Wave in Backlight — Peter Witt oil on canvas 80 x 80 cm

I'm back at Slate next week after mat leave, and will be looking at pitches again! Particularly interested in health and science opinion and analysis, and/or with a first person angle, as well as features (2,500+ words, deeply reported) that turn a big idea on its head. [email protected]

Reason 123554 to mask in public. Also, those Zenni commercials for their ID-Guard anti-infrared glasses is looking more and more appealing.

Incredibly promising news to start the new year…

Last spring I thrifted a vintage 3/4 length fitted lambskin coat with a fox fur collar which fits me like a glove. Unfortunately, it has an odd greenish cast to the cream leather that I dislike intensely. Decided to dye it using the Angelus leather dye, which was going swimmingly until...

Spent half the day reviewing old journal entries from 2020-2025, half finished essays, and I even found a poem (!?) that was good (?!) that I forgot I wrote in the archives. It was a spirit-nourishing activity. I think I've grown/changed more in the last 3 years than at any stage since puberty.

Sam Reich talking about how there should be a Secretary of the Arts in this country, and how the Arts make up the same amount of GDP as Agriculture or Transportation is one of those head-slappingly obvious "DUH!" moments for me. Like, YES?! Of course?!

Excuse me very much, but a big jar of grape leaves went from 100 leaves to around 70 leaves, and now they want FIFTEEN UNITED STATES GREENBACK DOLLARS for a single jar?????????????? This is anti-Lebanese discrimination.

When I was writing my book, my editor suggested I use ChatGPT to fact check each chapter & convert my links to MLA format. I tried it & it literally made up fake links & fake authors. This scared me so bad and it’s why I hired a criminology graduate student to fact check for me

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If you want a laugh, try to take a picture of yourself recreating this expression. I genuinely can't get my face to do this?? The tightness at the corners of the eyes and lips showing contempt at the same time you have a close mouthed smirk plus open eyes.... My camera roll looks insane

I saw someone call this picture the "I frew up" pose and I can't unsee it

There will come a day when I am responsible enough to keep track of my period instead of forgetting that it exists, and then being mad about what my Follicular Phase Self scheduled for my Luteal Phase Self when she was feeling good. Don't know when that'll be, but hope springs eternal.

My gay bestie basically just told me that I'm not mean enough to men.

I finally got a real African Net Sponge after having cheapo knockoffs for a couple years, and it's better in every imaginable way. I feel FRESH.

Further evidence that widespread covid vaccination is better for everybody.

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If you're not on Skijoring Social Media right now, I implore you to look it up and enjoy.

Postal Inspectors are proof that people wouldn't hate cops if they were actually good at their jobs. A Postal Inspector rolls up and you know: 1) You're safe. 2) Someone is going to JAIL.

I've tidied my bedroom, done a little writing, taken an excursion to the clearance Dillard's to buy a couple nighties, had my Official Thanksgiving Leftovers Sandwich, checked in with my sick friend, and now I'm all at loose ends with myself. First unclaimed time I've had in months.

We are still, I assure you, New York Fucking City.

This potato soup recipe from the back of the Bob's Red Mill potato flakes recipe is so delicious and easy it feels like cheating. I zhuzhed tonight's into Loaded Baked Potato Soup with sour cream, black pepper, cheddar, with green onions & bacon for toppers. (It is 4 dashes of worcestershire tho)

SOMETIMES getting exactly what you want IS the key to happiness. SOMETIMES it really IS that simple. (she says, having temporarily gotten her preferred hours back at work, which seems to have solved nearly every irritating thing in her life)

This is genuinely my favorite treatment on the topic of modesty I've seen in 15+ years of Discourse online, and 30 years of reading religious/historic/sociologic books that touch on dress/respectability/modesty.

I am temporarily back to my early shift for the first time since June, and it feels so much better already.

I got a little wedge of this on sale for a care package I'm putting together for a friend and it is genuinely the most delicious brie I've ever tasted. Cold, straight from the fridge, it is so delicious I don't think I can ever go back to what I was buying

A gentle reminder—turkeys out of the freezer and into the fridge today.

Holy f@$k! “ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.” This whole video is jaw-dropping.

A few years ago I made a Thanksgiving Menu, Prep Schedule, and Grocery List in a single spreadsheet, and it has genuinely made my life SO MUCH BETTER. I don't have to think, worry, or wonder -- I just look at my spreadsheet, and do what it tells me.

This video took me all week to make, and the recipe is WILDLY delicious, so I am shamelessly seeking compliments now. www.tiktok.com/@butterandbo...

Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?” TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.” ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”

As someone who knows cults up close and personal, this is my take on MTG.

I am refusing to think or ponder beyond this exact moment. Because Mamdani rolled a Nat 20 charisma check in the Oval-- which most likely means that ICE will stay away from NYC And MTG has had such a deep crack in the brainwashing that she's resigning. Tomorrow can deal with tomorrow.

I just want to say -- I haven't had socials on my phone since March when my real phone died and I switched to the Backup Phone. Got my Real Phone fixed yesterday, so today I have Bluesky in my hand, for this particular moment in time. And this timeline is like a drug today. I can't uninstall.

THIS is how I know the discourse is going to be banging.

I just received my health insurance open enrollment. Employee + spouse: $$525.09 Family: $702.97 I make $823.13 per pay period!! How tf am I supposed to also pay medical bills, utilities, rising grocery costs, gas, etc? And our president’s only concern is himself?? #SaveHealthcareNotPedophiles

A really great resource for low cost groceries if you have a location near you! youtube.com/shorts/l87DL...

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A few years ago my former church did a multi-week study where we as a congregation went through the denominational deacon training materials, and I was so appalled that I stood up and asked straight out, "Has *a single* poor person vetted any of this? Because this is dehumanizing and undignified"

I have a project that I'm passionate about, believe it would do good in the world, and have the skills to execute.......but can't figure out how to fit it into my schedule now that I'm not working the early shift (like I have for the past decade).

Benjamin Lay was out there THROWING FAKE BLOOD on Quakers in the damn EARLY 1700s because HE KNEW that enslaving Africans was a SIN, INHUMANE and should end IMMEDIATELY.

$380 to $1200

$50 a month to $1030 a month for mine.

We are $630 to $3101 and we will be uninsured next year

Mine is going from $370 to $1200. Bronze plan. $8k deductible. Doing everything I can to stay healthy.

Feel your pain. Mine’s going from $1K/mo to $2K/mo, same plan.

$2100 to $2990, $9000 deductible. Family of four.

Premiums for me and my spouse going from $750 to $2135.

ACA for me and my daughter is going from $430 to $1800 per month. Fkn outrageous.