the real genius of wasted is that you can drink to it and slot it into your sunday morning sweat-out-the-poor-choices playlist

Pretty sure the rule should be, “Don’t lie about the dead.”

"let us be heard from red core to black sky." yeah morpheus was talking that talk

"I refuse to use AI. I don’t want its sweaty little hands all over creative work. Art is an expression of being human that’s transcendent and complex, and the dumbification of that is the last straw for me. That and robot dogs."

when lime and watermelon come together, some real magic occurs

maybe mitch mcconnell saw the ezra edelman prince doc

the estimated tally here is pretty wild www.thetrace.org/2026/06/poli...

google's AI previews routinely flat out lie about books. I searched a character name to check the spelling, and it served up a whole false bio and arc for this character

bouncing around metro atlanta this week, I've noticed there's fewer water fountains

Fight for trans people for us all. They deserve freedom to be their beautiful selves in its own right. And it's perfectly possible for a society to accept them, many have & do, this is fascism choosing them as a target. We're all affected, policing gender comes for all of us & makes us less free.

dear streets, kino lorber has a great sale right now

colson + craig = great www.vulture.com/article/cols...

I reviewed Disclosure Day over @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...

I reviewed Disclosure Day over @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Happy Hunter X Hunter 401 to all who celebrate

a pretty sober look at the infrastructure required for scaled carbon capture projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...

good vacuums don't come cheap

completely anecdotal and possibly limited to the midatlantic—but I feel like this year's blueberry crop has been exceptionally bad

The quiet push to shield pesticide makers from lawsuits

chotiner interviews are what I wish ziwe interviews could be

Tay Keith wasn't even 30 man wtf

the perverse kick dads get out of carrying and spending cash needs to be studied

I resent being asked if I am a robot multiple times a day

obligated to consume toxic levels of dipset for the next week

it wasn't this loud here when obama won

Guys, imagine if Desus and Mero were still together right now.

Knicks absolutely earned that

trillionaire-dom is such an obscene and unimaginable amount of wealth that even comic book villains aren't that loaded

first bound galleys of JOLT arrived last night. I wrote most of this book on paper, then spent months in edits staring at pages on a screen, so it’s cool to be back where we started: paper + ink + my whole goofy life laid bare, nbd. preorders open ahem: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Jolt/T...

this is today!

The flute-playing rapper became an icon of brand-friendly body positivity in the twenty-tens. Who is she now? www.newyorker.com/culture/pop-...

DMV: tomorrow I'll be talking Rasputin Swims the Potomac with Ben Fountain. come through politics-prose.com/ben-fountain...

pusha was really talking that talk on numbers on the board "how could you relate when you ain't never been great?"

Newsrooms really shouldn't allow the language of "precision strikes" and "surgical strikes" outside of quotes. That shit is completely made up

how am I supposed to sleep after that

the best sport

stephen’s first novel “in the heat of the light” remains one of my favorite pieces of fiction, a delightfully fearless and radical romp. dude’s got the juice, can’t wait for this one.

Fun news. I've got a new book on the way: POST. It's a crime caper about the Post Office

approx 12% of marriage is delegating the management of local spiders

As Baltimore’s Pride festival grows, residents and city officials grapple with who gets to manage it baltimorebeat.com/as-baltimore...

if passionfruit were to become a schedule I drug, I'd be unhappy but I'd understand

This is this Friday at the Politics and Prose on Connecticut Ave

In ONE HOUR we are raising money for abortion access by supporting The Brigid Alliance in PREPARE TO GIVE, a Dark Souls 3 marathon where if you donate $2500 an hour Danni can never level up! www.twitch.tv/rangedtouch/

still brazy turns 10 next week, and you know what, I think it's actually grown more brazy

this tiffany day album is so fucking good

Freelancing is hard enough already, and inflation sucks. Defector is raising our base freelance rates by 20 percent. Great time to pitch us. Email me or [email protected]

every now and then life brings me into contact with the second and third verses of lift every voice and sing. it gets very manifest destiny

asked a friend if he'd heard of jpegmafia and he said, "yeah, I'm white."

rooting for qwant, duckduckgo, etc. but I'd be lying if I said their products are comparable

just turned in proofs for a short story out later this year. very stoked for it to hit the streets