holy shit what a book

banishing every prime day pitch for products I don't cover straight to the shadow realm (spam)

please look at how adorable my cat is

BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really. Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are. This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

just finished Automatic Noodle by @annaleen.bsky.social and it was an absolute delight! scrumptious food and the most beautiful depiction of top surgery I've ever read ♥️ and it's short! go read it!

the hog dog wash wash

microsoft smurface

my fig tree made the biggest fig I've ever seen

FARM TO BUR GER FARM TO BURGER FARM

How to build the best keyboard in the world

Norbauer Seneca review: a $3,600 luxury keyboard for the keyboard obsessed

a fascinating look into what it takes to chase the perfect keyboard, and hooboy do I want to type on one of these

reporting this piece about surprise customs bills was a real wild ride - I ordered a bunch of stuff to get some bills on purpose, and even then I didn't expect what happened if you buy things on the internet you should give it a read! www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

reporting this piece about surprise customs bills was a real wild ride - I ordered a bunch of stuff to get some bills on purpose, and even then I didn't expect what happened if you buy things on the internet you should give it a read! www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

incredibly well-researched, super helpful, and, frankly, fun piece from @kimberstreams.bsky.social about how to deal with tariffs when shopping online!

hmu!

Have you received a customs bill after ordering something online? Our journalists want to hear from you. Send a DM to @kimberstreams.bsky.social if you’d be willing to share your experience. Thank you!

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Microsoft is handing out these Copilot mugs at its 50th anniversary event. “Speak your mind.” Pretty ironic given the employee protests

The Award-Winning Sid And Fern Thread Continues You can read through the first few years on twitter if you'd like. x.com/bombsfall/st... #SidAndFern #SidEndures #FernEndures #SoundUpForSid #SoundUpForFern

Calypso by @oliverklangmead.bsky.social is like nothing I've ever read, highly recommend looking forward to working my way through his other work!

Ep 691 - The Invasion (Animorphs #1) by K.A. Applegate

I'm an instant subscribe to Blood in the Machine, @bcmerchant.bsky.social's invaluable reporting and essays on modern luddism, big tech, AI, labor, and climate justice and you should be too: www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-tech-o...

are you even really eating soup unless you drop your whole spoon in it

me trying to write today

SOCRATES: I am wiser than this man; he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing— DARRYL, SOCRATES' FRIEND (Editor's note: There is no historical evidence that Socrates actually had a friend named Darryl. This is likely a character invented to facilitate the joke.): fuck him up socrates

it feels so unfair when a salad gives you an upset stomach. like c'mon it wasn't even that fun to eat

I don’t know what their structure is like since they got bought by Corsair but if Drop convinced Sony to make a version of the MDR-7506s with a removable cord and better pads you’d see the profits from space.

man, I love eating chips and I hate having eaten chips

happy new year we're back at it (testing keyboards) anything I haven't tested yet that you're curious about? any new favorite boards that i should look into?

baby crime! baby did crimes!

Why do video games cost so much to make these days? A recent NYT article pinned bloated budgets on the graphical arms race, but that's only a small part of the equation. The real problem? Rampant mismanagement. This week's column is a spicy one: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Our CES coverage is up! www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

one of my incredible wirecutter colleagues lost his home and all his belongings in altadena - lots of people need help right now, but if you can contribute or signal boost every bit helps www.gofundme.com/f/help-micha...

too early to be at the airport 💀 which of you nerds am I gonna see at CES this year?

no sorry i can't come over,, i'm doing inventory management

my last piece of the year just went live! please enjoy my ode to the boox palma, where I can read fanfic without emailing epubs to myself www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

today is the day of vacation where I try to read every newsletter/personal email I missed for the past year, wish me luck

setting my OOO message to "I have entered my cocoon so that in the new year I may emerge more beautiful and terrifying than before"

*johnny bravo voice* u-mami

I bounced off it hard years ago but now I'm really enjoying animal crossing pocket camp complete! look how cozy my camper is :D

good morning from the bean

Artemis is a big fan of all this extra packing material

ah,, the accurséd touch! it is but inevitable that we frail beings shall all wither and die (accidentally touched the inside lid of the trash can)

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i keep seeing these clogs while deals scanning and all i can think is babybel cheese cosplay

Vital service journalism.

Apply to Defector's Summer 2025 internship!

I have logged on to bring great wisdom are you ready? you can put rice in just about any soup

Decided to try to make my first list, which is literally just @darthbluesky.bsky.social. It's just Darth. That's it. that's the list. "That's not a list," you say, as I paddle out to sea on a tiny boat of my own making. "ONE IS NOT A LIST!" bsky.app/profile/did:...