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January 1, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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2026 is midterms and it’s the year we get going on putting these assholes in the dumpster of history where they belong
December 31, 2025 at 11:52 PM
2006 is officially 20 years ago…
January 1, 2026 at 4:58 PM
“new years day” by taylor swift and “this year” by the mountain goats are mandatory listens in my household today
January 1, 2026 at 6:09 AM
making lemon blueberry cheesecake bars and rewatching Materialists
January 1, 2026 at 4:27 AM
I’ve lived my whole life basically thinking the ball drops in NYC at 11pm
January 1, 2026 at 3:33 AM
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This is the last time I will ask for money in 2025 but

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December 31, 2025 at 11:53 PM
a couple things i wrote this year that i'm proud of:
December 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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in better news, if you're an editor who wants a story about a truly bizarre and deeply sweet man who has devoted his life to low-cost animal cremation, get @ me
December 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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some photos I made this year that I am pleased with:
December 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
saw someone post “we got an mba” referring to them and their SO the way some couples will say “we’re pregnant”
December 31, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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December 31, 2025 at 2:17 AM
some photos I made this year that I am pleased with:
December 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Just in case you thought "all online surveys consist of the same 300 people" was bad...
Incredible lol
December 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
so what uses USB-B
December 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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And even at the end she tried to stop her most dangerous relative
December 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This is very sad, and I highly recommend reading her piece in the New Yorker from last month

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
December 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I asked Cornelia if she’d become depressed if I went through a breakup and she said no
December 30, 2025 at 3:05 AM
cracked an egg into my ramen
December 30, 2025 at 2:49 AM
unfortunately the more the internet has shifted towards personal branding and authenticity, the less comfortable i've personally become with disclosure and self-mythologizing
December 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
boop
December 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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some personal news:

if anyone else called me to say "hi I'm running for Congress, will you move across the country to help" I'd say "no lol ur delusional" but it was Lucia so I said "yes duh"

drop a follow, help bring a climate policy expert + the kindest, most principled human I know to Congress
From MontCo to Bucks, from our streets to the halls of congress, one thing rings true: politics are personal. They're in our rent, health insurance premiums, electricity bills, and grocery bills. I’m running for Congress to ensure that government works for us, not billionaires and corporate donors.
December 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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not too late for a flu shot btw, flu historically often peaks in february and by all accounts it is pretty bad this year
Flu deaths exceeded COVID deaths last winter and we may be on track for the same thing this year!
I can speak anecdotally that at the hospital I work at we’ve had very low covid census. We test anyone experiencing respiratory symptoms, and we’ve had very few people with Covid who have needed to be hospitalized. Which is a relief because we are absolutely inundated with flu rn
December 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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one of the truly depressing things about the culture war over masks is that we simply refuse to treat them as a tool to mitigate the spread of illness! it should be normal to wear a mask in public when you don’t feel well even if it’s not about saving anybody’s life!!!!! why would you mock that
or- and this will blow too many minds, for reasons that depress me deeply-

THEY CARE ABOUT OTHER PPL

hence find it totally worthwhile

TO DO THIS 1 EASY FKN TRICK THAT MIGHT SAVE A LIFE OR FEW (+if nothing else save ppl some real unpleasant days/missed pay)
These people aren't masking for shits and giggles- they are the immunocompromised, elderly, and others who are, or believe themselves to be, particularly vulnerable to infections of airborne viruses such as sars-cov-2, influenza, etc.
December 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Andrew Scott shouldn’t have to say the word “substack”
December 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM