I am so mad at @hexican.bsky.social that I’m only finding out NOW about Invisible Man v Invisible Stan (h/t @laurentheisen.bsky.social )

Boring dunce Nick Bilton hounded out of first meeting with '60 Minutes' staffers: defector.com/boring-dunce...

I need to read more Welsh poetry. I was watching Welcome to Wrexham last night and a woman said, complaining about being single: “I have no luck. I could fall into a well of cocks and come out sucking my own thumb.”

A writer wrote me and asked for some clarification about the AI rules for the DC Bouchercon anthology, specifically if it was permissible to use AI for grammar and story development. Just so it’s clear where the DC Bouchercon anthology stands, here’s the answer:

I just spent nearly a week in Minnesota for my day job and part of the trip included a behind-the-scenes tour of Viking Stadium. No matter how much I do laundry, I can’t get the scent of failure and death out of my clothes.

Mainstream media should be covering Trump with fewer political reporters and more crime reporters.

Congratulations to @catrionamcp.bsky.social on scoring a lengthy review of THE DEAD ROOM in the Wall Street Journal! www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

This was such a great read!!!

Today’s newsletter is about the DC Bouchercon anthology, POWER CORRUPTS. I’m the managing editor, and I’m so excited to work with the guest editor, @almakatsu.bsky.social ! Interested in submitting a story? Check out the guidelines. We’re excited to read your work! buttondown.com/eaymar/archi...

Make sure you come out to Jackie Lee’s this Sunday night at 6 PM for DC for Noir at the Bar! The only thing staged is the spot where the writers will be reading!

Feels like I’ve watched this show for the Epsteinth time.

Nailed it! Exactly what he was like. Great work!

This is excellent, and especially thrilling because it's the first thing I've read on this topic that gets past its supposed inevitability to assess what AI ed tech is actually like, and what it actually does. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...

Overheard two women talking about The Golden Girls: “Where did they live in that show?” “They all lived in Blanche’s house.” “Oh, I would love to live with my best friends.” “Aren’t you married?” “Yes. What’s your point?”

bad news for me, the guy who uses the world's biggest condom

What’s up www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/b...

The DOGE forgets. Northern Virginia remembers.

Washington ordered smallpox inoculations for the Continental Army beginning in 1777. Hegseth, therefore, is taking a mid-18th century, pre-Industrial Age approach to medicine and warfare.

From an article in the New Yorker, just after Wrestlemania, about Linda McMahon and her running the Department of Education.

THAT LADDER MATCH THO

WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/

I went to day 2 of the draft in nyc once and it was the saddest event i have ever been to and i have been to a boat show

Working on something. Is this permissible to include in a set of submission rules for an anthology, legally? "The editors reserve the right to dog walk your ass if we find out you used AI."

I’m already annoyed at how tremendously Wrestlemania is gonna suck this weekend. I wish I was wrong, but I’ve been hurt before.

It’s weird how the expression “quite frankly” has become a way to tell if stupid people are trying to sound smart.

As they say, it’s not all men, but it’s always men. 62 million.

“Everybody’s using AI for everything nowadays, and if you don’t, you’re a misfit outsider who should be stoned to death in the town square, and then resurrected virtually from your data so you can be stoned to death in the virtual town square, for infinity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

This entire column is art. It should be posted in the Smithsonian, although it would promptly be removed by the administration.

Some of you aren’t talking about how amazing Jury Duty: Company Retreat was, and I’m disappointed in you.

In good news, the ruler of Hungary for the last 16 years, Victor Orbán, was defeated today. Orbán is one of the main writers of the authoritarian playbook, featuring great replacement theory. The campaigning of Trump and Vance failed. Hungarians gave humanity hope. apnews.com/article/hung...

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

"The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by an AI right now."

My jam for this summer: m.youtube.com/watch?v=QJMW...

Guys if melania were implicated in an international conspiracy of systematic sexual assault and pedophilia ring I’m pretty sure brett ratner would have mentioned it in the documentary

I love Daredevil.

Look what’s happening at the 2026 Washington Writers Conference! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/pan... @dcwriterscon.bsky.social @eaaymar.bsky.social @almakatsu.bsky.social @elizanellums.bsky.social #booksky

There is no more dangerous political idea than claiming another civilization must be annihilated to prevent the annihilation of your own civilization. This great replacement theory will lead to the annihilation of both civilizations, of all civilizations, of human civilization.

I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...

Whether it's Donald Trump posting profane threats of war crimes on Truth Social or liberals putting their pronouns in email signatures, both sides have published language that the other side considers threatening.

Hallo. Today’s newsletter is all about the onslaught (onslop?) of AI news in publishing, and how it seems inevitable that LLMs will become part of the publishing process: buttondown.com/eaymar/archi...

“It's like we're at a time that somehow we think we have to give equal time to the people who believe that the Earth is flat,” says retired judge Nancy Gertner. “I mean, you don’t.”

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Every chance they get Democrats should speculate that Trump fired Bondi because she was about to follow the law & release the rest of the Epstein files. Epstein files have lost a bit of news momentum. It needs to get back to previous levels of attention.