Weirdest episode of Pluribus yet.

“[Promise] is an album that isn’t necessarily about love, or even about surrender, but about giving your heart over, repeatedly, and enduring the failures that come with the exchange.” longreads.com/2025/11/20/s...

instantly bookmarked: www.tournamentofbooks.com/the-year-in-...

ALL THINGS ARE DELICATELY INTERCONNECTED

*mutes 99% of bluesky*

“a trillion little deaths a minute” is where I closed the tab, dear reader

really loving pluribus. that little smile from rhea seehorn at the end of last night’s episode was a *fantastic* cliffhanger

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto

this google / disney spat over youtubetv is so dumb for both of them. google looks cheap, disney looks greedy, neither of them look like they give a shit about their customers.

wrobleski getting pegged on the come back was hilarious.

wow bichette crushed that ball

MYTH CAN MAKE REALITY MORE INTELLIGIBLE

pro tip: follow artists even bot accounts like this one because even on a phone screen in a fucking feed this absolutely hits

canadian fans: “make the dodger fans stand all night that’ll teach ‘em who’s boss”

baseball fans: 15TH INNING?? LFG everyone else: 15th inning? jfc

oh my god, The Tweet is exactly ten years old tonight

petition to bring the ghost runner to the post-season

catching up on things and am happy am completely unsurprised that that @anildash.com just fucking nailed it www.anildash.com//2025/10/22/...

“Sometimes it’s better to feel than think.” rosecrans.substack.com/p/acceptance

wow, this timeline we're on really is something else.

There are worse things in the world than having Diane Keaton live rent-free in your head. www.youtube.com/shorts/Khz5R...

ron conway: the hero we need www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Obama is on the last Marc Maron WTF pod today and the first 20m is on the internet. He gives a very robust endorsement of MeetUp. And in doing raises an interesting challenge: namely is it possible for a platform to encourage people to get together in real space for good.

watched highest 2 lowest. denzel was great, there were some beautiful shots of new york. but the score felt like it was from another movie, the plot was weak, the mayhem guy from the allstate ads was ridiculous, and there wasn't enough a$ap rocky. i really wanted another 25th hour; didn't happen.

doctor, heal yourself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw91...

@greg.org they came. it turns out framebridge gives you extra reflective plexiglass at no extra cost. but i still like them. v happy with this decision.

[this is good] www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

the last lines of priestdaddy killed me this morning. "...when everyone is still lying in the light with their hearts peeled and in loose sweet segments..." goddammit @tricialockwood.bsky.social

Happy new Taylor day, to all those who celebrate. To everyone else? Leave us in peace.

if you know you know

"I believe that there are times when it is almost a sacred duty to shut the fuck up." sippey.com/links/2025/0...

peak stratechery, double rainbows all the way across the sky

file under: horrible growth hack 1. join a zoom meeting where some other random participant has fireflies.ai recording everything. 2. get an unwanted summary of the meeting via email from fireflies. ire is triggered. 3. get subscribed to the fireflies WEEKLY MEETING ROUNDUP. what the actal fuck?

holy shit

“Need in the human being is a natural state. Need water, need food, need green money, need meaning, need touch and need talk, need I don’t know what.” — Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood a.co/e3lRsCB

imagine a xylophone humping a coffeepot sippey.com/links/2025/0...

Nick Makoha, A Panel of Experts: "don’t be fooled by the never-ending pattern of abstraction. It’s the only way we can become particles of light." www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Booker Prize shortlist! Love seeing Audition and Flashlight on here. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

@kottke.org perennial sentiment, vintage post from 2013

portola bubbles

the apple tv+ commentators are calling this game like clayton kershaw won’t see a single game in the post season. i mean a boy can dream, but…

hold on, i'm in a claude hole

if you know you know -- i'm still in shock about RSSFEED yesterday

"un susto: your future ghost twitches in an empty room" www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

100% agree @tricialockwood.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/b...

I have never in my life emailed a reporter to ask them to explain their reporting. I just did. (And no, I don't expect a response.)

honestly a peak 70s cinema moment for me is redford making phone calls. those scenes are *incredible*. legend.

365 days of nerd

Deranged malevolent ghouls

@rusty.todayintabs.com captures our hellscape. www.todayintabs.com/p/groyper-wa...