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Jess Zimmerman
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Women and Other Monsters by Jess Zimmerman: 9780807055540 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more “monstrous” version...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
Bluesky it has come to my attention that you like becoming horrifying to men and also rethinking classical stories about feminine monstrosity (harpies, sirens, gorgons, etc.) and wow GREAT news
Please enjoy this extremely vintage, extremely niche Onion article Justin just found saved in his college files
U.S. Techno-Industrial Base Eroding Due To Foreign Competition
WASHINGTON, DC—With first-quarter Club Rotation Index figures the lowest in seven years, and imports outselling domestic 12-inches more than two-to-one, economic observers throughout the U.S. are soun...
theonion.com
December 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Please enjoy this extremely vintage, extremely niche Onion article Justin just found saved in his college files
I appear to be on a work half an hour/fuck around for an hour schedule but that seems appropriate for this week
December 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I appear to be on a work half an hour/fuck around for an hour schedule but that seems appropriate for this week
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Show me proof of a donation to World Central Kitchen. From now til the 31st of December, 11:59 pm ET, for every $20 raised, I’ll reveal a new type of imaginary ranch dressing from my frankly unhinged list of imaginary ranch dressings.
World Central Kitchen: wck.org
An FAQ: tinyurl.com/yjtwvtrf
World Central Kitchen: wck.org
An FAQ: tinyurl.com/yjtwvtrf
World Central Kitchen | WCK
Founded by Chef José Andrés, World Central Kitchen is a nonprofit organization that provides fresh meals in response to crises. Founded by Chef José Andrés, World Central Kitchen is a nonprofit or...
wck.org
December 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Show me proof of a donation to World Central Kitchen. From now til the 31st of December, 11:59 pm ET, for every $20 raised, I’ll reveal a new type of imaginary ranch dressing from my frankly unhinged list of imaginary ranch dressings.
World Central Kitchen: wck.org
An FAQ: tinyurl.com/yjtwvtrf
World Central Kitchen: wck.org
An FAQ: tinyurl.com/yjtwvtrf
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I know what you’re thinking: “My New Year’s resolution was to subscribe to the newsletter of whoever wrote the 14th most read McSweeney’s humor piece of the year. But he doesn’t have one.”
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our...
Well, you’re not gonna believe this:
substack.com/@tomellison123
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our...
Well, you’re not gonna believe this:
substack.com/@tomellison123
Our 25 Most-Read Pieces of 2025
- - -We’re counting down our most-read pieces of 2025. This list will be updated daily until we reach #1 on December 31. Thanks to all our contrib...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I know what you’re thinking: “My New Year’s resolution was to subscribe to the newsletter of whoever wrote the 14th most read McSweeney’s humor piece of the year. But he doesn’t have one.”
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our...
Well, you’re not gonna believe this:
substack.com/@tomellison123
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our...
Well, you’re not gonna believe this:
substack.com/@tomellison123
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I don’t know man if capitalism has just resulted in a small network of pedophiles destroying all life on earth then perhaps we should consider that it is a complete and utter failure as a system
December 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I don’t know man if capitalism has just resulted in a small network of pedophiles destroying all life on earth then perhaps we should consider that it is a complete and utter failure as a system
I keep thinking about how I should probably find a job in 2026 and then getting very depressed
December 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I keep thinking about how I should probably find a job in 2026 and then getting very depressed
Perhaps the passing whims of billionaires do not constitute news
Didn't you guys write this exact same story about billionaires in NYC about Mamdani only to write a 'nah SIKE' follow up like a week after he won when all the billionaires realized they don't have Zabars in like Rochester
Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.
December 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Perhaps the passing whims of billionaires do not constitute news
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Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
I’m sorry the hockey show soundtrack has a cover of “All the Things She Said”? I need someone to write an essay on this song and the profound journey of gay shit in media over the last 25 years
December 25, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I’m sorry the hockey show soundtrack has a cover of “All the Things She Said”? I need someone to write an essay on this song and the profound journey of gay shit in media over the last 25 years
The bit about Springsteen’s memoir in the new Spinal Tap is the most perfect joke I’ve heard in recent memory
December 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The bit about Springsteen’s memoir in the new Spinal Tap is the most perfect joke I’ve heard in recent memory
Please tell me your faves of the year so I can load up my library holds for 2026
Just finished my 150th book of the year so here are my faves!
Headshot, Rita Bullwinkel
Woodworking, @emilystjams.bsky.social
A/S/L, @jeannethornton.bsky.social
Real Americans, Rachel Khong
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Kiran Desai
and, if I’m being honest, all of Dungeon Crawler Carl
Headshot, Rita Bullwinkel
Woodworking, @emilystjams.bsky.social
A/S/L, @jeannethornton.bsky.social
Real Americans, Rachel Khong
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Kiran Desai
and, if I’m being honest, all of Dungeon Crawler Carl
December 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Please tell me your faves of the year so I can load up my library holds for 2026
People in my house actually have tattoos already
I'd be delighted to have a hairstylist or a youth soccer coach visit for a night
December 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
People in my house actually have tattoos already
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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
This is better biblical exegesis than any actual sermon I’ve heard AND it cites Alan Moore
I am not a Christian of course but like all Americans I have spent my life marinating in Christian mythography, and so around this time of year I have a lot of thoughts about the Nativity and the part where the innkeeper says there's no room in the inn.
December 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This is better biblical exegesis than any actual sermon I’ve heard AND it cites Alan Moore
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This trans instructor was doing her job, giving a failing grade to a student who cynically did not comply w the assignment.
The instructor was targeted by Turning Point USA who worked hand in glove w the student in a highly orchestrated media hit job to advance its anti-trans hate campaign
The instructor was targeted by Turning Point USA who worked hand in glove w the student in a highly orchestrated media hit job to advance its anti-trans hate campaign
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
This trans instructor was doing her job, giving a failing grade to a student who cynically did not comply w the assignment.
The instructor was targeted by Turning Point USA who worked hand in glove w the student in a highly orchestrated media hit job to advance its anti-trans hate campaign
The instructor was targeted by Turning Point USA who worked hand in glove w the student in a highly orchestrated media hit job to advance its anti-trans hate campaign
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Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
December 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
This is the best possible explainer on Bari Weiss
For this week's That's Marvelous newsletter I regrettably wrote a little bit about Bari Weiss (but also I happily wrote a little bit about dogs)! Read it here: www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/163-60-minut...
December 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This is the best possible explainer on Bari Weiss
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What’s happening at CBS News is a five alarm fire and portent of what’s to come, a nuclear assault on the very heart and soul of America. This is not hyperbole.
December 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
What’s happening at CBS News is a five alarm fire and portent of what’s to come, a nuclear assault on the very heart and soul of America. This is not hyperbole.
Just finished my 150th book of the year so here are my faves!
Headshot, Rita Bullwinkel
Woodworking, @emilystjams.bsky.social
A/S/L, @jeannethornton.bsky.social
Real Americans, Rachel Khong
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Kiran Desai
and, if I’m being honest, all of Dungeon Crawler Carl
Headshot, Rita Bullwinkel
Woodworking, @emilystjams.bsky.social
A/S/L, @jeannethornton.bsky.social
Real Americans, Rachel Khong
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Kiran Desai
and, if I’m being honest, all of Dungeon Crawler Carl
December 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Just finished my 150th book of the year so here are my faves!
Headshot, Rita Bullwinkel
Woodworking, @emilystjams.bsky.social
A/S/L, @jeannethornton.bsky.social
Real Americans, Rachel Khong
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Kiran Desai
and, if I’m being honest, all of Dungeon Crawler Carl
Headshot, Rita Bullwinkel
Woodworking, @emilystjams.bsky.social
A/S/L, @jeannethornton.bsky.social
Real Americans, Rachel Khong
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Kiran Desai
and, if I’m being honest, all of Dungeon Crawler Carl
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
If you’re not hearing David Cross saying this we are not the same
December 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
If you’re not hearing David Cross saying this we are not the same
If you like Emmett Otter’s Jug Band Christmas you’ll love Riddley Walker
December 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
If you like Emmett Otter’s Jug Band Christmas you’ll love Riddley Walker
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20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...
Transgender Healthcare: Explainer — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
December 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...
An audacious postmodern classic, winkingly self-referential. Link thrives in short form
Wondering if anyone would be willing to blurb this post. It isn't a long read!
December 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
An audacious postmodern classic, winkingly self-referential. Link thrives in short form