It cannot be overstated how much Bret does not make an argument in this column. He does not list a single worthy book he thinks was excluded. He clearly has not read the vast majority of the books. His entire critique is just “these books are written by women and minorities, which is bad”.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5d ago

That's it, that's the entire column www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...

if you're a bigot and your queer kids cut off contact, don't worry, there's an easy solution: die alone and forgotten in the bitter little hell you've built for yourself

LIZ: (reading spec script title) Ebenezer colon Scrooge Before Communism? JACK: it's my opus, Lemon, a cinematic meditation of an innovator, job creator, sex symbol, captain of industry before supernatural forces turned him into a seasonal bleeding heart socialist.

There is only one real American. He lives in a suburb with real american values. He has never had a matcha latte. He is a great favorite. He knows that real education can’t happen at universities. He has never used a laptop. His feet are light and nimble. He says that he will never die.

Fellas, is it papist to log off?

putting ”animal mask” in the running for one of the great love songs of the century thus far

I’m at the bread and circuses. I’m at the damnatio memoriae. I’m at the combination bread and circuses damnatio memoriae

look. is everything more expensive now? yes. but you have to look on the bright side too. now every time you open a computer, it doesn't work

Don’t really care if you use DoorDash or not but you should have Catholic Guilt about it

The Canterbury Tales: The Miller’s Tale—Volume III, The Rise of Absalom, Part 2: Allison’s Revenge

Seeing lots of people dunking on this post for misunderstanding how long the workday of the average medieval peasant was and not enough people dunking on this person for not understanding how incredibly labor intensive preparing a meal was before the modern era

"Identity based appeals are more controversial and likely to be less politically popular than class based appeals" was an interesting theory, but class based appeals actually turned out to be wildly unpopular as America's top 80% hated income gains from the bottom 20%.

An absolute banger titled “Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds,” no less

Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New Mountain Goats album is coming in August. First track is an absolute banger. I will try and fail to be cool about this.

'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Party That Unilaterally Surrenders

too many stupid people have money; that's why I'm launching protein cigarettes

tempted to go to law school just to one up my brother

You will never find what you're looking for here in the doom scroll. You must go deep inside to find a personal hell only you alone possess.

One thing The Pitt did extraordinarily well in the first season was dramatizing, demonstrating, what parental consent laws for abortion mean in practice. It’s easy to make it cold and detached and see people nod at it; harder when it’s a mom trying to drag her screaming daughter out of the hospital.

When you get good service at Taco Bell. In a functioning economy, Taco Bells are staffed entirely by surly teens who do not care if you live or die. And by guys who talk a lot about their sobriety despite being pretty obviously on meth.

Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This makes me wonder: what is the strangest recession indicator that you are sure of? The most obscure thing that you're *sure* is a recession indicator, something which you don't hear basically anyone else mention?

this goes for so much of the right wing ecosystem. the same guys who scream “DEI hire” would sink to the ocean if they weren’t kept afloat by their far right sugar daddies

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.

my sister is so excited about getting her cosmetology license i don't have the heart to tell her the USSR doesn't have a space program anymore

we trained an AI model to understand lindsey grahams whole deal and it killed itself

If they want me back they have to go fully Woke 2, sorry. Whole hog. I gotta be able to get an abortion there

CNN@cnn.com · 7mo ago

Target’s new CEO wants to re-establish the company’s “Tarzhay” reputation after a brutal few years.

"Minneapolis", 1925 lithograph by Ukrainian-American Louis Lozowick, Smithsonian American Art Museum

I hope that baby on The Pitt is doing okay. Her skin looked a little dry in last night’s episode.

For what it’s worth, my partner and I were long distance when we first got together, and he funded his plane tickets to visit me by selling his plasma. I still find this equal parts horrifying and incredibly romantic.

hold on i gotta take this

protip you can always listen to mountain goats and feel better about it

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor