I love Lena Dunham but I didn't really love "Famesick" defector.com/lena-dunham-...

One of the best things about Audio Fluxing is working with many amazing humans. Like these rock stars! Aka our Circuit 07 Commissioned Producers: @alexlaughs.bsky.social, Daniel Ondieki, Munira Kaoneka & Remoy Philip. Curious to hear their very varied takes on climate stories? Stay very tuned ✨

genuinely starting to think i am out this money because paypal is a crazy fucking behemoth of a company and every time i call i'm told the person i talked to before didn't do the thing they said they would and it's literally so hard to contact a human

for a project, i’m on the lookout for people who made life-altering decisions where everyone in your life (maybe including you) thought you were crazy, but it felt like a “now or never” thing and you did it

doing something kinda different with try hard this season and it means i've been listening to a lot more trump 1 era podcasts for prep (call your girlfriend, the cut on tuesdays). man, we were feasting during the boom times

this essay from @nikostratis.com was so, so good www.anxietyshark.ca/solve-for-wo...

huge news: i'm finally listening to the beginning of a love is blind season like a podcast so i can get the visual reveal at the same time as the contestants

everyone should know that my pal julia furlan is now the midday host on radio kingston playing bangers and bops every weekday and i think that is the coolest thing ever radiokingston.org

last month i realized that my paypal had been hacked and nearly $3000 was stolen from me. i filed a claim with them and they said they saw nothing wrong. i appealed, and now nothing. should i pay an etsy witch at this point??????

I’ve been in Boston for 2 hours and I’ve already heard some extremely disturbing sentences, like: “My hourly rate as a 2nd year was $1400” and “The PE guys I know are just SO happy, they have the BEST time. You’re in for a good time” Chilling

Need an AirTag on my glasses god damn

of all the disturbing things i see on linkedin, the thing i'm most disturbed by is the journalists posting these looong posts in chatgpt voice. what is going on

idk i approached it very value-neutral and just pointed out that it was an interesting thing happening. it's very easy to lump this with valley girl voice and vocal fry (which...it's related!) but that doesn't mean i'm casting judgement

Also if you're like "no I don't want 3,000 words interrogating the manufacturing of evidence just tell me what the fuck this policy says" I also have that for you: buttondown.com/tested/archi...

OK BUT WHAT'S SO INTERESTING ABOUT THE POUT is that they're copying the look of women with lip filler, EVEN WHEN THEY DON'T HAVE FILLER — and how it's changing not just the way they look, but the way they talk defector.com/they-dont-ha...

I love this cat so much but he’s been waking us up at 4:30 am lately

a sick thing about me is i love it when long articles have a "read to me" option

I've noticed something happening on social media for a while, and a couple weeks ago I saw it in person: people are speaking like they have lip filler, even when they don't have it. defector.com/they-dont-ha...

never

self harm via wasabi peas

Release me from this hell that is the Zac brown capsule episode of survivor dear god

Last week my friend brought over a giant bag of loosie Reese’s and it’s been ruining my life ever since (it’s almost empty)

Holy shit she’s not wearing sunglasses

I love Koreans 😭😭😭😭😭 만세!!!!!!!

Does anyone have advice for how to manage the constant pile of books/tech/art supplies that follows me from room to room and always ends up looking like this? (Don’t say clean up lol)

Never imagined I would be saying this: but My book is coming out in June and you can now preorder it wherever you buy books! This was a project I could never have dreamed of and I feel wildly lucky to have done it. Turns out there might be a lot to learn about our country from my hometown

It appears that to Netflix, the quality that distinguishes a podcast from other forms of media is the absence of visible effort (and the existence of ANY production credits) gift link -> defector.com/netflix-has-...

winter csa will have you making rutabaga kohlrabi fritters on a sunday

my beloved trans community: do you feel like you transitioned late? (whatever that means to you!) if so, I'd love to hear from you for an essay I'm working on 🙏 🐛 forms.gle/AMd8zWnWvEro...

canonization for the guy who invented nasal rinse

People on real estate shows love to comment on the size of showers by making oblique references to orgies

you wanna read 10k+ words on each contestant of survivor 50???

february so bad it's getting spiritual

A rare day of pride for my nation of wasia

guy who built an app to rate the hotness of teenage girls denies role in destroying self esteem of teenage girls www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/m...

When I was in fifth grade we moved from Hawaii to Kansas and I experienced winter for the first time, and because I only knew about winter conceptually and from books, I genuinely thought it ended after new years. It was a tough first winter

As a Daughter of a White Man Who Is Really Into Lunar New Year I want you to know I'm not judging

gong hay fat choy!!!!!!! defector.com/white-people...

This was so lovely 🥹

What an awful week

"Journalism is not supposed to struggle at the task of competing with primetime entertainment; its value is inherent, whether or not families and friends prefer watching Netflix at 7:00 p.m. over reading the newspaper." defector.com/the-washingt...

also being edited is GOOD having colleagues is GOOD being part of a context and community makes the work BETTER we can't all just be typing in little boxes alone in the dark forever

bosses keep telling journalists to "do more with less" and it has never, ever worked

wow fuck everything

It's been really lovely reading all the tributes to Dan. Many people have asked if they can contribute to support his wife and son. You can do so here: everloved.com/life-of/dan-...

I've been numb since hearing the news, and I still don't really have words, but I woke up with Dan's name and face at the front of my mind. Everyone's tributes have been beautiful. Hold your people close. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

Dan McQuade, 1983–2026: defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

Really proud of the work we did on this podcast that has been so many years in the making!!!!

confirming from the trenches of book leave that every published book is a fucking miracle and you should spend your money on good ones!

(PSA it’s not the year of the horse until lunar new year in mid Feb)