BAD ENOUGH to be the sort of person to order Josh brand Sauvignon blanc by name (JOSH! BY NAME!) but omfg you are nominally in line of presidential succession (11th, one spot above RFK Jr) you call it “josh sauvi B” Jesus HMF Christ in heaven. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

Fun tax day fact: “No taxes on overtime” actually means no taxes on the “and a half” part of “time and a half.” So if your regular pay is $30/hour, and you get paid 10 hours OT in a week, your regular pay is $1200 and your OT pay is $450. But your taxable income is $1,500 and untaxed is $150.

This was, of course, after her affairs with Joseph Kennedy (JFK’s dad) and Roald Dahl (who was honeytrapping her at the behest of the British government), among others.

AI purveyors are, in fact, hiring human fact checkers.

I think everyone has a version in their head (with a lot of ALL CAPS) of the post that 2013 Lindy West would write about the 2026 Lindy West memoir. And it’s no where near as nice as the Scaachi Koul piece lol.

I have a lot of thoughts about The Discourse about (whispers) *that* memoir (sigh) but mostly they boil down to my general editor’s note on the genre, which is that you can’t write one to make people understand you qua you, but the best ones help readers understand themselves.

My fucking alma mater once again showing that the quality education I got came despite the salaries they paid all those useless lickspittle administrators. Still not fucking donating.

I had a lot of thoughts about the (very well written, thoughtful) Pelicot memoir, foremost among them her struggle (at 69!) to figure out who she was if her happy life had been a lie. www.truthdig.com/articles/bet...

"Giséle wrote that it was not an easy process to rebuild her life, especially because she felt that women of her generation were taught to prize a romantic relationship over everything else." by @megancarpentier.bsky.social for @truthdig.com www.truthdig.com/articles/bet...

STOP SEXTING WITH YOUR CAR AUDIO SYSTEM IN TRAFFIC

You could give me a shit ton of money and a fancy UES mansion and I would also be like “it ain’t Astoria.” If you don’t live here, you don’t know. Not everyone aspires to what you think the apex of New York life is because some of us have our Sesame Street.

Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.

Also thinking of this great article on the neuroscience and psychology of limerence for some… desire today. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

In honor of the latest weeklong blowjob cycle, I present to you my 2011 attempt at satirizing Washington as one big bisexual orgy. It seemed so over the top at the time but this timeline has, again, surpassed the limits of even my sick imagination. www.huffpost.com/entry/the-so...

Me to my partner: My cousin’s coming! Him: K Me: She’s my dad’s sister’s son’s kid, so my first cousin once removed because her dad is my cousin but I call him my uncle because he’s older than my dad but her uncle from her mom’s side is also my aunt’s ex but she’s also my cousin not my aunt Him: 🤯

100% not violating any NDAs but one time I worked for a start up that was enamored with a substacker and they had a meeting and she openly asked for a branded hoodie.

In 2021, I traced the rise of anti vaccine advocacy in conservative circles back to the aughts, and the development of a vaccine originally only available to women to prevent cancer. www.damemagazine.com/2021/07/14/t...

I realize it is part of being young to crave something beyond the grudging respect of your peers but I truly believe that a huge percentage of Americans of all ages need to internalize the idea that you are not entitled to have other people like you, even if you like them or crave their regard.

Real talk, Cracker Barrel could keep the new logo if it brought back the Sunrise Sampler but you can’t force people to chose either grits or baked apples, that’s not right.

$2300 is not a rent stabilized apartment in Astoria. (Please don’t move here and raise non-stabilized prices, though.) Also many landlords here are long time owners and don’t gouge us on rent increases year over year, preferring stable income to high turnover rates that ultimately cost more.

I’m old enough to remember why. 20+ years ago, the Post set up its digital news operations in Arlington, Virginia (a “right-to-work” aka non-union state) to avoid the unionization of its digital reporters and editors. It included an online opinion section. (They joined the Guild in 2010.)

The table next to us in this higher end steakhouse was farting SO BAD the waiter brought us a second dessert. (At first I thought it was just bad Brussel sprouts but SADLY I was so wrong. That man has stains.)

The Q hasn’t gone to Mamdani’s Astoria district since the 2nd Ave extension opened and this guy can’t even pop out of the N at Ditmars station to go to the Sweet Spot. He gonna drive by here via the Kosciusko in a ‘32 Packard and wave at us again? nyc.streetsblog.org/2017/04/28/c...

“I don’t know how long it took—ten seconds, maybe fifteen—for the house to come apart." During the early-morning hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River pulled senior editor Aaron Parsley and six members of his family into its waters. Read his firsthand account:

Still remember the time Dennis had me on his radio show and then cut my mic because he said that all men, without (his) God, would be like rape-y chickens in the barnyard and i guffawed because it turned out I had a more optimistic view of masculinity and men than him.

I get a LOT of dumb shit via Act Blue because my phone number pre 2001 was a landline owned by a now-elderly Black man in DC named Frederick but this shit takes the fucking cake SIR

Including East Elmhurst and Maspeth?! Jesus Christ, the East River is not the Pacific fucking Ocean, and there’s 700,000 more people here than in Manhattan.

LMFAO “looks terrible” I live in Astoria and despite the fact that Mamdani is both significantly younger than many of my friends and married, he’s gotten hit on a LOT by women my age and younger in the last 18 months, including one of my long time acquaintances. (He is always politely uninterested.)

This is not, in fact, how LLMs are trained which is probably one of the issues with their performance on questions like “how many r’s are in strawberry”.

The thing about this story is that, when I was a high schooler in the 90s, I volunteered for and eventually ran (and won a statewide award for) this exact program that served elderly people who mostly lived alone in their homes. It’s gone now. www.wsj.com/health/welln...

Apropos of nothing, I’m running underground with the moles, digging them holes.

If there is one major thing I have learned in life, is is that there are Lyrics People and there are Musical Vibes People who not only do not know why in the world Lyrics People are upset at how they assign absolutely incorrect meanings to pop music songs, but will never agree when you tell them.

Mark Harmon once glared at me from the opposite side of a revolving door.

I’m a bitch A bad writer I’m a loser Not a fighter Got an egg shape o’er my brain The Dems should never change I’m in Hell You’re so cruel I’m so mad that I’m not cool You know that everything was better in my day!

Some quotes are too good to cut on.ft.com/4jkssZ0

It’s not the em-dash, it’s the em-dash without spaces (not WaPo style) and the fact that it’s not an en-dash (British variant). www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

The closest thing “the left” has to a Joe Rogan (if you define this as “influential talker” in general and aren’t reducing this to “man who other men will listen to”) is Rachel Maddow, who (like Rogan) got her start in entertainment (morning zoo radio) and I don’t think that’s a coincidence.

I had a client once who, every night, would follow porn stars and an implicit part of my job was to log in every morning and unfollow all the X-rated accounts. If I failed to do this, questions would be raised by him in meetings about why he was following these accounts and if he had been hacked.

After talking to a lot of Trump voters at the 2017 inauguration and hearing them all repeat a few stock quotes from what I eventually realized was The Apprentice, I pitched my editor on a total rewatch but you couldn’t stream it, torrent it or even buy old DVDs of it on eBay until last month.

The big thing you need to take from Biden’s diagnosis is that you need to encourage the (older) men in your life to get regular PSA tests and that prostate cancer is not an inevitability, it is not inherently slow-growing, and that there are MANY treatment options.

Nailed it. No notes.

Not only was this widely known among opinion editors, but it was seen as a perk by many writers (and was framed as such when they were being recruited) and it is a standard that some columnists (and some opinion editors’ bosses) expected at other publications.

Editor: You get the pictures for the air traffic controller story? Photographer: Sure did boss. Real fucking sexy just like you asked. Editor: What

I come from a long line of people, on both sides of my family, with incredibly fucked-up teeth that are clearly some function of genetics and I am middle aged and have neither a cavity nor a lowered IQ (or whatever BS they are saying) because of fluoridated water and childhood fluoride treatments.

This is a fantastic idea for an oral history, but it's also a lovely celebration by/of a bunch of practical FX and stunt dudes nerding out on what sounds like a magical opportunity to destroy a ton of shit.

Just saw a man returning 2 Mother’s Day flower bouquets at the (low price) grocery store. He bought them at noon.

Breaking: The FDA has approved a vaginal swab that will allow people to screen for HPV — which causes almost all cases of cervical cancer — at home instead of getting a Pap smear, which can be painful and/or traumatic for many

In 1870, the Catholic Church declared that, on matters of faith and morals, official declarations of the Pope are infallible. The belief in papal infallibility is a pretty major tenet of the faith and it’s not one the Vatican, uh, leaves up for debate.

My old friend and former TPM colleague Eric Lach!!