Personal update: I'm launching a lil side project, and if you're an emo fan (yes, now, in 2026) I'd really love it if you'd check it out! bsky.app/profile/thef...

Why not, one like = one movie to get to know me!

Dave Letterman has the chance to do the funniest thing rn...

It's a beautiful day to listen to La Dispute on a loop and stare into the void.

Feeling very helpless about a lot of things lately, but today, I finally figured out how to restore the community garden's access to all of its forwarding email aliases, and I have to say, in this exact moment, I am feeling like a god.

Mars Attacks! at five. Hilarious now. Terrifying then. Mom had to spray my room with "martian repellant" for months afterward.

New byline alert: I wrote about AI in Hollywood for Marie Claire! This also ran in print, which presented a very interesting challenge because I filed months ago and the conversations about this tech have been shifting quickly. Still, I think it holds up! www.marieclaire.com/culture/ai-a...

"It is evil. But like... not evil enough for me to leave my back yard and rally my colleagues to actually do something about it."

I think the issue is less that today's releases are not "worth" moviegoers coming out and more that by the time most moviegoers find out a thing has released, it's already left theaters! variety.com/2026/film/ne...

"We conclude that in the long run, a primary driver of retail vacancy in dense urban areas is the fact that landlords are willing to forgo rents today in order to preserve the option to lease their space to someone else (who might pay higher rents) tomorrow. " www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/why-do-...

I wish that Pentagon request would silence any sort of "we can't afford ..." (I know it won't.) If we can find $200B to sooth the ego of sundowning narcissist, we can afford to fund ANYTHING. Including air traffic control. EVERY aspect of degraded service we see is a CHOICE.

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.

🎵the world is a vampire / im gonna ride it all night long 🎵

ICE detention deaths are now occurring at a rate of roughly one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating, and Congress has not launched a single investigation.

River otters have staged a remarkable comeback across North America’s Great Lakes after disappearing from many waterways by the 1970s. As apex predators, their return signals cleaner water and healthier ecosystems. Rewilding Magazine buff.ly/E3nOAiq #ShareGoodNewsToo

Very misinformed of them, bc this is clearly for the bisexual woman's gaze.

The degree of miscalculation behind Timothée's Marty press tour really ought to be studied. Been ages since I've seen someone light this much goodwill on fire for no reason!

I'd be very curious to see this data broken out by specific age. Right now, "Gen Z males" as described in this article are 14 to 29. Are we talking about men, or are we walking about middle and high schoolers who've yet to graduate from internet-based pontificating and face the real world?

my little intrepid explorer 🥹

hot diggity dog 🥹

I talked to the one and only J. Alexander about recovering from a stroke, ANTM's legacy, and whether or not Tyra has gotten in touch since the doc. It got emotional... and spicy! www.vulture.com/article/miss...

How much can these toys fucking go through

I talked to the one and only J. Alexander about recovering from a stroke, ANTM's legacy, and whether or not Tyra has gotten in touch since the doc. It got emotional... and spicy! www.vulture.com/article/miss...

As promised, NEWS: The woman who told the FBI that Trump sexually assaulted her as a child included a matching claim against a "prominent, wealthy man" from New York in the lawsuit she filed against Epstein's estate and was reportedly paid to settle. sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/underage-a...

What are your favorite cheap, easy, healthy meals? Assume I am a person who has already made every standard lentil recipe and knows how to whip up a mean burrito. Bonus points if green veggies are heavily represented.

2026 basically

Despite having way too many things on my plate already, I am on the precipice of taking over comms for my local community garden mostly because I want to streamline its email system. I realize this will not mean anything to most of you, but all I can say is this is an extremely "me" thing to do!

Need an academic study to prove my theory that everyone is adding more exclamation points to their emails as a way to pretend we are not all living through The Horrors. Anyway, "Thanks for this! I hope your week is winding down nicely!"

introducing my column about resistance in fiction for @aftermath.site. I’m calling it THE WORK aftermath.site/oscars-revol...

Laura Bradley Wants to Build a Cheesecake Factory in Manhattan

*laughs in LatAm/Carribbean history* They missed the plantation for the trees here.

I’m not sure how it’s possible not to speak a word of Spanish in America in 2026 but it sounds like a lot of you have work to do ✨

Lol, who could have guessed.

i think maybe they laid off the wrong people

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

on benito, and america

Wrote about Bad Bunny and how after more than a century under U.S. rule, after attempts to erase our national identity, after the man-made crises and natural disasters that have befallen our people, in the face of every challenge, seguimos aquí. We’re still here. www.thecut.com/article/bad-...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

We cannot ask survivors to speak out about sexual violence while simultaneously punishing them for it. We cannot hold survivors responsible for their own justice while refusing to give it to them. We cannot expect survivors to come forward while making it impossible for them to do so.

Wrote about the only man who exists to me right now. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

Toughest thing about being a freelancer is you can't slack your editor like, "I've got half an idea, can we talk for five minutes until it turns into a real one?"

With the awful WaPo layoffs and the state of journalism more broadly, if it's useful for any writers and reporters considering going indy, @molly.wiki, @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social of Aftermath, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social of 404 Media, @edzitron.com and me will do a little workshop next week.

Very funny how many people seem to think that creating a "Spotify for journalism" would fix things, given that Spotify famously pays 99.9% of artists little more than pocket lint...

I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.

hot take: newspapers should not be run by people who dislike reading and thinking

The Epstein files reveal what powerful people see in video games: profit, coercion, and control aftermath.site/jeffrey-epstei...

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”