In this article Elon Musk says that the only way to eliminate poverty is by using his humanoid robot. And no one at the NYT asked how the hell a humanoid robot would eliminate poverty. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

I know we're all watching election returns but don't let this get lost in the mix: the Heritage Foundation is calling on the HHS to conduct a 'safety' review of oral contraception jessica.substack.com/p/the-group-...

Moms Demand Action is marking a historic win tonight as Virginia Moms Demand Action volunteer @abigailspanberger.com has been elected Governor of Virginia! 🧵

Please, PLEASE, I am begging you as both a parent and someone who is sick of all this THIS, go vote for your school boards. Even if you don't have kids, that's how these reactionary dipshits got their feet in, that's where the book bans and library cuts start.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Teen Vogue’s political coverage has been a bright spot in the darkness since 2016. This is sad.

I love their films but A24 is simply an impractically small paper size

Who’s “we”?

Once this picture makes sense to you, that's when you know it's a good time to settle down into a contemplative lifestyle.

I’m an auntie to several kids who are not blood relatives. Just saying.

Absolutely baffled by this. My VERY WHITE family, from upstate NEW YORK, is loaded with people I've grown up calling Aunt and Uncle despite being great aunts, dad's cousins, or not even related by blood - just mom & dad's HS best friends. Like, this is very normal shit for anyone with a large family

a lot of people don’t seem to know that every desi child is taught to call literally every older woman who is not their mother “aunty” from the moment they can speak and it shows

MONKEYTRUCK (2025)

I think being a teenager is about hiding all your quirks and contorting yourself to fit in and impress people, and being an adult is about re-finding who you were when you were eight years old. #SundaySentence We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin

My dog has been sick for about a month with a mystery illness that not all the expensive vet tests in the world can shed any light on. I hate it.

“Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it.” ― Umberto Eco

Your gentle reminder that Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated on June 14 and hardly anyone bothered to talk about it .

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

most people don't want politics that hurt other people. we just want a long overcoat like david bowie and affordable housing

The AWS outage exposes again that “the cloud” isn’t magic, it’s infrastructure. The issue isn’t a cyberattack, it’s architectural over-reliance on a handful of cloud giants. We centralized the internet and then made our entire lives dependent on it.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

I need ideas and advice. I’m a full-time freelance writer. What orgs could I join to potentially acquire group health insurance or beneficial ACA rates? Very worried about next year.

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

hey this seems bad

Well I was not expecting BILL NIGHY to be spitting facts today! observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

Current New York Times homepage (left). Times Square, NY NY yesterday (right).

One thing editors drilled into me was to use "farther" for physical distances, "further" for metaphorical ones. I have a mnemonic for this: Mercury is farther from the sun than Earth? Nothing could be further from the truth.

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on. Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights. Block, and move on. This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

Goddamn @theamynicholson.bsky.social COOKED with this FRANKENSTEIN review. Bow down to one of the greats. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

He runs a roving gang that stages hate crimes, and you do not have to hand it to him, but I agree with Curtis Sliwa on one thing: The way to get rid of rats is well cared-for cat colonies. I lived in a LES building behind a restaurant with one and there were no rats. Never mayor, but maybe Cat Czar.

Tech companies naming themselves after things in Tolkien books massively misunderstand Tolkien's opinions on technology.

Calling for gas chambers. Expressing love for Hitler. Endorsing rape. Using racist slurs. I'm demanding Rep. James Comer open a House Oversight Committee investigation into these shocking, deeply offensive messages that were exchanged by Young Republican leaders from across the country.

A fun (?) naval history fact for your weekend: During the Battle of the Nile, French Admiral Dupetit-Thouars lost one arm, then the other, then a leg to cannon fire. He ordered his men to prop him up in a barrel on the deck so he could keep commanding his ship until he died.

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again

$200k to hang out with dogs. amazing IG gabriel.desanti, barkandburn

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

it may feel a little like homework, but i genuinely think people should read the lincoln-douglas debates to see what the practical politics of anti-slavery looked like in an environment where the public was neutral to hostile to the question of emancipation

Nation’s 56,000 Acres Of Spinach Crops Cooked Down To Single Half-Cup Serving

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

holy shit they binned Kimmel?

This has been a weird day, as you can imagine. But it’s also been a really nice day, because of everything you all have said about my work. I feel like Tom Sawyer eavesdropping on his own funeral. Thanks for reading. And, in this case, writing.

I wrote about the firing of Alan Sepinwall, which is awful. And I tied it into what's happening all over in the media, why it's scary & what we can do to help. I used my words, but it's definitely Hulk Mo dialed up to 11, if that's a thing you would like to experience: www.moryan.com/on-the-firin...

The passing of Paul Newman (2008), Sean Connery (2020), Sidney Poitier (2022), and now Robert Redford (2025) signals the slow disappearance of a certain type of 20th century figure: men who embodied classic style in a way that reflected their taste, rather than a professional stylist.

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...