Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 8hI’m sorry, this is infantile of me, but it looks like they’re going to be seated around a large poop. 010
Reposted by Caleb CrainJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16hThe bond yield story just keeps getting starker. 48495133
Reposted by Caleb CrainMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16hoh my fucking god, you have to watch this. eric schmitt just made himself the main character. 931886233
Reposted by Caleb CrainAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026The before and after it's even more haunting. 3228101584
Reposted by Caleb CrainTim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026People say our best days are behind us, but I say America is at the beginning of a new golden age. 2723622
Reposted by Caleb CrainLoquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 26/09/2026There can be only oneyoutube.comNicholas Brothers .. The greatest dance sequenceYouTube video by docludi2 4872
Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Chimney swifts are roosting in the decommissioned chimney of a former courthouse in Sunset Park, which now houses an NYPD human resources department.ryangoldberg1.substack.comSwiftsSearching for the right chimney 060
Reposted by Caleb CrainWayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026me, an Eggleston stan, looking at The Row website for the first time 😮 💸 0103
Reposted by Caleb CrainRiana @riana.bsky.social · 26/09/2026wishing a good evening to whoever drives the car I just spotted with the Catullus 85 vanity plate 1146
Reposted by Caleb CrainRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I found it. The only good post on the covid queer bar thing. substack.com/@sproutstack... 612513
Reposted by Caleb CrainBrooklyn Book Festival @bkbookfest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Unfortunately, the Brooklyn Book Festival Children’s Day Book Market on September 26th and Festival Day Literary Marketplace on September 27th are cancelled.brooklynbookfestival.org 142
Reposted by Caleb CrainMartyn @martynpedler.com · 26/09/2026JULIUS CAESAR JULIUS CAESAR: ET 2 BRUTE JULIUS 3SAR 4297
Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I am so looking forward to the op-ed that will run in the NYT a few days after it happens, scolding everyone for relishing it so much and so publicly. 280
Reposted by Caleb Craindarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026can u even imagine how angry trump would be watching this lol 491297109
Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Historically the American people do not like to be told to rise above their venal concern for the price of gas. 050
Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I was thinking the other day that for the most part, we live in the world the Abolitionists strove for, which at the time not even they probably thought was really possible. More change is possible than seems possible, in other words. 070
Reposted by Caleb CrainDoctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"We went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists" Amos Adams Lawrence, June 1st, 1854, Boston. 08218
Reposted by Caleb CrainMike Masnick @masnick.com · 22/09/2026I'm sorry, but this pin is amazing and I desperately want one. Or maybe 10. To hand out to people. 1854441
Reposted by Caleb CrainSam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Out today is Laura Kolbe's 'The Decadent Movement,' a poetry cycle about pregnancy, birth and motherhood organized in reverse chronology. It's beautiful, intimate and destabilizing, somehow strange and familiar all at once. I strongly recommend it. bookshop.org/p/books/the-... 153
Reposted by Caleb CrainHenry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 22/09/2026From a note to a friend a couple of weeks ago "imo the reason text elemental is so good is because it captures the notion of something that is animate, but not conscious so much as an expression of the fundamental nature of the substance of which it is composed." 310917
Reposted by Caleb CrainBenjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I hope that someday I write a book worthy of the praise provided by the AI-written spam emails that offer to advertise them for a fee. 4214
Reposted by Caleb Crainjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026huh, this piece nailed the AI bros like a decade ago 511772281
Reposted by Caleb CrainSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026when ai leaves u behind 74251199342
Reposted by Caleb CrainMichelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o... 251396530
Reposted by Caleb CrainAnne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026if AI is so sci-fi universe-altering why the fuck is *The King of England* involved. Kings of England are very 18th century 031
Reposted by Caleb CrainJason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1 4253422313
Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026One problem I am having is with the idea that cheating and making mistakes represent a divergence “from human intentions and values.”nytimes.comOpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning' A.I. Behavior (Gift Article)The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong. 170
Reposted by Caleb CrainWOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course. 181270440
Reposted by Caleb CrainMark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social · 16/09/2026RIP Annie Dillard. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...nytimes.comAnnie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil. 191
Reposted by Caleb CrainTim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Rough week to tell people that your application to join the FBI finally went through. 845336811
Reposted by Caleb CrainMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Don't want to come off as some delicate flower but I'm just not sure I was designed to learn about so many different variations of human depravity all at once 721632
Reposted by Caleb CrainNicolas Dream, PhD @afraidofwasps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Don't wanna make you feel old but The War of the Roses ended 539 years ago 25742103
Reposted by Caleb CrainJennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Joe O’Neill in critical fine form, reviewing “Profiles In Cowardice.” Added bonus: the perfect use of “poltroon,” a word for our times.nytimes.comBook Review: ‘Profiles in Cowardice,’ by Jacob Weisberg (Gift Article)In “Profiles in Cowardice,” Jacob Weisberg offers a grim twist on John F. Kennedy’s collection of heroic biographies. 242
Reposted by Caleb CrainMark 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦 @miestro78.bsky.social · 15/09/2026static.klipy.comPepe Le Pew and Penelope Pussycat KissALT: Pepe Le Pew and Penelope Pussycat Kiss 1536
Reposted by Caleb CrainHari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Things are getting really weird at the FBI 16110
Reposted by Caleb CrainSam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 13/09/2026You’ll never guess which social media site this review is getting the least traction on 846859
Reposted by Caleb Crainjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026oh we should regulate the supplement industry out of existence. we’d knock out half of right wing podcasts in the process. bsky.app/profile/hamm... 402461229
Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026My pescatarianism just got reinvigorated.nytimes.comOpinion | Why Did Trump Order Up 660 Million Pounds of Mystery Meat? (Gift Article)On second thought, I’m not that hungry. 130
Reposted by Caleb CrainAlex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026“Someone at Penn was, like, ‘I don’t believe we ever had a collection like the Mütter’s.’ ” (They did.) “I think they’ve been memory-holed.” This example of the verb “to memory-hole,” meaning to relegate to oblivion, appeared last year in @newyorker.com. Did you know it comes from Orwell’s 1984? 111
Reposted by Caleb CrainBacklisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 03/09/2026'She is the patron saint of reading, writing, feeling and thinking about literary art.' Andy Miller reviews Hermione Lee's new biography of Anita Brookner for @thespectator1828.bsky.social. spectator.com/article/few-...spectator.comFew writers have covered their tracks as successfully as Anita BrooknerAnita Brookner, at 80, knew that, were any biographer to delve too deeply into her private affairs, her literature would be ruined. The work was one thing, matters of the heart quite another. In both ... 36016
Reposted by Caleb CrainJeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This is how, as a scientist, you write an elegant letter to a literary journal 1376
Reposted by Caleb Crainamerica.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026#SteveBuscemi #heroes #September11 #NeverForget 180101042227
Reposted by Caleb CrainMatt G. Metcalf @mattmetcalf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026welcome to the resistance, gym bros. 0112
Reposted by Caleb CrainDrew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 09/09/2026God, flipping through a short "new available titles" antiquarian bookseller's catalogue makes me want to live in a time more like that. I don't want every book at my fingertips, I want to discover them one by one based on the arcane postal ministrations of someone who may not be totally trustworthy. 1122
Reposted by Caleb CrainP(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 07/09/2026I am constantly disappointed in myself because a robot hasnt come back to kill me 351