yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018. bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Legendary interview moment with the director of Morbius about Jared Leto’s behavior on the set of Morbius uproxx.com/movies/morbi...

N+1 is looking for a managing editor. Who's got the time? The talent? Healthcare is a definite plus!! www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Local cops are not on the side of Democratic politicians or under their actual control. People refuse to understand this too even though we've been making this point for decades.

I am having the SHITTIEST week. My insulin pump broke on Sunday, I fell at work on Monday and today I’m at the emergency dentist for what is likely a root canal. If you have any extra dollars, I hate to ask but my Venmo is @Kayte-Terry. Thanks!

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government.... On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames time.com/7323442/sout...

when you're about to have the most fun it's possible to have in a movie theater with your clothes on

Thank you to the Alaska Raptor Center for telling the truth that birders already knew: every bald eagle cry you hear in an advertisement is a red-tailed hawk.

Sometimes when I’m on a plane I get sad there’s no SkyMall catalogue anymore but I guess the entire internet is SkyMall now

The most important human story in the entertainment industry right now is the severe downturn in film and TV production in LA and how it's affecting middle-class crew workers. I spoke to dozens of them for this story about the depressed Hollywood economy. www.wsj.com/business/med...

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

what a joy to hear @themountaingoats.bsky.social interpolating Philly on the radio. "the Broad Street Bombers" is a great name for a band, and also for a baseball team

DEADLINE EXTENDED If you’re a poet of Arab heritage, writing in English anywhere in the world, with a poetry manuscript - you now have until 15 October to enter the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize! > $2000 > US publication with Noemi Press > UK publication with Out-Spoken Press noemipress.submittable.com

It's only going to get worse

new PTA is a hit, new Benny Safdie/The Rock film is out tomorrow, Avatar 2 is back in theaters and Hard Boiled and A Better Tomorrow are screening for the first time in over a decade. The movies are the most back they've ever been!!

Memoria belongs in this conversation but everyone is a coward and also hasn't seen it

I wrote about the Philadelphia Theatre Company production of Primary Trust, which is not very good. And by being not very good, it makes the weaknesses of the text easier to see playsunpleasant.substack.com/p/primary-tr...

Why would we steal national relics like Eisenhower's West Point sabre from our museums and archives to gift to foreign leaders? The sacking of America from within?

“Trad cath” is, weirdly, code for “unfamiliar with Catholicism”

'we assume that if all internal combustion engine vehicles are replaced by EVs, traffic noise in the immediate vicinity of traffic would decline by 7.1 dB on average.' ooh ooh i have questions

It's the end of The Best American Poetry. I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse. defector.com/good-riddanc...

I had a classmate in a night class once who had been trained by the army as a translator, in Chinese iirc, and was cycled out for not meeting the weight standard. She said it was universally met with disbelief that they would actually force her out for that after investing so much in her.

coming back to this, what are we even doing with this funding bill negotiation or indeed any budget at all?

THE MEME IS REAL

"the fossil fuel industry has a real interest in funding panic over transgender people: It distracts the public from the very real and ongoing risks that climate change creates.” 🤬

These were in the quad at my college once, first time i passed one had a purple sash on and i thought "Who do you think you are mime jesus?" The next time i passed they were crucifying him 😔

A good reminder that we used to refer to chatgpt as a "deep fake text generator" judged too dangerous to make public by OpenAI just 6 years ago

ONE POINT TWO BILLION!

the worst part about having your car broken can be waiting an undetermined amount of time for the cops to maybe come

Who was it who wrote the deep dive into these VC-backed food brands?

a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

[new Isaac Chotiner interview]

I saw 14 shows in the third week of the Philadelphia fringe, and I wrote about them here: open.substack.com/pub/playsunp...

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There's a type of wasp called the beewolf because they hunt bees

WH Auden writing “we must love one another or die” about the beginning of World War II and the. changing the line to “we must love one another and die” after the war.

I've seen 34 shows in the Philly Fringe so far, and you can read about all of them. Here's week two: playsunpleasant.substack.com/p/philly-fri...

@wgaeast.bsky.social Kimmel protest

Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One: *TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME *TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES *TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO

wow. imagine dying in a fire caused by a device called the "icybreeze buddy portable misting fan"

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

My new shirt design is a very serious PSA that I was asked to make, because apparently a lot of people don't know. roryblank.bigcartel.com

When working for Fetterman isn't even craven enough

do not wait until you have 60 pages of a manuscript to replace the filler name "A" with an actual character name

WPSU is set to be the first in the country to go dark after the Trump administration stripped away federal funding for NPR and PBS. “The news devastated me, it devastated all the employees,” said Jeff Hughes, WPSU’s former program director.

This just sucks, Ben & Jerry's always made activism inextricable from their product

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough