T.M. Brown
@tmbrown.bsky.social
📤 177
📥 129
📝 25
Writer 😓 New York Times, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, the Baffler, LARB, etc.
🤔
add a skeleton here at some point
2 months ago
0
1
0
This is the major talking point re: gentrification that I think is deeply stupid and also widely held. Why are people obsessed with telling people they’re not allowed to live in a given place? It’s such a funny evolution of a deeply reactionary impulse.
5 months ago
1
1
0
you know those videos where Chinese manufacturing sourcers tell you they can get you Lululemon and Dyson Airwraps directly from the factory? i wrote about how they're a new frontier in diplomacy for
@nytimes.com
magazine
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/m...
loading . . .
Chinese Manufacturers Have Been Turning to TikTok Diplomacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/magazine/china-tiktok-diplomacy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HE8.3rqr.nFV5DX-1KQZX&smid=url-share
5 months ago
0
1
0
First time in
@gqmagazine.bsky.social
and I wrote about how goofy the fits are in rightwing politics and what they say about where these people want the country to go
www.gq.com/story/what-t...
loading . . .
What the Trump Team Is Communicating With Their Very Chaotic Clothes
Trump 2.0 is a bonanza of odd menswear. Writer T.M. Brown decodes the lapels and collars of Washington, DC’s sundry power players.
https://www.gq.com/story/what-the-trump-team-is-communicating-with-their-very-chaotic-clothes
6 months ago
0
0
0
He’s right you dorks
www.wired.com/story/bluesk...
loading . . .
Bluesky Can’t Take a Joke
Bluesky has been a safe haven for users fleeing X and Threads. But while there’s less hate, there’s also fewer lolz.
https://www.wired.com/story/bluesky-cant-take-a-joke/
6 months ago
0
1
1
paging
@jamellebouie.net
to let me on the pod
add a skeleton here at some point
7 months ago
0
0
0
Got to write about steroids, male body image, and the question on everyone's minds: Are you natty or not? for the
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/s...
loading . . .
‘Natty or Not’ Influencer Kenny Boulet Wants People to Be More Honest About Steroids (Gift Article)
The fitness influencer Kenny Boulet, who asks gymgoers if they’re “natty or not,” wants people to be more honest about their steroid use.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/style/kenny-boulet-natty-steroids-videos.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8U4.Y1b8.e1g55qHTtbU-&smid=bs-share
7 months ago
0
0
1
for
@thenation.com
, i wrote about the evolution on conspiracy thrillers from the 1970s to now — and why we seem a lot less interested in ambiguous conclusions about how the world works.
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
loading . . .
The Life and Death of Conspiracy Cinema
Why did Hollywood lose interest in making paranoid thrillers like The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor? Was it a change in the culture? Or a change in the marketplace?
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/conspiracy-movies-thrillers-essay/
7 months ago
1
27
4
few things more humbling and irritating than looking at what your NYC housing budget can get you in Los Angeles ☹️
7 months ago
1
0
0
for
@thepointmag.bsky.social
i wrote about reality TV's postmodern appeal and why we long for the banal in the face of such overwhelming anxiety
thepointmag.com/criticism/sp...
loading . . .
Spectacles of Banality | The Point Magazine
As not only a straight guy but also a writer, I don’t seem to fit into the usual picture people have of a reality TV enthusiast, and it is assumed that I must, for some reason, have enough sense to kn...
https://thepointmag.com/criticism/spectacles-of-banality/
7 months ago
0
1
2
deeply funny that i do not post on here (and probably will never post on here) and yet people keep finding me
9 months ago
1
1
0
Hello from my hangover. Here’s my last piece of the year, a Hunt column about an amazing woman named Diane who broke up with New York and found a home and community in Philadelphia.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
loading . . .
Priced Out of New York, She Took Her $350,000 Budget to Philadelphia. Here’s What She Found. (Gift Article)
After a near-death experience gave her a new lease on life, a writer ‘broke up with New York’ and headed south to find a one-bedroom or two-bedroom apartment.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/12/19/realestate/philadelphia-housing-market-apartment-sale.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ik4.8mDe.SpR7knx1Huzf&smid=url-share
10 months ago
0
0
0
Still hanging onto the lead slot on the culture page
10 months ago
0
1
0
god the nerds on bluesky are somehow more annoying than anyone on twitter
10 months ago
0
0
0
i wrote about why the discourse around algorithms and culture ignores much wider structural issues for
@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
loading . . .
The Technology That Actually Runs Our World
The most dominant algorithms aren’t the ones choosing what songs Spotify serves you.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/12/cultural-algorithms/680987/?gift=jYEJ_PxRoF79Zol3tqG4sBbN1femmUIMblts8N0H9qI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
10 months ago
1
15
12
there's sort of an interesting dynamic that is playing out both here and on substack, where it's effectively a land grab for influence that *should be* of interest to someone like me that missed out on the initial days of twitter audience building
10 months ago
1
0
0
people yelled at me about this piece about who should be able to call themselves a writer and now i bring it to bluesky
tedthoughts.substack.com/p/who-should...
loading . . .
Who should write?
Expansionists vs. Limiters
https://tedthoughts.substack.com/p/who-should-write
10 months ago
0
1
0
I wrote about gift guides lol
add a skeleton here at some point
10 months ago
0
1
0
Just going to post the full spread of my Zyn story since apparently there’s like a critical mass of people here now?
11 months ago
0
3
0
Happy spooky szn everyone 🧙🏼♀️🔮🧙🏼♀️🔮👻👻🧙🏼♀️🔮🧙🏼♀️ I wrote about the witches of Etsy for the
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/s...
loading . . .
Practical Magic: The Lucrative Business of Being a Witch on Etsy and TikTok
Modern witches no longer lurk in dark alleys or operate out of the back rooms of stores, you can instead buy their services online for a pretty penny or two.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/style/witch-tiktok-etsy-business.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6Ew.Yro_.JjlUq8mfAUq1&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
almost 2 years ago
0
0
0
@davidehrlich.bsky.social
so is if any better over here or should we just not have social media anymore?
about 2 years ago
2
0
0
Ugh hi everyone.
about 2 years ago
0
0
0
you reached the end!!
feeds!
log in