F*** that nice write-up I got in the Guardian. This is my all-time favourite review of one of my books.

I woke up and thought of some of the people who created so much nastiness around Monkey Cage - rich people living luxury lives who found time to be committed to increasing the hate in the world - and I thought how many of them there are as we watch this century’s celebrations of cruelty

All fun and games until Björk mobilizes Icelandic elves to protect Greenland

“She will continue praying to the Shrek figure, citing their established relationship and noting that the ogre had answered as many prayers as any other household deity, statistically speaking.”

Even in Captain Planet the writers room would be like ok tone it back

The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism. Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.

It's interesting that, with their algorithms, the tech bros who design the most reprehensible parts of social media make a mirror of the shit that's destroying society. "Only big posts matter/get seen" is another version of "the obscenely wealthy get more obscenely wealthy and fuck all else matters"

A photograph of a beautiful creature, or an increasingly rotund psychopath who spends all day eating cream and rats? The jury is out.

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Here for your coffee break already? Check out this longer form essay 👇 “To use a book authored by E.B. White as your name is an offense to history. White was a leading voice for American democracy & freedom & against fascism & tyranny." Great piece—esp. White’s poetically fierce support of freedom

SECURITY QUESTION: What was the last name of your first grade teacher? MY FIRST GRADE TEACHER HACKING MY BANK ACCOUNT: I'm in

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Ridiculous situation. A man who has spent the last thirty years being one of the most inventive, prolific and funniest stand-ups out there. You should make a beeline for this, I'd say.

For a medieval monastic chronicler, a headline to die for

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

It's funny how we say "a bug hit my windshield" when we are the ones going 70mph. I'll bet the bug's family describes it differently.

... I have decided to seek out the Burryman this year...

I think I'd probably find the whole notion of banning kids from social media easier to swallow if adults accepted that it is also obviously driving them mad.

I was relieved recently to read that that factoid about how many spiders you eat in your sleep was a hoax/made up, but this morning I woke up with a large spider mashed under my face...

Treasure this moment cause you’ll never have fewer microplastics in you than you do right now

Sitting here sweltering in a fairly rare Norwegian heat wave and just got two ads in my inbox, one for sweaters, the other for Christmas decorations, and I don't understand how commerce works

People have obviously been reporting on the Trump Epstein connection for awhile but it does seem like there’s a bit of “Joe Rogan and Shane Gillis are talking about it so we can too” going on and I can’t express enough how if you’re doing that as the news you’ve got alot of stuff backwards

Columbia canceled my class on Race and Media. But I decided to teach it anyway. So I built a school, instead. 500+ students online and in person. My first independently operated course and lecture begins TONIGHT! WE MOVE!! karenattiah.substack.com/p/resistance...

...and there it is. He's saying it right out loud. If you're a lefty they're coming for you. They're coming.

I had a REALLY lovely time talking to @milesklee.bsky.social at Rolling Stone about why The Onion is thriving. It's because we're one of the only legacy outlets unafraid to accurately reflect the mood of this country. That mood? Everyone fucking hates this. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

The US Supreme Court rules that there is no law and there is no constitution

It is BRILLIANT how inexpensively Blackwells can send books from the UK to the US and Canada. I urge more people to take advantage of it.

It’s not 2003 anymore anywhere in America except for CNN, Fox News, and the New York Times opinion page.

We published this June 17.

It feels like we’re getting close to the tipping point where things in North America are going to get very violent. Don’t be one of those who shame people who are protesting on behalf of the most marginalized people in the world. If civility worked we wouldn’t be watching genocide live streamed.

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

+++ On this day, the 8th of June 1949, George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four, was first published. +++ It was a warning from history / not an instruction manual #georgeorwell #dystopian #dystopianfuture #bigbrother #room101 #thoughtpolice #INGSOC #newspeak #thoughtcrime #otd

How on earth can this country still hold the World Cup and Olympics next year??

If you really want to drive the point home about how fucked up ICE is then people should start forcing Star Wars themes on ICE. Protesters should start playing the imperial march whenever ICE shows up and should also start dressing like the rebel alliance.

'John Wick: Ballerina' has got to be the most confusing thing my eyes have stumbled across in recent memory

Did they even say “Thank you?” 🤡 #OligarchEra

Jordan pointed out to me that sometimes they might go to authors not just to publish but also for blurbs and other support, so please be wary here from all angles -- this publisher is not paying its authors, is abandoning its obligations, and must be held to pay what is owed.

Brand Manager getting ready for Pride Month

I'm not a believer in cancel culture, but I do think accountability and transparency matter. Take a bow, the publisher formerly known as Unbound, now Boundless, for yet again defaulting on the debts to us authors - they owe us over half a million. Extract from the latest missive below 1/

a thread everyone should read on why Boundless/Unbound deserve nothing but contempt

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Boundless / Unbound say on their website they are "a place where brave voices thrive", which is a funny way to spell starve

A lot of people know about the Germans in the space program, but the more relevant engineer might be Qian Xuesen, the MIT/CalTech aerospace professor who co-founded JPL and was sent to recruit the Germans. We deported him the 1950s. He became the leader of China’s missile program.

*crab-walked

If you’ve sent me a text and I didn’t respond please know that I didn’t forget you, you’ll live on in my subconscious as a vague sense of dread forever

Headline highlight of my news feed today: Scientists Shaved Roadkill to Find Out How Mammals Glow in The Dark

The highest paid editors in the world rewrote "Qatar Bribes Trump With" as "Trump Is to Accept" you know the way normal people talk normally