Jeremy Solomons
@jcsolomons.bsky.social
I Am a Trader Joe’s Parking Lot and I Am Here to Destroy You www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-a...
I Am a Trader Joe’s Parking Lot and I Am Here to Destroy You
My game begins at once: a team of crack architects and city planners conspire to bring me to your city. People rejoice, and so do I, for the game i...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I Am a Trader Joe’s Parking Lot and I Am Here to Destroy You www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-a...
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If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
September 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
Thank you #RichardOsman:
“After writing an email, a text, anything really, you can simply run the whole thing through ChatGPT and it instantly deletes your personality. It flattens you out, irons your creases, washes you away, quirk by quirk, until you disappear.”
From We Solve Murders (2024)
“After writing an email, a text, anything really, you can simply run the whole thing through ChatGPT and it instantly deletes your personality. It flattens you out, irons your creases, washes you away, quirk by quirk, until you disappear.”
From We Solve Murders (2024)
August 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Thank you #RichardOsman:
“After writing an email, a text, anything really, you can simply run the whole thing through ChatGPT and it instantly deletes your personality. It flattens you out, irons your creases, washes you away, quirk by quirk, until you disappear.”
From We Solve Murders (2024)
“After writing an email, a text, anything really, you can simply run the whole thing through ChatGPT and it instantly deletes your personality. It flattens you out, irons your creases, washes you away, quirk by quirk, until you disappear.”
From We Solve Murders (2024)
A friend recommended an article by Dorothy Thompson: "Who Goes Nazi". A terrifying game show ruined Thanksgiving.
"It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi."
harpers.org/2015/12/who-...
"It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi."
harpers.org/2015/12/who-...
August 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A friend recommended an article by Dorothy Thompson: "Who Goes Nazi". A terrifying game show ruined Thanksgiving.
"It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi."
harpers.org/2015/12/who-...
"It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi."
harpers.org/2015/12/who-...
Nice quote in the footer of an English football newsletter:
“We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.” - Philip Larkin
The full poem (trigger warning for all hedgehog lovers)
allpoetry.com/The-Mower
“We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.” - Philip Larkin
The full poem (trigger warning for all hedgehog lovers)
allpoetry.com/The-Mower
July 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Nice quote in the footer of an English football newsletter:
“We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.” - Philip Larkin
The full poem (trigger warning for all hedgehog lovers)
allpoetry.com/The-Mower
“We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.” - Philip Larkin
The full poem (trigger warning for all hedgehog lovers)
allpoetry.com/The-Mower
Job search websites seem spammier than ever.
July 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Job search websites seem spammier than ever.
@marketplace.org So if I donate more to public radio and television, am I proving the people that always wanted to cut these funds that public media didn't need the funding in the first place?
@npr.org @wbur.org @pbsnews.org @pbs.org @wgbh.org
@npr.org @wbur.org @pbsnews.org @pbs.org @wgbh.org
July 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
@marketplace.org So if I donate more to public radio and television, am I proving the people that always wanted to cut these funds that public media didn't need the funding in the first place?
@npr.org @wbur.org @pbsnews.org @pbs.org @wgbh.org
@npr.org @wbur.org @pbsnews.org @pbs.org @wgbh.org
Lovely interview.
June 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Lovely interview.
@joannechocolat.bsky.social is right to highlight "Digital asbestos". In some ways #ai is going to make a real mess of things, but there are also so many things it probably won't be able to do too.
"digital asbestos" is fantastic framing.
I'm going to be honest here, I think AI is going to do so much damage to the usable internet that even after it's inevitably crashes out, it's going to take years to disentangle from every space it's polluted, like digital asbestos it's gonna be time consuming effort and likely expensive venture.
June 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
@joannechocolat.bsky.social is right to highlight "Digital asbestos". In some ways #ai is going to make a real mess of things, but there are also so many things it probably won't be able to do too.
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March 31, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Arthur Miller lives on!
June 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Arthur Miller lives on!
To all the people who object to trans people or gender queer people using the pronoun in the singular.
"But that’s nothing new. The Oxford English Dictionary traces singular #they back to 1375, where it appears in the medieval romance William and the Werewolf."
www.oed.com/discover/a-b...
"But that’s nothing new. The Oxford English Dictionary traces singular #they back to 1375, where it appears in the medieval romance William and the Werewolf."
www.oed.com/discover/a-b...
Oxford English Dictionary
The OED is the definitive record of the English language, featuring 600,000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1,000 years of English.
www.oed.com
April 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
To all the people who object to trans people or gender queer people using the pronoun in the singular.
"But that’s nothing new. The Oxford English Dictionary traces singular #they back to 1375, where it appears in the medieval romance William and the Werewolf."
www.oed.com/discover/a-b...
"But that’s nothing new. The Oxford English Dictionary traces singular #they back to 1375, where it appears in the medieval romance William and the Werewolf."
www.oed.com/discover/a-b...
Check out the #DickGaughan: R/evolution 1969-84 - an 8-disc box set. If you love Gaughan's music as I and so many others do, this is a very cool, and althought is doesn't solve the Celctic Music debacle, it looks like a great project.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/212...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/212...
Dick Gaughan: R/evolution 1969-84 - an 8-disc box set
Preservation, celebration, remuneration - recreating a fabulous lost legacy of music and rewarding the artist directly
www.kickstarter.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Check out the #DickGaughan: R/evolution 1969-84 - an 8-disc box set. If you love Gaughan's music as I and so many others do, this is a very cool, and althought is doesn't solve the Celctic Music debacle, it looks like a great project.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/212...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/212...
I guess this is a good thing. In the hospital waiting room.
#parkinsons
#parkinsons
March 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I guess this is a good thing. In the hospital waiting room.
#parkinsons
#parkinsons
Timothy Snyder: "Don't obey in advance!"
Read the book. It's called "On Tyranny."
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Read the book. It's called "On Tyranny."
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
'You Can't Despair. Because That's What They Want'
Expert advice on how to fight against MAGA fascism in a second Trump term.
www.rollingstone.com
February 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Timothy Snyder: "Don't obey in advance!"
Read the book. It's called "On Tyranny."
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Read the book. It's called "On Tyranny."
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Sunday #NewYorkTimes #Opinion front page.
February 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Sunday #NewYorkTimes #Opinion front page.
Learned SomethingNew today. ForYears, I as all of you are, was aware of the tendency for companies especially TechCompanies to slam two words together and to capitalize the SeparateWord. I now know that this is called #CamelCase.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_c...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_c...
Camel case - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Learned SomethingNew today. ForYears, I as all of you are, was aware of the tendency for companies especially TechCompanies to slam two words together and to capitalize the SeparateWord. I now know that this is called #CamelCase.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_c...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_c...
@rebunelg.bsky.social Good to follow you here.
January 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
@rebunelg.bsky.social Good to follow you here.
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Sitting down to compose a hopeful message for 2025 is a tough ask given the year we’ve just had. Even glib sentiments are hard to come by. The defeat of pro-democracy forces in the US presidential election still weighs like a heavy anchor on my attempts to move on. 1/11
January 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Sitting down to compose a hopeful message for 2025 is a tough ask given the year we’ve just had. Even glib sentiments are hard to come by. The defeat of pro-democracy forces in the US presidential election still weighs like a heavy anchor on my attempts to move on. 1/11
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Roger McGough
November 18, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Roger McGough
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Atlantic puffin
#seabird #Puffin #bird #wildlife #Nikon #Photoshop #photography #Saltees #KilmoreQuay #CoWexford #Ireland
#seabird #Puffin #bird #wildlife #Nikon #Photoshop #photography #Saltees #KilmoreQuay #CoWexford #Ireland
November 21, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Atlantic puffin
#seabird #Puffin #bird #wildlife #Nikon #Photoshop #photography #Saltees #KilmoreQuay #CoWexford #Ireland
#seabird #Puffin #bird #wildlife #Nikon #Photoshop #photography #Saltees #KilmoreQuay #CoWexford #Ireland