Pedantic king

Do you want to see something that would make your average Republican political consultant's blood run cold, if they had blood in their body

I’ve cooked this once a week (without burrata) since I first made it. The rare perfect easy dinner.

It’s been six months since the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Here is how the federal government has stonewalled investigations, and how Minnesota law enforcement is attempting to push for accountability anyway

Taylor is going to make us buy an album to see her wedding dress, isn't she.

GOAL, TESCO RYAN GOSLING

Brilliant writing from @skornhaber.bsky.social here about music and the shifting attention economy

The outer Harry Kane is identical to every other bad-good lower-middle-elite awkward-diffident English player who ever skied a penalty under pressure; the inner Harry Kane is a zero-at-the-bone assassin without a fuck to give; this combination is perhaps the most confounding thing in all of sports

This is so good and I got very emotional at the end!

In accordance with ancient tradition, our next Prime Minister is announced to the nation while standing between a furry and a man with a bin on his head.

What is happening over there

Incredible work by Heidi Blake, who not only talked to victims of the Tates, but also to the Tates. This is one of those works of journalism that reminds you how little we often know about things or people, like Andrew Tate, who are always in the news. And yet, so much about them remains unreported.

I wrote about the UFC fight at the White House. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here is a gift link to Simon Schama's appreciation of David Hockney's life and art which we ran last year. It's an amazing piece and contains, as you might imagine, some spectacular pictures including an absolute corker of Hackney with Lucian Freud as.ft.com/r/f1473f70-0...

SpaceX, the largest IPO of all time, encompasses Grok… a product that *still* generates non-consensual, explicit images and videos of women according to a new @wired.com investigation:

I do not think that people should be on a website owned by this man

Between this and the Tate story I'm getting my pitchfork www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Relatable queen www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"Crusty, dusty man" is going to be in my insult lexicon for the rest of time www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

this is such a good example of someone asserting that incivility lives in actions that hurt people, not in questioning those actions

What a nightmare. Wondering why I'm still on Instagram tbh. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

HBD to the legendary joyful/angry feminist and superlative filmmaker Agnès Varda (1928-2019)!!! 🎊🎞️

Reads like Clockwork Orange with a life-changing brain injury.

I loved this final season of Hacks so much, but especially how it came to think about what makes an artist truly "great" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.

James Magnussen "was impossible to look away from, his head balanced atop a bulging neck, traps spilling out like over-risen sourdough from his bronze swimsuit": The inimitable @elcush.bsky.social has thoughts about the Enhanced Games. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

What we are seeing, as the police chief responsible for hate crime says, is a “pyramid of hate” in which online vitriol and incitement generate an acceptance for real-world abuse There is growing evidence that longstanding anti-racist social norms are being eroded throughout the public sphere

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Little did I know about the wildly uncertain and, at times, terrifying ride I was about to go on,” writes Ivy Meeropol, the director of the documentary “Ask E. Jean,” “during which I had a window into the challenges people can face when crossing Mr. Trump.”

"‪It would emit more CO2 than the entire nation of Jamaica."

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Hi. Not really sure how to promote this story...but it is about AI and the overwhelming feeling of it bleeding into everything with no concrete articulation for what a good version of that future looks like. It's about feeling like every 8th person is living on another planet. Hope you'll read it

If nothing else this seems like medical malpractice www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

This is so bleak, ie take away our desire for (affordable, generic) food so that we can focus on buying expensive consumer products. www.ft.com/content/5ffb...

unfortunately, kim il sung's clothes hang a lot better

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

if this section appears on the person you're defending's wiki I think it's safe to say they can afford to pay a few more bucks in taxes

beg pardon did he just say "my dad is coming home"

A Pulitzer for Julie K. Brown. Richly deserved, and overdue!

Can't help but assume these two headlines are related

I have two daughters and I think about this all the time. I don't know how I will explain it to them when the time comes. bsky.app/profile/carn...

They’re basically admitting that creating nonconsensual deepfakes of women is not an unintended outcome of this technology but rather its main selling point, which some of us recognized all along

What happened to feminism in the twenty-first century? In GIRL ON GIRL, @sophiegilbert.bsky.social explores the darker side of early 2000s culture from the leering gaze of the paparazzi to the cruelty of reality TV and the rise of an internet culture hostile to women. Now in paperback!

This is what Marco Rubio decided to do with his life: "AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance: A once-robust HIV treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble..." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

Priceless post from the official White House social media

"Earlier this month, he entertained a small group of around 30 Hollywood bros (yes, all men) — including the producer Jason Blum, the actor Sean Penn and the billionaire David Geffen — at his house in Beverly Hills to watch a game and have dinner." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/o...

Kash Patel’s colleagues are alarmed by what they say is erratic behavior and excessive drinking, Sarah Fitzpatrick reports. More than two dozen people she spoke with described his management failures and conduct that could harm national security.

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

In her new memoir, “Girls” creator Lena Dunham “has actually learned from her garrulous and unfiltered excesses—she’s got stories to tell in ‘Famesick’ that blow the roof off, but she’s wielding them with precision this time around,” Sophie Gilbert writes:

As the father of a middle schooler I have seen the rebellion against AI forming there — even using “that’s AI, bro,” not indicating something is literally AI, but that something is metaphorically so — it’s sus, it’s bullshit, it’s bad weird

I think about this cover a lot