I’m back on my journalism bullshit, with a report for Serious Eats about Gulf oyster safety in the midst of a serious Vibrio outbreak in Louisiana. Should you eat raw Gulf oysters? That depends on your own personal risk calculus + underlying health conditions. www.seriouseats.com/raw-oyster-r...

listening to the buckingham nicks re-release and i am just very struck by the fact that it continues to rip so fucking hard

anybody else just wanna spite-rail 3 or 4 extra strength tylenol

New: We have just sued ICE to demand it turns over a secretive spyware contract that it refuses to release: www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

it is awfully late for people to be fist fighting each other on the internet

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my most millennial productivity hack is to put on R&B and hip-hop from the 2000s, it will reinvigorate the deep well of energy you used to use to find someone to buy you booze and score weed

idk what I expected but america is really letting us all down. we’re so proud of our precious freedoms and principles but we’ll drop all that shit in a hot second to avoid just a hint of discomfort or confrontation, or god forbid any risk to the bag

The thing about “cancel culture” is that it was always fake

the texas unemployment office hold music is designed to make you just wanna give up and die before you can even find a job

i guess I don’t understand the point of media or academic institutions if they’re not actually going to do anything to protect their work from fascists or AI or … anything else it seems like

i would argue with a fence post but never with some faceless doofus on the internet who is committed to misunderstanding me this is advice some of you should consider

ok let’s all go outside and scream now

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I wrote about Be Home Soon, a sweet little East Dallas spot that's turning out some of the city's best dishes, for the @texashighways.bsky.social September issue texashighways.com/food-drink/d...

the idea that we should cede this country -- or this state, or this region -- to the fascists who want to dismantle it is so insane to me i ... extremely live here and don't want to leave

i'm all yes i am a talented writer until it comes time to actually explain anything about myself or any work i have ever done

I desperately need a marketplace-only version of Facebook where I can still lowball old ladies for their vintage trinkets but also I don’t have to see any AI slop or fake news stories

something I think about a lot is the way that many farmers were forced to shift their farms to commodity soy/corn monoculture which was supposed to help them survive now they still can’t financially survive and don’t grow anything edible

I wasn’t prepared for how uniquely bitchmade this particular strain of fascism would be

And you know we're just going to be expected to deal with it. They'll get bailed out or bought and cake mixes are just fucked. No one will step in to make a product people want in case it might temporarily affect shareholders.

shout out to @kanopy.com, the absolute best streaming app that is also totally free if you have a library card

i absolutely love Texas homecoming mum culture but this new era is so tacky and that is only one of my many meemaw coded opinions

the things I say to my puppy who insists on putting everything on the ground into his mouth are between me and god

Gonna start a new microblogging site where the only moderation rule is that if you mention/quote/screenshot Yglesias, Klein, or that other wiener with three names your phone automatically locks for 48 hours

This is such a funny element to the Kirk eulogizing: they can’t describe him the way they’re describing him *and* show clips of anything he actually said or did

Charlie Kirk spent his adult life spreading hate and fear. He deliberately made life harder for minorities, immigrants and those who are different. Maybe you agreed with him, maybe you didn't. But those are facts. Everyone knows it. People and organizations venerating him are telling on themselves.

in america we are forced by a very vocal minority to live by the gun, die by the gun, not in the cowboy wild west way, but in an more incredibly thoughtless ignorant way

oh also if you have a not-totally-mainstream film rec that was released after 1992 and is available on streaming, would love to hear it!!

i am watching a new-to-me movie released in every year that i've been alive and it is really mindblowing how much better -- and weirder -- movies used to be

will someone please tell the accounts payable people of earth that none of the rest of us have a voided check to send them

my husband is furious that I said the Wendy’s chicken nuggets he was eating were made out of earlobe meat but I must speak my truth

I wonder what the courts will say about my exciting new business venture in which I steal all of my products, make them worse, and sell them to others

I read the venture capitalist surrogate story and I think that’s maybe the last thing I will ever read, I don’t want to know anything else about humans

I have infinitely more respect for a fullblown Walt-is-capitalist-Jesus / second home in Orlando-owning Disney Adult than I do for even the lowest-key Harry Potter casual gcn.ie/j-k-rowling-...

the bureaucracy of getting laid off is so fun, I love talking on the phone to 401k administrators and searching for my missing cobra paperwork

the thing is if you have a six hour day for eight hours pay & full employment you now have time to enjoy walking your dog. to cook yourself something at leisure. to enjoy taking care of your dwelling. the answer isn't magic robots. it's unions, it's workers getting the means of production

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ALERT I have made chili, football season can commence

“do you have savings” yes, i have saved approximately twelve dollars

it’s easy to overlook fascism, I guess, when your only real priority is protecting your own comfort and position. there is nothing these folks care more about than that.

excited to play the fun game of “how long can I avoid taking a job training an AI before I don’t have a place to live anymore”

LinkedIn posting culture is equal parts fascinating and terrifying

this is what happens when you lay off all the fact-checkers and copy editors! meanwhile, editors are assigning shit to scammers and incredibly talented writers can’t find work

I recently decided that my unemployment hobby would be junk journaling, which really speaks to my crow-like urge to acquire colorful trash

From 2019, @dansolomon.com and I reported a bit on Briles' time at Stephenville: "Relying on accounts from more than a dozen people, we traced Briles’s history of dealing with players accused of sexual assault back to his time as a high school football coach in Stephenville, Texas."

lol I’m sorry if you didn’t know that jillian michaels wasn’t a right wing tyrant, idk what to tell you

ugh I guess I have to figure out my life now and I would simply rather not do that

Seems like a problem that most every smart liberal and left wing writer, researcher, analyst, and NGO worker I know is unemployed, grossly underpaid, or in a super unstable job, while a bunch of 20 year old Nazis with the talent and expertise of ass hair are getting paid $300K to post on Twitter.

I keep getting ads for some Christian rock streaming service and I gotta say, after a very long time out of the church, I’m almost impressed by its commitment to remaining corny as fuck