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Rose Horowitch’s article in The Atlantic August issue has got The New Publishing Standard all riled up (and me too; I had to force myself to finish it). TNPS has published two articles debunking Ms H. Here’s the first and here’s the...
🔗: The Right Has Created Their Perfect Trans Athlete | Lauren Theisen The hypothetical trans girl who’s supposedly causing all this trouble in the WNBA is the perfect tool for the conservative movement. She can’t fight back, she can’t...
I ended up walking quite a bit on day nine of my trip. We decided to walk to April’s daughter’s school to drop off some sweets for her classmates as a going away present. The teacher was reluctant to share them, explaining that they...
Roden Readers — There is sweat and then there is s-w-e-a-t and the out-of-doorsness in Japan is presently a natural machine that produces nothing but sweat and sweat and sweat and swelter. Dryness has been eradicated. Fire is impossible...
I never thought I’d own a Strat, but now I do. Guess it’s true that the amount of guitars one needs will always be n + 1, haha. Anyway, a lucky find on a second hand platform that I was monitoring for some weeks. It’s a 2015 model, made...
When uncovering traditional plant knowledge, try to do so as though you were learning from an experienced elder. Be attentive and respectful of their ... Continue The post Tradition Isn’t Scripture appeared first on Robin Harford from...
Am I the only one who sees the new Siri icon and thinks it should be the badge of some random Chinese car manufacturer?
If you are someone who has often been told that you are too nice to people, that you tolerate far more than you should, you have probably found yourself wondering whether you should finally lash out or continue being the person you are....
Richard Hell & the Voidoids + The Feelies - CBGB, New York City, July 1 / July 2, 1978We’ve been hanging out a lot at CBGB this summer — and why not? It’s a cool place to hang out. Today, we’ve got audience tapes recorded during a...
Richard Hell & the Voidoids + The Feelies - CBGB, New York City, July 1 / July 2, 1978We’ve been hanging out a lot at CBGB this summer — and why not? It’s a cool place to hang out. Today, we’ve got audience tapes recorded during a...
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
In a recent piece for Lithub, Roshan Sethi writes about picking up William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair in the summer of 2024, when he was already upset by how Hollywood was treating him. Sethi, a film director and writer, felt...
So, today, a certain relative of mine gave me an invitation letter for the wedding of another certain relative of mine.I’m quite impressed with that invitation letter, since it actually lists several of my close relatives whom I know...
An interesting 20-minute Config talk from the Instagram designer Rose McManus: It covers some of the same areas we recently talked about: diacritics and Polish S (and a fun video about English conventions from a while back), but it...