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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
TAURO:
🎵 Bad Bad Feeling
#TAURO
https://wearetauro.bandcamp.com/track/bad-bad-feeling
https://open.spotify.com/track/3R2b3bGexm04gjKAvhuclm

Writing: the art of staring at a sentence until it behaves.
People think authors glide into inspiration. I trip over it, apologise, and pretend it was intentional.
#writersofmastodon #authors

Nieuw Rondje met de #trike.
Door het Buitenhout, naar Stad, de Kunstwijk, de Parkwijk, de Danswijk en vooral de Filmwijk, over het Weerwater, om de Floriade heen en over het Edgar Degaspad weer terug. Slechts (oftewel wèl!) 21 kilometer zonder een centje pijn of moeite, ook mijn hart protesteerde niet en daar is het me om te doen, een betere hartconditie. Voorzichtig opbouwen.

How the other 1% lives...
"No Lines, No ‘Regular’ People: Flying Ultra-Luxury From Paris"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/travel/first-class-luxury-flight-air-france-la-premiere.html

What Does an Ultra-Luxury First Class Ticket Get You? Flying in a Frictionless Bubble.
A writer reports from inside the premium bubble, where there’s no such thing as too much, petty annoyances are nonexistent and the real world never intrudes.

The nonstop parade of luxury that is
La Première, Air France’s first-class trans-Atlantic service,
begins when a Mercedes limousine collects you from your hotel and whisks you to an exclusive entrance at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
It ends at J.F.K., when an Air France employee personally escorts you from your seat through a special customs line.
Each new indulgence seems more lavish than the one before.
The bespoke departure lounge, where you can or…

What Does an Ultra-Luxury First Class Ticket Get You? Flying in a Frictionless Bubble.
A writer reports from inside the premium bubble, where there’s no such thing as too much, petty annoyances are nonexistent and the real world never intrudes.

Sources: Bari Weiss plans to announce new CBS contributors, including existing Free Press writers like conservative historian Niall Ferguson, at an all-hands (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/bari-weiss-cbs-contributors

Bari Weiss adds new podcasters and writers as CBS contributors
Weiss is importing an upstart newsroom model into a legacy media organization, prioritizing independent voices with built-in, loyal followings.

Sorry not sorry but I’ll be over here doing anything but wallowing in a cognitively offloaded prison of my own making https://defector.com/go-ahead-and-use-ai-it-will-only-help-me-dominate-you

Go Ahead And Use AI. It Will Only Help Me Dominate You. | Defector
This piece was originally published on How Things Work, a newsletter by Hamilton Nolan. If you enjoy this, or the author’s previous work covering the NFL for Defector, you should subscribe to his newsletter right now. Recently there has been a lot of commentary of the following type: BAD WRITER [touchily]: “Actually, I do use…

I have the feeling my smartphone OS is trying to tell me something. OnePlus, never settle.
#slop #OnePlus #NeverSettle

Half my writing process right now is whispering ‘oh no’ as the story takes a turn I didn’t plan. The other half is anxiety-inducing levels of caffeine. #writerslife #creativeprocess #writing

Just pulled the @… card on #WikiGacha 🤣 #noxp