It is interesting that while Middle Eastern friends are talking about guest/host obligations and hospitality, US defenders of the dean are talking about the defense of private property.

I see David Simon is returning the basics: get off my lawn and fuck them kids/protesters

Review discourse thread, I guess. For a short period of time, I was the book review editor at the Review of Contemporary Fiction. John O'Brien had two rules: 1) not hatchet jobs and 2) no friends reviewing friends. The reviews were short (500 words).

not only am I glad that a bunch of children were murdered by a drone strike that's an obvious and clear war crime, but the fact that their grandfather isn't properly displaying the right kind of sad, on camera, justifies it

who would win in a fight, miss macintosh my darling or ducks newburyport

Some men gamble with death, playing dice with the gods in service of the thrill that makes life worth living. That's cool too, but what I like to do is go for a run in the morning when everyone is asleep and hope the babies don't wake up (and wake their mother) while I'm out.

Perfect encapsulation of the fact that the average person cannot actually derive any meaningful lessons from the lives and business decisions of the ultra wealthy, unless it's in the form of a cautionary tale.

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I hadn't realized that The Sympathizer miniseries was created/directed by Park Chan-Wook?!

One of the best shot of Total Solar Eclipse on 8 April 2024

Milei's 'vision combines the total economic freedom of a tax haven like the Cayman Islands with the total political subordination of Guantánamo.'

• Hazem and his daughters Mona and Amal
• Amir, his son Khaled, and his daughter Razan
• Muhammad and his daughter Malak being injured

Irrespective of Israel war against *Hamas*, they’re civilians. Obviously a war crime. Without doubt.

الله يرحمهم ويغفرلهم

Israel just targeted a car carrying six civilians in an assassination operation in Al-Shati Refugee Camp.

All of whom were family to the head of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh - three were his sons, and the others his grandchildren. Israel killed them on Eid.

got to see and briefly try on an apple vision pro and my immediately take was that it's an incredible technological accomplishment--much more impressive than you'd expect--and it will utterly fail because actually wearing it and using it feels bad and makes you feel bad

This is really bad. As I have said to my Arab, Palestinian, & Muslim friends before, criticizing & opposing Israel is fine. Joining hands with antisemites, white nationalists, & Holocaust deniers isn’t.

Fuentes is no friend of Arabs, Jews, or Muslims. He’s a far-right extremist.

If artists get $0.003 per stream on spotify, then the good Ben Cosgrove is MORE THAN A FEW DOLLARS (American) richer as a result of me endlessly listening to 'The Trouble With Wilderness' while writing over the last few years. (Highly recommended)

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wait I can't have coffee before a fasting blood draw? this is BULLSHIT this is TOTAL BS

Me, hasn't paid attention to the discourse, trying to fake it: yeah a lot of people don't realize Renata Adler even had a cell phone

The two big grey patches on this map are airports, both of which are well outside of the city of San Francisco. The one that will get you the quickest to downtown San Francisco (by BART), ironically, is in Oakland.