Elizabeth Picciuto
@epicciuto.bsky.social
Writer. Fiction editor. Philosophy PhD. Rooted cosmopolitan, gardening Jew. Long Islander by birth, nature, and habit.
They are extremely weird, and also she still has a prestigious job in journalism.
you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird
November 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
They are extremely weird, and also she still has a prestigious job in journalism.
Watching Ken Burns‘s American Revolution, and like every single time I read about the Revolution, I spend until practically 1781 thinking, “Ah, these poor patriot fuckers, there’s no way they can win, they’re doomed.”
November 27, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Watching Ken Burns‘s American Revolution, and like every single time I read about the Revolution, I spend until practically 1781 thinking, “Ah, these poor patriot fuckers, there’s no way they can win, they’re doomed.”
Is Vanity Fair still making up its mind? Or is it waiting until after they publish the nude portrait?
November 27, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Is Vanity Fair still making up its mind? Or is it waiting until after they publish the nude portrait?
why pick the food holiday, there are so many more annoying topics that we won’t stfu about
November 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
why pick the food holiday, there are so many more annoying topics that we won’t stfu about
I dunno about this. All of the teens I spoke to about this have misgivings about AI (they only half-jokingly try to get on its good side for the Skynet moment). But also all of them use it sometimes and think it’s sometimes very helpful. None have the Bluesky-level skepticism.
i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I dunno about this. All of the teens I spoke to about this have misgivings about AI (they only half-jokingly try to get on its good side for the Skynet moment). But also all of them use it sometimes and think it’s sometimes very helpful. None have the Bluesky-level skepticism.
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you should support liberal currents!
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
you should support liberal currents!
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ATTENTION HOLIDAY SHOPPERS:
If you want to give someone an apparently innocuous but actually quietly radical book as a holiday gift, then you should gift them @natanlast.bsky.social’s marvelous book, great even for crossword incompetents like me🔥 #BookSky
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723796...
If you want to give someone an apparently innocuous but actually quietly radical book as a holiday gift, then you should gift them @natanlast.bsky.social’s marvelous book, great even for crossword incompetents like me🔥 #BookSky
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723796...
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
ATTENTION HOLIDAY SHOPPERS:
If you want to give someone an apparently innocuous but actually quietly radical book as a holiday gift, then you should gift them @natanlast.bsky.social’s marvelous book, great even for crossword incompetents like me🔥 #BookSky
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723796...
If you want to give someone an apparently innocuous but actually quietly radical book as a holiday gift, then you should gift them @natanlast.bsky.social’s marvelous book, great even for crossword incompetents like me🔥 #BookSky
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723796...
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God, I see what you've done for others and ...
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
God, I see what you've done for others and ...
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You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
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When we post opinions, we usually give reasons. Why some disparaged musician is actually a genius or why some redditor is in fact the asshole. With food, you can’t give reasons that would persuade anybody. No one expects that. We yell about food for the pure love of yelling. And that’s beautiful.
my take on Food Discourse is that it's always ridiculous but it's also nice to be fighting about dumb internet shit again instead of dealing with Oppressive Despair all the time so please keep posting your bad takes
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 PM
When we post opinions, we usually give reasons. Why some disparaged musician is actually a genius or why some redditor is in fact the asshole. With food, you can’t give reasons that would persuade anybody. No one expects that. We yell about food for the pure love of yelling. And that’s beautiful.
No one talks about the most serious problem at the NYT: the Lifestyle section articles never have enough photos.
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
No one talks about the most serious problem at the NYT: the Lifestyle section articles never have enough photos.
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"Unlike continental nonsense, analytic philosophy is clear and intelligible"
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"Unlike continental nonsense, analytic philosophy is clear and intelligible"
Somehow this account transcribed directly from my brain
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Somehow this account transcribed directly from my brain
Everyone knows that depressed and alienated men cheer right up every time they are asked to step up and help more around the house.
November 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Everyone knows that depressed and alienated men cheer right up every time they are asked to step up and help more around the house.
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That’s nothin’. Wait til you see my new AI Bris Kit.
November 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
That’s nothin’. Wait til you see my new AI Bris Kit.
Can I just say, it was a little weird how long even Trump-despisers were saying, “Well, maybe she’s just out of her depth, she’s so inexperienced” about this lady.
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Can I just say, it was a little weird how long even Trump-despisers were saying, “Well, maybe she’s just out of her depth, she’s so inexperienced” about this lady.
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We asked a butter scientist, a butter doctor, another kind of butter scientist, a stay-at-home mother of two butters, a Hollywood butter, and butter performance artist
November 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
We asked a butter scientist, a butter doctor, another kind of butter scientist, a stay-at-home mother of two butters, a Hollywood butter, and butter performance artist
Not feeling the bad reviews on this one. I really liked it! To be fair, it’s extremely my shit.
It seems that “Wicked: For Good” exists to maneuver the events of “The Wizard of Oz” into position, @justincchang.bsky.social writes. “But must they be maneuvered so clumsily, and with such a glaring absence of brains or heart?” https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/WxA9tC
“Wicked: For Good” Is Very, Very Bad
In the second of two movies adapted from the Broadway musical, Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo battle fascism, bigotry, and some fairly dreadful filmmaking.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Not feeling the bad reviews on this one. I really liked it! To be fair, it’s extremely my shit.
I’m from Long Island, and one of the funniest things about Amityville Horror to me is that demons would plague someplace as ridiculous and hairsprayed and leopard-skinned as suburban Long Island.
November 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I’m from Long Island, and one of the funniest things about Amityville Horror to me is that demons would plague someplace as ridiculous and hairsprayed and leopard-skinned as suburban Long Island.
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This is fucking insane. Racist terrorism by the Executive Branch.
Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:08 AM
This is fucking insane. Racist terrorism by the Executive Branch.
Ok but may I suggest I ❤️ YOU, MAM! -DONNIE
November 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Ok but may I suggest I ❤️ YOU, MAM! -DONNIE
Look, it’s unlike me to say something like this — and, frankly, a bit embarrassing — but I want to hear less about these people’s terrible decisions, loose morals, and weird sex stuff and more about this.
November 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Look, it’s unlike me to say something like this — and, frankly, a bit embarrassing — but I want to hear less about these people’s terrible decisions, loose morals, and weird sex stuff and more about this.
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Courtesy of colleagues at Penn
October 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Courtesy of colleagues at Penn