Everyone complaining about illiteracy also failed to read to the 10th paragraph…
09.03.2026 15:45
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Everyone complaining about illiteracy also failed to read to the 10th paragraph…
It’s been interesting to see a lot of people reacting to this piece like it’s emblematic of an end-of-the-world literary crisis, because that’s the exact opposite point I was trying to make!
People are saying this…
I wrote about this trend in modern booktok-style romance where readers very much prefer first-person—to the point of flat out refusing to read the more traditional third-person—and what that means for literary culture as a whole.
I wrote about the disorienting combination of pure evil and high camp that has defined Trump’s Iran adventure thus far.
I wrote about the disorienting combination of pure evil and high camp that has defined Trump’s Iran adventure thus far.
I assume the calculus for tapping Markwayne Mullin is you have to pick someone stupid enough to get excited about a job offer phone call from Donald Trump; someone who, in their excitement, does not consider how 2 years as DHS head under a lame duck is 100x worse than being a Senator in a safe seat
For Slate's breakup week, I interviewed a woman whose boyfriend dumped her for a girl in a cult.
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The AI editor in Gmail can fuck off. One of the worst features ever introduced by anyone. "We think our users would like it if we're constantly telling them to add a preposition or switch a word choice." No! Go to tell! Why is everything like this now!
They can kill the Kennedys but they can’t get “Cartoons & Cereal” on Spotify.
No it doesn't!!!
Last week I went to Arizona to take in the media circus surrounding Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance. It left me feeling pretty gross about the true crime ecosystem.
Last week I went to Arizona to take in the media circus surrounding Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance. It left me feeling pretty gross about the true crime ecosystem.
I wrote about Dark Woke, which once seemed like a joke but is now rounding into a legitimate electoral force.
I wrote about Dark Woke, which once seemed like a joke but is now rounding into a legitimate electoral force.
Sometimes I think about what it must have felt like in the studio when someone got the idea to play the strings backwards on the second verse in Britney Spears – Toxic.
this is great news
Bad Bunny mogged the competition in ways that are almost inconceivable
I am thirty four years old and I think the new xaviersobased album is "good"
Kirk Cousins
"The upshot is a promotional tactic that transforms Pizza Hut into something close to a secular shrine—Shangri-La for Americans looking to nourish their inner child."
@lukewinkie.bsky.social @slate.com
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I want to get this framed. Legitimately one of the nicest things anyone has ever said about my writing.
I went to one of the last remaining old-school, sit-down Pizza Huts in America and wrote 3,000 words about a pervading sense of national decline.
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I went to one of the last remaining old-school, sit-down Pizza Huts in America and wrote 3,000 words about a pervading sense of national decline.
