It's Time For Some Of My Older Boys To Have a Pea Fishing Sauna

they get warm water with warm peas

Hello everyone,

shelby lorman @sdlorman

it's time for some of my older boys to have a pea fishing sauna

It’s time, for some of my older boys to have a pea fishing sauna. I can’t stop watching these videos. Of the older boys getting the pea fishing sauna, and the lilting way it is described. Expect updates, on the older boys fishing for peas. I’m simply bewitched.

Speaking of older boys going pea fishing, we’re almost at 15k subscribers in here (it’s really hard, actually, translating an “audience” from social media to long form musings about…uh…whatever it is we do in here) so thank you so much for reading! If you want to be an extremely good boy, feel free to share too.

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What I’m Reading:

• Book wise: a friend had been telling me to read The Undying by Anne Boyer for a long time and? I finally started. Already wrecking me.

• Also been reading: A Memory Called Empire. Already love!

Reading around the web:

Aidan Smith @aidan_smx

In addition to giving Wiley your first preference, make sure to vote Lander for Comptroller. It’s a tight race and he deserves your first preference. https://t.co/lQQDPxV5U4

Ben Max @TweetBenMax

New @DataProgress poll of NYC Comptroller race, June 7-13, 998 likely D primary voters: -Johnson: 23% -Lander: 23% -Caruso-Cabrera: 10% -Benjamin & Weprin: 4% each -Parker: 3% -Undecided: 29% https://t.co/NemI30Trjg

sean @DilettanteryPod

All of you have seen cave art, right? Either sketches or photos in books or online. If you're really lucky, maybe you've been in a cave yourself with a flashlight or something. But is it possible that the way we look at cave art today hides a key aspect of the art? 🧵

• To End Racial Capitalism, We Will Need to Take On the Institution of Policing

• A Homeless Amazon Warehouse Worker in New York City Tells Her Story

• Can The Socialist Mayor Rise Again?

• What does it really mean to 'hold someone to account'?

#HasBenAndJerrysTweetedYet @telushk

Juneteenth is not just a holiday about the end of slavery in general, it’s specifically about how white slaveowners lied to preserve slavery even after it had already been abolished for several years. An important detail with lessons for the present.

NOlympics LA #LocksOnMyBlock @NOlympicsLA

The Olympics are a plague, and the only cure is death.

huffpost.comYou Realize The Olympics Don’t Have To Exist, Right?The biennial games are a plague, and the only cure is death.

Kim Kelly @GrimKim

After a month of working in stifling heat due to a broken A/C, a dozen servers & kitchen workers at a Houston Hooters staged a walkout. “It’s important because we are women,” one said. “We serve people. We need to be treated like we’re more than servers.”

click2houston.comGood news! Hooters’ restaurant plans to fix A/C issue, employees return to workThe dining room of a Hooters restaurant has felt more like a heater, prompting employees to walk out.

A Tip:

shelby lorman @sdlorman

here's a free dating tip from me to you - please do not invent a quote to put on your dating profile as if you, a human being, are a book being regretfully blurbed. i am begging you to please spare us all the embarrassment

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and that you make sure to give some of your older boys some peas.

-shelby (and clem)