Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!)
@coletteshade.bsky.social
Author, Y2K: How the 2000's Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was). The NYT called me “lean, nimble, and profoundly depressing,” but I think I’m pretty fun.
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I Uncovered My Fifth Grade Time-Capsule Essay About the New Millennium. It Put So Much Into Perspective.
A look back on the hopefulness and heartbreak of the new millennium.
slate.com
Six months ago I published my debut collection of essays, about coming of age in the Y2K era and the disappointment I’ve felt since. Here’s an excerpt at @slate.com about my 5th grade Y2K time capsule letter, my beloved silver inflatable chair, Aaliyah, and getting old slate.com/life/2024/12...
You just don’t get quality names like this outside of New England.
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
You just don’t get quality names like this outside of New England.
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we're going to win
Page One in Cincinnati:
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
we're going to win
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"It honors our country."
Yeah, the thing that's going to bring America back to its glory days is me showing up for my Frontier Airlines flight in a tux.
Yeah, the thing that's going to bring America back to its glory days is me showing up for my Frontier Airlines flight in a tux.
Duffy on his demand that air travelers not wear slippers or pajamas: "It honors our country ... don't take your shoes off and put your feet on the chair ahead of you"
November 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"It honors our country."
Yeah, the thing that's going to bring America back to its glory days is me showing up for my Frontier Airlines flight in a tux.
Yeah, the thing that's going to bring America back to its glory days is me showing up for my Frontier Airlines flight in a tux.
Can you guys believe @chipublib.bsky.social picked my essay collection, Y2K, as a best book of 2025!? www.chipublib.org/news/cpl-bes...
CPL Best of the Best Books 2025
View our annual suggestions for book lovers in Chicago and beyond. Happy reading!
www.chipublib.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Can you guys believe @chipublib.bsky.social picked my essay collection, Y2K, as a best book of 2025!? www.chipublib.org/news/cpl-bes...
I travel to Boston several times per year, and it remains the only city I’ve visited where people walk around in articles of clothing with the name of the city they’re currently in. Not a college, not a sports team. Just the concept of Boston.
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I travel to Boston several times per year, and it remains the only city I’ve visited where people walk around in articles of clothing with the name of the city they’re currently in. Not a college, not a sports team. Just the concept of Boston.
Y2K: How the 2000’s Became Everything by Colette Shade, HarperCollins, 2025
One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input
November 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Y2K: How the 2000’s Became Everything by Colette Shade, HarperCollins, 2025
🚨Just learned that @chipublib.bsky.social picked my essay collection Y2K as a best book of 2025!!! Thanks guys!!! chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp...
Our Favorite Books of 2025 — a staff-created list from Chicago Public Library
The Chicago Public Library proudly presents our favorite books of the year.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
🚨Just learned that @chipublib.bsky.social picked my essay collection Y2K as a best book of 2025!!! Thanks guys!!! chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp...
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Reposting my 2018 piece about year end lists for anyone who needs it (me!). www.damemagazine.com/2018/12/19/i...
It’s Time to Reconsider the Best-Of List - Dame Magazine
The piles of books and galleys that clutter my apartment are overwhelming. This is not a humble brag—more of a cry for help. I’m a culture writer and critic who is deeply entrenched in the book world....
www.damemagazine.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Reposting my 2018 piece about year end lists for anyone who needs it (me!). www.damemagazine.com/2018/12/19/i...
Dust… many are saying it’s very powerful. The Magisterium, Lord Asriel — who, by the way, is my friend, my very good friend. He’s made many deals, Lord Asriel. With the angels, with the witches, with everybody he’s making deals.
November 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Dust… many are saying it’s very powerful. The Magisterium, Lord Asriel — who, by the way, is my friend, my very good friend. He’s made many deals, Lord Asriel. With the angels, with the witches, with everybody he’s making deals.
Apparently @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social went to my hometown to eat Palestinian food. I love him so much.
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Apparently @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social went to my hometown to eat Palestinian food. I love him so much.
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So the boys from @remembershufffle.bsky.social had me on a couple weeks ago to talk Abercrombie & Fitch. We talk magalogs, LFO, voyeurism, postmodernism, whether the A&F brand is WASP or poser, and, unfortunately, its relationship to Jeffrey Epstein podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Abercrombie & Fitch: E98 Stop Trying to Make Fitch Happen
Podcast Episode · Remember Shuffle · 10/25/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:13 AM
So the boys from @remembershufffle.bsky.social had me on a couple weeks ago to talk Abercrombie & Fitch. We talk magalogs, LFO, voyeurism, postmodernism, whether the A&F brand is WASP or poser, and, unfortunately, its relationship to Jeffrey Epstein podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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Im a sucker for the copy on the RL website
November 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Im a sucker for the copy on the RL website
Everybody’s favorite game show… migraine or panic attack?
We love it don’t we folks
We love it don’t we folks
November 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Everybody’s favorite game show… migraine or panic attack?
We love it don’t we folks
We love it don’t we folks
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they're saying there's a spectre haunting europe and it's very nice, we're looking into it strongly, it's beautiful, we love it and we think it means well
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
they're saying there's a spectre haunting europe and it's very nice, we're looking into it strongly, it's beautiful, we love it and we think it means well
Oh please this
Also let’s focus on things that unite us (eg financial stability, safety) and not on dividing us into smaller and smaller groups.
Also let’s focus on things that unite us (eg financial stability, safety) and not on dividing us into smaller and smaller groups.
I'm all for woke 2 as long as we agree woo-woo is out, I want aggressively pro-science and medicine thanks
November 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Oh please this
Also let’s focus on things that unite us (eg financial stability, safety) and not on dividing us into smaller and smaller groups.
Also let’s focus on things that unite us (eg financial stability, safety) and not on dividing us into smaller and smaller groups.
Wisdom is an advanced maternal age queen
Everyone’s favorite septuagenarian bird is back in the news. She may be approximately 75 years old, but Wisdom the albatross has no plans of retiring — from laying eggs. I
@ Nice News
@ Nice News
November 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Wisdom is an advanced maternal age queen
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if you’re gonna pay $8 a month to read way too much about someone’s sexual past i think you should pay it to me. and it doesn’t even have to be $8! it can be as little as $1!
patreon.com/raxkingisdead
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November 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
if you’re gonna pay $8 a month to read way too much about someone’s sexual past i think you should pay it to me. and it doesn’t even have to be $8! it can be as little as $1!
patreon.com/raxkingisdead
patreon.com/raxkingisdead
My dad sold weed to RFK Jr. in high school. Ships passing in the night…
November 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
My dad sold weed to RFK Jr. in high school. Ships passing in the night…
My friend Blake has a new book about watches that @nytimes.com likes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/f...
A Shelf Full of New Watch Books
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
My friend Blake has a new book about watches that @nytimes.com likes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/f...
So @debutiful.bsky.social picked my book, Y2K, as one of the best debuts of 2025 debutiful.net/2025/11/17/t...
November 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
So @debutiful.bsky.social picked my book, Y2K, as one of the best debuts of 2025 debutiful.net/2025/11/17/t...
So @debutiful.bsky.social picked my book, Y2K, as one of the best debuts of 2025 debutiful.net/2025/11/17/t...
November 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
So @debutiful.bsky.social picked my book, Y2K, as one of the best debuts of 2025 debutiful.net/2025/11/17/t...
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This guy never did in fact stop performing, though sometimes I think about how at one of his shows in the aftermath of the accusations against him going public, a female hacker called out, “Why don’t you take your dick out again?”
we can't "call it a comeback" because this mf never went away!
November 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This guy never did in fact stop performing, though sometimes I think about how at one of his shows in the aftermath of the accusations against him going public, a female hacker called out, “Why don’t you take your dick out again?”
I will always be the number one Larry Summers hater. I literally did a full legal review to make sure I was allowed to call my essay this.
November 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I will always be the number one Larry Summers hater. I literally did a full legal review to make sure I was allowed to call my essay this.
If you want to read some actually good cultural writing, here is the intro to my book of essays on the politics of Y2K era pop culture.
Six months ago I published my debut collection of essays, about coming of age in the Y2K era and the disappointment I’ve felt since. Here’s an excerpt at @slate.com about my 5th grade Y2K time capsule letter, my beloved silver inflatable chair, Aaliyah, and getting old slate.com/life/2024/12...
I Uncovered My Fifth Grade Time-Capsule Essay About the New Millennium. It Put So Much Into Perspective.
A look back on the hopefulness and heartbreak of the new millennium.
slate.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM
If you want to read some actually good cultural writing, here is the intro to my book of essays on the politics of Y2K era pop culture.
What I ordered vs what I got
November 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
What I ordered vs what I got