Jack
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They’d have to ban me from bringing in felt tips.
Shirokuro, a Japanese restaurant in NYC's East Village, where the interior mimics a hand-drawn black-and-white sketchbook.
December 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
They’d have to ban me from bringing in felt tips.
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WITCHCRAFT*
*this is a positive
*this is a positive
November 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
WITCHCRAFT*
*this is a positive
*this is a positive
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I think I may have been the first person to ever explain a Dril tweet to an English High Court judge
November 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I think I may have been the first person to ever explain a Dril tweet to an English High Court judge
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Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered.
And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.
And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.
Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
September 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered.
And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.
And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.
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Yes! Lawyer here, and you will pry the em-dash from my cold, dead hands (which have the windows shortcut in muscle memory).
I even have a mug about it!
I even have a mug about it!
July 7, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Yes! Lawyer here, and you will pry the em-dash from my cold, dead hands (which have the windows shortcut in muscle memory).
I even have a mug about it!
I even have a mug about it!
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I said in an interview that I have a lot of empathy for you because you lost your dream, too.
But Unbound's sales reports showing my second book as a flop when it actually sold out its print run was unfathomably cruel. Seeing Ingram's data, showing 10x the sales I was paid for, broke my heart.
But Unbound's sales reports showing my second book as a flop when it actually sold out its print run was unfathomably cruel. Seeing Ingram's data, showing 10x the sales I was paid for, broke my heart.
June 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I said in an interview that I have a lot of empathy for you because you lost your dream, too.
But Unbound's sales reports showing my second book as a flop when it actually sold out its print run was unfathomably cruel. Seeing Ingram's data, showing 10x the sales I was paid for, broke my heart.
But Unbound's sales reports showing my second book as a flop when it actually sold out its print run was unfathomably cruel. Seeing Ingram's data, showing 10x the sales I was paid for, broke my heart.
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Technically, that would be Sol.
June 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Technically, that would be Sol.
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Recalls my own editorial experience of pointing out Polaris is not the brightest star in the northern hemisphere
June 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Recalls my own editorial experience of pointing out Polaris is not the brightest star in the northern hemisphere
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My main takeaway from the Intersolar / the smarter E Europe exhibition in Munich is that batteries are the new solar. 4 buzzing halls of products, trying to claim a differentiation that doesn't exist, in a rapidly growing market. 14GW of batteries built in Europe + Turkey last year.
May 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
My main takeaway from the Intersolar / the smarter E Europe exhibition in Munich is that batteries are the new solar. 4 buzzing halls of products, trying to claim a differentiation that doesn't exist, in a rapidly growing market. 14GW of batteries built in Europe + Turkey last year.
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But! The next clause, "qui sibi nomen imposuit [papal name]", has been the subject of a long-running argument in the Vatican's Latin department. (Which is a whole separate thread about its history and ups and downs, but.)
May 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM
But! The next clause, "qui sibi nomen imposuit [papal name]", has been the subject of a long-running argument in the Vatican's Latin department. (Which is a whole separate thread about its history and ups and downs, but.)
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My agent sent me flowers for hitting the bestseller list and when I went to the door, the florist said “Are you the Kingfisher?” which cracked me up.
March 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
My agent sent me flowers for hitting the bestseller list and when I went to the door, the florist said “Are you the Kingfisher?” which cracked me up.
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Daniel would just keep inviting advice-seekers to come see his budhole, which is not a room for videogames & snacks.
March 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Daniel would just keep inviting advice-seekers to come see his budhole, which is not a room for videogames & snacks.
"Only the heir to a Reality TV Kingdom would start a trade war on twelve fronts at once."
I’ve seen otherwise sensible US commentators responding to the -ve GDP projections and going ‘I mean nah, flatline maybe?’ and… negative growth is what happens if you start a trade war with the whole world at once, yeah.
March 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"Only the heir to a Reality TV Kingdom would start a trade war on twelve fronts at once."
Oh no :(
I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date
February 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Oh no :(
Don't bother with the hajj. We've got a Kaaba at home.
The Kaaba at home:
The Kaaba at home:
her: i know a place
me: i hope it's Large Black Inflatable Nightclub 14x14x14ft Inflatable Party Tent Inflatable Night Club Tent For Adults Wedding Birthday Raves Dance Floor Business.
her:
me: i hope it's Large Black Inflatable Nightclub 14x14x14ft Inflatable Party Tent Inflatable Night Club Tent For Adults Wedding Birthday Raves Dance Floor Business.
her:
February 17, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Don't bother with the hajj. We've got a Kaaba at home.
The Kaaba at home:
The Kaaba at home:
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And as a corollary, it would be really nice if reviewers didn’t keep calling adult books written by women YA. I lost count of the times NETTLE & BONE got described as YA. The heroine is THIRTY. I wrote it for adults! It is fine if teens want to read it, but it’s not YA and that is FINE.
The YA publishing crisis isn’t that we need more mature YA books or a Mature YA label, it’s that we need more YA books published for teens of all ages and less YA books published as YA but also wanting to reach Adult audiences. Adults have plenty of books published for them.
February 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
And as a corollary, it would be really nice if reviewers didn’t keep calling adult books written by women YA. I lost count of the times NETTLE & BONE got described as YA. The heroine is THIRTY. I wrote it for adults! It is fine if teens want to read it, but it’s not YA and that is FINE.
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This is a great long read about a particular era of TV making, and discussions of what makes something funny and why.
I'm still super proud of this piece I did back in the day, where I interviewed a bunch of the writers of Mork and Mindy, plus the guy who directed most of the episodes:
gizmodo.com/everything-y...
gizmodo.com/everything-y...
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The Making of Mork and Mindy
For one year, Mork and Mindy was arguably the most successful science fiction TV show ever made. The comedy about an alien and his human best friend
gizmodo.com
January 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This is a great long read about a particular era of TV making, and discussions of what makes something funny and why.
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Monster Devastated To See Film Depicting Things He Told Guillermo Del Toro In Confidence https://theonion.com...
January 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Monster Devastated To See Film Depicting Things He Told Guillermo Del Toro In Confidence https://theonion.com...
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Every day we face challenges that the Founders could not have dreamed.
December 20, 2024 at 3:11 PM
Every day we face challenges that the Founders could not have dreamed.
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a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers
1. Spinoza
1. Spinoza
December 19, 2024 at 12:05 PM
a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers
1. Spinoza
1. Spinoza