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Wrote about the Masculinity Scam, or how selling reactionary ideas about what makes a man helps a small number of bad people profit and makes everyone else (including men) miserable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Can’t believe Nolan cut all the scenes with Tom Bombadil.

*whispers* you know we can do this cultural debate about art thing all the time, right? Websites and news organizations used to have culture critics on staff whose entire job was writing about books, movies, and TV. People read them and then discussed them. We have the technology to do this again.

This is straight from “The Turner Diaries,” the racist murder fantasy that inspired Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

Announcing my all-female adaptation of Homer, THE BROADYSSEY

Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:

so I just want to emphasize something here that non-media people might not pick up on: Marisa is an independent journalist and is taking on the risk of being sued by Moraff here without any institutional backing. That's admirable bravery - and also means being very, very certain of the facts.

I get to put a hat on Heater one (1) time per year and it’s when she’s under anesthesia while getting her teeth cleaned. The vet puts it on before she wakes up. I consider it a fair trade for the cost of her dental cleaning.

the ideal academic life is being an eccentric Victorian lord. Invent a stamp licking machine at 22. Get elected to the Royal Academy for counting the beetles on your estate. Die in an arsenic explosion. The perfect life.

How’s that Yellowstone supervolcano looking? Can we get some people on that?

"A city-state comes to be for the sake of life, but it continues to be for the sake of living well." Aristotle, Politics, Book One.

Of course all the food in The Odyssey looks bad. They hadn't invented Baja Blast yet.

This somehow made me feel much, much worse about being single.

Also don’t drink moonshine; it killed my grandfather.

D.C. sober (teetotaler with a crushing addiction to poasting).

wedge salads are probably not the wise choice tbh

People who think Emily Wilson is being mean have clearly never presented a paper at an academic conference

Saw “Rear Window” again tonight. If I were Jimmy Stewart, I would simply have married Grace Kelly. Am I a hero? I wouldn’t use that word. But the answer is yes.

Um holy shit - Police Chief Shon Barnes got PISSED at @soseaemerald.bsky.social reporter Connor Nash when Nash asked about my reporting that Barnes is out of town a lot; Barnes said, "No YOU listen!" and then angrily said my "reports are WRONG." My reporting is based on his schedule.

www.thestranger.com/news/spd-say...