: Slack’s desktop app will really be like “there are 7 new messages. the channel can be …
: If your anti-something-ism amounts to nothing more than hatred toward something-ists, you might just …
: You just know those encampment people for whatever reason think the plural of “Zionist” is spelled …
: I’m bringing it back: Drumpf.
: Please stop, you are not on a first name basis with Kenji Lopez-Alt. (His first name is James.)
: Who called it tax fraud and not ESOP’s fables?
: “Easter egg” outside of the U.S. suddenly referring to an egg made out of chocolate and not an …
: Who called it aerosolized virus and not SARin’ gas
: I can’t explain it but Google Meet has March 2020 energy
: Nobody: The New Yorker: suède
: I’m not a Proxyman, I’m a proxy, man.
: Want to read: No Judgement by Lauren Oyler 📚
: As long as they insist on spelling “Aussie” with a double S like that I’m gonna pronounce it with an …
: Amanda Gorman is the last example I can remember of someone having a literal 15 minutes of fame
: what did y’all think “land back” meant? tepees? wigwams? hogans? losers. …
: Want to read: The Riddles of the Sphinx by Anna Shechtman 📚
: It’s a shame that “Genocide Joe” just so happens to be alliterative, since the inevitable “Genocide …
: It’s wild that “Western” is a whole ass genre of movie and not like…one period piece from 1949 that …
: It’s not lost on me that liberals are the sole political cohort completely unfazed by Biden’s age in …
: “My name is Asher Lev” ok and…???
: BABAYAGA seems like the ideal NYT Crossword entry. And yet
: [Insufferable Bo Burnham voice] 🎶 How is the best case scenario Joe Biden 🎶 Well he won an …
: I think some more accurate Zoom copy would be like 🔇 𝗬𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱. Imagine how embarrassing it would …
: Currently reading: Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg 📚
: Pomelos are making some pretty big assumptions that I care enough to remove both the outer peel and …
: It’s so funny that Ed Snowden became a Bitcoin guy lol
: Cannot think of a funnier monkey’s paw than people wishing for non-WebKit browsers on iOS and Apple …
: When you say, “Don’t love a thing that doesn’t love you back” what you’re really saying is, “Don’t …
: It’s a cold and very broken “Bazinga”
: Were cars at that time just generally not fast and this guy happened to have one that was? What’s …
: You can’t even read the newspaper for free anymore. Because of Enshittification
: So did we ever figure out why Ludacris says it like “Ursher” in that song
: “Illiberalism” isn’t a thing. You made that up
: You don’t hear too much about the “professional managerial class” anymore
: Am I the only one who just has no interest in Arc or the Browser Company? The Web sucks; when I need …
: An alternate universe identical to ours except Taylor Swift sings all her songs in the Southern …
: Who called it parental leave and not pregnant pause
: JoJo Siwa is short for Joelle Joanie Sign in with Apple
: “Himalayan pink” is probably my favorite culinary hapax legomenon (it can only apply to salt and …
: Want to read: Come and Get It by Kiley Reid 📚
: The one orange peel theory I can get behind is that they should be as easy to peel as dekopons
: I think enough time has passed that we can all agree that Bottoms was…not good
: Your regular reminder that user avatars are still supposed to be round rects
: It’s absolutely deranged that every social network (and now some apps) has its own entirely …
: “Fruit Stripe” sounds like a gum ChatGPT would invent
: Want to read: Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie 📚
: Extremely weird to think that Mayim Bialik ever hosted Jeopardy! The Liz Truss of game show hosts
: Every time I mount a DMG to install a new Mac app feels like chasing the high that would give me in …
: Ok but if we’re talking about the ratio of his age to hers it should have been called April December
: Might switch to using Bazaar for version control in 2024
: “Is your heart half full or half empty?” —Philosophical millennial Instagram caption
: “I’m prepared to suffer the consequences” —Guy who will absolutely not suffer any consequences
: Bad news. The Try Guys are now down to just one Guy
: Want to read: Probably Overthinking It by Allen B. Downey 📚
: Did we ever figure out why it’s pronounced like “Ta-Nehasi Coates”?
: Does anyone know if Anthony Bourdain had anything to say about Henry Kissinger? Anyone at all?
: Oh, For Fuck’s Sake Superstar #IntensifyAMusical
: Want to read: Determined by Robert M. Sapolsky 📚
: Want to read: Breaking Twitter by Ben Mezrich 📚
: Hey its Godot. I’m not gonna make it tonite sry 😕
: Want to read: The Two-Parent Privilege by Melissa S. Kearney 📚
: As soon as I saw the Bored Apes I just knew someone was going to go to prison over this
: RIP George Orwell you would have loved the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
: Northeasterners have their own version of Midwesterners saying “bagel” the way they say “haggle,” …
: Currently reading: Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis 📚
: I’m gonna need everyone to stop coming across as “basic” when using or talking about ChatGPT
: Has there ever been a worse “clarification” than “free as in speech, not free as in beer”?
: Italian-American dishes love being “alla Norma”
: TIL sludge, slush, and slosh are just related onomatopoeias
: It’s super weird that when 9/11 happened we couldn’t text our parents about it and instead one of …
: Did they ever figure out if tech will save us or if tech won’t save us?
: “ChatGBT” is the new “labtop”
: Seeing what Oppenheimer actually looked like in real life for the first time THIS is the guy that …
: Jai alai……not so much anymore
: The first time someone in the UK used the “Are you OK?” line on me I checked to see if I was …
: “System under test” is a term that only a QA engineer could have come up with. So dramatic. It’s …
: Biscoff is short for biscuit with coffee
: Cryptocurrency ended up not really being a thing
: Gen X loves making up words like “enshittification” and expecting everyone to go along with it
: Is there a word besides British English “toilet” that also refers to the things inside it? Maybe …
: The best part of Downton Abbey is when they’re like, “There’s this new men’s fashion sweeping …
: The way non-Jews pronounce “Israel” (with three syllables somehow) is absolutely deranged. Do you …
: Get outta here with “pre-boarding” a flight…we’re about to do the exact same thing in like ten …
: Brigham and Women’s Hospital? In this economy?
: “On the phone” and “on their phone” have two entirely different meanings
: In 2014 you couldn’t spend 10 minutes online without seeing a thinkpiece called “SF I love you but …
: Calling Barack Obama a “war criminal” is like the most hack zero-information college dorm room …
: Remember when people thought COVID would permanently kill off, like, buffets and handshakes
: It will never stop being funny to me that there are millions of people online convinced they are …
: Who called it Chick-Fil-A and not Xtian Famous Foods
: I never got the whole “airline seats are so uncomfortable now” meme. It’s…a seat? Do you …
: [looking at grocery list] OK, waters cress and melon, got it
: I’ll go on the record that “people pleasing” is the “gaslighting” of 2023 onward in terms of …
: My all-time favorite negative polarity item has got to be “spring chicken”
: Whenever I see a British person say something like “Having a cheeky beer at the pub x” I translate …
: It’s so weird that we ever called it “coronavirus”
: British infomercials from the 1960s were like “Act now! Just £5/19/11¾!”
: Matthew Yglesias: Getting intellectually invested in public housing solves the very niche problem …
: Life pro tip: you signed yourself up for that email list and you can take yourself off.
: All the FRP people had to say back in 2012 was “hot signals are like TV channels, cold signals are …
: If the neighborhood were in England it would be called DuMBO
: Your regular reminder that “eating the rich” is not like, a cool edgy way to talk about killing …
: Are Goobers the only candy that use a Bantu loanword as their name?
: Never understand why elementary school geography textbooks would show D.C. as a circle when it’s …
: Square kiosks are nature’s way of telling you that if you’re using a Square kiosk you really have no …
: “Just cause” is my favorite contronym.
: They can’t ever make small steamer trunks without lids because “steamer basket” is already taken
: Ice cream trucks are the only food trucks that are allowed to a) drive around and b) play a little …
: Singer-songwriters love going on tour for their new album and playing the songs from it in the most …
: I’ve been crossposting everything to Peach and Ello (and now here) this whole time…anyone else?
: Finally looking up what “craic” means like two months after watching God’s Creatures
: Billy Penn: New bike lanes slated for Market Street in Old City will be Philly’s first with a …
: Does Australian English have the merely–mealy merger?
: There’s this weird tic in the current online discourse where every journalistic profile of a …
: Oh you’re from California? Name everything every chemical is known to the State of California to …
: Today’s non-constituent title
: Tfw you realize you haven’t checked Wikipedia’s list of unusual deaths in months and there’s bound …
: You can just get a bag of dekopons at the store now for like $4. What a time to be alive.
: Taylor Jones: Why are there so many spellings of Chanukah, and which one is right?
: Oliver Johnson on Long COVID and Russian Roulette: I think some people have maybe got the wrong …
: What’s the longest animal name you can play H-O-R-S-E with? Adam Aaronson: There’s nothing special about horses. You could just as easily play Z-E-B-R-A or …