we have finally redesigned our site, just in time for year-end

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

Chicago: "The Busy Person's Correspondence Card", circa 1950

this is a dadjoke but it also unironically describes the ever looming amount of tasks a person faces at any point in time

Revisiting the "2000s teenagers incoherently attempting to reinvent criticism from first principles at 3am" era of gaming culture

also if you don't have the energy to read the post right now at least check out the cracktro screen

the perry expedition

and wrote about amaarae and anna von hausswolff for this!

wrote about hayley williams and fka twigs for this!

I have spent way too much time pondering the question of whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would be pro- or anti-The Stuff

there’s something deeply perverse about the expectation that a “cancelled” artist is somehow going to produce *even better* art. For all that we talk about “separating art from artist” or whatever, we actually as a culture place “being problematic” as a *prerequisite* for producing great art

catching up on my gargantuan inbox backlog: don't you want a goth version of tuscadero's "nancy drew"? www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNPX...

diagrams that look like shitposts

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prime juxtaposition on the timeline between “our culture is doomed, as evidenced by roblox calling children’s nascent gambling problems an exciting opportunity“ and “our culture is doomed, as evidenced by people liking taylor swift”

A few years ago I had a project that involved extracting the art assets from a copy of MS Bob, and you may be either delighted or horrified to know that the entire thing is a series of Access database files with bitmaps embedded directly in the DB

Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today! …Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :) Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen. blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...

the "band members" section of olivia's myspace is just the coexist logo

we think 90s music was grunge, gangsta rap and Electronica but it was actually Prince spilling tea in an AOL chatroom

your own impersonal jesus

tired: we have created the Torment Nexus wired: we have created Uzumaki www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

best new garden path sentence

subscribe to stereogum, not just for my sake (but also, for my sake)

Every fall we put together a list of 40 emerging acts keeping us excited about music discovery. Stereogum Best New Artist alumni include Tame Impala (2010), Frank Ocean (2011), Charli XCX (2012), and many others we still follow closely. Check out the Class Of 2025: stereogum.com/2476155/the-...

the thing about whisper networks is that they frequently contain their subjects

my mac doing its best to telephone a seventeenth century ecclesiastical record 🗃️

Clues By Sam is what I play instead of Wordle now. here’s today’s result I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Nov 12th 2025) in 04:17 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩

environmental storytelling

If you often find yourself forgetting to luxuriate in the wind, just carry the case to Kaze no Notam with you at all times as a reminder

oh no i thought of something and i had to make it 🤼

dreamt my phone had thousands of photos of goth chappell roan and they all had shake hastily thrown onto them

ideal PR email too: - no mail-merge preamble pretending to be talking to you personally - clearly identifiable link to the track you don't have to PgDn 3 times to get to - no press release-isms about unleashing the bold shift into raw visionary vulnerability for his most personal record yet

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

who posts a *screenshot* of a copypasta

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of an aloof wife

@klayjamesenos.bsky.social and I have a series -- his paintings, my code -- in "about, not by; for, not from," a virtual exhibition by Unrequited Leisure, featuring work where "artists probe the cultural gravity of algorithms without surrendering authorship to them." newart.city/show/about-n...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Night of the Demon (1957), Jacques Tourneur // Messiah of Evil (1973), Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz #sidebyside #horrorhallways #horrorsky #filmsky 📽️

compelling review for a small local business

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looking for an early holiday gift for the chappell roan fan(s) in your life? or for yourself (no judgment!) may I recommend: my book www.hachettebookgroup.com/imprint/holi...

you ever just sit down and watch 15 minutes of abstract mime on youtube

To your point: my all time favorite Discogs comment is from the late Terry Tolkin. Go here, click on 'Reviews' and scroll down to his post from Jul 30, 2019 -- he tells the full detailed story of how he got Stereolab signed to Elektra with an amazing deal for them back in 1993. Crucial info.

pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

I love autumn - the chill breeze, the warm colours, the wild construction tape in bloom...

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My favorite thing to listen to right now is Michael Bise's trove of Gap in-store playlists from the late 1990s to early 2000s. He's been hunting for these pieces of ephemera for 20 years! www.theverge.com/report/79080...

congratulations to taylor swift for entering her tori amos era (taking several decades to finally write a song called ophelia)