Virginia Heffernan
@virginiaheffernan.bsky.social
The New Republic, The Guardian, WIRED, Politico, LA Times, NY Times, The Atlantic, &c
WHAT ROUGH BEAST
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MAGIC + LOSS
https://virginiaheffernan.substack.com/
WHAT ROUGH BEAST
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-rough-beast/id1787176282
MAGIC + LOSS
https://virginiaheffernan.substack.com/
I think it was this.
November 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I think it was this.
Oh! Maybe just the 12 percent is PE.
Also Axel Springer is bleak:
Also Axel Springer is bleak:
November 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Oh! Maybe just the 12 percent is PE.
Also Axel Springer is bleak:
Also Axel Springer is bleak:
It's a vibrating week w/ Mike Albo's book Hologram Boyfriends out. This book is so beautiful & delonelyfying. Buy it in any form, and watch your life improve & become funnier. It's also a reminder of the Underminer and our 35y friendship, the best of my life. + @albomike.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It's a vibrating week w/ Mike Albo's book Hologram Boyfriends out. This book is so beautiful & delonelyfying. Buy it in any form, and watch your life improve & become funnier. It's also a reminder of the Underminer and our 35y friendship, the best of my life. + @albomike.bsky.social
I meant to put this up for the thrilling one-year anniversary, but I missed it by a week. Anyway:
October 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I meant to put this up for the thrilling one-year anniversary, but I missed it by a week. Anyway:
Oh for Chrissakes.
The left needs real candidates. Dude got a blobby & unsecret tattoo that no one but the dandruff club calls a Nazi decoder-ring thing. I used "88" in my handle for years till a dandruff man told me it was Third Reich code. That's his problem. They can't own blobs & integers.
The left needs real candidates. Dude got a blobby & unsecret tattoo that no one but the dandruff club calls a Nazi decoder-ring thing. I used "88" in my handle for years till a dandruff man told me it was Third Reich code. That's his problem. They can't own blobs & integers.
October 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Oh for Chrissakes.
The left needs real candidates. Dude got a blobby & unsecret tattoo that no one but the dandruff club calls a Nazi decoder-ring thing. I used "88" in my handle for years till a dandruff man told me it was Third Reich code. That's his problem. They can't own blobs & integers.
The left needs real candidates. Dude got a blobby & unsecret tattoo that no one but the dandruff club calls a Nazi decoder-ring thing. I used "88" in my handle for years till a dandruff man told me it was Third Reich code. That's his problem. They can't own blobs & integers.
"Following his assassination, he expressed..." is a real AI special.
September 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
"Following his assassination, he expressed..." is a real AI special.
How The Atlantic let this sophistry by literally a Peter Thiel Protege slide in the magazine, I don't know. But the proof for the existence of the Luigi Left is this:
September 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
How The Atlantic let this sophistry by literally a Peter Thiel Protege slide in the magazine, I don't know. But the proof for the existence of the Luigi Left is this:
Fully endorse. Ignore replies. The inventor of the Roomba has said something similar. The racism of the Tesla android also makes your point. Thanks for saying it.
September 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Fully endorse. Ignore replies. The inventor of the Roomba has said something similar. The racism of the Tesla android also makes your point. Thanks for saying it.
The NYT doing some A+ sloganeering for the Mamdani campaign #keepthehamptonsintherapy
September 1, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The NYT doing some A+ sloganeering for the Mamdani campaign #keepthehamptonsintherapy
Breaking from Kansas:
THE STORY OF BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION NOT ONLY MUST BE TOLD WITHOUT REFERENCE TO SEGREGATION; IT MUST EMPHASIZE BEAUTY, GRANDEUR, AND ABUNDANCE
— Pravda of Topeka
THE STORY OF BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION NOT ONLY MUST BE TOLD WITHOUT REFERENCE TO SEGREGATION; IT MUST EMPHASIZE BEAUTY, GRANDEUR, AND ABUNDANCE
— Pravda of Topeka
August 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Breaking from Kansas:
THE STORY OF BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION NOT ONLY MUST BE TOLD WITHOUT REFERENCE TO SEGREGATION; IT MUST EMPHASIZE BEAUTY, GRANDEUR, AND ABUNDANCE
— Pravda of Topeka
THE STORY OF BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION NOT ONLY MUST BE TOLD WITHOUT REFERENCE TO SEGREGATION; IT MUST EMPHASIZE BEAUTY, GRANDEUR, AND ABUNDANCE
— Pravda of Topeka
I’ll never stop thinking that copy editors are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
AI has been trying to manage this for a long time and it fails. Put writers out of business, robots, but keep the copy editors.
AI has been trying to manage this for a long time and it fails. Put writers out of business, robots, but keep the copy editors.
August 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I’ll never stop thinking that copy editors are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
AI has been trying to manage this for a long time and it fails. Put writers out of business, robots, but keep the copy editors.
AI has been trying to manage this for a long time and it fails. Put writers out of business, robots, but keep the copy editors.
Trump’s name redacted from the Epstein files. Trump’s name? Yes, Donald Trump’s name. But do not construe this as stigma in any way.
Nice job, @jasonleopold.bsky.social
Nice job, @jasonleopold.bsky.social
August 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Trump’s name redacted from the Epstein files. Trump’s name? Yes, Donald Trump’s name. But do not construe this as stigma in any way.
Nice job, @jasonleopold.bsky.social
Nice job, @jasonleopold.bsky.social
No Kings but one
July 2, 2025 at 11:03 AM
No Kings but one
Solid sample:
June 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Solid sample:
To compare to Pyongyang insults the vim there
June 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
To compare to Pyongyang insults the vim there
Rally without pep
June 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Rally without pep
Whoa, weird. Why would Trump's big stock being going *down* on his special perade day? Maybe because his brand lacks all intrinsic value and the peacocking just induces imposter complex?
June 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Whoa, weird. Why would Trump's big stock being going *down* on his special perade day? Maybe because his brand lacks all intrinsic value and the peacocking just induces imposter complex?
From #teslatakedown, a formidable, focused, and highly effective bear campaign to crush new car sales, devalue the Tesla stock price, stigmatize the company, and de-halo Musk.
This is what we do for Trump. Devalue.
This is what we do for Trump. Devalue.
June 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
From #teslatakedown, a formidable, focused, and highly effective bear campaign to crush new car sales, devalue the Tesla stock price, stigmatize the company, and de-halo Musk.
This is what we do for Trump. Devalue.
This is what we do for Trump. Devalue.