when an SFF book opens with a map >>>>>

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if there were a nobel prize for loserdom, musk would get it for grokipedia

it's honestly fascinating how pedestrian titles get to be when you're a Name.

"american canto." huh, they clearly put a lot of thought into that

I know houseplants have a sense of humor because over- and underwatering have the same symptoms

15 years ago a friend shared someone else's family recipe with me under the condition I never tell said person (who I've never met) where I got it every time I cook it, I wonder if we will ever meet, and whether the source would actually care lol

“This feels like the only transaction that you can do on the internet that doesn’t involve a password or some kind of authentication, and it’s a really important one, and it’s across the entire music streaming ecosystem.”

as someone who feels deeply exploited every time I buy glasses, I have to assume all the influencers who dramatically slam their glasses on tables are using props

I reviewed the new keiyaA. she's leveled up, big time pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

I reviewed Danny Brown's Stardust. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

a funny thing about writing: I can't remember anything I've written unless I'm drafting and repeat myself. when that happens, a silent alarm trips and I instantly know I have to revise/rephrase/tweak.

to my great annoyance and consternation, I am increasingly seeing "abundance" referred to as a movement

would be cool for there to be a criterion closet series for music, based in like q-tip's record collection

a review as quotable as the album www.npr.org/2025/10/30/n...

I reviewed the new Daniel Caesar pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

breaking longstanding neutrality, the xenomorph queen endorses cuomo

a thoughtful look at the chris brown industrial complex www.vulture.com/article/the-...

"the album feels unbound, not simply because dance music is physically freeing, but because...Parks has activated some latent part of her style and sound, decompartmentalizing ideas and ideals that were once stored on separate drives; syncing them." www.npr.org/2025/10/23/g...

hard to overstate how good The Boy Who Played the Harp is

As the Trump administration pushes for the restoration of Confederate monuments, Kara Walker has turned one an undead centaur. My review of “Monuments,” an extraordinary show that juxtaposes the lies of the Lost Cause with the black histories they eclipse www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

behold a music-centric 6 7 essay pitchfork.com/thepitch/let...

Taking @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social's line: we're going to win.

I wish all those bad rufo profiles would have mapped power the way this does www.propublica.org/article/russ...

one of the weirdest vestiges (and evidence) of segregation is all the content that's basically like, "did you know [another race] also [does thing your race does]?"

Tyler, the Creator spent his early years cultivating a fanbase of trolls. Last weekend, it came back to haunt him in a big way. How much reckoning will it take to shake it? Read Dylan's thoughts on the situation

"Accidental Nazi Tattoo" - Morgan Wallen ft. RMR & Brad Paisley (prod. Mike Dean)

wrote about Kai Cenat's Mafiathon 3, its On The Radar-sponsored freestyle series, and unpacked some thoughts about the omnipresence of streaming culture at large for @hearingthingsco.bsky.social

of all the midwest foods to be exported out of the region, it's honestly very funny that pizza has been The One pizza is midwest cuisine's sixth man at best

formally requesting that Detroit gatekeep its pizza. the posers are besmirching your good name

a small kindness is that you can run through d'angelo's discog multiple times in just a few hours

I reviewed Amber Mark's Pretty Sweet pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Samuel Please

D’ANGELO wapo.st/3KSHRUU

still proud of this piece, which attempts to complicate one of the things d'angelo was (unfairly) best known for

I'll never get used to so many black men, famous and regular degular alike, not making it out of their 50s

spoke with tony seltzer and anysia kym about their new album for the ableton blog

Retriever turns 5 today. a lot of readers assumed this was a wet dream, but I think a close read reveals this world is deeply ambivalent retriever.plotter.cc

the self-satisfaction and spin are disgusting but honestly it makes sense to me that the funders of a war would take credit for its end. it was an investment

I'm just like a large language model in that I've read everything on the internet and it's made me effectively useless

new tiacorine is pressure jfc

it's honestly kinda fucked up that snacks just make you hungrier

happy black spec fic month. I'm rereading Friday Black and some selections from Out There Screaming (which I reviewed last year). hoping to finish the month with The Payback and Fanon by J.E. Wideman (not actually spec fic but it is freaky, so maybe it is?) www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

truly wild how inconsequential openly lying has become apnews.com/article/trum...

"Content is much of what UY SCUTI is...a boringly chaotic album so desperate for attention that Thug turns himself into a meme" pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

I reviewed Vie pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

With his ban on military shaving waivers, Pete Hegseth knows damn well who he’s pushing out: Black troops.

wild insideclimatenews.org/news/2909202...

I was on vacation last week so didn't get a chance to share this piece when it came out, but I had a lovely time speaking to people in the Juniata River Valley about Goose Day, a quirky & unique local holiday that's celebrated every Sept. 29: www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/09...

nice www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...