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. I have a black cat named Camus and I live in Ann Arbor.
you guys broke watergate
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2w agoIs asking someone to leave the beverages at home for an interview as fussy as reminding a lady to wear pantyhose or a gentleman to ask before lighting a cigarette? We assembled a team of Post staffers across the newsroom — and commenters — to find out: https://wapo.st/4dwx0LS
My piece in hellworld today, dig it www.welcometohellworld.com/negotiating-...
Negotiating our survival
Today we've got another striking and meditative essay by Michael Brown on the similarities between paranoid survivalists he met living out in the Arizona desert and the AI-brained tech ubermensch. Bro...
welcometohellworld.com
Oh I should probably mention Y2K is coming out in paperback in January, with a sexy new cover that will be revealed soon.
Your dad would be proud as hell of you, my man.
Spectrum News NY1@spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 4w agoThe last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.
I’ve really gotta write this dot com book, huh
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last mo.It’s something of a curse to be able to parse headlines in 2026.
Or as I call her, pre-code Sabrina Carpenter
Tomás Murray@tomasjmurray.bsky.social · last mo.Today is Joan Blondell’s birthday.
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
We did it! “The Nerd Reich” is a New York Times Instant Bestseller! My book debuts at #3 on the non-fiction list. Thanks to all who pre-ordered /bought the book—or requested it at the public library or promoted it on social. Without you, I’m just an unemployed guy with a laptop. But with you…
On the subject of Dolly’s union/working class solidarity, her 9 to 5 LP included Woody Guthrie’s ´Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)’, a protest song about the racist mistreatment & media coverage of exploited Mexican farm workers who died when the plane deporting them crashed in 1948.
Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic
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I never thought I’d live through a timeline where this Tim and Eric song became literal youtu.be/_Re6pZri8Gw?...
All The Food is Poison | Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! | Adult Swim
YouTube video by Adult Swim
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"the loneliness epidemic is divided by class. The “loneliness industry” seeks to capitalize on the crisis of social isolation via paid solutions. If loneliness really is a public health crisis, it’s the responsibility of government and institutions." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/o...
Opinion | Friendship Is the New Luxury Good (Gift Article)
The four-year degree isn’t just an economic signal; it’s become a lifestyle determinant.
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If anyone is wondering what the exact chair from my book looked like, this is it 🫧🫧🫧
pastel paperback@pastelpaperback.bsky.social · 2mo agoSomeone posted the 1999 Target chair you wrote about in Y2K on Reddit @coletteshade.bsky.social ! I immediately thought of your book and the opening essay when I saw that ad ☺️
AOC: Millennials are not punk kids anymore. We're grown adults with mortgages and kids, and that generation is starting to be decisive at the polls. And there is anger at being ignored, having our economic futures mortgaged by the generations that came before us and we're taking the reins
Semi annual reminder that this guy published a book called DOW 36,000 several months before the dot com bubble burst
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoKevin Hassett on Fox News argues that if you exclude the sectors that lost hundreds of thousands of jobs, "you actually had a number that was about plus 100,000" 🙃
If you’re in line at 8PM, stay in line. You have the right to vote.
Having just finished the book, this is so awful
Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 3mo agoI'm heartbroken to share that Marvin (known to readers of There Is No Place for Us as Maurice) died earlier today in a workplace accident. He was 43. Natasha (Natalia in the book) asked me to share this news because she is too devastated to do so herself. We are all in shock.
Just finished @brian-goldstone.bsky.social’s There Is No Place for Us, and I realized it deserves all the awards because not only does it have a really original and thorough methodology, but it truly tells a story, while most contemporary nonfiction has as much pathos as a napkin.
Oodles of gratitude to my blurbers: @pappademas.bsky.social @coletteshade.bsky.social @nikostratis.com @andrewhickey.500songs.com @dorianlynskey.bsky.social @shelf-awareness.com and all the others, who aren't on Bsky!!!
"The Last Temptation of Beck" by Josephine Riesman
From the New York Times-bestselling author of "Ringmaster," Josephine Riesman, comes a stylish and shocking account of the life of the musician Beck.
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When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...
The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year
“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.
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We've had more DMs from our new episode with @coletteshade.bsky.social on the Culture of the Recession than any other. Tune in for a deepdive into 2009: -Indiesleaze -Recession Pop -Stomp Clap -Bling Rap death -Obama-core -DIY Crafting -Grad School If you were alive in 2009, you gotta check it out
Maybe I should write a book about how my cat is perfect
***ANOTHER @beckbook.com BLURB HAS ARRIVED*** Thank you, @coletteshade.bsky.social!!!! PREORDER NOW: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-La...
