I like (unironically) when I read an essay and can tell instantly "David Foster Wallace is why this person started writing essays". Thank you, universe, for delivering me a million baby Wallaces who artfully tell me how much cruise ships suck.

Windex Xenomorph 💦

Aren’t Christians supposed to be super stoked when someone goes to meet Jesus? Ergo, I’m cool with celebrating Lindsay Graham’s death. Whether he’s meeting Jesus or not is none of my nevermind.

BREAKING: Lindsey Graham’s sudden death reveals everyone’s wake-up time on Sundays.

My partner, to me: "we had a great time at the Weird Al concert, and look at this great parking space we got--so close to our apartment! And we got home before midnight. What's happened in Kansas City has nothing to do with you"

Leaving a concert and checking the Switzerland scores only to see Embolo got a red card is nauseating

Switzerland has only ever made it to the quarter finals in the World Cup, and they've done it again this year only to be made to play against Messi. It's unfair and I hate it.

RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...

Greetings from Meiji-mura, where you can party like it's 1899!

I still really love this story. I only wish it still weren’t so relevant.

If the person at The Onion who wrote this is considering writing horror novels, feel free to give me a call

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

We can see this in the ICE flight data. Domestic “round-up” flights are spiking, and some activist flight watchers report the flights are getting fuller. But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend.

Sen. John Hodgman (D-ME)

Maine officials search the rocky beach for a new senate candidate. They find an unconscious man clad in tattered rags washed upon the shore. The sea provides for Maine, it always does

"She responded by telling him not to do so" okay so you admit she didn't consent? That she said no?

🎉the Strange Horizons fundraiser has MET ITS GOAL 🎉 you know what that means? 10 days left? STRETCH GOALS TIME🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 at $25,000, they're going to raise author pay to 9c/word for the year 2027!! At $30,000, that goes up to 10c/word! 💵💵💵💵💵

AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:

“And Switzerland is heading to Kansas City!”

Hey check it out! Really cool insights into a bunch of 2026 Hugo nominees and their works—including me! Plus, we all answer the big question: if you could only eat one kind of bread for the rest of your life, what would it be? 😱

me writing a piece of fiction: "I cannot use an exclamation mark as the whole thing will sound unhinged." me writing an email: "Do you! Want! To send me! The File! I would really! Like! The file!"

And, of course, a cargo bike

data visualization is my passion.

On this 30th anniversary of my family immigrating to the US, I'd like to reiterate that no one loves this country more than immigrants--no one is more invested in the American Dream, no one is more dedicated to the success of this country, than immigrants.

Oh no did a corrupt thing happen in international soccer

Oh wow that is genuinely upsetting

What's a non-military aspect of the US that you love? National Parks, the ADA, Miranda v. Arizona, and (please forgive my earnestness) the first amendment

there it is

Happy Independence Day

I just read this--it's so weird lol. There /is/ consistent references to climate change, but it mostly claims the fall of America would be b/c of moral failings, such as the equality of the sexes and the existence of the Irish. Undeniably a conservative thought piece, really, even for the time

Never forget that Independence Day is a 4th of July movie

Happy Fourth. On this day, I like to revisit Frederick Douglass’ “What to a Slave is the Fourth of July,” and in particular, this video NPR produced a few years back of portions of the speech being read by Douglass’ descendants. youtu.be/NBe5qbnkqoM?...

I hate when I complain about the heat and someone says "aren't you from Texas?" uh yeah, that's how I know it fucking sucks. i'm an expert

CABO VERDE YOU LISTEN TO ME! IF YOU’RE NEAR A CONVENIENCE STORE RIGHT NOW, ANY TYPE OF 24-HOUR STORE, GO INTO THE STORE RIGHT NOW AND PUT YOUR HAND IN THE CASH REGISTER FOR NO REASON! THEIR MONEY IS YOUR MONEY AS OF RIGHT NOW

World Cup Analysis: Praying for Cabo Verde although an atheist.

Heat wave and no AC is obviously already not ideal, but good news, it can in fact get worse for me! My freezer has stopped freezing!

Huh.

nancy you have to stop. You lollipop too tough. Your swag too different. Your sluggo is too bad. they’ll kill you

I really hate this new coinage, which to my mind serves to legitimize the malignant fiction that there’s some kind of a hierarchy of American citizenship.

how they make us talk now

constitutional birthright citizenship survives by 1 vote. and to think people were worried about this beautiful institution.

NPR: sorry sorry i'm trying to delete

Paraguay! They once declared war on Brazil and Argentina simultaneously! They have an indigenous language called Guarani along with Spanish as its official languages! Their national dish is "sopa paraguaya" which is not soup but actually cornbread! I am their biggest fan for the next 45 minutes!

Me, checking the Germany-Paraguay scores every so often: "Oh they're tied" "Oh they're in overtime" "Oh they're going to penalties" "Oh they're tied on penalties"

Garffeld

With the moral panic (and it /is/ just a moral panic) about "ultra processed foods" becoming a bipartisan issue, I want to say in advance that you never, ever have to hand it to RFK Jr. Not even a little bit.

I especially love this diagram.