it's only an umlaut if it's from the umlaut region of north macedonia. otherwise it's actually just a sparkling diaeresis

Zillow bowed to pressure from real estate agents and removed climate risk scores from home listings: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

"Normal Gossip buys Malala Yousafzai a podcast microphone" was not on my bingo card for 2025 (and other such gems from this year's @defector.com annual report)

People once dreamed of sidewalks that could whisk them across the city. Somehow, that dream ended up at the airport 🛫 Listen to a new episode of 99% Invisible wherever you get your podcasts 👉 https://bit.ly/3JJtFO1

catch me on @99pi.org this week with a story about why new york almost built a moving walkway across the brooklyn bridge... and what it looks like when people refuse to give up on an idea that no one really asked for

thanks to @thenation.com for publishing this excerpt of my book; grateful to be edited by the wonderful @apockros.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/arch...

On Wednesday, Conde Nast management illegally fired four union leaders. While our union fights these illegal dismissals, the “Fired Four” have been left with no severance or COBRA coverage. Please donate to help cover their living expenses at the link below.

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

herd about the new kid in town?? the new yorker’s SHUFFALO launches today! it’s a daily anagramming game from the devious brain of @adamwagner.bsky.social that I think word nerds are really going to enjoy. this was a treat and a wild ride to bring to the world and I’m so stoked it’s here!!!

early reviews are saying this one is a banger

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

spotted this morning at the marine park salt marsh

look i just wish the magazine called The New Yorker would stop making so many geographical references to the city of New York in their Daily New Yorker crossword is that so much to ask!!

Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza. tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb

been at the eric adams scavenger hunt all day. mostly we were in a crawlspace under a house in howard beach learning “how to out-hustle the rats.” not sure what this does for the campaign

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

(nodding) night corn

I wrote about corn salad for the New Yorker Daily newsletter because, sure, why not

an unbelievable update: chipotle seems to have noticed this tweet and is now opening a focal superchipotle to harness and channel the power of the seven central brooklyn chipotles

A method involving "introducing beavers" to help create a wetland. US Patent 12349618

Can we have one nice day where the air isn’t cigarettes

In my debut for @theatlantic.com, I wrote about the disappearance of cultural listings from major New York media outlets, and what it portends for artists, audiences, institutions, and journalists. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

debuting a new abstract photography series called "pictures my phone took autonomously while charging in my tote bag"

Elevated door Black Creek, NC

god forbid a young person start a small business in our city gothamist.com/news/nypd-na...

much like trees falling in a forest, if your magazine goes up like 14-2 over two innings of slow pitch media softball before the game is called for thunderstorms, did anyone ever really win it? Subscribe_to_Hell_Gate.tif

Ducklings drop down into Lake Michigan through a hole in the concrete at Montrose Pier.

I think today is the right day for this piece. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/o...

in this summer's issue of Audubon mag: your favorite shellfish-loving shorebirds have made a huge recovery over the last two decades! I talked to conservation scientists up and down the East Coast to learn how they pulled off such an ambitious rescue effort

hey so: some personal news! this was my first week as a producer with the new yorker‘s puzzles & games team! I'm unbelievably excited to work with wordplay and trivia every single day, with the best constructors & editors in the biz, and to rep our sagacious avian mascot!!! hope you'll play along!

A TRANS PERSON MADE YOUR PUZZLE is LIVE !!!! donate at least $10 USD to an American trans charity and receive 10 puzzles by trans constructors edited by me and @cantorlope.bsky.social beautiful cover art by @pseudonymjones.bsky.social happy pride :) tinyurl.com/transxwords

“All the images I’ve seen of places I’ve never been, people I’ve never met ­create a kind of pseudomemory from a pseudoworld that I don’t participate in.” Karl Ove Knausgaard on enchantment in the digital age. buff.ly/ZWuoUnd

acclaimed and very real reporter Bruce Falconmaster makes some trenchant points in this important @hellgatenyc.com piece

Simply astonishing to see officials almost completely walking back the car-free promise here. Moving millions more people around *will not work* if you're casually suggesting people with tickets take transit to events. The whole region needs to be rewired with more options including bike connections

When an elusive source finally gets back to me the day before my deadline

Stop calling A.I. slop “art” and real human-created works “content”

I always assumed this was the case

today's @puzzmo.com crossword is mysterious and important... 👀

LEOXIV is an absolute gift to crossword constructors

For @nytimes.com, I wrote about the aptly-named superb starling, a bird that takes the idea of “chosen family” quite seriously 🧪🦉

do a puzzle with me! puzzles.usatoday.com (thanks @amandarafkin.bsky.social & @ort.bsky.social!)

Google’s AI Overviews will not only confirm that a gibberish idiom is a real saying, it will also tell you what it means and how it was derived -- often including reference links. www.wired.com/story/google...

Please enjoy these images of the 2025 Corgi Derby: defector.com/please-enjoy...

new in Audubon mag: I went so deep on heron necks. possibly too deep. they cut off my JSTOR because they got worried about how deep I was going