in life all I want is to catch a vibe and/or be gagged

The Bay Area has five companies that have contracts with ICE and CBP. They're selling everything from flight restraints for deportees to car wraps to digital infrastructure, all to the tune of millions of dollars. Here's the scoop: (Free story, share widely) sf.gazetteer.co/these-sf-bay...

editing my own writing makes me feel like lil wayne... talking to myself because i am my own consultant

when white ppl are like "growing up i didn't see anyone who looked like me on the screen" and they are dead serious about how no one on screen had their exact physiognomy

my favorite purchase this year was my privacy screen protector (from spigen)... why tf does anyone need to see what's on my phone.

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Marnie is the Skyler White of Girls

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it occurs to me that the waymo failure in the SF blackout is precisely the kind of failure we were trying to help with: when traffic lights go out navigating intersections resolves to social negotiation, which requires theory of mind, which AVs ain't got

i'm only now getting into st vincent... indie cred REVOKED

i hate how everything is a jpeg nowadays -_- give me the info in text format so i can copy and paste it. just give me a link to click on instead of only putting a qr codes on an image that i'm already looking at on my phone/computer

a year since I left my old job and it’s crazy how much more time and energy I have now… in the last month I’ve started doing Spanish audio lessons, finished the Neapolitan Novels, started selling my old clothes on depop, and wrote my first substack post 🫣

flew to LAX for the first time this weekend (i usually fly to Long Beach). there are airlines at LAX I have never heard of before. what the hell is BREEZE?!

Congrats to the BDS. FREE PALESTINE.

my music taste at 14 is still the same as my music taste now... pavement pixies and garbage still fuck. and i still dgaf about dinosaur jr

Burmese restaurants that appeal to the palates of people who are used to eating at Thai restaurants that then appeal to the palates of people who are used to eating at Chinese restaurants that appeal to an American palate…

Sorry to Malcolm Harris but Stanford is a goated music venue

don draper is always like I need to get some pussy about this

i never say “no pun intended.” who cares

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reading a book im not fucking with for book club 😐 the price i pay for community

bored. gonna confuse a behavior that is simply annoying with a behavior that is antisocial at best and morally depraved at worst

I am very excited to chase down your questions -- send us on some fun reporting rabbit holes please!

New writing from me! For @unwinnable.com, I wrote about our obsession with using taste/media consumption to completely define ourselves and others, and how taste in art doesn't give us a full picture of a person no matter how much we want it to unwinnable.com/2025/07/17/d...

may my essence never be as fundamentally misunderstood as LA and SF are

going to a ”writer’s cafe” today

when I log on to twitter it feels like walking into some coworker drama I don’t want to be part of

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This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.

the way i finally understand why my teachers used to be fucking up their average looking lunches like i needed this 4);$&;&;&;&

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thread of articles I’ve kept thinking about after I read them

i know what parts of nathan fielder are real and what parts are a character . but im not telling

This needs as much coverage as protests or ICE raids. Los Angelenos FTW. ❤️🙌

A pedestrian created a whole website to shame a Tesla driver for running a stop sign and other alleged bad behavior in San Francisco: www.michaelcohensf.com/home

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conan o’brien at his mark twain award for humor ceremony

my email at my current job is just my first name @ org … that is so cunty

Help Jonathan Joss' husband. A GFM has been set up: gofund.me/58c2e16d

not really sure what elderflower is but if the cocktail has it I’m getting it…

New painting… PEACH SEASON 🍑

painting is the most exciting thing in the world to me nothing else is as exhilarating

Nathan Fielder

to be in your late 20s with no passions just going along with whatever society or your parents say you should do… like damn that’s kind of loser behavior to me

it is hilarious how often The Case For AI boils down to a scenario in which one person doesn't want to do the work and another person doesn't want to do the work of assessing the work so they both just agree to pretend they did their jobs.

another new Men I Trust album for meeeeee

Laura Dern’s character in Enlightened… she’s just like me fr

Realizing I have 8 years of experience in my sector

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