I’ve had to wear them all day and honestly the bulk of the vest and belt makes it really awkward to put your hands in your pockets. So if you want to put them somewhere, the vest is kinda the only option.

can anyone explain the thumbs-in-vest thing? Like, for real?

Between Taylor Frankie Paul and Markwayne Mullin, been a big week for Baby of the Year names

To the producers of tonight's THE FALL AND RISE OF REGGIE DINKINS: Daniel Radcliffe's bit about the sloth had better be his Emmy clip.

once again, @fetterman.senate.gov: You’re a disgrace.

a particular occupational hazard is that I occasionally try to pay people with Vimeo

"We conclude that in the long run, a primary driver of retail vacancy in dense urban areas is the fact that landlords are willing to forgo rents today in order to preserve the option to lease their space to someone else (who might pay higher rents) tomorrow. " www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/why-do-...

a) the “idea of Sinners” is “vampires,” which is pretty well out of copyright, b) even if Ryan Coogler had “stolen” the idea of From Dusk Til Dawn, he managed to make a movie out of it that doesn’t suck donkeys, so good on him

One reaction to six-hour TSA lines and ICE in airports that I would like to see more is: If airline industry unions could strike like normal unions, none of this would be happening. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-conseq...

not since NYC cops were deployed en masse to play candy crush on subway platforms has America been so safe

ICE goons strolling around airports, all geared up, mostly doing nothing on the clock while TSA personnel who've gone unpaid for over a month look at lines of hundreds of people to screen does not seem to be a great way to build inter-departmental understanding or to improve public opinion

one maddening thing about all of this is the conservative idea that "election day" has always meant a single day until recently, which is nonsense. 19th century elections often took place over the course of an entire month, with results trickling out over time.

"What kind of TSA PreCheck Member are you"

Here’s my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly’s “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission. Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

please PLEASE make Mrs Hatt merch cc Casey Bloys

the republican justices are as pickled in MAGA slop as any pardoned jan 6er

I am still holding the line against Big Norwegian but I will agree to refer to Courtney Love's band as "Hol-eh"

maybe the plan is to offset the rise in gas prices by harnessing the bad vibes from airports

Clutch PR move to flood airports with short-tempered bullies with negative people skills while people are already experiencing the angriest day of their lives

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

Entering the SIXTH hour in the TSA line

Say what you will about Duolingo, but after two-plus years of daily Portuguese lessons, I can read all of the Brazilian tweets and skeets trashing Chappell Roan and they're hilarious

My la? Yo tengo.

Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.

Never meet your heroes.

I swear if I get one more “I heard you on the Slate Careers podcast …” (there is no Slate Careers podcast)

Best sandwich in NYC, maybe in the world www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

We should not forget that Ta-Nehisi Coates gave a far better answer to the "right to exist [as a Jewish state]" question than Tucker Carlson. The issue isn't that Tucker is the only one who will say it, but that the American commentariat ices out left-liberal, and often nonwhite, people who say it.

This conversation was a few weeks ago now, but as someone who recently finished Bossypants I can confidently state that the voice she's ripping off is early 2010s Tina Fey.

A wonderful comment by Emory's John Lysaker about teaching close reading. Thinking in terms of techne, or method, is "fatal." What we are really practicing are several important virtues: patience, empathy, humility, curiosity, attention, noticing. These are our true purpose; not teaching "skills."

High Point University has an on-campus steakhouse where students can do fake business dinners, and an life size airplane on campus where their students can pretend to pitch execs in first class. This is Nathan Fielder University.

I think we're going win, but I want to win hard enough that we start paying artists to paint murals in post offices again. (This time the post offices are also banks.)

you're actually supposed to kiss your girlfriend. it's one of the top girlfriend activities.

the “everybody just calm down” brigade has been proven wrong so many times over the last 10 years

No, we absolutely fucking can’t. The moment we fall back “ho hum, there he is crowing over his enemy’s death again,” we have lost something we will never get back.

RIP and all that, but “according to two people familiar with the matter” is slightly hilarious phrasing

the peculiar sadness of not downloading Nirvanna the Band commentaries when you had the link

credit where due, this is funnier than any joke Bill Maher has told in years

the people jumping right in with "the problem isn't bluesky, it's you, dumbass" is ... another one of the problems with bluesky

In my experience this stuff sucks on here but it also sucks on Twitter now. There was an amazing ecosystem for breaking info that Elon destroyed because people hurt his feelings, and now the best place for breaking news is nowhere.

In a better world a person who writes a phrase like “New audiences are burgeoning in new places” would be barred by law from running any text-based business

this is the only shared universe I care about

Getting the strong sense that David Ellison would sooner burn all of CBS News to the ground rather than admit he fucked up

Ready or Not: Here I Come is an eat-the-rich movie that leaves a bad taste in your mouth. I think it’s supposed to.

guys if you just use your toaster ovens we can all get through this

this is a coverup

We warned you.

the most beautiful three words in the English language youtu.be/Haw_sznA5aQ?...

I really loathe the assumption that texts need to be acknowledged or responded to immediately. They already invented a means of efficiently communicating back and forth in a short period of time, and you can even use your phone to do it.