I, for one, would like to know if anyone has bought a cat tunnel for their dog. And then, what about one of those plush yurts? I would ideally like to get Pretzel a tunnel and stick a yurt on top, so that she can run in circles and then go to bed.

what the fucking fuck

I LOVE this flaminghydra.com/travels-with...

Part one of my travel series is live! Conduits and Conduct Lit open.substack.com/pub/slaney/p...

New wife guy just dropped (into Drearburh).

The John Le Carré Advent Calendar - My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books. (with apologies to @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social and @harkaway.bsky.social)

"Why is there grade inflation? Why do our courses lack rigor?' "Also we will immediately throw any graduate student TA or instructor who upsets an influential constituency under the bus, no matter how obviously manufactured their outrage is." 🤷‍♂️

I hope the girl reading Anais Nin next to me at this bar has the best night

I actually think this is not unrelated to the popularity of Dan Brown novels

Hello! slaney.substack.com/p/fashion-th...

This is really good!

Gideon the Ninth!

this is one of the best articles i've read about the Irish state in a long time! (gift link): on.ft.com/3LY2ShA

Watch the launch sequence without weeping so hard you scare the dog challenge

The way Marilyn Lovell says “the other wives have not done THREE.”

Thanksgiving week is for making crostini di fegatini and watching Apollo 13.

Just had the most wonderful realization that Simon Russell Beale has played Richard III AND Widmerpool. Will wonders never cease

I’m doing berets now!

these people basically just take luxury government jets and go to fancy events like make a wish kids while their minions flashbang your elderly neighbors

Anyone who is thinking of an annual FT subscription doesn't need one to read this Substack but this is a good reminder that the FT is an incredible newspaper.

That was a hard fucking email to write and I deserve to laugh right now!

I quit my synagogue bc the rabbi told us not to vote for him; is there a German word for when schadenfreude is hilarious?

my name is Johnny L and I'm here to say if you see my friend Jude, go ahead and tell him hey!

Buzz's Friend Slaney: Fuck 'em up, Buzz!

Everything's cool when we're all line for the throne

"It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here, have, thus far, so nobly advanced."

Hubble Indemnity

Just Hanging With My Pepys.

A version of this has been the refrain for most of my earning years. They just find a new thing: you shouldn't have majored in humanities; you SHOULD have majored in humanities; you didn't learn to code; you DID learn to code; you need a PhD; you idiot, why did you get a Phd?, etc ad nauseum!

The doormen in my building love Thanksgiving above all else; our Gratitude Gnomes are doing their part!

A noble beast for a noble cause.

1. Competence porn in a smoke-filled room 2. Incompetence porn in a smoke-filled room (le Carré) 3. Theatre Kids Getting Into Scrapes (Hamlet 2) 4. Accurate dramatization of historical event I am already familiar with 5. We Made This Movie So We Could Vacation in the South of France + Car Chases

Between this shit and the Christmas trees already up for sale on 2nd Ave...the Jews are tired, man.

The FAA's 2025 edition of the Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge has a whole section on how to pick a flight school, but they did not foresee this.

The best part is that he's wearing a fancy little waistcoat when he says it

[Ed Harris in Apollo 13 voice] alright. What do we have on this spacecraft that isnt gender.

Yes! This is all just reifying ideas about nerds based on The Breakfast Club and maybe Bill Gates’s memoirs! Maybe we should ask when math got so performative!

Desperately hoping the person who was called posh for having salt and pepper shakers weighs in

When did we internalize 80s high school movie culture stereotypes (being good at math excuses you from the burdens and benefits of sociability) as real life?

As an unabashed, unapologetic fan of The Row, I do think it’s funny that they just kind of ate up Eileen Fisher‘s whole deal like Pacman eats ghosts

My local grocery has already stopped stocking de cecco and replaced it with their house brand which is TERRIBLE, just godawful, like you boil it for hours and it stays raw and hard like a slimy leather shoe

We won't feed and provide healthcare for the poor, but we have the money to pay some lackeys to coordinate tearing down a memorial to Black World War II soldiers who died fighting for freedoms they had yet to fully realize.

“The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin.”

Prize possession

we need a national screening of the battlestar galactica miniseries

I need this picture on a fleece with a wolf on it STAT

Queen Victoria wrote to Empress Alexandra to be like "you are ignoring everything I taught you about royalty and realpolitick" and Alexandra was like, "it's fine, it's different with Russians, they love being oppressed."

my man!

This looks exactly like this one gynecologist's office on Lexington Avenue. It's called PURE and they put an arch of fake flowers over the door to represent the ideal vagina, I guess.