no way NYT

I hate the conservatives in the Op-Ed section, but I reserve special ire for Bret Stephens and Pamela Paul. I hope they both get hit by cars.

surprised but not surprised to find out they were once married

Stephens is the literal worst. Still LOL at his post-2018 midterm article that he wrote prematurely the day after, saying the results proved Democrats needed to reach across the aisle to the disappointing results, then as the number of House flips started skyrocketing, he just changed the number in his article but left everything else intact, and continued to defend his take on Twitter

*due to

https://i.imgur.com/JrtcXTf.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/Y8vcfkJ.jpeg

(the report PP linked to was retracted)

and she referenced "multiple reports" and they're all referencing the same redacted study

I am guilty of occasionally hate-reading PP but I can't bring myself to click on this one

I got one paragraph in, saw there was no way to comment and absolutely slam the premise of the article, closed the tab.

yeah I refuse to read the Paul. Regrettably, I did read that disgustingly fawning Coleman Hughes profile though, and that was supposedly news!

she gets paid more than i will ever get paid to be a hateful piece of shit and stumble through life in public. really cool newspaper

Kellyanne Conway

Who Should Be Trump’s No. 2?

what can you say but lol

The award for Foreign Reporting goes to the staff of The New York Times for unsurpassed coverage of the war between Israel and Hamas

— George Polk Awards (@PolkAwards) February 19, 2024

https://i.imgur.com/cA15Lzb.jpeg

instant classic

astounding

journalism is when you refuse to talk to other people

Friedman would have just invented an intelligent taxi driver who disagreed and faked it from there.

that one broke me. I can't imagine actually turning something like that in

Friedman is just talking to self driving cars these days

https://i.imgur.com/DjY0mw1.jpeg

oh lord please spare us

that byline and bio pic next to that column title, perfect. nyt pitchbot done for the day.

Stephen Breyer: The Supreme Court I Served On Was Made Up of Friends

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/Da_Next_Level.jpg

Don't ever Douthat?

just seeing that douthat screengrab, excellent stuff

A.I. Is Spying on the Food We Throw Away

Artificial intelligence is trying to figure out how to send less uneaten food into dumpsters.

apparently the most popular article in today’s nyt is a… saturday night live…. recap??

wth she has like five posts and gets a glowing nyt article??? who dere daddy!!??? i should put up like two posts of old shoes on the side of the road and maybe they put me on coverrrr!!

#nottryingveryhard

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/style/boy-room-rachel-coster-nyc.html

https://www.instagram.com/boyroomshow/

out of curiosity, I did look up her parents, and they appear to be normal folks living in maine.

Nepo Normie

https://www.instagram.com/expiredmilkcomedy/reel/C3-n2dQAqvn/

I knew it! #calleditagain

there’s an nyt article out now about a 20-person polycule and it’s as exhausting as you’d expect

Wow you ain't kidding

are we gonna poll the polycule

I'm sorry, 20 people isn't a polycule or any sort of personal relationship network. That's a cult, a yoga studio, or a dorm room floor. They're not doing anything that someone needs to write an article about unless they all do something really kooky or violent to someone outside their circle

The editorial urge to table-set actual human behavior at this point is getting fascinating to behold

there’s an nyt article out now about a 20-person polycule and it’s as exhausting as you’d expect

I said elsewhere that "I'm happy for you, now shut up" should be a socially acceptable thing to say to people like this.

We learned a strategy from the Multiamory podcast called “agile scrum,” which was adapted from business-meeting models. We utilized that format. We did that for a year and a half, at least once a month, sometimes six to 10 hours of hard poly-processing.

hardcore relating

Ann I have one partner now with three kids. He is transmasc, and he’s radical about the way he raises them. They’re radically home-schooled. They’re 17 and nonbinary, 6 and 5. They know everything in age-appropriate ways. They’ve seen their mommy undergo the transmasc experience, seen their mom become who they really are.

I was up late last night with him in a hotel room, and the 17-year-old was in the room snoozing, so we just sat on the bathroom floor chatting about our relationship all night, and while that was happening my husband was texting to say, Oh, I got a last-minute match, so I’m going to meet this girl for a date. And then I get a text while we were still on the bathroom floor vibing, it was 4 in the morning, and he said, We had a great date, a great connection, she’s looking for friends with benefits, we had sex.

This entire setting here just strikes me as deeply awkward, happy for anyone who goes on their journey of finding their true selves but you know, seems weird to be at a hotel with one of the kids, they're sleeping in one room while you're vibing on the bathroom floor etc? I guess at least they probably didn't have much trouble finding babysitters for the five and six year old.

This article is like a conversation you desperately want to get away from.

The worst part of course is if you escape from one person you have to get through 19 more

Polycule: Final Boss - the Eurogamer review

are you a bad enough dude to steer the conversation away from polyamory?

Wait who was he floor vibing with?

The floor itself. It’s part of the polycule. Foundational, even.