Every time I open Bluesky there are so many posts from people fighting about Bluesky and what it should or shouldn't be, plus who should and shouldn't be banned. Guys. Stop thinking about the problem in terms of the existing solutions. BE SMARTER. Here, read this. www.leahreich.com/we-are-the-i...

That @brianphillips.bsky.social guy once called @girinathan.bsky.social "the best tennis writer in America" and his four paragraphs here on the Roland-Garros final prove the point. Reading them made me want to watch the entire 5 hours and 29 minute match all over again! defector.com/our-favorite...

Why on earth did I just turn a college football game on

I’m in the waiting room at the cardiologist’s office, and an old man is watching a sports game on his phone with no headphones. Sir my blood pressure is already an issue, that’s why I’m here

Yesterday I sent out my last newsletter of 2025. I think everyone deserves a break, so I'm giving myself one for the next two weeks. But please read this one anyway, it's a bit of a look back plus look forward. www.leahreich.com/tiny-little-...

"There are a lot of Wednesdays! They come around much more quickly than you'd imagine! Sometimes it feels like there are more Wednesdays than any other days!" @leahreich.com's newsletter isn't about bikes (tho she values IRL interaction, as do we), but the quote made me LOL tinyurl.com/yfskmssu

Recent editorial exchanges remind me to broadcast: I maintain a small freelance editing practice, and will have some space free for new clients in the new year. I help writers both scholarly and otherwise, as well as institutional clients. A short description here: benwurgaft.org/editing/

@girinathan.bsky.social hello, I need your thoughts on the Alcaraz-JCF split please!!!

today i learned that ludwig wittgenstein (yes, that one) was a huge fan of american crime fiction. "If philosophy has anything to do with wisdom there’s certainly not a grain of that in Mind [a philosophy mag], and quite often a grain in the detective stories.” www.mysteryfile.com/NDavis/Wit.h...

You guys!! You helped boost my mom's book and give it more visibility. She texted to tell me this (yes, my parents still use Bear, my childhood nickname even tho I am 50) Can we boost her books more? Please help, it would be such a gift. Pain Killers: a.co/d/1cFQucf Under Water: a.co/d/3JRA0kB

You can also buy this amazing (and very different) novel she wrote that was nominated for and won multiple independent book awards! It comes in paperback and kindle version. Please buy one or both! a.co/d/bDi4WxC

Hello friends. I need to ask you a big favor: If you have an e-reader, please buy this book, written by my mom. It will cost $0.99 and it will boost her visibility. This is the first book she ever wrote (a long time ago), an epistolary novel about an ER (TW: various forms of trauma) a.co/d/icbEntH

Fun thing: Yesterday I randomly replied to a @jamellebouie.net post about making videos for non-Bluesky audiences, knowing full well he wouldn't see/respond. But some v nice people did (thx @dorolfe.bsky.social & @aetataureate.bsky.social!) to encourage me. (cont)

Thank god Yashar is covering Candace Owens radicalizing a massive "normal mom" audience against Jews, because I don't think anyone else is (that I've seen)

Got 99 cents to spare and want to use it to help make someone's day?

Hello friends. I need to ask you a big favor: If you have an e-reader, please buy this book, written by my mom. It will cost $0.99 and it will boost her visibility. This is the first book she ever wrote (a long time ago), an epistolary novel about an ER (TW: various forms of trauma) a.co/d/icbEntH

wild stuff cybernews.com/security/wha...

PSA: there’s been an exploit for Signal and WhatsApp released that can be used to silently track you. Temp fixes for both can be done in your settings: For WhatsApp: Settings>Privacy>Advanced>Block unknown messages. For Signal: Settings>Privacy>Phone number>Who can find me by number>Nobody

This has to be one of the greatest runs any director has ever experienced.

Man this Rob Reiner news really sucks. Is there anyone who didn't love his movies? Is there anyone who can't quote scenes from one of his movies by heart? At least one, if not more?

In addition to the awful misinformation campaign about the shooter, there are also many conspiracy theories going around, such as: "this was not a Jewish event but a Jewish-supremacy event" and/or "Israel is behind this attack in order to allow Jews to maintain their victimhood"

Sending all my fellow Jews a little extra light today, and asking all my non-Jews to do two things: One, say something. Text a Jewish friend. The silence these days is loud and scary. Two, push back on the antisemitic conspiracy theories already circulating about the Sydney attack. Please.

Rather than offer a year-end list, this photo is Lumpy's summary of 2025

Well, I guess we finally know who the drama is

Is it just me or are people being especially nasty on here the past few days? Like I get everything is shitty and hard, but maybe don't take it out on strangers

3 months ago I asked for resources to help a friend in a difficult immigration situation. Since then I got her a new lawyer (thx to someone on here!), have acted as project manager, & raised/put together $15,000+ without a GoFundMe to help pay. If you feel helpless, pls know there's a lot you can do

In this week’s newsletter I wrote about AI and why it feels so alien to so many of us. www.leahreich.com/maybe-the-a-...

HERE I AM WITH YOUR ANNUAL REMINDER THAT "LOVE, ACTUALLY" HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE WORST

Incredible timing for my newsletter this week www.leahreich.com/maybe-the-a-...

In this week’s newsletter I wrote about AI and why it feels so alien to so many of us. www.leahreich.com/maybe-the-a-...

Terrific post from @leahreich.com about AI 👇🏾👇🏻👇🏽👇🏼👇🏿 www.leahreich.com/maybe-the-a-...

I wrote about AI again www.leahreich.com/maybe-the-a-...

I wrote about AI again www.leahreich.com/maybe-the-a-...

Hi if you are on Reddit please go tell Lumpy he's beautiful there so he can be as beloved on Reddit as he is on every other social media platform, thank you www.reddit.com/r/Supermodel...

Why does this photo look like a still from the Genesis “Land of Confusion” video

But they already are Spitting Image puppets?

Honestly I haven't nailed a reference this well since Elon Musk in his ten gallon hat as Cornholio

Why does this photo look like a still from the Genesis “Land of Confusion” video

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated, or Pixar.

I'm going to need everyone to share photos of their extremely cozy coworkers in the replies to this. NON-HUMAN COWORKERS ONLY UNLESS THE HUMAN IS AN ACTUAL TINY BABY, NOBODY WANTS PHOTOS OF PEOPLE thank you

Have you ever seen a cozier coworker

Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment

Hi I have an important science question: How does Lumpy become so small when he curls up? Where does the extra cat go Please see photos for comparison

If you don’t want to watch FIFA’s unhinged Tim Roth movie about FIFA, do the next best thing and read my old blog post about it. I need my suffering to have meant something.

While we’re all here and in a good mood: This was (to me) the funniest newsletter I’ve written in a while. Please read and share! It would make me happy www.leahreich.com/guy-with-a-v...

DON’T 👏 GO 👏 AROUND 👏 SAYING 👏 HAPPY 👏 HANUKKAH 👏 TO 👏 JEWISH 👏 PEOPLE 👏 IT’S 👏 NOT 👏 ANTI-SEMITIC 👏 WE 👏 JUST 👏 DON’T👏KNOW👏 WHEN 👏 IT👏 IS👏

Gotta be honest with you, there have been times when I wished my last name were something other than Reich but those times do not at all compare to this particular moment in our country's history

I helped create one of Instagram's most successful sharing features since the launch of Stories, which means I helped the company MAKE money, and I got laid off because I didn't perfectly tick all the boxes on a performance matrix 🙃

Twitter Has A Nazi Problem, Read About It On My Substack