PEOPLE WHO SEW: What is a tip you wish someone told you when you were first learning?

Very specific flex: Company Retreat wouldn’t have been able to fool me because I was raised by TV and would have immediately clocked Stephanie Hodge.

Sharing this for a longtime friend of mine. Her and her husband both lost their jobs and are facing eviction. The car that was helping them with gig work is in need of repairs. They aren’t asking for much and every bit helps. gofund.me/06e4b1209

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I have book news!! ✨ 📖 ✨ I teamed up with my exceptionally talented friend and colleague @shannonlmiller.bsky.social to write a miscellany—a medley of bite-sized, entertaining and mind-bending facts on topics including history, art, geography, science, and (of course) language.

The people doing the “advising” here are Republicans strategists. Seriously, that’s who they’re quoting.

I have finally watched the Soft Hockey Boys show. So help me God, I have finally watched the Soft Hockey Boys show. 😭

As AI grows less and less detectable in music, we as lovers of human creation have to talk about how we arrived to “I Run.” My latest for @avclub.com! www.avclub.com/ai-music-slo...

Just about every non-game app I’ve opened this week has had their own version of a “Wrapped” retrospective, even when it felt like a stretch. Anyone else experiencing an influx of this? If so, which apps (if you don’t mind sharing)?

I’d like to officially start manifesting a joint Tyler and Doechii album.

A shout out to all the frontline soldiers who watched Ned Fulmer’s podcast so the rest of us don’t have to watch this sad sack of an opportunist try to spin.

That apology should also come from other fellow progressives, who were too busy clamoring for morality gold stars from the very people who hate them that they were willing to throw the rest of us under the bus just to say they took the high road.

Two points, same theme: 1.) Between the release of “Press” and this “courtroom edition” of her new album, Cardi B remains undefeated in spinning legal drama into rollout opportunities. 2.) Doja Cat is very good at what she does (Performing, marketing, general spectacle).

If anyone is looking for a ticket to see Durand Bernarr at The Plaza in Orlando tonight - SEATED section - please DM me ASAP. Selling my ticket.

My resolve has broken and for this first time ever, I am watching an episode of Love Island. I went ahead and skipped to the latest season. My first question, five minutes in: Taylor…???

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Remember MySpace Records? I do, and I wrote about it and its impact on digital promotion for @avclub.com's 2005 Week. www.avclub.com/myspace-reco...

e.l.f. must’ve went to ChatGPT for its crisis management.

LOST IN STARLIGHT (Netflix) is such a stunning look at love that is quiet, yet bigger than the cosmos. Beautiful animation with a killer, intimate soundtrack. A new favorite.

My FB has devolved into these very clearly AI-generated recipes and folks screaming that they tried it, it was nasty, and it didn’t turn out like the picture. 🫠

“I don’t like being told what to do!” - me, a person fixated on buying paint by number kits

That social media thing where someone forces us to witness their terrible relationship, then gets upset when the public tells them that their relationship is terrible.

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Please tell me about your favorite moviegoing experience. The one that really made you believe in the magic of movies and, more specifically, leaving your house to watch movies.

Sascha Jenkins has died. I interviewed him for this 2021 piece reflecting on the complicated legacy of Rick James, which he examined in Bitchin'. He was one of few contemporary filmmakers not doing celebrity docs as fan service. RIP www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/m... www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/m...

Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”

Heyyyyy, so the gleeful, post-courtroom influencer recounts of the Diddy trial are weird. THEY ARE WEIRD. And I don’t remember seeing this with any other trial. Anyway, Cassie’s trauma isn’t TikTok fodder. Stick to actual journalists who know how to report professionally, with compassion.

If your brain thinks suggesting a book JAM-PACKED WITH THE N-WORD as a reading recommendation in response to a movie with a Black-led cast set in the Mississippi Delta, you aren't, on any level, the person to be writing a piece.

SINNERS turned kinkshaming spitters into high art and I cannot thank Ryan Coogler enough.

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All my fave up-and-coming artists have committed to not touring in FL and I get it. I’m bored, but I get it.

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It’s April Fool’s, so happy 9th anniversary to the best brand prank to date, Hamburger Helper’s “Watch the Stove” EP release.

Yolanda Saldívar was denied parole. ✨

Reeeeeally want to have a discussion about reality TV’s formulaic approach to ensemble-building and how we’re beginning to escalate from bad-but-still-watchable villains to just straight cruelty. Especially in Drag Race.

Edgar Allen Poe speakeasy and they didn’t even ask me for a woefully obvious password or make me walk through a bookshelf. Instantly sexually harassed though, so…some accuracy.

“Zombieboy” followed by “Rose-Colored Boy,” then ascend.

Decluttering the kitchen.

A literal hot take: Microwavable food should be easy to reheat! If I have to wet a paper towel or include a second appliance, that’s already too much.

I just watched a video of people dancing to the halftime show on a cruise ship, screaming “A MINOOOORRRRRRRRR” at the tops of their lungs, and one of the comments said, “Damn! Even at sea???” 😭😭😭😭

Facebook hated the Halftime show, which means it was a hit.

The way Hulu spits out a schlocked-together documentary about every pop cultural event feels predatory and premature. Can we maybe wait a few years until we get a sense of each event’s impact? What happened to telling full stories?

Kendrick wrote a song that said “Aubrey Graham is a weird bitch” and the Recording Academy said “we agree, actually!” These are the only “unprecedented times” I care to live through.

my colleagues and I are tired of hearing in all-hands meetings that our business is doing well, and then in contract negotiations hearing that they can't afford to pay us salaries that keep pace with inflation. we've pledged to walk out if we need to. join us. nymagunion.org/reader-pledge

Spotify really wants me to listen to “Fat Juicy & Wet” more than literally anything else. But this is a fight I’m determined to win.

I’m so grateful for the communities I’m a part of right now.

Here are five attorney-vetted ways you can protect yourself and the employees of a restaurant for both customers and restaurant owners. By @theglutster.bsky.social lataco.com/ice-rights-r...

This season’s cast of The Traitors has to be the most unstrategic bunch, top to bottom.