was telling someone i've been exercising more over the past few weeks because it "makes my body feel better" and "helps me sleep better" then realized .... yes, duh, that's why most people exercise

when I worked at The Trace, if so much as tweeted "assault rifle," right-wing gun nerds would flood your mentions, insulting you for using an imprecise phrase. now this guy is the far-right head of the FBI. what a decade.

the only thing i really learned from my adult years in and around "elite" institutions is that i could be very influential if i was 50% better at bullshitting and didn't care about pesky things like "the wealth gap" or "bodily autonomy"

What’s happening: Napoleon is master of Europe. Go deeper: Only the British Fleet stands before him.

respectfully, i need the "summer i turned pretty" content to stop. i've seen too many photos of those two identical boys & i'm too old for this

The 20th century, after being interviewed by Isaac Chotiner: "If we go light on the Kissinger part, I wouldn't complain"

just because someone can explain why they make bad life decisions does not mean they should write a memoir

Isaac Chotiner x Cass Sunstein banger: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

LAP (venture-backed coffee chain that's popped up all over Berlin over the past few months) is problematic from a business perspective but it would be less popular if one or two other takeaway coffee places in Berlin actually made good coffee

just a heads up: www.jezebel.com/tiktok-says-...

It was the omg of times, it was the Jfc of times

in the course of the ~45 minutes it took me to watch this in between work convos, the number of views ticked up by ~200k www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohPT...

you didn't need to use the waterproof eyelash glue for this one sweetie

Just imagine being this brand loyal to a racist nazi site

counterpoint: no it wouldn't

No problems here!!!!!!

"The University of California, Berkeley, has notified about 160 students, faculty members and staff that it has given their names to the federal government in connection with 'alleged antisemitic incidents.'" jesus www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

before you ask, no i did not see harry styles in the Berlin marathon, I expected him in a slower group

cigarillos and cigars should be banned in public, absolutely the worst smell ever, why don’t you light a stick of sugar covered in hair instead

i've read this book

lollllllllllllllllll 🫠

on the bright side i get to eat a kebab and drink beer while watching football this evening

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha jesus fucking christ

they better not be letting this guy into Nowadays anymore smdh

Berlin pals, my wife and I had to move out of our apartment yesterday when the building‘s roof collapsed in a fire. We have a few places to stay over the coming weeks but we’ll probably need a new apartment for the long term. If you know of anyone letting a 2/3 room apartment, please get in touch! x

why are you using a pic that makes it look like the cover of Christine Lagarde's comeback rap album

keep sending texts about the U.S.’s sharp pivot into fascism and throwing an “lol” on the end because earnestly saying I’m scared is somehow a bridge too far

Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."

damn joe's divorce bills must've been real bad

boyfriend just asked "who was that guy who got exposed as a creep" and when i looked at him blankly, unhelpfully clarified, "left-wing podcast-y guy"

harry reid hasn't been in the senate for nearly a decade (or even alive for nearly four years). this name drop doesn't work anymore. your time is over buddy!

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

It isn’t the American people she should be directing this at, it is just six very specific Americans she should be directing this at

The political juggernaut that Democrats cower in fear of

Conservatives believe free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/theb...

hot and good at acting, RIP <3

anyone have a cheeky Financial Times discount code? New season, new us (we’re getting a print paper every morning)

it is so upsetting that we talk about cancer as if getting it is an outcome of your personal choices. some behaviors can worsen it, sure, but health is not a moral value, and that we've internalized this framing — that getting sick is a personal failing — is the sign of a perverse society.

just watched “Dr Strangelove” ….. are u joking me……

i don't like to be sanctimonious about X for regular people but it makes me feel insane that powerful left + liberal voices are still actively using Musk's platform. not using X is the *easiest* way to walk the walk of your supposed beliefs.

Topless and tanned Kier Starmer unveils new full chest english cross tattoo in front of number 10, announces “let’s fuckin’ ‘ave it” in most nasal voice yet,

a question I often find myself asking these days: "are these the moves of a movement that feels that it's winning or one desperately afraid that it's about to lose everything?"

we squeezed in a good, much-needed vacation right at the end of summer, and now I am ready to accept autumn into my heart.

another law enforcement reform idea: citizens arrest but for giving other people parking tickets

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

Good to see Elon out there doing his best to calm things down in a moment like this

Whether or not you support political violence won’t change where we’ve come to, nor where we’ve been for some time in this country. I am quite taken aback by how many people only invoke the term ‘political violence’ when it happens to a person with power. It’s political violence the other way too.

if police detectives wore trenchcoats again, I’d trust cops more