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Back-to-back Demon Copperhead and Empire of Pain on my house painting audiobook marathon, with news breaks to hear about peptides.

I’ve never seen a photo of them that doesn’t call to mind scared 7-years-olds. Those are Daddy’s Mad faces.

The number of my kid’s 5th grade friends who did Harry Potter-themed stuff this summer (out-of-state camps; theater productions; flying to the UK to go to the theme park…) was crazy-making.

say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please

Squishy craze turned into squishy generic butter stick craze.

I’m usually a little better at protecting my peace too, and I notice it’s often remora fish dudes servicing the big fish who get to me. So yep, props to everyone who zipped their “not all men” today.

Finally read the Wilson and half the Mendelssohn translations. So much more accessible than Ulysses! Which I might actually be able to tolerate for longer stretches now that I have the back story.

FYI there is no "real" reason why Rome "fell." Its power waned for the usual, mundane reasons: widening gap between rich and poor, inability to maintain infrastructure, incompetent leadership, pointless wars, endless persecution of marginalized groups who performed vital labor, etc.

The “gutsy or snobby” framing. Jesus Christ.

She was great on The Sam Sanders Show a few weeks back too!

I post this essay too often, maybe, but that’s only because it contains the single best sentence I’ve ever written. On my favorite version of the Odyssey:

The goal is to satisfy the *emotions* behind every information need without providing real information.

Embarrassingly familiar eejit.

Took me so long to realize they aggressively select and support fellow rapists *because* they want to normalize what they’ve already done. It’s the entire draw.

I’m thinking of Lisa D’Amour citing the research on how physical activities improved for girls’ mental health, then tactfully specifying that uh, sweaty team sports had more positive effects than leotard + mirror individual stuff. But perhaps the children should simply be less clumsy.

Ballet never beating the allegations

Once more: Mamdani understands that you can't just do things in politics and expect voters will notice on their own and thank you for it. You've got to work just as hard selling yourself to voters once you're in office as you did selling yourself to them to get into office. This is the way.

What she’s done with that is a brilliant translation* of the way men talk to expert women online. *see what I did there?!

Emily is channeling a LOT to academic rage at our impotence.