True story: I bought a suitcase at a thrift store in Manhattan the other day and I basically rolled it around for an hour getting it home and shortly before I made it back to my apartment I get this notice that there's an unknown AirTag "moving with me". 🧵

I’m in the U.S. so I suspect that I am not eligible for the giveaway because <gestures at the general state of things> but if any of the people I reach see this and are interested, DO IT. Tom Cox is in my top five of favorite authors, and is the most underrated, and under compensated, of the five.

Threads is a vibe, man. My whole timeline there is half the people I’m following, and the other half is a small and vocal subset of the people I follow responding to low-follower bots engaging in rage-bait. But I keep having to follow them because the comments (bot or not) are HILARIOUS.

I bought a hard sided suitcase at a thrift store in the Village today and I rolled it down to the subway and through the system and about two blocks from my house, I get this alert onmy phone that there’s an AirTag “moving with” me.

Turned on the Navy-Notre Dame game and look at all that snow.

I cannot stress hard enough how much I don’t want to and will not ever on purpose read an AI-translated book.

And a party that can apparently win an election fully supporting trans rights, maybe take note you opportunistic motherfucker.

Wow what a day. To think it all started with Dick Cheney dying.

one thing that other candidates need to learn from mamdani is how to deliver the most cold blooded attacks on an opponent with a smile on your face

This goes out to Andrew Cuomo and his supporters who threatened to flee NYC if he lost: youtu.be/CyVuYAHiZb8?...

RIP Diane Ladd. And peace and comfort to Laura Dern.

This feels very much like the post you want to throw at someone you know who thinks they’re left but also thinks Newsom is the obvious Dem candidate for president in 2028.

If grocery stores can offer special savings and discounts to people who are part of their loyalty programs, I see no reason why it would be illegal for them to offer special savings to SNAP recipients.

Okay, NYC, I dropped off my ballot yesterday, stop sending me political text messages!

Change one letter, ruin a candy. Boston Baked Beaks.

I grew up being told Stephen King stories and reading his books so if I'm honest, the idea that I might die in what amounts to a Stephen King plot, it wouldn't be expected but it wouldn't be not expected, if you know what I mean (and I think you do).

RIP Prunella Scales.

That last one should come with a jump scare warning.

I don’t know what restaurant near this train station is making fries but you’re killing me, man.

Another day, another obsession-inducing live stream: www.nybg.org/garden/the-c...

Tonight on #61MoviesOfHalloween: Doctor X, a strange little movie about a full moon mad scientist who becomes a cannibal killer! Sure, we've seen it before but have we seen the killer bizarrely bursting into flames after falling out a window? I think not! #Movie49 @republicandalek.bsky.social

FFS people, it’s WORLD WOMBAT DAY.

The British burned down the White House in 1814, and we rebuilt it. (They also burned the Library of Congress and THAT IS NOT FORGIVEN.) He could raze the whole thing to the ground, build some tacky gold McVilla, and we will just rebuild it.

Damn you, NCIS, making me cry by having the cast singing Country Roads and ending the episode with the end of watch bells.

Well, that was exciting, Toronto.

Peace and solidarity with everyone marching and rallying today. #NoKings

Oh, no no no, Milwaukee Brewers. You WILL NOT lose to the LA Fucking Dodgers. Get a goddamned hold of yourselves. FAFS.

Audiobooks are also just books.

In honor of Indigenous Peoples Day: I was born on Potawatomi land. I grew up on Pewaukee land. I went to college on Winnebago land. I am of German, Danish, Norwegian, and various British, descent. I am third generation American on one side of my family, probably fifth or sixth on the other.

He could have pulled harder. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there were a lot of barriers and challenges. This is not an Obama hagiography. I said what I said above in knowledge of all of those things. He could have pulled harder. And we could have pulled harder with him.

Shout out to every social media account person referencing Indigenous Peoples Day today. You are brave, you are true, and I support you.

There is this large plastic tub, it’s one of those things you’re supposed to bury in the ground to create a water feature in your yard, it’s in the driveway outside of my apartment. The driveway is between two houses. There’s a nor’easter. The tub is sporadically rocking back and forth.

RIP Diane Keaton.

All of these Seattle and Detroit fans are recreating the posts me and my friends made during hockey playoffs gone by. I’m so happy that we all go to the same place during overtime.

Having the kind of good time watching people suffer over a multiple overtime game that would probably absolutely kill my karma if the universe didn’t already know I’m a hockey fan.

This thread, @cheesegrits.bsky.social - the history of why the British now think flapjacks are granola bars.

I had no idea how many Mariners and Tigers fans I follow here until tonight. It’s a little disorienting actually.

October is the best month, I will not be taking questions at this time. #Hipstamatic

Went to put the trash out on the curb and noticed something across the street.

Weird mossy sweater witch.

So it’s Prime Day(s) again and that means I obviously ordered a @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social book from @bookshop.org and yes this is a virtue signaling post but also it’s me trying to advertise for Tom Cox, who writes lovely books, and Bookshop dot org, who supports lovely indie bookstores.

“Highlights” feels very aspirational.

RIP Saul Zabar.

Well, that’ll work, surely.

I am so fucking angry. All the time. I don’t know what to do with all this anger. I keep trying to be constructive with it but OH MY GOD FUCK ALL OF THIS. And I’m also so fucking tired.

Well, then we should kill it.

No.

RELEASE THE FUCKING EPSTEIN FILES.

Look, I get the point. Reading takes time. I am traumatized by all the books I won’t have time to read before I die. But I don’t read books to just understand their content. I read them for the pleasure of their words. All of them. The way an author puts words together and makes them tell a story.

Not going to lie, as much as I like Jamie Lee Curtis, I’m not sure I want a bold reinvention of Murder, She Wrote.