Mel 🕶

here for the good times, til the end times. writing on occasion.

[brian @brianonhere]

the leftist position is that people’s positions, even if horrific, have roots in their material reality. the liberal position as best i can tell is that 20-30% of the country has an irredeemably evil soul. i guess im going with the one you could actually do something about.

[Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused]

The real life metatextual twist here is that avant-garde Marxist playwright Wallace Shawn was able to solve the financial woes of both himself and his revered short story writer wife by becoming the voice of the lovable dinosaur in the Toy Story films

[Mel 🕶 @melbroder]

@TheCinesthetic how has nobody mentioned this

[David Grossman @davidgross_man]

The greatest eulogy for Alice Munro has already been written

[Mel 🕶 @melbroder]

@melissabroder my great uncle asked if i wrote milk fed

[Travis Kelce @tkelce]

hahhahahaha SUPERBOWL COMMERCIALS are the best!!! im lovin it! im about to slap the shit outta peoples heads now!

[Christopher Moltisanti Weighs In On Current Events @MoltisantiThots]

No Speaker? So buy 'em all headphones or somethin'!

[Mel 🕶 @melbroder]

@typesfast Definitely @SliteHQ - AI-powered search is built in & they'll migrate all your Confluence docs.

Disclaimer, I did work there, but it's a great team and you'd love the founder/fellow yc'er @Christophepas

https://t.co/il30sPPhjZ

[Mel 🕶 @melbroder]

Babe wake up, the new Pasolini novel just dropped

[NYRB Classics @nyrbclassics]

Coming attractions

[Sophia Benoit @1followernodad]

I know there were only like 3 names back then but I still think it’s so exquisite that Jane Austen named Elizabeth’s hot, perfect older sister her own name.

[ACAB(inchologist) @_crylet]

This just reminded me of when I was 6 I had to interview my (novelist) father for school and these were his answers

[New York Times Opinion @nytopinion]

For years, @conniewang thought the story of her name was special. “Little did I know it was the story of a generation,” she writes. “Generation Connie.” https://t.co/AY1ueOBuce

[Mel 🕶 @melbroder]

damn, people really used to read innit

[CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlorentzen]

Being a Writer was Fun in the 1990s because you might be THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN FICTION.

[Mel 🕶 @melbroder]

Which are you (don’t @ me)

[NYCLU (Find us on Bluesky) @NYCLU]

Today the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group brought force and chaos to a vigil for Jordan Neely. 

This militarized unit has no place in our communities, at vigils, or at protests. It must be disbanded.

[Heidi Blake @HeidilBlake]

My first piece for @NewYorker, on the royal women of Dubai who risked everything to flee the brutality of its ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, while he publicly espoused gender equality. A story of mind-blowing courage and terrifying cruelty. https://t.co/18tsUhCrnF

[Mel 🕶 @melbroder]

Jenny Odell: "I feel like I’m always trying to do the same thing, which is: just move someone, because I think for someone to feel like they’ve been touched or moved is a way through that crust that everyone grows to just get through the day."
https://t.co/aaI0ifYqwF

[Mel 🕶 @melbroder]

@Shahor @melbrdr I'm not sure, honestly. The dream is to cultivate the kind of accessible and warm community that twitter fosters...IRL?

until then, open. recs?

[Mel 🕶 @melbroder]

excellent thread

[Alex Kong @alexkong1313]

in the new issue of @Harpers: Dwight Garner’s modern English usage in @nytimesbooks