Nicole N.
@fanntasticwa.bsky.social
Project manager of all things. Curious baker. Lover of all things food/travel/nature. Unapologetic introvert.
Do yourself a favor and read this from the brilliant and hilarious Alexandra Petri. I still giggle to myself when I think about the chapter in her book on civil war photographers giving directions to soldiers.
the president’s baffling decision to put a bunch of deranged plaques under every president’s picture is like a bat signal for me personally so uh here is this quiz www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Guess the Real ‘Presidential Walk of Fame’ Plaque
None
www.theatlantic.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Do yourself a favor and read this from the brilliant and hilarious Alexandra Petri. I still giggle to myself when I think about the chapter in her book on civil war photographers giving directions to soldiers.
Wow.
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Wow.
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Because the vaccine prevents chronic hepatitis B for which there is no cure and the lifelong treatment costs more than a single birth dose of the vaccine. Insurance companies recognize this is a no brainer.
Brought to you by prevention beats treatment any day.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/07/h...
Brought to you by prevention beats treatment any day.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/07/h...
Insurance coverage of hepatitis B vaccine won’t change, industry and officials say | CNN
Parents will still be able to get the hepatitis B vaccine for their children at no cost even though the US Centers for Disease and Control Prevention’s vaccine advisers recommended a major change to t...
www.cnn.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Because the vaccine prevents chronic hepatitis B for which there is no cure and the lifelong treatment costs more than a single birth dose of the vaccine. Insurance companies recognize this is a no brainer.
Brought to you by prevention beats treatment any day.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/07/h...
Brought to you by prevention beats treatment any day.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/07/h...
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I don’t usually wear pajamas to the airport, but that twit from RW: Boston is making it feel like anti-facist resistance
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I don’t usually wear pajamas to the airport, but that twit from RW: Boston is making it feel like anti-facist resistance
Co-sign this. The series was excellent. The book as well, but author had quite a bit of anti-fatness in it.
I never understand how these things happen, but as a point of information: Netflix is now carrying the 2022 AMC/BBC series THIS IS GOING TO HURT starring Ben Whishaw. It was not much seen in the U.S., I don’t think, but it is excellent.
'This Is Going to Hurt': An honest look at how doctors suffer in a punishing system
A new TV series, based on Adam Kay's 2017 memoir of the same name, depicts the unrelenting stress of a young doctor in the U.K.
www.npr.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Co-sign this. The series was excellent. The book as well, but author had quite a bit of anti-fatness in it.
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
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This comes down to the moral principle known as the Gulden's Rule
Closing arguments begin. The government says, “Everyone has a right to their personal beliefs…However, that does not give them the right to touch another person, to strike another person, even with a sandwich.”
November 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
This comes down to the moral principle known as the Gulden's Rule
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Mike Johnson: It’s True. I Am Tuning Out The News Cycle To Focus On Self-Care
Mike Johnson: I Am Tuning Out the News Cycle to Focus on Self-Care
Don’t ask me about the news. I am protecting my mental space.
www.theatlantic.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Mike Johnson: It’s True. I Am Tuning Out The News Cycle To Focus On Self-Care
Dang. What a loss.
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
October 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Dang. What a loss.
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Happy birthday to FELICITY, which premiered on this day in 1998!
I wrote about my favorite episodes at NYT a while back (gift link):
www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/a...
I wrote about my favorite episodes at NYT a while back (gift link):
www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/a...
‘Felicity’ 20 Years on: A Look Back at the 10 Best Episodes (Published 2018)
www.nytimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Happy birthday to FELICITY, which premiered on this day in 1998!
I wrote about my favorite episodes at NYT a while back (gift link):
www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/a...
I wrote about my favorite episodes at NYT a while back (gift link):
www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/a...
Every fall, first time you see this article mentioned you must repost. It’s the rule.
September 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Every fall, first time you see this article mentioned you must repost. It’s the rule.
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SNEAKERS is one of the most purely charming, diverting light thrillers you can give yourself as a gift on a bad day. Redford, River Phoenix, Sidney literally Poitier, David Strathairn? It’s got good bones, as they say.
I first saw Sneakers in college. The year was 1992 and I was 17. They did a special screening on campus because Lawrence Lasker was an alum. Anyway, it was the first movie I saw Robert Redford in and it was CINEMA. Best movie ever. RIP to that handsome unproblematic man.
September 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
SNEAKERS is one of the most purely charming, diverting light thrillers you can give yourself as a gift on a bad day. Redford, River Phoenix, Sidney literally Poitier, David Strathairn? It’s got good bones, as they say.
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my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"
September 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"
Truly.
Has anyone ever worn a movie costume better than Robert Redford in his navy pea coat in Three Days of the Condor?
September 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Truly.
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I don't understand why we only get superman and spiderman movies when there are like 100 muppets and every single one of them has leading man/woman potential
December 17, 2024 at 10:31 PM
I don't understand why we only get superman and spiderman movies when there are like 100 muppets and every single one of them has leading man/woman potential
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JD Vance asking to be invited into a city feels really on the nose after Sinners
Q: Would you consider deploying the national guard to Milwaukee?
Vance: "We want to be invited into Milwaukee...We would love to come and help the people of Milwaukee. But the President of the United States has said he wants to be asked."
Vance: "We want to be invited into Milwaukee...We would love to come and help the people of Milwaukee. But the President of the United States has said he wants to be asked."
August 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
JD Vance asking to be invited into a city feels really on the nose after Sinners
I rarely read critiques of AI that are so logical. Or that reference vintage SNL skits. Thank you, Linda.
This is why I have no patience with the “but you don’t understand, this tech can automate coding tasks!” sigh-ers. If there are any circumstances under which your technology can operate *specifically* to encourage a teenager to take his own life, it ought to be pulled until you fix it.
There is so much terrible about all of this, but what strikes me most is how often the teen suggested involving his family so he didn’t go through with the suicide and it appears that each time, ChatGPT discouraged him.
August 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I rarely read critiques of AI that are so logical. Or that reference vintage SNL skits. Thank you, Linda.
Chefs kiss, but I wish the article had also included when everyone got the album downloaded on their iPods without asking for it.
It's the Edge's birthday today, so we're contractually obligated to post this ridiculous piece from our archives.
Postcards from “The Edge”
1979 Dear Mum: Hello, this is The Edge. (Your son, Dave.) Still playing guitar. I am in a new band now. We are becoming quite popular here in Dubli...
buff.ly
August 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Chefs kiss, but I wish the article had also included when everyone got the album downloaded on their iPods without asking for it.
Coincidentally I *just* finished watching this part of the doc and had a really good belly laugh about it.
If you need a good laugh, in the Joel documentary, an album cover image for an early band that Billy Joel was in is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time. Believe me, you’ll know it when you see it.
July 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Coincidentally I *just* finished watching this part of the doc and had a really good belly laugh about it.
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This is one of the most remarkable and devastating pieces of writing I've read on the Texas floods, a first-hand account from inside a house that was swept into the Guadalupe River.
I recommend emotionally steeling yourself before reading.
I recommend emotionally steeling yourself before reading.
“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”
The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.
www.texasmonthly.com
July 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This is one of the most remarkable and devastating pieces of writing I've read on the Texas floods, a first-hand account from inside a house that was swept into the Guadalupe River.
I recommend emotionally steeling yourself before reading.
I recommend emotionally steeling yourself before reading.
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HEY here's a new piece for @crikey.com.au!
Sparked by David Suzuki's recent comments, but more broadly in response to the recent rise of performative fatalism: the reassuring, widely popular and lazy idea that fighting back against fossil fuels is worthless
www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/14/c...
Sparked by David Suzuki's recent comments, but more broadly in response to the recent rise of performative fatalism: the reassuring, widely popular and lazy idea that fighting back against fossil fuels is worthless
www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/14/c...
Climate fatalism is just as wrong as climate denial — it's never 'too late' for change
Veteran environmentalist David Suzuki believes the time has passed us to stop climate change. He's wrong.
www.crikey.com.au
July 15, 2025 at 5:20 AM
HEY here's a new piece for @crikey.com.au!
Sparked by David Suzuki's recent comments, but more broadly in response to the recent rise of performative fatalism: the reassuring, widely popular and lazy idea that fighting back against fossil fuels is worthless
www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/14/c...
Sparked by David Suzuki's recent comments, but more broadly in response to the recent rise of performative fatalism: the reassuring, widely popular and lazy idea that fighting back against fossil fuels is worthless
www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/14/c...
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anti-doomer sentence of the day: "Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last"
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
anti-doomer sentence of the day: "Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last"
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
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Tragedy in Texas hill country, where 4 months’ worth of rain in just four hours caused Guadalupe River levels to spike 30 feet in just an hour and a half - in the middle of the night.
Two dozen are dead in the resulting floods and another 20 young campers still missing.
apnews.com/article/texa...
Two dozen are dead in the resulting floods and another 20 young campers still missing.
apnews.com/article/texa...
Why the Texas floods were so severe
Flooding rains in and around Kerr County had brought a widespread 10 to 15 total inches by Friday morning. Four months of rainfall came down in four hours.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Tragedy in Texas hill country, where 4 months’ worth of rain in just four hours caused Guadalupe River levels to spike 30 feet in just an hour and a half - in the middle of the night.
Two dozen are dead in the resulting floods and another 20 young campers still missing.
apnews.com/article/texa...
Two dozen are dead in the resulting floods and another 20 young campers still missing.
apnews.com/article/texa...
I was very skeptical of this sequel’s announcement as I adored the first one and think about it all the time. Between this and Pop Culture Happy Hour’s discussion, I might have to see this in the theater.
With 28 Years Later, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland return to the zombie genre they helped bring back to life (heh) in 2002. The result is not a staid legacy sequel but something far wilder, funnier & more inventive, with an iodine-painted Ralph Fiennes to class up the joint. slate.com/culture/2025...
28 Days Later Revived a Genre. The Long-Awaited Sequel Takes It to a Whole Different Level.
28 Years Later is rowdy, raucous, and gory.
slate.com
June 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I was very skeptical of this sequel’s announcement as I adored the first one and think about it all the time. Between this and Pop Culture Happy Hour’s discussion, I might have to see this in the theater.