A professor let me write one double-length paper across two classes I took from him. It counted for basically all of my grade. I wrote 20 pages in three hours a few days before Christmas and got an A.

This had a deleterious effect on my belief that I shouldn't just wing it in important situations.

i am not saying the world has gone completely bonkers but
the world has gone absolutely completely bonkers

The Zohran Mamdani comms strategy is going to be one of the most influential campaign tactics over the next 5-10 years if even Chuck Schumer is taking from that playbook.

If the Dodgers didn't have the most likable baseball player of all time they would be so easy to hate

When I turned 30 I had not yet written my first published book or my first published novel and did not know (or know of) some of the most important people in my life. I didn't know how much my life could still change, and did, after the age of 30. There is so much your life still yet to live.

I have reinvented myself and my career multiple times since I turned 30, and I expect to do so again. Do not believe you can't radically revamp your life as you age. You can, and you will, and you must!

this is so sweet

if you feel like walking into the ocean my advice is to go on a bike ride instead. Bike ride won’t solve everything but it sorts out a lot of stuff

STATEMENT: The NewsGuild of New York condemns the violent attack by ICE agents against three journalists covering immigration proceedings in Manhattan and demands that immigration courts take immediate action to prevent similar attacks from happening in the future.

www.nyguild.org/post/stateme...

For today's article, I'm just griping about why "fun" is a bad word for critics. spacebiff.com/2025/09/30/a...

(solemnly) You've had mail.

anyway go see One Battle After Another in a movie theater, I know we said this about Oppenheimer but I mean it for real with this one, there are cinematographic and audio mixing things that are essential to the experience and you won't get it at home

just guess

fewer than 1% of the human population will ever get to type a comeback as contextually devastating as this

It is very dark out there for the news business. The old business models are fucked. Outlets are bending to authoritarian pressure. Now more than ever, we need worker-owned, subscriber-funded journalism.

How's that going at @hellgatenyc.com?

Pretty well, actually!

hellgatenyc.com/hell-gate-20...

I'd argue it's such a big number that it's not meant to be realistic for operating a company. They're just simply going to go under paying that debt off. It's not a question of if, but how soon.

Admittedly, he had a lot of books to do it across, but I can't think of anyone who articulated the human condition as well as Pratchett did.

Also and related: give movies intermissions again.

Y’all were right, One Battle After Another rips.

the Command & Conquer series is 30 years old today we so have an excuse to share this iconic moment with Tim Curry

As a followup: What the hell happened in the stands in the bottom of the eighth?

Is the A's stadium unusually full for a late Sept game where neither team is playing in October or is it just that they're in a small stadium so the mics pick up EVERYTHING?

Secret Lair x Home Depot

For all your deckbuilding needs.

Kinda funny that the release that made me think "Hmmm, I think Secret Lair might have jumped the shark" had nothing to do with the Jaws announcement.