Cheri Lucas Rowlands

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YES, I love this new @longreads.com essay by Daniel Barnum! Thanks @k-e-c.bsky.social and @agnimagazine.bsky.social for the opportunity to co-publish this one.

"All my algorithms are tuned to perfection. . . . I spend so much time within a prison of my own preferences that it has become a relief to be offered things I would never want." We're all living in the world QVC built, writes Hannah Engler Harvey @longreads.com: longreads.com/2026/07/30/q...

"Above all, a pasalubong is an apology for your absence, something for those who waited and prayed for your return." In "The Cousin Returns," a chapter from LUCKY CREATURES, Joseph Trinidad recounts a visit home to the Philippines: longreads.com/2026/06/16/l...

Happy to see this @longreads.com story, about the Marshall Islands' first national ⚽ team, out in the world. Thanks to Springdale, Arkansas-based writer @jordanphickey.bsky.social for pitching me this piece—and for writing it with the care, heart, and empathy as he always does.

Life imitating art.

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

Sorry I'm late. There was an online form and I had to scroll to my birth year.

losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice

"Some people measure home by a skyline or sound; I measure it by what gets into my sinuses." @anamariecox.bsky.social for @texashighways.bsky.social: texashighways.com/culture/find...

"I’m against the 'one thing' framework. I’m a braid of a thousand threads of ideas and experiences and oppressions and opportunities and transformations." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social answers the latest @longreads.com questionnaire: longreads.com/2026/03/04/q...

For years I've been reading @mariapopova.bsky.social Back in the day she wrote as Brain Pickings. An extraordinary amount of work goes into her posts, which highlight culture and writers. #ff

"Out of 365 days, why this one? I was afraid Tomm would’ve resented sharing the day with his nephew, or, worse, that I’d collapse their souls into one." A brother lost, a son born, and the strange arithmetic of love. A new essay by Maria Zorn: longreads.com/2026/02/24/m...

20 years ago, when I started thinking about *how* I wanted to create and write online, I looked to Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings (now The Marginalian) for inspiration. Thrilled to have Maria kick off our new @longreads.com questionnaire series: longreads.com/2026/02/17/q...

"The American tourist is curious about your gelato and is disappointed you can’t give him cold brew." Francesco Pacifico for @thedialmag.bsky.social: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

huge thanks to @cherilucasrowlands.com for citing my essay in this week's Longreads Top 5: "Like the fish, it seems to emerge from nothing."

omg that's my face 🫣 ⬇️ if anything, you'll at least know how to correctly pronounce the first syllable of my last name

"The remix doesn’t say I can do this better, at least not always. The remix says I want to spend more time with you, I want to see the light fall on you from every possible angle." Hanif Abdurraqib on Groove Theory and R&B and sunset drives: longreads.com/2025/10/23/g...

The internet is loud. In a world of endless feeds and content that fades, our stories matter more than ever. Help us publish writing that outlasts the noise—stories that linger and pair well with your morning cup of coffee. More about the @longreads.com member drive: longreads.com/2025/10/15/2...

For @longreads.com, I wrote a personal essay about AI Holocaust testimony, my grandmother, memory, and memory loss longreads.com/2025/09/25/a...

These words from @cherilucasrowlands.com made me happy: "After reading a series of articles lamenting the death of higher education and critical thinking in the age of ChatGPT, I tempered my despair with Simon Lewsen’s somewhat hopeful essay on the humanities" longreads.com/2025/09/10/d...

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

"The California I wanted doesn’t exist. It was never a place, with all of a place’s complex webs of land and culture." Sublime was part of my life's soundtrack from ~1997-98, so there's a lot in @caylinct.bsky.social's new @longreads.com essay—on Bradley Nowell, addiction, and limits—that I love.

Someone asked if I consider myself neurodivergent, and I think it's probably best to describe myself with some astrological-like phrasing: I'm Neurotypical with ADHD rising, if you get my drift, just like I'm an Introvert but my moon is in Social Butterfly.

Some exciting personal news: Looks like the @longreads.com piece that I wrote about Amanda Arafat and her family was named a #JamesBeard finalist in profile writing this morning. Thrilled and humbled because that's some pretty impressive company to be in — but especially glad that this very 1/3

Pondering life’s important questions in the latest @pioneerwork.bsky.social issue #caturday

"Dry-erase ink is not similar to tattoo ink, but it is almost identical to ink from a permanent marker. And if you leave it on a surface for long enough, especially a porous surface, it will remain." A new essay by Aaron Rabinowitz:

Your gummy thought of the evening: So much of life is just showing up, and the internet allows too many people to not show up anymore. The rest of the world is just some shit that’s happening on television

I don’t read things written on substack if I can at all help it, this is true of many folks who are too polite to say it for fear of putting off those who write there, but you should know if you’re still on that platform!

I considered a few excerpts from @crivera.bsky.social's new book, "My Oceans." I was so drawn to this one, in which she writes about whales, the missing language we need in a time of change, and the spaces in between things.

Tried to google the word count of On the Road.

All of us at @salvationsouth.com thank @cherilucasrowlands.com for seeing how Tracy Thompson’s “Solastalgia” “sinks into you.” It surely does. Thanks for including us is @longreads.com’s top stories.

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

Obsessed with this kids song, such a vibe, it goes so hard www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWD0...

Evergreen request: For @motherjones.com, I am always looking for stories of local projects led by disabled/chronically ill people to help other disabled/chronically ill people. These days, we need hope. If you have any leads. My email is jmetraux@motherjones.com

i wrote about my favorite director for @longreads.com huge thank you to @cherilucasrowlands.com for heroic edits & @sidehilling.bsky.social for taking photos and sharing pie longreads.com/2025/01/30/r...

For @longreads.com, @k-e-c.bsky.social wrote about her visit to the real Twin Peaks, and the conversations she had with other David Lynch fans about art, place, weirdness, and grief. longreads.com/2025/01/30/r... 📸: @sidehilling.bsky.social

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