Adam Smyer
@adamsmyer.com
Author of the books Knucklehead (Akashic) and You Can Keep That to Yourself: A Comprehensive List of What Not to Say to Black People, for Well-Intentioned People of Pallor (Akashic). And the odd essay.
Pinned
Adam Smyer
@adamsmyer.com
· Mar 26
EVERYONE: Your manuscript gets going too slowly. You have to grab the reader in the first five words or you're dead.
ALSO EVERYONE: Oh, you MUST read The Verbosity of Picayune Verisimilitude. The first 900 pages suck ass but then it gets REALLY GOOD.
ALSO EVERYONE: Oh, you MUST read The Verbosity of Picayune Verisimilitude. The first 900 pages suck ass but then it gets REALLY GOOD.
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By replacing your morning coffee with green tea you can lose up to 89% of what little joy you have left in your life.
December 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
By replacing your morning coffee with green tea you can lose up to 89% of what little joy you have left in your life.
Clearly the mediocre have shamelessly banded together to keep what they know they could never earn. My question is, since when? Forever?
December 2, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Clearly the mediocre have shamelessly banded together to keep what they know they could never earn. My question is, since when? Forever?
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nerds did a study on why kissing is good lmao
Animals have been kissing for over 17 million years, a new study suggests.
Kissing has long perplexed evolutionary biologists, given it has no obvious benefit to reproducing or finding food, while carrying the risk of disease transmission.
Kissing has long perplexed evolutionary biologists, given it has no obvious benefit to reproducing or finding food, while carrying the risk of disease transmission.
When was the first kiss? Over 17 million years ago, a study suggests.
Evolutionary biologists don’t know why we kiss — but new research suggests kissing evolved long before humans existed.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
nerds did a study on why kissing is good lmao
Last night I dreamt I went out and all over the place folks were standing in the street eating paint. Blue house paint right out of the can with their fingers. One of them saw me staring and said to me, "Everybody eats paint now. It's great."
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Last night I dreamt I went out and all over the place folks were standing in the street eating paint. Blue house paint right out of the can with their fingers. One of them saw me staring and said to me, "Everybody eats paint now. It's great."
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It's that time of year
November 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It's that time of year
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"...nostalgia is the middle groundbetween knowing that what once was will never be again and the hope for what could—not should—be."
What Once Was: remythequill.com/what-once-was/
My latest piece on wandering, windows, and nostalgia, with recomms for things to read, watch, listen to & play.
What Once Was: remythequill.com/what-once-was/
My latest piece on wandering, windows, and nostalgia, with recomms for things to read, watch, listen to & play.
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"...nostalgia is the middle groundbetween knowing that what once was will never be again and the hope for what could—not should—be."
What Once Was: remythequill.com/what-once-was/
My latest piece on wandering, windows, and nostalgia, with recomms for things to read, watch, listen to & play.
What Once Was: remythequill.com/what-once-was/
My latest piece on wandering, windows, and nostalgia, with recomms for things to read, watch, listen to & play.
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A pilot died hours after contracting an illness that looked like food poisoning. It was actually an increasingly common allergy to red meat triggered by a tick bite, doctors said in a new study — the first death of its kind associated with the condition.
After a Mysterious Death, a Family’s Quest for Answers Leads to a Tick
A JetBlue pilot’s illness looked like food poisoning, but it was actually an increasingly common tick-borne meat allergy that can be fatal.
nyti.ms
November 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A pilot died hours after contracting an illness that looked like food poisoning. It was actually an increasingly common allergy to red meat triggered by a tick bite, doctors said in a new study — the first death of its kind associated with the condition.
There are many great bands and many brilliant musicians. But none are objectively better than the Ohio Players. #oldhead #fightme #jiveturkey
November 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
There are many great bands and many brilliant musicians. But none are objectively better than the Ohio Players. #oldhead #fightme #jiveturkey
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If you don’t understand a post, sure, you can respond with “Huh? What?,” or you can simply hold your tongue and let it go and move on with the absolute certainty that there’ll be, within seconds, another post that you also don’t understand.
November 6, 2025 at 5:48 AM
If you don’t understand a post, sure, you can respond with “Huh? What?,” or you can simply hold your tongue and let it go and move on with the absolute certainty that there’ll be, within seconds, another post that you also don’t understand.
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every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
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Many people are asking: "Why won't Mamdani just allow the wealth to trickle down the way it's supposed to?"
November 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Many people are asking: "Why won't Mamdani just allow the wealth to trickle down the way it's supposed to?"
Anybody else feel like they are in the first 20 minutes of a zombie movie? You know, the "There sure have been a lot of stories in the news lately about bitings" part?
November 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Anybody else feel like they are in the first 20 minutes of a zombie movie? You know, the "There sure have been a lot of stories in the news lately about bitings" part?
You know what idea would never catch on if it came out today? Self-control.
October 28, 2025 at 10:15 AM
You know what idea would never catch on if it came out today? Self-control.
I was totally going to rob the Louvre. But I forgot.
October 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I was totally going to rob the Louvre. But I forgot.
I can't stop thinking about how one day there will be a name for this time that we are all living in right now.
September 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I can't stop thinking about how one day there will be a name for this time that we are all living in right now.
I love how every drug's selling point is "It's not heroin" and then you get to heroin and its selling point is "It's heroin."
August 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I love how every drug's selling point is "It's not heroin" and then you get to heroin and its selling point is "It's heroin."
I can't know how much Quincy Jones just knows what I like and how much he is the reason I like it. All I know is TAKE MY MONEY QUINCY JONES
August 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I can't know how much Quincy Jones just knows what I like and how much he is the reason I like it. All I know is TAKE MY MONEY QUINCY JONES
August 20, 2025!
I may be at that stage of life where I have future shock from now on.
I may be at that stage of life where I have future shock from now on.
August 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
August 20, 2025!
I may be at that stage of life where I have future shock from now on.
I may be at that stage of life where I have future shock from now on.
KNEE: *hurts*
ME: I didn't even do shit!!
KNEE: I know.
ME: I didn't even do shit!!
KNEE: I know.
August 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
KNEE: *hurts*
ME: I didn't even do shit!!
KNEE: I know.
ME: I didn't even do shit!!
KNEE: I know.
Ooh - Looks like the tsunami's been canceled. I wonder what it said.
July 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Ooh - Looks like the tsunami's been canceled. I wonder what it said.
Hot take from @wkamaubell.bsky.social. Based on my visits to Baton Rouge I do not disagree. If nothing else, some of the best "y'all"s I have ever heard in my life came from unlikely faces down there.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgpH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgpH...
Southern Racists Are Nicer Than NYC Racists | SubwayTakes FULL EPISODE
YouTube video by SubwayTakes with Kareem Rahma
www.youtube.com
July 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Hot take from @wkamaubell.bsky.social. Based on my visits to Baton Rouge I do not disagree. If nothing else, some of the best "y'all"s I have ever heard in my life came from unlikely faces down there.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgpH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgpH...
Last night I dreamt it was 1988 again and I was in the booth with Chuck recording Party for Your Right to Fight. I was kind of Flav and I was kind of me. My brain is fun as fuck sometimes.
July 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Last night I dreamt it was 1988 again and I was in the booth with Chuck recording Party for Your Right to Fight. I was kind of Flav and I was kind of me. My brain is fun as fuck sometimes.