Elizabeth Spiers
@espiers.bsky.social
NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, NYU prof, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
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Also also, the last creative workshop of the year is in a few weeks and the last one was pretty big so I may limit attendance to a seminar sized group. (And this one is $65 so more accessible than my op-ed workshop.) www.elizabethspiers.com/workshops/
November 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Also also, the last creative workshop of the year is in a few weeks and the last one was pretty big so I may limit attendance to a seminar sized group. (And this one is $65 so more accessible than my op-ed workshop.) www.elizabethspiers.com/workshops/
I’m being forced to screenshot this because i can’t respond to it. But this has nothing to do with my point, which is not that no one will subscribe (a total straw man), but that consumer spending is pulling back. That is just a fact.
November 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I’m being forced to screenshot this because i can’t respond to it. But this has nothing to do with my point, which is not that no one will subscribe (a total straw man), but that consumer spending is pulling back. That is just a fact.
I was gonna dress as a witch with a fuckton of eye makeup and wear a name tag that said “Kristi Noem” but the 10 year old voted for dead cheerleader—a.k.a. the first person to die in any teenage horror movie
October 31, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I was gonna dress as a witch with a fuckton of eye makeup and wear a name tag that said “Kristi Noem” but the 10 year old voted for dead cheerleader—a.k.a. the first person to die in any teenage horror movie
Kid and I are thinking about making a meme zine that explains things like six seven and brainrot to adults. I make crappy illustrations per the below and he writes explanations. So what do you need explained? We’re taking requests.
October 30, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Kid and I are thinking about making a meme zine that explains things like six seven and brainrot to adults. I make crappy illustrations per the below and he writes explanations. So what do you need explained? We’re taking requests.
The first session of my workshop on creativity and developing a writing practice went well, so I'm doing it again in December. I raised the price a bit to $65 because I'm thinking of adding a snail mail component, but it's the same workshop. Registration is here: www.elizabethspiers.com/workshops/
October 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The first session of my workshop on creativity and developing a writing practice went well, so I'm doing it again in December. I raised the price a bit to $65 because I'm thinking of adding a snail mail component, but it's the same workshop. Registration is here: www.elizabethspiers.com/workshops/
He liked it after a buncha kids recognized it and is now wearing it around the house. And now he matches our library and when he sits on the couch it looks like he cannibalized it and now has a face made of couch
October 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
He liked it after a buncha kids recognized it and is now wearing it around the house. And now he matches our library and when he sits on the couch it looks like he cannibalized it and now has a face made of couch
Me, two hours later, splattered in paint: here you go
Tiny art critic: could use more yellowish tint there
Me: you get what you get and you’re gonna wear that pea coat we just got from Target for $50 again
Tiny art critic: could use more yellowish tint there
Me: you get what you get and you’re gonna wear that pea coat we just got from Target for $50 again
October 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Me, two hours later, splattered in paint: here you go
Tiny art critic: could use more yellowish tint there
Me: you get what you get and you’re gonna wear that pea coat we just got from Target for $50 again
Tiny art critic: could use more yellowish tint there
Me: you get what you get and you’re gonna wear that pea coat we just got from Target for $50 again
Ford, 3 hours before Halloween party: can I be Mono from Little Nightmares?
Me, overconfident: sure I can probably do that with a cardboard box and some paint
Me, overconfident: sure I can probably do that with a cardboard box and some paint
October 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Ford, 3 hours before Halloween party: can I be Mono from Little Nightmares?
Me, overconfident: sure I can probably do that with a cardboard box and some paint
Me, overconfident: sure I can probably do that with a cardboard box and some paint
The 10 year old designed / drew the pumpkin face and it’s got a grizzled tabloid reporter from the 70s vibe where I imagine it starting every sentence with “listen, kid…” and I feel like it needs a cigar in its mouth.
October 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
The 10 year old designed / drew the pumpkin face and it’s got a grizzled tabloid reporter from the 70s vibe where I imagine it starting every sentence with “listen, kid…” and I feel like it needs a cigar in its mouth.
Just ridding the TL of trolls
October 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Just ridding the TL of trolls
What is this headline? Someone got eaten alive, but it wasn’t Mamdani!
October 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
What is this headline? Someone got eaten alive, but it wasn’t Mamdani!
And then the 10 year old gave me big puppy dog eyes and asked me if i could color them in so he could hang it in his room, and of course I did it. So after all of that: if anyone with 10 year olds playing Plants vs Brainrots wants a Carrotitos coloring page, DM me and I'll email you one.
October 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
And then the 10 year old gave me big puppy dog eyes and asked me if i could color them in so he could hang it in his room, and of course I did it. So after all of that: if anyone with 10 year olds playing Plants vs Brainrots wants a Carrotitos coloring page, DM me and I'll email you one.
Then it escalated because I'm trying to learn how to digitize hand drawn stuff, so I digitized them and made multiples
October 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Then it escalated because I'm trying to learn how to digitize hand drawn stuff, so I digitized them and made multiples
So I drew the 10 year old's favorite brain rot character, Los Mr. Carrotitos, while I was waiting to pick him up from school. (If you have no idea what half that sentence means, listen to me and @emilypeck.bsky.social during the Slate Money Plus segments, where we explain the youngs)
October 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
So I drew the 10 year old's favorite brain rot character, Los Mr. Carrotitos, while I was waiting to pick him up from school. (If you have no idea what half that sentence means, listen to me and @emilypeck.bsky.social during the Slate Money Plus segments, where we explain the youngs)
What I think of as the distinction between early blogging and what we have now:
October 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
What I think of as the distinction between early blogging and what we have now:
Decided my Halloween costume is going to be “a soulless hake”
October 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Decided my Halloween costume is going to be “a soulless hake”
Non apocalyptic post of the day: Tippi using my arm as a casual chew toy. This is what I do to pens on Zoom calls.
October 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Non apocalyptic post of the day: Tippi using my arm as a casual chew toy. This is what I do to pens on Zoom calls.
I guess CBS News will just be stories about white parents being mad that their children have to learn about slavery in their private schools or more shit like this:
October 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I guess CBS News will just be stories about white parents being mad that their children have to learn about slavery in their private schools or more shit like this:
No it's not. You being wrong is not me being rhetorical. And the Fed would never agree to do it. This is not Mexico in '95. From Bloomberg:
October 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
No it's not. You being wrong is not me being rhetorical. And the Fed would never agree to do it. This is not Mexico in '95. From Bloomberg:
Relatedly: I actually bought this shirt *before* JD called me a soulless hack and said I was funded by Soros and Ford:
September 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Relatedly: I actually bought this shirt *before* JD called me a soulless hack and said I was funded by Soros and Ford:
Guess who the outlier dot is
September 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Guess who the outlier dot is
Imagine what it must be like to be this gullible
September 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Imagine what it must be like to be this gullible
But I am reading a long Hitchens essay from when he was still a leftist and socialist about Thomas Paine and he writes about this parody from 1791, sung to the tune of My Country ‘Tis of Thee:
September 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
But I am reading a long Hitchens essay from when he was still a leftist and socialist about Thomas Paine and he writes about this parody from 1791, sung to the tune of My Country ‘Tis of Thee: