There are a bunch of fake pictures of protests among my friend networks on other sites. They are really, obviously AI, but I understand how in all the pressures at the moment you can see it, have a feeling, and hit share. Instead: go to local news. Here’s my outlet I write for. There are others.

The burden of being middle-aged is I’m old enough to remember Batya before she jammed a salad tong up her nose.

probably not, no

This bit from a @lisabelkin.bsky.social story has lived rent-free in my head since the day it was published. www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/m...

wtf

not supporting a guy who was married to a white nationalist Trump lackey for two decades

On February 9th at 7pm, let's talk killer to killer when I introduce the greatest movie ever made at the Paris theater in NYC. The piano will have written the concerto for sure. www.paristheaternyc.com/event/all-ab...

somebody somewhere ended perfectly, even if it was not meant to end when it did.

Holy crap.

"You told her that stupid [Marmaduke] joke, and now you have a medical plan?" MONK was the greatest.

I don't want to kinkshame (I am lying, I want to kinkshame putting hooters on the Animal Crossing dog) but if you have a comical sex hangup and you also intend to be very public with it, please develop a thick enough skin that you don't utterly melt down over "why though"

I’ve noticed that “public figure” gets tossed around a bit here. Been referred to as such myself. Perhaps the label has lost whatever meaning it once had? Just because I have some bylines and post on a microblogging site does not making me Fareed Zakaria.

half-baked thought: the vibes on tumbleweed bluesky are rancid because, unlike on twitter/x, there's no one with true power and influence to attack: Republicans, tech titans, oil lobbyists etc. Bluesky doesn't have such people, which is a problem when users still want a target. And so *gestures*...

raising money on bluesky was always going to be a heavy lift because many people on here hate the idea of paying for media.

13yo saw Marty Supreme. Like me, saw the ending as cynical and assumed Marty is still the same old fuckup. Apparently we misread this!

Lotta classics on here, I don’t understand the complaints

agree, unironically

With the benefit of a couple of years worth of data, I think it’s clear that the smart alternative to being Twitter wasn’t switching to bluesky—it was getting the hell off social media entirely.

It was amazing to watch the journalists who built this tool at work. Months and months of painstaking effort, careful reporting behind every decision. It's the kind of work that ProPublica does best.

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This is like when someone hears you’re from Long Island and asks if you know Bill from Ronkonkoma.

Which means it’s a perfect day for this @nicolechung.bsky.social classic. www.vulture.com/2017/09/the-...

I feel like I’m back at Sharper Image.

heated kitchen tiles

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i feel this way about CITIZEN KANE, which is a very fun and funny movie

I reviewed a very good book, and got some thoughts out of my system. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/b...

no line in the movie more important than when he hands his mom the rock chipped off the pyramid and says, “We built that.”

Opinions: I have some!

People who are angry about this, I would kindly suggest, should get a hobby

Very pleased with this review of WITHOUT CONSENT in the @wsj.com by Barbara Spindel — you know it resonates when the criticisms line up with your own!

I reviewed a very good book, and got some thoughts out of my system. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/b...

one of their lesser sins, but nonetheless amazing www.tabletmag.com/contributors...

them: how do you know these people are white supremacists? me: i can read.

oh wow, you're tell me a guy who contributed regularly to the federalist is a white supremacist? will wonders never cease

And how well I recall the resonance of the term "unindicted coconspirator" as it was applied to Richard Nixon by that 1974 grand jury. Also excellent, to be sure: "expletive deleted."

The term is meant to specify that one is involved in the same conspiracy as another conspirator, as opposed, I guess, to my being in one conspiracy and you in another.

Doesn’t ‘coconspirator’ mean the same thing as ‘conspirator’?

Endorse.

Excited for New York City to have a mayor that lives in New York City.

slept in socks for the first time, so I guess this is the year I’m finally Old.

Sam forgot Nobody 2, but this is a very good list.

Goddamn this is good, and also a way to fire up the real journalists working, and fighting, to tell the truth.

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i recorded like 30 minutes of footage for this 15 minute video. youtu.be/j2_o-YK8tJo?...

this is peak performance I solved the 12/31/2025 New York Times Mini Crossword in 0:45!

It remains hilarious to me that they are trying to run the Raging Bull awards campaign for a movie about a guy who plays ping pong

2025 was by far the strongest year ever for novels by trans writers from major publishers -- and that's before you get down to smaller presses and self-published stuff, which were also cooking. God, I hope it sustains in 2026 and beyond. A lot of these books sold well! The audience is there!

And our 2025 "Stories You May Have Missed" list is an excellent cross-section of what our investigative reporters covered this year, independent journalism funded by your donations: from prescription drug safety to mental health to immigration to Nike to reality TV www.propublica.org/article/prop...