If you're near Olympia this Sunday, join me at the @olympiafilmsociety.bsky.social screening of "The Last Critic," a new doc about @rxgau.bsky.socia at 1 p.m. at the Capitol Theater, followed by a Q&A with director Matty Wishnow and me. 🎬 thelastcriticfilm.com www.facebook.com/eve...

Love this: www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

Happy National Library Week! 💙📚

Please 👏 Stop 👏 Asking 👏 Bots 👏 for 👏 Comment 👏 “Luna, for one, thinks Andon Market is going well. The A.I. agent has an email address and responded to 10 questions.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

Tomorrow marks 10 years since Prince passed. For the first time, I gathered nearly two decadesq of my writing, podcasts, talks & more into one curated resource, including playlists, rarities, a review of every video he ever made, and collaborations I did with his estate. anildash.com/2026/04/20/p...

Did the Onion also acquire Bluesky?

‘Mr. Peanut,’ by Adam Ross (2010): www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

San Francisco friends, this is a great deal.

Things do bad in Mamdani’s socialist hellhole that the millionaires are fleeing with just the golf clubs on their back

Claude bless @colsonwhitehead.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Dammit it’s already happening

Interesting that Sharon Simmons, the Door Dasher from Arkansas at the White House, is also Sharon Simmons from Nevada that testified at a GOP Ways and Means field hearing about trumps ‘big beautiful bill’ in Nevada last year.

Attention? nymag.com/strategist/a...

Relief.

This could be us

Exciting: Random House officially released the cover of my forthcoming novel. Feel free to pre-order the book here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/594494...

Excited for this to finally fix the Y2K bug: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/t...

Do BOTS sell magazines?

The Albanian Daily News got this scoop before The Albanian Post. Murdoch sunk millions into that launch! albaniandailynews.com/news/former-...

Tucker: the man and his dream My latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

“I am not Epstein’s victim.”

36 years ago today... #TwinPeaks premiered.

What if the real Satoshi Nakamoto is the friends we made along the way?

Had no idea Allegra Coleman was alive and living in San Francisco. (bcc @beingmartha.bsky.social )

I do feel like a semicolon might’ve been helpful

Our entire lives are a Princess Bride gag now

Insane to think someone at CNN is tasked with cueing this up tonight: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6f7...

Nothing would affirm jeevacation’s narcissistic belief that he was a Great Man at the levers of world power like a nuclear war ending civilization over his illiterate emails.

‘May you live long enough that your poison pen roman à clef about your abusive boss and the toxic workplace she created be embraced by that boss and thoroughly monetized by the company that rejected you.‘ — ancient magazine proverb

If a screenwriter scripted a montage in which intelligent, collaborative astronauts sent glorious photos of our planet then cross cut to a belligerent, suppurating despot threatening that ‘a whole civilization will die tonight,’ critics would call it heavy handed hackwork.

"I grew up across the street from a public library, and it was the only place my mom would let me go on my own. It was my second home, and I read everything that I could get." ~ Tracy Chapman Chapman by Nicholas Albrecht #Booksky

Still reading @ronanfarrow.bsky.social and Andrew Marantz’s Sam Altman profile, but it sent me back to Tad Friend's 2016 piece in which Altman and Peter Thiel were thinking about a pandemic (!) and planning to escape together to New Zealand: www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Ana Marie Cox is a very good editor.

“Somebody said, ‘Oh, he doesn't have a plan.’ I have the best plan of all, but I'm not going to tell you what my plan is.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMz7...

”I for one welcome our new insect overlords”

Mixed media, photo and readymade objects (2026)

Truly gives new meaning to the words artificial intelligence: www.wsj.com/business/med...

Targeted @manbartlett.com content:

V. important breaking, etc. (cc: @weratedogs.com )

One of my favorite #TwinPeaks prop errors: Donna getting the mail at home, addressed to Studio City, California.

Have you seen those two Iryna Zarutska murals downtown? Here's what you should know about where they came from — and why white nationalists love them. sf.gazetteer.co/downtown-mur...

THE HUNDRED-HEADED MAN: My review of _The Complete Works of Ricardo Reis_ (New Directions) by Fernando Pessoa--Portuguese polymath, unbeatable oddball, and Man of a Hundred "Heteronyms" (literary alter egos)--is live at 4C: www.4columns.org/dery-mark/th... #FernandoPessoa #Pessoa #RicardoReis

Gang. GANG. Here's that Ghanian bootleg Cheers artwork you were looking for.

So many books worth reading. Rest in print.

My 3yo was reading The Free Press when he turned to me, gravely, and asked: "Daddy, why won't the media show support for the nice orange man's war with Iran?" And when I told him, "they want to, but they've been silenced by the woke mob at Oberlin and Brown," he started crying.

Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon (1973)

Looks like they started by firing the editors: www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

For about a year I've been working with some of the best reporters and editors in L.A. to build a brand new city news outlet. It launches tomorrow. Is it possible to operate a sustainable local journalism business in 2026? Let me know! lamaterial.com

’A Visit From the Goon Squad,’ Jennifer Egan (2010) www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/li...