look. look. potentially the most excruciating thing i've had to do in Publishing thus far was send emails (several. emails.) to folks asking them to read (and potentially praise 😱) my book. it worked out. and i got to gush about THEIR books in the process, which was easy. but oh dear god.

absolutely agree with this—especially with x dot com the everything app as it exists in 2026

One of the greatest pleasures in life is an incredible meal prepared with love by someone who has made cooking their life’s work.

It's all I want

Bari Weiss is best understood as an anti-speech activist on behalf of power. This is through line from her start trying to get professors fired for critiquing Israel to running interference for Elon Musk to now working as regime censor for Trump at CBS www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

we have to fucking chill. there's going to be disagreements you have with people and i promise you its not the end of the world. we have to stop the constant freakouts people come at me all the time over something i've said or written but chances are i wasn't writing that thing for you specifically

if this continues, you're going to wake up with no trans journalists because you've chased them all off.

a thread

This is basically the view of the world that Plato sets out to refute in the Republic. One of the core questions asked therein is: why do powerful people think the mere fact of them exercising dominion makes it good for them to do so? Sure, you *can* get away with stuff if you're powerful - so what?

The gasp-laugh I made at this is something I couldn’t reproduce if I tried

my 75yo mother told me last night that she’s planning to delete Instagram and Facebook because she’s sick of not being able to tell what’s AI and what’s not, and I genuinely don’t think tech companies have reckoned with this kind of move as an actual possibility

I know we're still pretty new to the reporting cycle, but I'm kind of surprised we've yet to see lawyer groups buying up adspace for a class action lawsuit over artificially-generated nudes.

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Kevin Stefanski now free to take the only job harder than coaching the Browns - managing Manchester United

The first two hours this morning

lmfao

reminded bitterly of the profitable, reasonably-staffed studio I worked at that cratered less than a year after pivoting to going all-in on this shit

walking into my canadian office job this morning as the only american, grimacing and mouthing "sorry, sorry, ah jeez" like I'm walking into a movie 20 minutes late

So -wade through a year and a half of shit football under a new manager -let him exile several of the team's best prospects for obscure reasons -he finally gets the team playing reasonably well -sack him at full cost because he complained in public about transfers www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...

I will reiterate that if you are an independent journo/hobbyist I will happily set up your ghost install and host it for a few quid above cost price. You set up your own stripe and mailgun accounts, and you get to keep ALL your revenue. And post migration from wordpress/substack is pretty easy.

This is the funniest thing that's ever happened on Threads.

warlock aaron rodgers looking like he doesn’t know his patron did that shit

Game went plaid

yyyyyyyyyyyyyyep. sounded like it was partially blocked?

okay now fake it

Ramsey messed up jumping late and also trying to catch the ball instead of blowing up catch.

17/10 grab. all-world moment

more like chris bos…poorly

AND THAT’S WHY LAMAR. ONE OF FREAKING ONE

*nods slowly and repeatedly*

my son: “it’s the third quarter and i want to go to bed” me: “son, that’s the ravens/steelers promise”

ah yes the dhani jones effect

when the defender is impeding the receiver from running *farther away* from the ball, which they don’t know is already coming in behind them, it’s less like pass interference and more like pass assistance

“…and he can think *at least* as well as he used to,” says cris collinsworth about aaron rodgers and uh, you sure?

I was 80 percent sure Caleb was going to hit that throw on the fumbled snap

caleb with the tecmo bowl “run backward forever and then throw it” trick

st. brown seems to have developed an elaborate football sign language he’s deploying after every first down

Lol

there it is. sack king clarity

Y’all wanna see some fucking deranged quote tweets

This is my favorite headcanon and it's a great example of how readers can offer a different reading of a text that the author never considered and did not intend, but is nonetheless validated by the text itself.

Thinking about this and the Polymarket stuff at the same time and frowning

You’re hearing it on the streets. “Have you heard of Bluesky, the official app of sports?”

Great start to the year

my son only knows no 1 seed seahawks

Seattle played coward ball and paid for it Should have gone for the throat. You either end it or force them to drive the whole field down 2 scores just like they have to do now anyway

“why don’t head coaches just take the three points??!!?!!???!!???!”

ben johnson ball. coulda just thrown a six-yard route on 2nd-and-7 but we had to thrown in a double reverse and two pitches first

If there was a pass rush to be had, they would.