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.

I would sooner post the password to my bank account

I guess the metaverse really didn’t have legs

Names: named

Wake up, dead man.

at the end of Dune Part Three Paul Atreides becomes a father and gives up his quest to become a galactic messiah so he can be a good family man

what word sounds best in an Australian accent and why is it “dickhead”

It seems bad that the richest people in the world are largely insane idiots

a week in NY and LA, then gradually expanding to secondary markets

I have the regretful duty of pointing out that Sinners made Oscars history tonight, and not just the good kind

the central point of One Battle After Another—which Paul Thomas Anderson reiterated while accepting his first Oscar—is that middle-aged white men should not be the voice of this political moment

I wrote about Paul Thomas Anderson breaking one of the biggest losing streaks in Oscars history

I’ve been writing about movies longer than I’ve owned an iPhone and it still thinks I have a friend named Oscar whose stuff I am constantly writing about

Jafar Panhi getting to take a picture with Ariana Grande is the real Oscar

Sinners winning best score may be the last time I'm able to say this tonight: One Battle was robbed

the Oscars showed weakness to the Documentary Shorts section and now they cannot be stopped