I love being like, I really want to listen to vampire weekend and then opening up Spotify and seeing that vampire weekend was the last thing I was listening to 😌

why am i so surprised that lena dunham had a baby via surrogate that i'm actually texting friends to break the news, why is my brain like this

i'm sort of obsessed with the new Tom Cruise (non-)interview but mostly because it reminds me of this incredible Caity Weaver joint: www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/m...

My Impossible Mission to Find Tom Cruise (Published 2023)

The action star has gone to great lengths to avoid the press for more than a decade. But maybe our writer could track him down anyway?

nytimes.com

people on this website often complain (correctly) about the death of journalism. here's an easy way to help its rebirth: by supporting independent media in Berlin.

heistberlin.bsky.social@heistberlin.bsky.social · yesterday

🆘 We need your help! Today, HEIST launches a 14-day campaign that could decide our future → At 200 subs, we cover our costs for a month → At 500, we raise writer fees – and for the first time, pay ourselves. Subscribe to keep worker-owned journalism alive in Berlin. www.heistberlin.com/sign-up/

find myself itching for the insurance angle now that Ed Sheeran’s tour is up in flames. is “personnel exodus due to censorship of widely popular sentiments” covered?

"i'm not complicit i'll just allow billionaires to dictate the speech that is acceptable in my very public workplace"

Pop Base@popbase.tv · 2d ago

Ed Sheeran has released a statement on Macklemore being removed from his tour for speaking up for Palestine: “I am not complicit. […] Just because I choose not to speak publicly, it doesn't mean I don't have [my own opinions], and it doesn't mean I don't care.”

i don't like this argument. it's actually ok to be upset about things designed to upset you. obviously this ad is designed to go viral & make people aware of a betting app they'd never heard of—but it's alright to hate the way Sweeney is personally benefiting from that (while harming other women)

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d ago

Are you outraged by Sydney Sweeney – again? More fool you | Marina Hyde

this is a bit random but one thing i'm dying to do these days is copy edit a book. i've got years of newsroom copy editing under my belt, plus a good bit of nonprofit/think tank work, and i know my way around an ARC. if you or someone you know are looking for a manuscript copy editor, get at me!

i think my personal favorite line is, "Kremlev, 43, is also heavily involved in an organization called Healthy Fatherland, run by his 23-year-old wife’s twin sister."

Tim Murphy@timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 3d ago

"The president’s son had undergone treatment to better define his jawline for the occasion." www.propublica.org/article/dona...

chris hasn't even officially started at TPM yet and he's already got scoops for them!

Christopher Mathias@letsgomathias.bsky.social · 3d ago

NEW: @talkingpointsmemo.com can reveal GOP nominee for Florida legislature: -marched at deadly Charlottesville Nazi rally w/ white supremacist group's flag -has *many* white supremacist donors -appears to advocate lynching He is expected to win Nov. election talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...

first this + Zverev winning the U.S. Open ….

ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 4d ago

jasmine crockett honoring chris brown on stage at his show is truly one of the most embarrassing things i’ve ever seen

can't wait for Pop Base to get into further UK political science dilemmas like the West Lothian Question

Pop Base@popbase.tv · 4d ago

Leaders of Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland will reportedly gather tomorrow to sign a deal that is designed to begin the break-up of the United Kingdom. (www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...)

Who told George W. Bush he should post his 9/11 paintings on Instagram today???? I need NAMES

There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.

i remember 9/11 was the first time i said "oh my god aloud (i was 9), thus beginning my life-long habit of taking the lord's name in vain (and cursing)

some mild 9/11 conspiracy theorizing crossed my path today and i made the mistake of clicking through a few links, and now i'm learning that apparently 350 people (so, more than half the passengers??) meant to be on the hijacked flights canceled their tickets including Julia Child & Mark Wahlberg.

i really commend Zohran for releasing all these documents

Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social · last wk.

Especially in light of the reveal that New Yorkers were lied to. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/n...

setting an alarm for harry styles presale tickets .... reminds me of my youth

i know probably like 12 other people in the world have watched season 2 of Criminal Record on Apple TV but for those who have: doesn't this look like a still from it?

Robert Shrimsley@robertshrimsley.bsky.social · last wk.

Nothing sinister about this at all. Although the shorts inevitably make you think of Roderick Spode.

Not loving this emergency warning test!!!!!!!! Sirens over Berlin famously a bad sign!!!!!

New from me on BIG OLD GERMAN BOOKS that I loved & are distinctly connected: Effingers & Buddenbrooks. thegoodreview.substack.com/p/on-big-old...

On big old German books

In which I claim that the recent translation of Effingers is a sign of a coming Thomas Mann era.

thegoodreview.substack.com

why is Hyperpolitics, a book that came out in 2023 and doesn't really seem to have super unique ideas, suddenly everywhere?

if AI is going to kill us within the next decade, will it at least give us fair warning so i can cash out my 401k and ball out for a month or two?

New from me on BIG OLD GERMAN BOOKS that I loved & are distinctly connected: Effingers & Buddenbrooks. thegoodreview.substack.com/p/on-big-old...

On big old German books

In which I claim that the recent translation of Effingers is a sign of a coming Thomas Mann era.

thegoodreview.substack.com

this would set a terrible terrible terrible precedent.

POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · last wk.

The German government could help Kyiv bring men of military age who reside in the country back to Ukraine, Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has said. The whole process, however, should run “without coercion,” he added.

clear antisemitism, right on the BBC. not great, beeb.

Ben Dunnell@bendunnell.bsky.social · last wk.

What the absolute fuck is this line of questioning by Justin Webb? It’s worse than pure grandstanding; it’s querying Miliband’s faith.

"Second-wave feminism as a whole is not the societal scourge it’s often presented as. Without its gains, we would be subjected to far more forms of gender-based discrimination than we already are." @kattenbarge.bsky.social on Gloria Steinem is great: spitfirenews.com/p/gloria-ste...

Unraveling the truth around Gloria Steinem’s legacy

Was she really a CIA plant? Also, Lindsay Clancy discourse somehow got worse.

spitfirenews.com

you know what i would love? if everyone shut the fuck up about AI for just like, 24 hours. no news stories about what Sam Altman posts, no 4-tweet threads pointing out AI psychosis in another person, no discussion about how it's changing workflows..... these are BORING conversations.

a German center-right leader equating the left with the far-right has never gone badly before, so why not try it now?

Für sachliche Politik@sachlichepolitik.eurosky.social · last wk.

Wie kommt er denn auf die 60%? AfD, BSW und Linke in einem Topf? Als Parteien, die "die demokratischen Spielregeln und Institutionen unseres Landes ausdrücklich in Frage stellen." Glaubt nicht, dass die Union irgendwas begreifen und ändern will. Ganz klar nicht.