may have just scolded the lady next to me on this flight for leaving her trash in the seat right before we deplaned. “i don’t think you should leave your trash.” “who cares what you think” [observes she has a copy of the new york times in her hands]

the Heated Rivalry fandom has done a really remarkable speedrun from a celebration of a fluffy, sexy gay show to calling cast members pedophiles & journalists "klan members" (yes, really) — v excited about @wired.com's blow-by-blow feat interviews w fans on the front lines

The elite solution for climate change is mass death and Epstein is why. www.fastcompany.com/91490280/eps...

is there a german word for this aesthetic longing for television sets made of dark wood

It's nice to see @theflytrapmedia.com republish this 2021 Bitch piece I wrote on sugar! If you like this piece, may I suggest... my forthcoming book ON EATING?! theflytrapmedia.com/sweet-hereafter/?ref=the-flytrap-newsletter&attribution_id=6982c77fcdf957000153cc69&attribution_type=post

Because they think that mass surveillance isn't intimately involved with everything we're concerned about, I guess?

People with Means (PwM): "i'm so sustainable" People without Means (PwoM): "how tho?" PwM: "i bought a pre-loved mcmansion" PwoM: 🥱

Hate the billionaire paywall. Love your indie paywalls.

how are we still asking chatgpt what “it” “thinks” and making that a news story??? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

my mom visited London a few years ago and after every interaction with a queer barista, she’d be like, “well *someone* was into you; why don’t you give ‘em your number; is that what you do?”

It's really instructive when you replace "Millennials" with "middle-aged adults" in headlines. '"Middle-aged adults" are swimming in student debt and may never own homes.'

Tech won’t save fashion. But what if craft could? Safia Minney has spent 30 years advocating that craft is the best way to slow down fashion. anxiety.eco asked the social entrepreneur why hand weaving, knitting, block printing and more are the alternatives we need. www.anxiety.eco/p/craft-can-...

This article immediately labels @emilymbender.bsky.social and I as "curmudgeons" because we don't think that the spicy auto complete has a concept of the self.

The EU is working on a blanket ban of ‘forever chemicals’. Why isn't Britain? | Pippa Neill

need one of those german train-car noun constructions for ‘the sense of betrayal a woman suffers when a thinker who was hugely influential to her turns out to be the same bog standard worthless misogynist as everyone else’

Now THIS is service journalism

The announcers just said the music for these ice dancers is AI generated and I'd like to personally disqualify them

you're going to see a LOT of this sort of retconning (I was always on the right side of history) by all the very loud people who were on the wrong side of history. Especially as Trump's health fails. we need a big tent to dismantle fascism, but a little accountability might be nice as a treat

4 Reasons to Never Take Forbes Seriously

every faceless profile on Grindr in London is actually Morgan McSweeney

"Eventually” Ms. West said, “readers will not care.” How much disdain must you have for your readers to say something like this and have your name attached? It's like saying "hey little piggies, come get your romance slop"

I would never argue all self-publishing is bad, but I realized years ago that Amazon designed KDP for exactly this purpose: to incentivize people to adopt new tech to churn out more slop titles in a clear attack on the publishing industry with little regard for readers or even the writers themselves

I wrote this in November, before the billionaire boss killed what was The Washington Post. What we don't talk about during such events is the eliminated freelance budgets. Freelancers produce much of what you read. The harm reaches far wider than staff cuts alone. www.esckey.co/the-death-of...

beat you to it [link to my Beehiiv newsletter]

Too many hot takes are setting up a false dichotomy between the fading legacy model and Substack, as if there isn’t a much richer world of independent media out there. The questions we should be asking: how can we make it thrive? How can we find sustainable funding infrastructure for indie media?

tapping the sign

This weekend’s feature by Amy Miles pretty much perfectly encapsulates the anxiety.eco ethos… underexplored subject, cultural hook, fun to read and by the end of it, we have either saved you money or helped you make sense of the bullshit that is our consumer culture www.anxiety.eco/p/where-does...

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

you know it must be bad when you see the headline "Why is it raining so much" in the Irish Times www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

these tech companies radically underestimate how much trouble i’ll go to to remove their shitty little data grab URL suffixes. i just clicked a link on my phone, pasted the URL into a blank note, removed that end bullshit, then typed the whole URL again on my desktop. worth every second of hassle

if you took my advice last year and bought used leather pants, wore those leather pants, and then resold them on eBay, you would have made more money than if you invested in bitcoin

sure you might have seen my name in the big pdf that got released titled “list of draculas currently operating in the united states.” here’s why that’s NOT a big deal:

over the next 3 years, be ready for seeing a lot of coverage of Republican lawmakers, business leaders, university leaders who did absolutely nothing to stall Trump (on the contrary) — about how *actually* they were wringing their hands all along. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

Hundreds of thousands of subscribers cancel their subscription to a publication when its billionaire owner overstepped to stop a presidential endorsement he didn’t agree with, days before the election But then when he lays off one-third of the staff, the problem becomes the “entitled” staff surrre

the thing i've always struggled with in my work is feeling like i just want to rob the rich to build the world we need and that's really all i want to do ... and yet, here's a listicle of small independent brands who pay living wages (which is important!!) anyway!!

am i the only one who gets irrationally irritated with Notion people??? like i used to feel this way about bullet journal people, but now i'm like, please, bullet journal people, let's get martinis ... notion people i will never meet you at 6 am for a hike, and i am aware you will record my response

me: i have so much work i need to focus on also me: I AM SO MAD ABOUT THIS ARTICLE, LET ME DRAFT THREE POSTS I WILL NEVER POST

I had a great time speaking with @hamrahrama.bsky.social about his perspectives on cinema, what’s really keeping people from spending more time at the movies, how digital technology has been used to move power to studios, and so much more!

*Fixed it

How many years are we into the hype? And we still get headlines like this?

Amy reflects on anxiety.eco's first Founding Member ... her mom! Meanwhile, my mom unsubscribed! Here's what 7 readers told us this week about why worker-owned media matters to challenge the dominant narratives around fashion and our very plastic consumer culture. www.anxiety.eco/p/7-readers-...

very strong story about the woman whose arrest photo was doctored by the white house. she's a civil rights attorney and the government is charging her with a reconstruction-era crime that had been designed to protect black americans from the kkk. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

I think it would be swell if we don't frame ICE kidnappings as 'this disrupts my personal life because kidnapped and terrified people are no longer performing labor for me.' I do feel like 'people are terrified of being kidnapped and are hiding at home' should be the focal point of that story.

Was just told by a startup mag that they "aren’t hiring for any paid writing or editing roles, but are definitely on the lookout for staff writers and staff editors that are in it for the love of the game and a portfolio project" like damn I thought "pay you in exposure" was overwrought

ok here’s the pitch: so it’s a bbc murder mystery detective series *but* this time it focuses only on the murderers surrounding the assistant professors who would rather not teach at oxford brookes, a la when they travel they tell strangers they’re just professors. “Where? Oh, Oxford …” then murder

this is so fucking cool

Cold brew crew, we won www.wired.com/story/microd...

Yes. Along with lead type! www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/is-t...

look my ego is not immune to flattery BUT in this “AI” hype bubble, I’ve been getting so many effusively — and weirdly specific — PR emails that go like “JD! I have been thou’s biggest stan since you did [Vice article nobody remembers] and look at you now, grrrl [mentions job I did two jobs ago]”

The year is 2026. The entire economy is scams. But some scammers are scamming for justice.