"Republicans are driving up your electricity bills so they can generate AI memes about their war crimes" should be a political layup

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

The invoking of the first amendment here does sort of highlight a fundamental conservative error about free speech—they want not only to have the right to say it, but to have the right for it to therefore be true

It is now time to ask: who’s got recommendations for me in Dublin

Wow he sounds cool

Strong floor, where the bar is

It's just a man failing to reappear, that's all—now you see him, now you don't, that the only thing that's real: here one minute and gone the next and never coming back—an exit, unobtrusive and unannounced, a disappearance gathering weight as it goes on, until, finally, it is heavy with death.

One of the greatest to ever do it.

I turned 40 in March 2020 so you know, not a festive occasion. The only thing I could think of that would make me feel better was making my friends do a Zoom reading of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, like I used to make (other) friends do at lunch in 8th grade. It was the best thing of the pandemic?

Oh no Tom Stoppard, talk about brain tape since young times

I will hand it to AI on exactly one thing which is that a low vision guest at our Thanksgiving has an app that basically provides alt text for the surroundings and it’s QUITE good. I hate uncanny slop made of regurgitated creative work but I love accessibility

If you liked my article about Masquerade and you have £20k you have to buy this for me

My asleep brain came up with a magazine for trumpet players called Parper’s and I’m very proud of it

me: they could never make me hate you, the personal essay as a form the personal essay as a form at this moment in history: bet

Okay! They’re not. Next

<solemnly> thank you for inventing oatmeal

the best editor you could literally ever ask for in both the shortform and longform categories is @jesszimmerman.com - and she's freelance, so go hire her!!! www.jesszimmerman.com/editing.html

Just don’t talk about people’s food choices at all unless they volunteer, I for instance absolutely hate being asked to explain why I don’t eat meat (shut up is why)

Me after every social interaction

<turning up the vulgarity level> everything about this FUCKING might be the FUCKING saddest thing I’ve ever seen! Am I funny yet

any time i see someone interacting with chatgpt

Mama Just killed a man

What’s a career

Naturally I have this memorized and occasionally recite it to myself for calming purposes

I was worried this was a trap but actually yes, go google this instead of whatever else you were about to google

The continuing bamboo metaphor is like…a child’s fingerpaint version of a braided essay. Bamboo was invented by Steven Bamboo

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

If you guys don’t drag me on here kicking and screaming when it happens, I swear to god. I don’t care if I’m “doing” “work”

I’m starting to get the sense I should have been more online today

Did they find any

Hmm. Gonna need to see it on a shirt

This is my other favorite category of text

Why did we take a mandatory unit on the Holocaust every year in Hebrew school if not to recognize this pattern

Every day he plumbs new depths of Can You Believe This Loser Shit. You think you’ve reached the bottom of the Marianas Trench of Can You Believe This Loser Shit but then there’s a bang and a lurch and your little internet bathyscaphe plunges into a new fissure of Can You Believe This Loser Shit.

This is true, in the sense that it is a web of very real scandals reactionaries will try to claim are fake through the power of repetitive bare assertion

editors, now more than ever!

The punchline is incredible which makes me extra mad that the rest is so bad

Rashomon but it's the worst journalists you've ever read in your life discussing how their engagement fell apart

I love Chi! My former city council representative! This is great news

unicorns are cool, but they'd be cooler if they were unioncorns (unicorns who formed a union)

Why’d they call it Erowid and not TripAdvisor

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

Conservatives when it's a 15 year old in library; "These are children and I can't believe we are letting them read smut like Twilight!!!" Conservatives when it's a 15 year old sex trafficking victim; "Looks, these people are practically legal. Barely legal even"

At long last we have created the black mirror from classic sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror

It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches

Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

I’m losing my mind over the final and my Taskmaster group chat hasn’t watched yet, help

A corollary to the “I don’t know what the fuck these people are talking about” problem I mentioned is that these people don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about

A beautiful moment at the art museum today as I quietly walked up to @rebeccagyllenhaal.bsky.social and whispered “John Fetterman fell down and hit his face”