I love my random call with my mom. She’s stoked about Mamdani and plans to listen to some Bad Bunny today.

This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.

Like Elon Musk? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... Like Melania Trump? www.ap.org/news-highlig...

Children of the Urban Corn Maze

I go to stores to be left alone.

god, i wish alt-weeklies were still a thing

It only took me 2.5 years of living in HK to make it to the Peak

Oh you like women's pants? Name all the pockets.

The amount of truly bad systematic reviews is about to skyrocket isn't it... #medlibs 📚 www.elsevier.com/about/press-...

HUGE NEWS! Because of Democratic pressure, Oregon SNAP recipients are reporting their cards have the FULL November benefits!   Everyone who called out Trump for using hungry children and seniors as a bargaining chip has WON with tremendous results!!

Haha yesss. Japanese copyright law doesn't fuck around. Since I get challenged on this a lot: U.S. and Japan are both Berne Convention signatories, meaning the copyright is recognized between countries. They CAN go after American companies. And they are. And I love it. variety.com/2025/digital...

I moved (back) to London weeks after the Olympics. It did NOTHING for the city. Please do not have the Olympics here. Thank you.

Don’t get on your Ezra Klein nonsense. You love to hear it

I once had a Santa Fe police officer yell at me to ride on the sidewalk. I told him “it’s illegal!” He honestly didn’t know. Sigh.

All those mass shooter drills at school are now actively hiding from the US government as it kidnaps children. Good times.

Me a couple weeks ago in class: we’re going to read this Jawaharlal Nehru speech. Tomorrow: you know that speech we read? Quoted yesterday by the incoming Mayor of NYC.

'Monkey and Moon' - Ohara Koson, ca. 1910. #FullMoon #shinhanga #JapaneseArt

Tomorrow I am teaching my class about history and gender and I get to turn my long rant about the History of Pockets into an actual lecture. I am so excited.

Has anyone done a wellness check at the op-ed department of the New York Times yet?

Prominent journalist @RanaAyyub and her father have received violent threats tied to her home address. We stand with Rana and all reporters facing intimidation. Indian authorities must act to ensure safety + accountability. . cpj.org/2025/11/prom...

Africana Studies is going to have one hell of an update to their "what our majors have done with their degree after graduation" page.

gotta give it to the post's cover game, like obviously it's anti but they also know half of brooklyn is getting this framed

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

SNAP is a domestic violence intervention. Being able to feed your family is foundational to leaving an abusive relationship.

FAR more ironic - and tragic - than "Murphy Brown's daughter" (Chloe Malle) knifing @teenvogue.com in the back is that she's also the daughter of Louis Malle, director of Au Revoir Les Enfants, a great film about children being disappeared from classrooms by a fascist state. "Never forget", Chloe.

Dick Cheney may have hated Donald Trump because he's gauche or whatever, but he's responsible more than anyone for creating the no-limits imperial presidency Trump inherited. To say nothing of all the dead and maimed he's personally responsible for. Hell isn't hot enough.

VP Cheney will be honoured with a 21 gun salute accidentally aimed directly at 21 of his friends

Awesome

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

if not Ponzi, why Ponzi-shaped? www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

sacre bleu!

long live the queen

I kept seeing these ads for this new GameBoy looking device from a company called Modretro. I just saw a new social ad for it that shows the company’s owner on the Joe Rogan podcast talking to Joe about how cool it is. The owner is Palmer Lucky. JFC.

Sunday roast followed by the Sopranos. Perfection.

“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

I watched this feminist high school movie made by 20-something hipsters called Bottoms and it was so weird and bonkers. Perfect for a lazy Saturday.

It never ceases to amaze me how we literally see the world in such very different ways.

The only former Prince I acknowledge.

Halloween is awesome in HK partially because it’s fairly new so people really run with it.

A couple of my Halloween greatest hits.

Every single word of this entire 🧵!!

One of the best pieces of reportage on India I have read in the western press in a good long while. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Holy shit. He is 77 years old. Icon.

This would be the greatest Guardian Blind Date column of all time.

98% of fish & mussels tested in English rivers & coastal waters contain mercury above safety limits Mercury from crematoria, where vapourised fillings of those who have died go up the chimney, is one of the chief sources www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bro, the people in my (small for HK) building speak at least six different languages and it’s awesome.

lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight