people on Bluesky. Will add names as I find them and as you let me know who I missed.

go.bsky.app/36mbBZk

Inside me there are two wolves. This is not enough to control the deer population inside me, which is degrading the river ecology inside me. I’m attempting to release more
wolves inside me to address this, but the ranchers inside me object, and

This one www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/t... and this one www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/t...

The first few notes of Yeah are like sleeper agent trigger words that activate older millennials

my dearest,

the burden of age rests heavily upon me, and i grow weary of this world and its trappings. much as time came even for the fearsome spinosaurus and carcharodontosaurus to make way for new masters of this world, i fear it has come for me. please tell radiohead and nirvana that i love them