Adam Smyer
@adamsmyer.com
Author of the books Knucklehead (Akashic) and You Can Keep That to Yourself: A Comprehensive List of What Not to Say to Black People, for Well-Intentioned People of Pallor (Akashic). And the odd essay.
Pinned
Adam Smyer
@adamsmyer.com
· Mar 26
EVERYONE: Your manuscript gets going too slowly. You have to grab the reader in the first five words or you're dead.
ALSO EVERYONE: Oh, you MUST read The Verbosity of Picayune Verisimilitude. The first 900 pages suck ass but then it gets REALLY GOOD.
ALSO EVERYONE: Oh, you MUST read The Verbosity of Picayune Verisimilitude. The first 900 pages suck ass but then it gets REALLY GOOD.
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A pilot died hours after contracting an illness that looked like food poisoning. It was actually an increasingly common allergy to red meat triggered by a tick bite, doctors said in a new study — the first death of its kind associated with the condition.
After a Mysterious Death, a Family’s Quest for Answers Leads to a Tick
A JetBlue pilot’s illness looked like food poisoning, but it was actually an increasingly common tick-borne meat allergy that can be fatal.
nyti.ms
November 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A pilot died hours after contracting an illness that looked like food poisoning. It was actually an increasingly common allergy to red meat triggered by a tick bite, doctors said in a new study — the first death of its kind associated with the condition.
There are many great bands and many brilliant musicians. But none are objectively better than the Ohio Players. #oldhead #fightme #jiveturkey
November 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
There are many great bands and many brilliant musicians. But none are objectively better than the Ohio Players. #oldhead #fightme #jiveturkey
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If you don’t understand a post, sure, you can respond with “Huh? What?,” or you can simply hold your tongue and let it go and move on with the absolute certainty that there’ll be, within seconds, another post that you also don’t understand.
November 6, 2025 at 5:48 AM
If you don’t understand a post, sure, you can respond with “Huh? What?,” or you can simply hold your tongue and let it go and move on with the absolute certainty that there’ll be, within seconds, another post that you also don’t understand.
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every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
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Many people are asking: "Why won't Mamdani just allow the wealth to trickle down the way it's supposed to?"
November 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Many people are asking: "Why won't Mamdani just allow the wealth to trickle down the way it's supposed to?"
Anybody else feel like they are in the first 20 minutes of a zombie movie? You know, the "There sure have been a lot of stories in the news lately about bitings" part?
November 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Anybody else feel like they are in the first 20 minutes of a zombie movie? You know, the "There sure have been a lot of stories in the news lately about bitings" part?
You know what idea would never catch on if it came out today? Self-control.
October 28, 2025 at 10:15 AM
You know what idea would never catch on if it came out today? Self-control.
I was totally going to rob the Louvre. But I forgot.
October 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I was totally going to rob the Louvre. But I forgot.
I can't stop thinking about how one day there will be a name for this time that we are all living in right now.
September 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I can't stop thinking about how one day there will be a name for this time that we are all living in right now.
I love how every drug's selling point is "It's not heroin" and then you get to heroin and its selling point is "It's heroin."
August 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I love how every drug's selling point is "It's not heroin" and then you get to heroin and its selling point is "It's heroin."
I can't know how much Quincy Jones just knows what I like and how much he is the reason I like it. All I know is TAKE MY MONEY QUINCY JONES
August 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I can't know how much Quincy Jones just knows what I like and how much he is the reason I like it. All I know is TAKE MY MONEY QUINCY JONES
August 20, 2025!
I may be at that stage of life where I have future shock from now on.
I may be at that stage of life where I have future shock from now on.
August 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
August 20, 2025!
I may be at that stage of life where I have future shock from now on.
I may be at that stage of life where I have future shock from now on.
KNEE: *hurts*
ME: I didn't even do shit!!
KNEE: I know.
ME: I didn't even do shit!!
KNEE: I know.
August 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
KNEE: *hurts*
ME: I didn't even do shit!!
KNEE: I know.
ME: I didn't even do shit!!
KNEE: I know.
Ooh - Looks like the tsunami's been canceled. I wonder what it said.
July 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Ooh - Looks like the tsunami's been canceled. I wonder what it said.
Hot take from @wkamaubell.bsky.social. Based on my visits to Baton Rouge I do not disagree. If nothing else, some of the best "y'all"s I have ever heard in my life came from unlikely faces down there.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgpH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgpH...
Southern Racists Are Nicer Than NYC Racists | SubwayTakes FULL EPISODE
YouTube video by SubwayTakes with Kareem Rahma
www.youtube.com
July 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Hot take from @wkamaubell.bsky.social. Based on my visits to Baton Rouge I do not disagree. If nothing else, some of the best "y'all"s I have ever heard in my life came from unlikely faces down there.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgpH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgpH...
Last night I dreamt it was 1988 again and I was in the booth with Chuck recording Party for Your Right to Fight. I was kind of Flav and I was kind of me. My brain is fun as fuck sometimes.
July 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Last night I dreamt it was 1988 again and I was in the booth with Chuck recording Party for Your Right to Fight. I was kind of Flav and I was kind of me. My brain is fun as fuck sometimes.
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This one hit me in the feels today
June 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This one hit me in the feels today
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Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.
t.co/JXeTALBPds
t.co/JXeTALBPds
June 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.
t.co/JXeTALBPds
t.co/JXeTALBPds
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What a delight to have Only Stars Know The Meaning Of Space as this week's featured audiobook by @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JxC...
Many thanks to Jo Reed and Stephen Cummings for the selection!
Many thanks to Jo Reed and Stephen Cummings for the selection!
ONLY STARS KNOW THE MEANING OF SPACE by Rémy Ngamije, read by Janina Edwards, Aaron Goodson, Denn...
YouTube video by AudioFile Magazine
www.youtube.com
June 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
What a delight to have Only Stars Know The Meaning Of Space as this week's featured audiobook by @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JxC...
Many thanks to Jo Reed and Stephen Cummings for the selection!
Many thanks to Jo Reed and Stephen Cummings for the selection!
In fairness, if you like Netflix docs about egomaniacs causing avoidable disasters, this is a great time to be alive.
June 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
In fairness, if you like Netflix docs about egomaniacs causing avoidable disasters, this is a great time to be alive.
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trying to understand my ex better
June 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
trying to understand my ex better
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it’s time to replace all doctors with ai
June 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
it’s time to replace all doctors with ai