My 9-year-old nephew came over for the Superbowl. I’d made some wings. He took one bite and dropped it, exclaiming “did you know this wing had BONES??” (he did not eat any more wings)

today’s my first jury service! It was originally for next week but I requested a partial excuse Tueaday so the feds said okay then come in an earlier, more inconvenient Tuesday instead, no take-backsies. So here I am downtown in ill-fitting pants cosplaying business casual.

Millions of people dying was very bad, yes of course. And also COVID at one time appeared like it might have created an opportunity to make things different, maybe better…..and then instead we doubled down on Status Quo Society, except with more death. That was some bad whiplash.

I cannot get enough of the grass costume people. Give me that content directly to my eyeballs. Stayed up late cackling at my phone at grass people memes

thank you bad bunny for highlighting the importance of critical power distribution infrastructure bsky.app/profile/cost...

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

Things my two-year-old has said are “too spicy” this morning: her socks, her ducky, a bite of apple

quick, someone help, we've got a vegetable situation

it's really bleak out here without institutional research access!

big this energy today

As a social scientist, I really don't like how much of what's going on now is based in Great Man History and palace intrigue--decisions by small sets of powerful individuals who are driven by psychological traumas and tempers

panic! at the broken primary source link

there comes a point when you just keep making your weekly giant pot of beans and no one in the house can stop your beanage beantips.com/how-to-cook-...

tear them down and rewild some prairie

the way I knew what chain this was talking about.

every day lately I read something that will stay with me forever. this is beautifully written and absolutely heart shattering.

very refreshing to see the occasional heated disagreements that are trivial instead of existential. currently watching one mom accuse another of "fighting words" about midwesterners' taste in bagels on the jewish mom chat

I was active in Chicago and talking to friends in MPLS it is an exponential evolution in the organizing that happened here.

finally got around to setting up a redirect for this and I am immediately less full of rage when I need to use google drive

in chicago our school and daycare and neighborhood chats and patrols are quiet lately but they're all still ready. fuck this shit.

sincere question: if you are writing a lot right now, how

this episode is everything I hoped it would be when I wrote in this question!

Ada gave this specific advice to a workshop I attended in grad school and it has been hugely helpful. It’s so hard and so fruitful.

I find the idea that technology “evolves” via some sort of passive internal force of history extremely pernicious. The idea that things simply improve rather than very specific choices and efforts being made in targeted areas that then require new infrastructures to maintain is really dangerous.

Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.

that end of the Sugar Bowl was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen in a football stadium

DJ Moore, with absolutely nothing left. Game-winner.

when will the litfic people admit they like fantasy and magic is cool? at least two books on this list are obviously fantasy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/b...

another day, another google search of "history of internet" like the expert that I am

Made fancy European drinking chocolate last night and then used kid spoons (the rest were in the dishwasher) and stuck old marshmallows on top, like the gauche American I am

There is a way in which Trump is the most honest US president. Who else would admit that this country is super racist, commits war crimes and atrocities, that this whole place is soaked in blood and plunder. But he thinks these are its virtues.

i am here and i hate it

My 4yo asked me this fall, "Mama, when will we get a door spider this year?" I told him I didn't know whether we'd get one this year. We didn't, but we did get a window buddy for a while! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...

my brother made a new bmx vid! riding, filming, editing all by him youtu.be/ut1KOcoXg7o?...

Keys are hard. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...

They killed free file for this shit

Still seething that my former sainted editor cut my long couple paragraphs about all the ways Andreessen misunderstood the economics of 18th-century whaling. He was so wrong, y’all. Whaling was not like venture capital.

Also I did not ruin the workplace with feminism but by pouring maple syrup on every conceivable surface in your office, get it right

i’m at damen/belle plaine in chicago’s north center neighborhood for an emergency anti-ice rally. around 7 a.m. this morning, masked federal agents chased a preschool teacher *into* nearby rayito del sol and abducted her—in front of traumatized children, parents, and coworkers.

Here is a link to the print: www.emilyk.art/product/tzef...

a big chunk of the book I'm currently writing is unpacking the crypto-anarchy piece of this. 🎯 "extreme vision of individual freedom and decentralized money" accompanied by "authoritarianism and criminality"

in general more people should read Finn Brunton

in general more people should read Finn Brunton

yes yes this is a great write-up and is almost exactly the same thoughts I had after I read this book!!

it's me

i'm sorry excuse me what

historians: what's the most sources you've had to consult in order to write one paragraph? right now I'm up to probably ten, including two different redactions of the same source

they appear to have dug giant holes to remediate an old oil leak and then filled it in with bricks?? now the giant excavator is just driving back and forth around the site (to flatten it??) clearly I don't understand construction

Twice a year I hold a workshop on writing a nonfiction book proposal. It’s organized to lead you through exercises that results in a draft or revision (or just learn about the genre) Next one starts in January