funniest part about watching cars get towed out of no-parking-for-sailgp area is how blisteringly fast towies can break into cars. like it’s nothing.

Five years after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines started, it seems the mystery of why the Astra-Zeneca and J&J vaccines led to a rare but deadly side effect of unusual blood clots and bleeding has finally been solved. 
 It's a fascinating case of molecular mimicry that may help make vaccine safer.🧪

One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me: it went rogue after having a code change rejected on GitHub, an early example of the chaos to come when AIs autonomously access the web https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-...

fan edits are the "new" trailers, and the powers that be are finally paying attention. newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/the-...

Meanwhile, on Bluesky, Blacksky, and the rest of the Atmosphere, you can just go to @graze.social, prompt for different feeds, and generate custom feeds for specific interests instead of playing algorithm roulette with a single feed. Then, you can share it with others so they can enjoy it as well.

There's white men on this website today talking about "AI won, pack it up". So, as ever and always, listen to Black women.

sigh

time to reup this as discord moves to age verification. no, it’s not just about the kids. newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/id-p...

it was such a joy to have this conversation with @shityoushould.bsky.social in Berlin last year. shifted my thinking on a couple of things too.

While this absolutely sucks, we are going to see a lot more places implementing universal global age verification over this next year, because the number of states and countries legally requiring it has gotten to the point no one can keep up anymore.

so i talked to one of the bushes at the super bowl www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

my christmas present (belated) from my godkids arrived RIGHT ON TIME

Role Model's Sally, the chosen girl phenomenon, why we crave these little viral moments, and how pop music is playful again. newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/wher...

You can make money in a lot of lousy, dishonest ways, but somehow only in romance does it get written up as if it’s essentially harmless and smart, on the assumption that nobody who reads romance cares whether it’s good or not. There are a ton of ebook scams on Amazon; this is just another one.

This is not writing. Do not let people express this delusion in your face.

#AO3 has reached 10 million registered users! Celebrate with us by participating in our commenting themed bingo at otw-news.org/yckpz294

Need a mood boost? Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl

I have a tiny newsletter (still well in the free-zone, lol) but super pleased I shifted to Buttondown before launching it after initially setting up on Substack. Lovely people, great service.

best overall beach, best camping beach, second best family and surf beach, best hidden gem beach IN THE COUNTRY and there’s a fast track mining application in to vacuum the seabed and ruin it. #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/nzs-b...

A newbie's guide to ice hockey at the 2026 Olympics, introducing some of the main storylines, rivalries and star players: www.patreon.com/posts/newbie...

my newsletter is on Buttondown. it is VERY easy to move to and use and the customer support is personal and great. if you started a substack without knowing about the nazis, it’s time to shift.

They scooped @katz.theracket.news and @marisakabas.bsky.social (and perhaps others) some 30 months after the fact, but yes, it’s true.

I really hope people advocating to ban kids from SM read this. Some kids are isolated by disabilities or circumstances. Furthermore, some kids grow up in abusive households. “Ideally, a child’s exposure to online worlds should be moderated by their parents” isn’t a reassuring sentiment for everyone

Role Model's Sally, the chosen girl phenomenon, why we crave these little viral moments, and how pop music is playful again. newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/wher...

I wrote about how the women Epstein and co victimized have been minimized and ignored as individuals even in popular discourse about the very abuse they endured—and how the legal system has punished them and other women, not helped them, for daring to come forward. spitfirenews.com/p/even-the-m...

There's exactly one normal man left on planet Earth.

Chappell Roan at sunset last night was something else. Massive joy-filled crowd having a really good time.

love to see my hockey besties in the news @nzle.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/04/h...

you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

If I were MacKenzie Scott, I would simply start a newspaper based in Washington DC.

1Password not mincing words here: "If you are experimenting with OpenClaw, do not do it on a company device. Full stop." "If you have already run OpenClaw on a work device, treat it as a potential incident and engage your security team immediately." 1password.com/blog/from-ma...

There’s literally a straight line between Trump, Epstein, and the retaliatory lawsuits against women who came forward with allegations against celebrity men like Amber Heard and Blake Lively. They all even have the same PR folks. And yet people still refuse to see it

exactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...

talking to luce about what giving people the news without giving them the blues means in big ole 2026 newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/cura...

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

Are you hungering for some very funny, extremely insightful-yet-somehow-also-mischevious food journalism? Well then the folks at the brand new Gourmet Magazine have you covered. We caught up with them about their launch month. hellgatenyc.com/the-new-gour...

harry sold out thirty (30) back-to-back nights at MSG this morning in 12 minutes. and everyone is mad about it. newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/from...

I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

time to talk about the ticketwars and how we really need change newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/from...

i am so privileged to fly as much as i do but in the last two years air nz has let its flight crews down so much. broken seats, not enough meals, one of my colleagues flew on a plane that had no door on the overhead, just masking tape?? anyway - join a union www.stuff.co.nz/travel/36093...

fun fact: snuffy was revealed because the creators realised that it was setting a horrible precedent that adults didn't believe big bird when he told the truth 🥰 i love this show

undefeated in the ticket wars nine years running

i'm so old that i once bought tickets to see harry styles on my phone between subway stops like it was easy

Detox isn't about giving up digital, it's about focussing on queue over feed. newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/queu...

this is an incredible long read

every (american) ad break in this hockey game has an ad for the Melania movie and like ... civil war seems sort of inevitable

good morning to the milano cortina torch relay planners only

turn off autoplay. give yourself a break. today is a queue day newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/queu...