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I will haunt anyone who does this of me

Everytime a lib comes up with a new pun to describe trump, im allowed to give a child one cigarette

Design is how it works

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we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

Banger alert.

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

People think "politics" is what you say, but politics is in fact how you wield power. In that sense, driving a car is one of the most profound ways to reveal what your actual politics are. How people drive reveals the sickness at the heart of our society: wanting power, but not responsibility.

One reason you need a public editor, representing the readers and their rights.

I once corrected a minor, punctuation typo on a months-old slack message that came up on a search and that no one was likely to refer to ever again. Elite failure starts at having no self respect!

Finally got to write about this obsession. Elon pushed people to stop linking the articles they were talking about. He's started to roll that back, but we were left with a culture of people yelling at screenshots of headlines on monetized accounts

My wonderful better half is doing a lovely thing for people in need, please help if you can

Hey!! Here's my new piece for The New Republic!! It's about how Meta is cramming generative video slop (the most energy-intensive of the gen systems) into its massive global advertising engine: a recipe for an order magnitude worsening of its already-huge harms 😱 newrepublic.com/article/2028...

DOCTYPE Magazine: Matt Round made a 1980s-style type-in print magazine, full of novel standalone web apps you type in by hand https://vole.wtf/doctype/

i wrote everything that i've been kind of nervous to write about @val.town: here's how things have been going the last three years, and read to the end for how we're hiring for two people macwright.com/2025/11/11/v...

I'm so psyched about @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy's work on making the open social internet good for real communities by putting in the culture work right from the very beginning. I'm a scavenger and a pragmatist *and also* I think the way we do things matters. www.wrecka.ge/sparks-fly-up/

I have been cooking dinner most nights for twenty-plus years and for my family for over a decade. If I go even a few days without doing so it takes me a full week to get back to a basic level of competence. This is a post about AI.

I scribbled down all my shutdown-related intrusive thoughts and put them in a blog post. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

Live your life in such a way that someone who writes your obit *four years* before you shuffle off this mortal coil isn't able to have the last word

Behold two of the laziest loafs I’ve ever made. Started over a week ago, constantly forgot about them. Turns out you can just bake things!

One nice thing about the boys getting older is now instead of spending 30 minutes a week cleaning the bathrooms I get to spend two and a half hours a week haranguing them to clean the bathrooms.

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

The best time to create a political movement dedicated to taking on scam culture was before it took over a sizable portion of the economy. The second best time is right now.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

How being the right amount of online can be a salvation from slop and doomerism. Sharp piece from @thedextriarchy.bsky.social

The best media analysis of the most interesting political campaign of the year in the most media savvy city in the world comes from a worker owned news site. That rules.

We won a Cronkite award for our essays on @cbseveningnews Plus which went off the air last Friday. www.cronkiteawards.org/uploads/5/1/...

Smart thoughts from @aaronrosspowell.com about what makes decentralized social, including old-school blogging, exciting again

I subscribed and I think you should too.

for all the culture war/forum drama etc, it is just undeniable that this is basically the only social media platform where journalists can publicize their work online bsky.app/profile/sama...

if our brains weren’t always being cooked by the horrors of real life this place could be Actually Fun and it’s so nice to get a glimpse of what happens when it is even if you don’t like baseball this shit was fun, right? everyone getting swept up in the same thing? I missed this

Adding this to my report that America has yet to recognize we have been living in a time of confectionary perfection for over two decades and are simply letting it slip away. I’m talking, of course, about the Take 5.

Very fun story from my pal Saleem about the southern roots of electronic music. www.wunc.org/podcast/the-broa...

The NYC lunchtime pecking order, late 1990s, sketched for The NY Times by a waiter at the Four Seasons. I sensed it would be of historic interest so I framed it and hung it on the wall at Slate.

Real talk? The Flytrap team were a big inspiration to me and others at @coyotemedia.org this year while we were getting off the ground. Please toss these amazing folks some coin, Bluesky. (And don’t forget to renew your membership if you backed them on Kickstarter!)

I'm reminded of my key takeaway from reading Twitter and Tear Gas — power learns

Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

On a day when we celebrate being all manner of fantastical creature, we should imagine a world full of Luddites. A better world.

wow, I didn't know how I missed this last week! this is exactly the sort of project I'm excited to see happening with the feed system: strong values/vision/opinion, collab with @graze.social, research background, user configurable

7/ The report notes Trump's election has accelerated this trend, with Chinese firms now avoiding not just US projects but "traditional re-export platforms, where investors worry about secondary sanctions." The decoupling is driving deeper Chinese engagement elsewhere.

I have taken the works from the antique land upon which you were probably about to gaze and despair Forgive me they were mighty now so bare and boundless

I’ll be opening a winter cohort of the sf writing work/shop soon, get on the waitlist if you want to be the first to find out! Space will again be very limited so that everyone can fully participate. https://everythingchanges.us/workshop/sf

Few people outside North Carolina have heard of Paul Newby, the chief justice of the state’s Supreme Court. But Newby has had a huge impact on America and his state. He’s done this with the goal of delivering what he’s called “biblical justice, equal justice, for all.” THREAD 👇

At a time when US-based social media companies are platforming far right extremism in the EU, Meta is trying to get the Irish government to front their assault on EU privacy laws. web.archive.org/web/20251030...

So we are exactly back to where we were before Trump’s idiotic trade war and because Xi knows MAGA makes America weak he’s all too happy to give their special boy something he can call a win. Love this for us.

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

The first session of my workshop on creativity and developing a writing practice went well, so I'm doing it again in December. I raised the price a bit to $65 because I'm thinking of adding a snail mail component, but it's the same workshop. Registration is here: www.elizabethspiers.com/workshops/

Well, well, well, look who has to A the Q’s now (This is a terrific interview about a form that seems very simple but is quite hard to pull off)

bluesky mentioned in academic paper about puppygirls