Patrick Wyman

I listened to it on repeat walking back and forth to my university in Ireland, through the rain, often drunk, and it wormed its way into my soul

"I'll Believe in Anything" is a top-5 most meaningful song for me in life

"I don't like overtly religious candidates" is an opinion; "the First Amendment means candidates aren't supposed to talk like that" is a falsifiable argument that is very much a history and legal question

The idea that all of this death and destruction is going to apply only to other people in perpetuity, and will never, ever blow back on Americans, is carrying a lot of weight that it can't support forever

There's nothing more fun than being lectured about stuff you're literally a world expert on by people who know nothing: the experience of being on the internet in 2026

You and me both brother, I've written millions of words about dozens of topics and I never thought that would be the piece that resonated with people

Revolt of the Gentry Class

BP is more technical, the other is more of a storytelling approach, but no distinct meaning

The first season of Past Lives is winding down and the second starts next week! This one is all about Bodily Experiences - people from the past we know through their physical remains, like skeletons. We're going to meet Mesolithic shamans, Scythian princesses, and soldiers dropped in mass graves.

I believe they should classify their dancers as employees

Friendship ended with Luke Kornet and Adam Silver, now James Harden is my friend

I've never been to Magic City but out of general principle I'm gonna go get those lemon pepper wings next time I find myself in Atlanta, this account supports local businesses and institutions

He's been skirting around Mad King territory for a decade and I think we can now officially say that the king is, indeed, Mad

Listen to Past Lives

Sites where DNA testing is standard have shown us just how flawed all of those assumptions are, and it turns out plenty of women were buried with weapons, gracile skeletons had Y chromosomes, and so on.

Yeah! It's a fascinating topic, and particularly when we're looking back at reports from older sites, the excavators sexed skeletons based on their expectations of grave goods - weapons were automatically male, for example, or jewelry was female. Sometimes diagnostic bones don't preserve well.

Not on my watch brother

Naps are the key

March 18: Introduction
March 25: Anzick-1 (Clovis Culture, 13k years ago)
April 1: Kennewick Man/The Ancient One (Pacific Northwest, 8.5k BP)
April 8: The Shaman of Bad Durrenberg (Mesolithic, 8k BP)
April 15: Otzi the Iceman
April 22: Gebelein Man
April 29: The Princess of Xiaohe

The first season of Past Lives is winding down and the second starts next week! This one is all about Bodily Experiences - people from the past we know through their physical remains, like skeletons. We're going to meet Mesolithic shamans, Scythian princesses, and soldiers dropped in mass graves.

Burn After Reading for the 2020s

I'm just spitballing here but how incredible would it be if somebody had been trying to get rid of Epstein and a bunch of jerkoff prison guards accidentally killed him first

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.

Just found out my spouse doesn’t know who the Macho Man was and I’m reevaluating everything in my life

Discovering that there was more to fitness and strength than body dysmorphia was wild!

I think Reeves would be spared mockery but he wouldn't be an idealized physique either

I can't tell you how many analyses of human remains I've read that boil down to "how were these people up and doing stuff with rotting teeth, the full range of systemic stress markers, stunted growth, parasites, endemic diseases, and high rates of violence"

Eh kind of? Most of the successful physical culture guys settled on protein-heavy diets. Lots of extreme milk consumption

Just because people weren't obese didn't mean that they were healthy - it's not better to be 5'5 and 120 pounds with terrible oral health and intestinal parasites when you enter boot camp than 5'9 and 200 pounds needing to drop some weight.