Is there a way to tell Apple Music I like dancey music but not the heavy synth beat that sets my teeth on edge and feels like it's going to give me a panic attack? Like how do I teach the algorithm that?

I'm just a girl standing in front of the bakery in her hometown, writing cloying emails, begging them to give her a recipe for her favorite cookie please.

in my heart I know that Lin-Manuel Miranda wants to play Zohran Mamdani on SNL so bad it physically hurts him

They were all good people who brought so much light to our lives. The world is a much dimmer place without them.

I don't typically mourn celebrities or famous people. They're strangers that I don't actually know. But like with Mr. Rogers, Steve Irwin, and Robin Williams, I feel a genuine sadness over Jane Goodall's passing.

RT if you agree that the deli should let me take a bath in the everything seasoning at the bottom of the bagel rack

Earlier this month, U.S. House candidate @katmabu.bsky.social, 26, was involved in a confrontation at an ICE rally that went viral. “If they are willing to do this to a congressional candidate in front of a bunch of press, imagine what they're doing behind boarded-up windows.” Read more ⤵️

PBS bringing back Reading Rainbow is THE BEST NEWS ALL YEAR.

Tech giants have spent more than $100 billion on data center construction just this summer in the name of “progress”- but this new report from @mediajustice.bsky.social reveals just how much the opposite of that is happening in Southern communities: mediajustice.org/resource/the...

Look I know sometimes the internet is dumb, and yes, AI drains resources, but I also love that I can now wonder "Hmmmm can I get a soda I like at the game tonight?" and Google can tell me without scrolling that yes, Citifield has Coke products, not Pepsi. The fountain Diet Coke better be delicious.

chocolate covered pretzels are the best afternoon snack

"No bookstore that PW has reached out to has been as adversely impacted as @loyaltybooks.bsky.social, which specializes in diverse and intersectional literature ... Sales are down 65% since August 11." you can shop at Loyalty at loyaltybookstores.com or through Bookshop bookshop.org/shop/loyalty

I got to talk with @lataco.bsky.social's @eltragon.bsky.social about his tireless documentation of immigration raids in LA, and how his knowledge of the city's street food scene makes him a better immigration reporter

I just love capitalism.* * The government paying private companies to perform a government function and then on top of that giving them a financial incentive to perform it maliciously and harm people.

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Really missing Google Reader in this age of Substack.

I made this today, and it was so good, I’ve now texted it or messaged it to at least a dozen friends. munchingwithmariyah.com/roast-pepper...

Flame and I are sooo excited to share a first peek at The Day Leap Soared, featuring breathtaking gouache paintings by @oliviawhen.com!!

This is an interesting use of AI that could actually make life a little easier for people who have difficult jobs. But we’ll see how it plays out.

Someone stole my umbrella during intermission at Wicked tonight. Which was truly wicked. And incredibly annoying. It was a really good umbrella.

Head colds in August should be taken out back and shot.

I wonder what threats Taylor writes into the NDAs for pretty much her whole team. 🤔

Wyoming newspaper executives Robb and Jen Hicks and Rob Mortimore announced Tuesday they’ve reached an agreement to purchase eight local newspapers and will keep them running after an out-of-state corporate owner shuttered them without warning last week. wyofile.com/longtime-wyo...

The Chelmsford, Mass., court has hemorrhaged judges, a consequence of the Trump administration's seemingly contradictory efforts to downsize the federal government and increase immigration arrests.

My neighborhood sandwich spot is closing and my level of depression about it is what some might call worrisome. THINGS CHANGE. But not *MY* things. My things should stay the same.

I can hardly handle how many books I've read this year. It's not anymore than I've read *in a year* in the past. But it's only July.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...

primary every democrat

Being my friend means you signed up for text messages at 9am on a Sunday. I won’t apologize.

Oh fuck this

The government of El Salvador has acknowledged to United Nations investigators that the Trump administration maintains control of the men who were deported from the U.S. to a Salvadoran prison.

"Despite Trump officially activating FEMA on Sunday, FEMA has just 86 total staff deployed at this point [to Texas], according to figures shared with staff Monday evening...In the past it would normally be in the several hundreds at this point in the disaster recovery process." My latest:

YOU CANNOT SEND EMERGENCY MESSAGES ON PLATFORMS WITH ALGORITHMS DESIGNED TO FILTER THINGS OUT

My sister got a new kitten and it immediately decided to loaf on a watermelon and bless us with this picture.

Netflix teams up with NASA to boost its live TV offering

In Tommy Tuberville's home state of Alabama, 23% of all personal income comes from transfer payments from the federal government. Alabama is the tenth most dependent on federal funding, getting $1.80 in spending back for every $1 its citizens pay in taxes. www.al.com/politics/202...

I know this analogy isn't perfect, but I can't help wondering when, in the 1932/33 timeframe, average Germans started looking around and saying, "Ooooooo, we screwed up." And then when it finally dawned on them they should've acted long before that moment.

Sotomayor: Trump knew his birthright citizenship order was unconstitutional, so he went after the universal injunctions. "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

BREAKING: Supreme Court limits universal injunctions issued by federal courts in birthright citizenship case decision

Not me over here forwarding @alexanderchee.bsky.social’s newsletter to every single member of my family with a simple “thought you’d enjoy this one!” Readers forever!

I feel like instead of cellphone lots, airports should have food truck lots like old school drive in diners so you can get snacks brought to your car while you wait. This idea brought to you from LGA and me saying out loud in an empty car “god I’d kill for some Dairy Queen right now.”

These are concentration camps. They are hunting immigrants and anyone that looks vaguely Latiné and not meeting the most basic human rights protections.

Today is the Dobbs anniversary. and relatedly here is a forthcoming project from me coming out on July 20 if that's of interest :)

I’ll turn my AC off when Vornado Realty Trust and Clear Channel turn off their ads in Times Square. ✌🏻

People dating AI chatbots is probably really bad www.garbageday.email/p/emotionall...

Even as we’re dealing with major international crises—we must stop the steal of our public lands. Call your senators! Have your voices heard! 🌲⛰️ More info and maps here: www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

I was a teenager in the early aughts, and it felt out-of-step with so much mainstream opinion to speak out against war. What is happening now is cruel and sad and wrong, and you don't have to let anyone make you feel bad for thinking and saying so.

Now I'm really angry. They're banning "Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race", by Margot Lee Shetterly. 🧪 🔭 🎢 👩‍🔬