How does a fiction podcast make money? www.nightwater.email/local-files-...

Update on the iPod click wheel games collection — every single game has now been found and archived! arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

Thank you to The Ringer for linking to Night Water and boosting our domain authority. 🙏 www.theringer.com/2025/08/20/p...

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Scrubs Power Hour is BACK with roughly 58 minutes of selections from season two — featuring Colin Hay, Nelly, The Coral, and more great artists, PLUS trivia and commentary and even a few callers. www.nightwater.email/scrubs-power-hour-02/

A brand new episode of Scrubs Power Hour is coming Tuesday. Subscribe to the Night Water YouTube channel to hear it first: www.youtube.com/@NightWater

water left in a glass overnight tastes bad because it gets haunted

Pokémon Sleep is two years old this week, but IMO, it's still a snoozefest: www.nightwater.email/pokemon-slee...

DID YOU KNOW? The Cheesecake Factory is the only restaurant with a higher rating on Goodreads (4.36 stars) than Yelp (2.5 stars). www.nightwater.email/cheesecake-f...

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Yes, I’m several weeks late. That’s not stopping me from celebrating National Sausage Roll Day. www.nightwater.email/national-sau...

Thinking back to a late night vibe, one year on...

Did you HAVE to buy a copy of The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald with a small ice cream cone or Diet Coke? No one really knows. www.nightwater.email/the-wacky-ad...

I wrote the @newyorker.com Pride essay about the fight for trans healthcare, the Skremetti decision, trans children, the Big Beautiful Bill, Medicaid, and last month’s vicious HHS report. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Heading to Wimbledon this year? Skip the free radios—bring your own receiver instead.

28 Years Later? What about Austin Powers 4 Now?

Nothing says summer like eating a proper bagel outside in the sun.

NEW on Night Water: It’s never too late to celebrate National Sausage Roll Day. www.nightwater.email/national-sau...

making a soap out of my night water

毎日タイタニックを描き続けた10年 www.nightwater.email/titanic-eve... 最高だな

hi! i'm making a playlist of songs from my bloomfs, so please send me suggestions for it! 💙 (also, how CUTE is this photo?? i found it on this article: www.nightwater.email/bluesky-swif...)

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A new video game asks the question: what would happen if the Titanic rose from the bottom of the ocean, gained sentience, and sought out revenge against the iceberg that sank it?

Media literacy is so important. www.nightwater.email/monster-grov...

MEAT CULTURE has secretly begun construction on a new Happy Meal toy item even more powerful than the first dreaded Pokémon Card promotion...

New for Day Soda subscribers: we are big in Japan and extremely irregular. Those two things are unconnected.

The smartest thing I did this year was write about the AI em-dash controversy for @nightwater.email. Traffic springs eternal. www.nightwater.email/em-dash-ai/

Substack has launched a TikTok-like feed of scrolling videos, which helps your newsletter... how? Here's my take: prep an exit strategy, pronto.

March 25 - top 5 most visited articles on Night Water: 5️⃣ Every vegan thing I ate at Greggs this month, ranked 4️⃣ Meet the developer saving the iPod’s click wheel games 3️⃣ We need to talk about bedside water carafes 2️⃣ You can take my em dashes from my cold, dead hands 1️⃣ It’s time to bring back HitClips

With the clocks moving back and forth, there's never been a better time to re-share this crucial question: How do cats know what time it is?

👀 Brand new Night Water podcast this week — you can listen on the web, in your favorite app, or over on YouTube. All the links you need are righ there:

What space on the internet do you have to truly call your own?

New on Night Water this week: Tune in to DOG FM, a surreal, cryptic new audio piece that combines field recording, music, and poetry.

Oliver Chapman and Phoebe Eccles join the Night Water podcast to discuss their new field recording / music / poetry mash-up album, DOG FM:

Scrubs Power Hour #01 is now available to listen to on YouTube, in case that is preferable to MixCloud in whatever way.

When Trump comes for Substack hosting so many "Marxist activist" newsletters, it'll be interesting to see if they defend themselves with the same vigor they used in protecting the Nazis, antivaxxers, antisemites, and transphobes on their platform.

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What's the ugliest meal you've ever eaten?

How do you decide who deserves a $6 pack of limited-edition soda with a 2.8 star rating on Google? Does anyone deserve that?

Coming up this month on the podcast: an interview with Oliver Chapman and Phoebe Eccles, the creators of DOG FM, a new experimental field recording / music / poetry project. Get a head start on your peers by listening to DOG FM on Bandcamp now:

Love to look at my analytics and see Slack as a referrer to this article on Internet Time. Yes, yes. Radicalize your coworkers. 😈

NEW Day Soda for paying subscribers — a review of the Temple Ugly burger from Temple of Seitan here in London.

this isn’t unique to Newsom — I also saw a 10-point net drop in favorability among my friends when I launched my podcast

The only internet radio show dedicated to the music of Scrubs — one hour of selections from season one:

Night Water podcast on Pocket Casts' new web player 👀 play.pocketcasts.com/podcasts/237...