This made my day!

I want fully staffed public pools, and libraries that are cathedrals to public goods and a society where walling yourself off with money is viewed as sociopathic.

Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,

This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵

It has been a bad couple of days for the Times, but I still appreciate how the reporter covering the Oasis reunion ended his piece with the word “blur.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/a...

This NYT graphic is so pointless. A third-grader’s sketch of a plane (zoom!) and a bomb (boom!) plus… “precise navigation”

There’s a great interview with Nick Park about Wallace And Gromit in last month’s Empire, and this bit in particular stood out. It sums up what artists have been trying to say about AI. The mistakes and the learning aren’t things to be bypassed, but a vital part of the process 🤟

“You will be visited by three spirits” The three spirits:

Pet peeve du jour: The “École Normale Supérieure” needs to pick a lane. You can’t be both at once

John Ashbery

I would like to pose some hypothetical questions to the insurrection-deniers: Is there anything Trump could have done that *would* have unambiguously constituted insurrection — anything that you’d acknowledge *does* require disqualifying him? 1/

I can see why AOJ was particularly alert to jokes of this kind

Is it any wonder that sales of print magazines began their long decline right at the moment that the Flaming Lips started a nationwide mania for blowing your nose in them?