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Ithaca is Gorges [derogatory]

best ending of all time, let's be real

If you are a New Yorker writer in line to write an ambivalent, yet strangely credulous, article about your personal experience with AI, stay in line... www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Instead of watching Ross Douthat make this face 🤔 while smelling his own farts, you should read @sophiegilbert.bsky.social on the "Great Feminization." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

John Rocker invented a lot of the stupidest and most racist things you could say or think about New York City in the 1990s. Just want to make sure people are aware he's an innovator, not jumping on the bandwagon, with this post. He's been panicking about Others for a long time.

In 2008, conservative writer Ross Douthat's first NYT opinion piece was titled "Dick Cheney for President." It was actually his idea that the VP's landslide loss could have motivated the GOP to reconsider their move toward the extreme right wing, but... it made me stop reading any of his opinions.

"Mamdani is not a warning shot; he is a sign of things to come. Dem voters everywhere want transformative change. They’re furious at party’s leaders and suspicious of candidates backed by an establishment that gets everything wrong," writes @alexshephard.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2027...

This is the apotheosis of the right's contempt for education, for educators. They'll spend all their political capital getting picture books with non-binary characters scrubbed from elementary school libraries, but then they'll haul a preschool teacher out in front of her kids like she's Al Capone.

I like that, not only did they do it, but, even according to its own standards as an aesthetic choice, it still looks bad.

Everytime I teach Beloved, I show my class the Glenn Youngkin TV ad featuring a mom whose son had nightmares after reading Beloved in high school.

Liberal pundit class has tried to deal with this problem by pretending that even though they got exactly who they wanted running the campaigns they wanted somehow someway it was the left, who didn't get who or what they wanted, who lost those elections. No one is buying that.

Remember when they said they need a Left Rogan for the “youth” Which youth?

obviously this is an era of extraordinary shamelessness, but the fact that so many Democrats allow these people to tie them to a discredited and immoral political order is malpractice of the highest degree

Republicans lined right up behind Donald Trump as he threatened to destroy a majority of what they believe in, and yet moderate Democrats are kicking and screaming to get behind a guy whose main political difference from them is that he thinks it IS possible to achieve goals most Democrats want.

"The American conservative project, the old dream of making the world into a place awful enough to justify American conservatism, never had a better champion." defector.com/dick-cheney-...

It *seems* like today is actually the end of the New York City mayoral election, but I've been fooled before.

This is just people fighting to control their workplace. It has nothing to do with the people, with voters, with policy. Thank you.

Maeve (10) has been absent-mindedly whistling the Mockingjay call from THE HUNGER GAMES repeatedly with increasing intensity, speed, and volume. Asking her to stop will grant you a reprieve of ten, maybe twenty seconds before it starts again. Our household is descending into madness.

I've been agnostic on Ezra Klein as a public intellectual. But listing "the abundance agenda" — the agenda he invented earlier this year — in a list next to "populism" and "socialism" is a bit too much for me. Who's gonna win the Nobel Prize? Can Xue? Anne Carson? My ten-year-old daughter?

Apparently Dominick Barlow's laceration was from when he got stabbed by the Witch King of Angmar.

I swear to God if Paul George isn't paying resident city wage tax rate

It remains unsettling how transparently unrelated media layoffs tend to be to the actual quality of work. The boldness of TEEN VOGUE's politics coverage has been one of the most inspiring stories of a historically desolate media environment.

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon drawing a flowchart of the Merovingian Dynasty while Amélie just types "password" into the password field.

This is literally just the ad campaign Ginsberg and Don Draper come up with to win the Jaguar account.

In the olden days, there was a column at the back of every print THE ONION newspaper, and it was handwritten and full-page, and I have been trying to remember what/who it was for the longest time. Help?

Spielberg Face, from the television program, Stranger Things

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

This is literally just the ad campaign Ginsberg and Don Draper come up with to win the Jaguar account.

Embiid's offensive production has improved game over game, his minutes limit is going up, his defensive intensity is slowly increasing, and he's getting Fined For Lewd Gestures with good efficiency. We're back.

After the AI bubble I hope the next bubble is Laser Tag. Laser tag arenas on every street corner. Blacklight lit battlefields propping up every sector of the economy. A one story building by the side of the highway called “Blast Zone: Pizza & Arcade” valued at $2.7 trillion

"In reality, the American family is not a safe place in America, and everyone knows it." Lauren Michele Jackson, working hard to say hard things, is incredible, as usual. www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...

Not for nothing, but I'm pretty sure this is the first time the World Series hat has been an A-frame. defector.com/cultural-cap...

Put in Kershaw. There's a hard cap on the number of runs he can give up this inning.

Truly epic. Everyone is gonna remember that time Will Smith shocked everyone on live TV

Isiah Kiner-Felefa pinch-running for Boba Fett.

Everytime I see Blake Snell, he looks like Doc Holliday at the end of Tombstone. Like, is he ok?

Here's a short video of an Edison Park man confronting border patrol. You can hear others in the background. #chicago

this is insane. www.kivitv.com/canyon-count...

This @davidjroth.bsky.social thing is as thoughtful and funny as you'd expect, but it's also great meta-commentary on the weird position of being someone who's "taken an interest" in a campaign that, really and truly, is other people's business. defector.com/what-job-is-...

I was walking in an antique land late one night When my eyes beheld such an eerie sight Two vast and trunkless legs began to rise Near them on the sand a shattered visage lies (Ozymandi-AS) OzyMANdias (Ozymandi-AS) He was a graveyard smash (Ozymandi-AS) No thing beside remains (Ozymandi-AS) Ozyman-

The embargo isn't up yet, but I don't care. The first 40 minutes of the new season of STRANGER THINGS is a regular episode, but the last ten is just David Harbour's half of the FaceTime call with Lily Allen, but there's Stranger Things music playing softly underneath. Bold stuff.

This @thewheeler.bsky.social essay is so good. momspreading.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...

Me and my boys went to a strange LAND The sun beat down on the desert SAND My man Ad-rock turned to us and said Yo, you two see that BIG-ASS HEAD? We approached this ancient, beat up MASS We learned his name was OZYMANDIAS A sign said take a look AND DESPAIR But we saw no works, nothing was THERE

Alison's bit in here about why the show decides not to show us the TikTok content it's nominally built around made me think about how an underrated thing about Patricia Lockwood's NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS is that it's a novel about a Twitter user that features believably good tweets.

One of the two dads watching their kids at this dance class has horrific, nauseating BO, and I'm not sure that all these moms know which dad it is (not me).

"I can fix him." - Olivia Rodrigo, probably