my terrible sons
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my terrible sons
to the dark money operatives paying lib influencers: stop paying $8k a month to influencers whose fans are all true blue liberals. pay me $20k a month to plead with my audience of intransigent leftists.
rip the hive :( i dont understand anything in this totally incoherent memo! i’m very sad about what is happening to my former employer! variety.com/2025/digital...
canadian rockies are unreal. the water looks fake but it actually is that blue!!! also i need more context about the inevitable incident that led to the “no bear spray on the chairlift” sign
are you joking
attended a nostalgic bloc party concert on a tennis court on an unseasonably but not uncomfortably cool sunny evening….this really is going to be the best summer of our lives…….
Just marveling at a media CEO getting rid of reporters and then on the same day saying that the company is growing and hiring folk as if nothing happened
after ~5 years at The Information, i've been laid off, alongside 2/3rds of our features team. i am devastated. if you're looking for an experienced investigative reporter with a knack for producing high impact features about tech and business, please reach out: parismartineau@gmail.com DMs open
cat goop at night, felines delight
Huge fight ahead between compounding pharmacies and big pharmaceutical.
he recently has taken to spending like 18 hours a day on the couch pillow that weirdly matches his fur
i cannot stress enough that at the very least everyone in leadership needs to go. all of them. probably most electeds over 70 too. primary them all. while we're at it can we just drop the entirety of the ny dem party on a deserted island
Excel cultists will tell you this is impossible
The idea that there should be a public debate about the appropriate medical care for a minuscule population of children remains one of the most absurd lies that these liberal transphobes, NYT edit board included, tell themselves. No there shouldn’t! It’s not an appropriate matter for public debate!
If he doesn’t already know “the business of investing,” that means his sole qualification for the job is that he murdered a homeless man and got away with it. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/n...
perhaps controversial but i would not describe myself as much of a “pancake person.” however the chez ma tante pancakes are thin and basically fried in clarified butter so it’s a different thing
I’m not sure who is the bigger loser here: Trump admin for going to Bari Weiss’ substack with an “exclusive” or Bari Weiss running this thing we all knew was coming as an exclusive
coward shit
DOCTOR: Hi everyone! Welcome back to group therapy for average post/election Bluesky repliers. What I’d like you all to do is imagine a post— PATIENT 1: I’m mad at it DOCTOR: Okay, okay, good honesty, but I was gonna say to imagine a post with a joke in it PATIENT 2: I’m REALLY mad at it
DEM SENATOR: Well there’s always next time 😃 a hearty “good game” to my colleagues across the aisle as they shepherd our great nation in the spirit of collaboration and teamwork! 🦅🫡 REPUBLICAN SENATOR: Does anyone know when it’s technically legal for me to kill this [SLUR NO ONE HAS SAID SINCE 1889]
upstairs neighbor appears to have been watching fire walk with me while we’ve been finishing twin peaks: the return. i hope they come to our building’s tenant organizing meeting next weekend so we can discuss
not sure what rib trim is! short ribs have little rib bones surrounded by lots of good fatty meat. i had to google chicken normandy, it sounds divine!
anticipatory snow day project: red wine braised short ribs; sautéed swiss chard, mushrooms and pearl onions; mashed potatoes; horseradish cream and au jus
“My best guess is that a billionaire, having climbed to incredible heights, realizes that he’s still an ordinary human being who puts his pants on one leg at a time, and asks, “Is this all there is?” So he starts demanding things money can’t buy, like universal admiration.”
you may joke that tiktok users won't adapt to bluesky because they can't read but that doesn't seem to stop bluesky's native userbase
made a big life change (started parting my hair in the middle)
Employee engagement apps, once a booming enterprise trend, now reflect a shift toward dismissive attitudes, with leaders responding to queries with “because I said so.” Social, political, and economic life in the U.S. is increasingly shaped by a backlash from the powerful against recent progress.
i love the story about Elon lying about being good at a video game because it’s not the worst thing he’s done by a mile but it is maybe the most fundamentally pathetic
"'There’s not a lot of compassion,' Neal said of the speculators. 'It feels like a version of looting.'"
Can’t get enough of these congestion pricing anecdotes via @dodai.bsky.social nytimes.com/2025/01/11/nyregion/new-york-congestion-pricing-reaction.html
Oh my GOD
theory: tech guys, no matter how rich and successful they become, never stop wishing they could have been a cool jock in high school
Scoops w/ @mikeisaac.bsky.social and @sheeraf.bsky.social: -Zuck overhauled Meta’s hate speech policy in Nov after convos with Andreessen about progressives policing speech -Kaplan led the policy rewrite, championing the removal of language protecting trans people www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/t...
What the fuck?
first time in miami, really enjoyed the architecture in south beach on my walk today
"It’s unfortunate that we are right now striding into a period in which the people most opposed to the humane collective path are going to run the government" - @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
made @chaspe.bsky.social a chicken pot pie bc he mentioned offhandedly weeks ago that he wanted one. didn’t really use one recipe but a mix of a few, then topped it with shingled puff pastry bc that seemed fun to me
again going to my bench of favorite complaints: it is weird how openly predatory US culture is and it would be good to have a government that feels some semblance of responsibility for people's wellbeing
good morning carmichael
My 2025 political project is to bring back the conservative campaign for tort reform, except as ultra-mega-anti-SLAPP laws that tax rich people one billion dollars every time they threaten a lawsuit, and the proceeds go to a journalist defense fund.
Wait, I’m sorry…if the truck blows up, it locks you in?
finished season four of the wire tonight
he’s the new years baby
2014: our moderation team is working tirelessly to rid our platform of bots and disinformation 2024: we made some bots that spread disinformation and they’re going to start appearing in your feed. this is our business model now
used chez ma tante’s recipe for pancakes yesterday for the first time and now i’m never making pancakes any other way. easy to make, fluffy in the middle but crisp and light and almost fried around the edges cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020...
nathan for you “i hope you’re hungry for nothing” .jpg
every single detail of this story is incredible. people are amazing. overlapping miracles in central park. read!!
hand carved recipe box and vintage recipe cards from @chaspe.bsky.social 😭💕
A U.S. Congresswoman disappeared for the last six months of her term. Nobody noticed. Turns out she's in a memory care unit, & her staff (and apparently other people?) covered it up (though she was somehow propped up for an event a month ago?) WILD story
*Werner Herzog voice* now, the Jingle Hop has begun
avon barksdale would be a nice name for a dog
me: [carefully placing a baby on my boss’s desk] my boss: and the other one me: [pauses, then unstraps an ankle holster that cradles a smaller, but just as deadly baby]
i wanted pizza for lunch but the store didn’t have premade dough so i made the dough and then made the pizza. not bad tbh
Don’t write this story off as another celebrity spat. This is important reporting that illuminates how public opinion is formed and shaped in the digital age www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/b...
good morning carmichael
I have to take an annual fire safety training for work, and I am reminded that I asked some of the folks who manage these things how they evacuate the NICU and apparently they have vests you can load up with babies
IMPORTANT NEWS VIA A FRIEND: the French embassy has put tinsel on the demented Olympic mascot
Tell your local electeds to support the Grand Army Plaza Redesign B, which would make this intersection more sane by closing St. John's Place to traffic! nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/06/14/y...
olive oyl: i'm going to the store, be back later popeye: ok just don't forget the s- olive oyl: i'm not gonna forget the fucking spinach. jesus christ
blood brothers night two at warsaw…incredible to eat a pierogi and watch your favorite band from when you were 13
Nailed it.
everything is gonna be just awful when we’re around @thebloodbrothers.bsky.social
Fuck em up Lillian
thinking about how funny it would be if, as the result of a major miscommunication, the tickets i bought for tonight were actually for blood brothers (musical) and not blood brothers (00s post hardcore band chase and i both loved as teens) (it would actually not be funny)
i can't believe they invented a slur for big accounts
putting my relationship to the ultimate test today (building a bedframe together; somehow maneuvering two bedframes in different states of construction/deconstruction and two mattresses, one outgoing and one new, through our one bedroom apartment)
Lamb Chop discourse havers: Kate Lindsay got there first. NYT of course doesn’t link to her!!!
this is so perfect youve gotta think it was intentional
meanwhile, just a few blocks away, Samantha had her sights set on a rich CEO as well
ugh godspeed
when i started working for myself i got a lot of advice…nobody mentioned “become the domestic partner of someone with a normal health insurance plan paid for by a company” but here we are
apropos of nothing in the news i’m thrilled to have recently made my final astronomically expensive UHC premium payment through the new york state healthcare marketplace 🙂↕️
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
good evening
Dobbs has only worsened the impacts: As I reported for @nbcnews.com last year, abortion bans have also contributed to the closures of maternity wards, in part by driving OB-GYNs from red states, like Idaho: www.nbcnews.com/health/women...
Slain CEO dumped stock right before DOJ investigation became public. Full story: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/lawsuit-ag...
I am a huge fan of Hawk Tuah but you took my life savings.
Uhhhh hard to understate how radical this is!!!! Really reshapes our whole concept of rights!! And freedom!!! Ha ha ha!!! I’m laughing!!! Cause I have to!!!!
Unfortunately the public can only help with an appropriate referral and there’s a 2 year waitlist to see the specialist who can grant that.
if there’s one thing i’m NOT gonna do it’s be relaxed by a self-described relaxing sounds playlist
spotify suggested i listen to a 10 hour playlist of “rain sounds” so I decided to give it a try tonight (i almost always listen to the first several minutes of a podcast and have a sleep timer set so it turns off) and the rain sounds are so much less soothing than like 15 minutes of who? weekly
From a young age, I knew it felt like you were mad at me.
this kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most american cities
product request: a filter on resy that shows you all the available restaurants except for the 4748194 probably just fine + v trendy omakase places that have sprung up in the past couple years in manhattan that show up first on the app no matter where you’re looking and are perennially available
gm
Really anyone who writes about the Kushner family should just have a macro to insert that into every story
i asked my dad days ago if he had anything planned for thanksgiving. he claimed he didn’t. anyway,
checking the timer once you’ve put in the thanksgiving desserts to bake
“lazy linking” is such a funny way to think about the internet — a true distaste for the open web in pursuit of endless scrolling of one walled garden slate.com/technology/2...
New from me: Two influencers make very similar content promoting Amazon products. They dress the same. They buy the same stuff. They even have a similar tattoo. Now one is suing the other, claiming her rival won't stop copying her. But who influenced whom? www.theverge.com/2024/11/26/2...
i love the exciting chaos of the days leading up to thanksgiving. people start asking me for recipes in a panic…emails bounce back with OOO responders all week…for some reason we got charli xcx tickets today…we’re getting in a rental car imminently and fleeing the city for several days. thrilling
Scoop: Wyden is teeing up a federal anti-SLAPP bill to introduce by the end of the year, a last-ditch attempt to pass protections for journalists + other critics before Trump takes over. Trump + those in his orbit have used these lawsuits to chill criticism/try to bury critics in legal costs
i loved it!
will anora be the first movie with a soundtrack featuring erika jayne to be nominated for an oscar……only time will tell…….
ICYMI, I started an occasional* podcast as part of my food newsletter. First guest was @mayakosoff.bsky.social talking about the viral pumpkin chocolate chip cookie recipe she helped spread the word about. open.substack.com/pub/couchpot...
i got it at target years ago!