What do Simone Biles and one of the worst dates I’ve ever been on have in common? Absolutely nothing, except I mention both in this post. askasoberlady.substack.com/p/how-do-i-a...

Brendan Carr Is Doing Politics the Right Way

“BECAUSE IT IS MY USERNAME!!! BECAUSE I CAN HAVE NO OTHER!!!”

i saw goody proctor making inflammatory posts about charlie kirk

Excellent @stephenharrison.com piece about Wikipedia, breaking news, and the right wing outrage machine that's kicked into high gear around articles about Charlie Kirk and the killing of Iryna Zarutska. slate.com/technology/2...

chicago, irving park: ice spotted at home depot at addison/kimball

This is what it’s like to be friends with @tonyhotran.bsky.social

Just burst out laughing remembering Wisconsin is playing Alabama today.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Axios that Musk got it "backward" with DOGE. www.axios.com/2025/09/12/d...

They are 100% going to use this as an excuse to attack video games. The Republicans have wanted this for so long.

Meanwhile, Nepal just elected an interim Prime Minister via a Discord vote. A good reminder that shit is crazy errywhere. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

I feel crazy. Less than a year ago literally everyone was beside themselves with glee after the United Healthcare CEO was shot. Jesse Welles has a song lamenting Kirk's death, months after his UHC one. What makes Charlie Kirk different? That it was captured in 4K? That we knew his name and face?

Watch this guy get caught at the same McDonald's they found Luigi in.

At my freshman year at Iowa, I was eating a chili dog at The Airliner while studying and spilled chili all over my notebook I was supposed to turn in for class after the first bite. I don't have much to add other than it was a very good chili dog. www.nytimes.com/athletic/660...

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok AI has been spreading ludicrous misinformation in the wake of Charlie Kirk's shooting, saying he's alive and well and that video of the event is fake -- a perfect example of how AI is nowhere near ready to handle breaking news futurism.com/elon-musk-gr...

I wrote about the caricature of Bluesky that right-wing Twitter accounts were pumping out to hundreds of millions of people yesterday @slate.com. Hey, Bluesky did finally become an echo chamber. Just not the one these people were pretending it is: slate.com/technology/2...

It took JD Vance a week to visit the Annunciation Catholic School and Church after their shooting—but Vance is visiting Salt Lake City the day after Kirk was shot. He's even skipping the visit to Ground Zero for the 9/11 memorial too.

This is gonna turn out to be a cardboard cutout of Michael Jordan on an electric toy train or something.

It's been a great few years for the "Twitter IS real life" crowd.

Wild that there was ever a time when ESPN published things like this.

Say what you will about assassinations, but I love a good manhunt. The intrigue. The suspense. The thrilling game of cat and mouse.

This interaction between the quartering and Milo Yiannopoulos is really quite good

Hasan was streaming the Charlie Kirk news on Twitch and a chatter asked "does that mean your debate with him is cancelled?"

Just got a really bad feeling that they're gonna start putting people into camps because of this.

You should be required to have a license to post anything online after something like this.

i wrote about AA, influencer culture, and other things that will probably make people on the internet yell at me slate.com/technology/2...

The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

be very careful about what you post online

This will sound like a product endorsement but I promise it's not. Earlier this year I got a BRICK, which makes my phone into, well, a brick. It costs $59 and has almost no capabilities. I went on a bit of a journey to figure out why it worked for me, for @slate.com slate.com/technology/2...

In a time of very futuristic tech that now props up the whole stock market and also may or may not even work, I have found it notable that the most useful tech product I've bought all year is a four-square-inch piece of plastic that just makes my phone dumber

So i heard the national guard is coming to Chicago

I need a Duolingo but for the names of people I've met dozens of times but keep forgetting.

It's our time, my fellow Anarcho-Pritzkerists blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/25/l...

No one wants to eat at my kitchen table because all we talk about is deploying military and kidnapping people. ☹️

Found a "10 Commandments of Detective Fiction" from mystery writer Ronald Knox. I thought it'd be a fun list then got to #5. Bruh, what did he mean by this 😭 💀

I have an MFA from THE STREETS. (The Streets is a low-residency program that requires $50,000 per year in tuition.)

finally, a website where we can read Matt Yglesias' opinions www.semafor.com/article/08/1...

Take some time to read this beautiful story by my colleague @tonyhotran.bsky.social slate.com/life/2025/08...

This piece by @tonyhotran.bsky.social about returning to Vietnam with his refugee parents is so damn good. slate.com/life/2025/08...

1. Fortunate Son, @tonyhotran.bsky.social "We are the strangers here, and Tran’s family story—and, particularly, its arresting final image—will stay with you for some time." slate.com/life/2025/08...

Read this beautiful piece by one of the best editors and nicest guys in the biz, @tonyhotran.bsky.social

Just read this article by @tonyhotran.bsky.social, it's one of the finest @longreads.com I've encountered in years. The emotional gut punch at the end brought me to tears. 🙏🏽 #masterpiece #Vietnam

Beautiful and important piece from one of the best in the biz right now @tonyhotran.bsky.social stuns in new essay

✨ My Vietnam essay is finally out in @slate.com. This one means a lot to me—about family, history, and going home. slate.com/life/2025/08...

"Returning, I realize now, was never going to answer any questions or heal us. Returning gives shape to memory. It allows us to feel the ragged trenches of its scars, map the landscape it creates—and that, in turn, changes us." beautiful essay by @tonyhotran.bsky.social for @slate.com 🤍

If you were an AOL Instant Messenger power user back in the day, you might remember one of the first ever AI chatbots. It was called SmarterChild. It was rudimentary but wildly popular. @tonyhotran.bsky.social takes you back to 8th grade and how he used it to... well, you'll see. ❤️

Before ChatGPT, there was SmarterChild—and I used it to workshop my terrible middle school flirting. My latest in @slate.com slate.com/technology/2...

Listening to Billy Joel talk about songwriting is great. Literally every story is like “I was in NEW YORK STATE and it put me in a certain MIND.” Guy is an absolute genius

This fucking rules.

I'm going through photos of my Vietnam trip and Google wants to make sure I tag Ho Chi Minh.